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ARTalk: Portraiture History, Art, and the Human Experience 

2024-12-05 18:00:00 2024-12-05 20:00:00 America/Los_Angeles ARTalk: Portraiture History, Art, and the Human Experience  Join us for a captivating ARTalk with Professor Kevin Muller, Ph.D., as he delves into the rich history of portraiture. Belvedere Tiburon Library - Founders Room

Thursday, December 05
6:00pm - 8:00pm

Add to Calendar 2024-12-05 18:00:00 2024-12-05 20:00:00 America/Los_Angeles ARTalk: Portraiture History, Art, and the Human Experience  Join us for a captivating ARTalk with Professor Kevin Muller, Ph.D., as he delves into the rich history of portraiture. Belvedere Tiburon Library - Founders Room

Join us for a captivating ARTalk with Professor Kevin Muller, Ph.D., as he delves into the rich history of portraiture.

Professor Kevin Muller, Ph.d. will discuss the history of portraiture and remark on select works in the exhibition

Due to the ubiquitous presence of photographic images in our daily lives, we tend to assume that a true portrait records an individual's unique physiognomy. But as the exhibit Human Presence: Faces, Figures, Crowds demonstrates, meaningful and insightful portraiture can take many forms.

This talk explores the varied approaches artists working across diverse historical, cultural, and geographic contexts have employed to render their sitters. From the naturalistic to the abstract, from the literal to the metaphorical, we will situate works in the exhibit within a longer history of portrait images that record, engage, and reveal our humanity.

AGE GROUP: | Seniors | Adults |

EVENT TYPE: | Talk/Lecture |

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Belvedere Tiburon Library

Phone: (415) 789-2661

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About the branch

The Library was designed by the firm of Bull, Stockwell, and Allen. The architectural style is that of the 19th century railroad yard in Tiburon. 
 
The site is part of the landfill of the 1890s done to create the railroad yard. Windows frame views of the marsh lands and Old St. Hilary's Open Space preserve. 
 
The expanded library was designed by Brown Reynolds Watford Architecture and added approximately 9,000 square feet, bringing the total size of the library to about 19,500 square feet. 

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