Week of Events
Sketching Ideas – Visuality in Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting
Sketching Ideas – Visuality in Chinese Flower-and-Bird Painting
In this talk, UCSB Professor Peter Sturman will trace some of the rich history of Xiyu painting in flower-and-bird painting, its vital ties through calligraphy to the early formation of literati painting. Mary Craig Auditorium Free Students | SBMA Members $5 Non-Members
Whitney Bedford’s Landscapes – An Artist Talk
Whitney Bedford’s Landscapes – An Artist Talk
The Atkinson Gallery at Santa Barbara City College and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art have co-organized an artist’s talk with Whitney Bedford, a California artist who looks to art history, especially Impressionist painters, to make startlingly colored and brilliantly graphic images. Even though Bedford is a thoroughly contemporary artist, her work exists in a