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Norton Simon Museum - Depicting Modern Life - tour

DATE:

Saturday, August 19, 2023

TIME:

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

SPEAKER:

Museum educator

Discover how French artists of the 19th century used painting to represent modern life. View works by Édouard Manet and Claude Monet, and discuss how these artists captured changing landscapes and evolving social customs. Learn why artists like Pablo Picasso began to use abstraction to capture a modernizing society.