George Lucas made history in the famous Hall H Hall on Sunday as George Lucas made his debut at the long-awaited Comic-Con. Lucas is not there to discuss his good reviews Star Wars Trilogies, Indiana Jones Franchise, classic, American graffitior his other film projects. Instead, he was there to reveal new details of his long-awaited Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which will open in Los Angeles next year.
In front of a roaring audience of 6,500, the panel, titled “Sneak Peek of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, also included Academy Award–winning director Guillermo del Toro, who also serves on the museum’s board, and production designer Doug Chiang, who has collaborated on numerous film projects with Lucas. Queen Latifah served as moderator. The panel was Lucas’s first public appearance related to The museum since Sandra Jackson-Dumont resigned as director and CEO in February, since employee layoffs in May.
The Lucas Museum, co-founded by Lucas and his wife Mellody Hobson, describes narrative art as “representing the story through images” with the aim of showing “how narrative art affects society – shaping beliefs, inspiring values, inspiring imagination and creating communities.” The couple showed up ArtnewsList of top 200 collectors since 2020.
The first interaction between visitors and narrative art will be the museum’s building, a 300,000-foot structure designed by Mad’s architect Ma Yansong. “To me, the shape of the museum – it’s flowing,” Del Toro said in the group. “What is beautiful is that we are [collectors]. George is a collector. I’m a collector, but I know I don’t My own Anything. I’m holding [the artworks] In short, the next person who will hold or see it. ”
Provides renderings of the building for the upcoming Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles.
Courtesy Lucas Museum of Narrative Art.
Located in the Museum Park, the museum’s campus will also include 11 acres of green space and be landscaped by Mia Lehrer in Studio-Mla. Samuel L. Jackson’s video narrated by Samuel L. Jackson shows that there will be 33 galleries, two theaters, a retail space, a restaurant, a cafe, a library and event venues.
Lucas’ passion for narrative art can be traced back to fifty years when he began collecting it in college. The museum’s founding collection consists of more than 40,000 works accumulated by Lucas. He said the works in his personal collection were made by artists who “create images that make our society share the belief. Common beliefs create communities,” he said. “The idea is that I can’t really afford real art. Whatever it is, I love all the art. But I can afford comic art because those days are underground.”
He described himself as “a typical art collector who is not buying it.” [something]and then come back five years later and say “I sold it for $10,000.” I can never do it. This is not the art I think. I think it’s more about connection, emotional connection to the work, than how much it costs or what the celebrity does or whatever. This is more of a personal matter. ”
Lucas, a longtime collector of Norman Rockwell, points to the artist’s iconic 1943 paintings Free from desirea family vacations with turkey to explain how he views the art of narrative and its connection to the development of community, emotional and social beliefs. “[The] Painting tells you that family matters,” Lucas said. “It’s part of our keeping society together, even if it’s hard… [what] Art revolves around the thoughts we believe in and the importance of having a community and being able to build a common belief. Without a shared belief system, society cannot exist, which is crucial to show you what this means in daily life. ”
Frida Kahlo, Dr. Eloesser Autortrato Dedicado Al (Self-portrait dedicated to Dr. Eloesser), 1940.
Photos: Randy Dodson/Provided by the Museum of Fine Arts in San Francisco; Art: ©2021 Banco de México Diego Rivera Rivera Frida Kahlo Museums Trust, Mexico, DF/Artists Wifters Society (ARS), New York/Lucas Museum of Narrative Arts, Los Angeles
In addition to introducing works by artists such as Kadir Nelson, Beatrix Potter, Frida Kahlo, and more, there are also Alongside Models, Props, Prop, Concept Art and Costume in Lucas’s filmmaking career, Queen Latifah also revealed that the museum will also host the “first character painting of 1934, from the first character in 1934, peanut Comics from the 1950s and 1960s, original drawings of the first cover of Iron Man in 1968, and the original pen and ink splash of Black Panther. ”
Chiang praised Lucas for his inclusion in various art forms of the museum, especially in the context of museums that have been historically regarded as a comic book genre, which was his first “love to art.” He added: “I love everything George and Melody did when creating the museum and it is celebrating, acknowledging and respecting art forms that have never been emphasized before.”
Lucas concluded: “The museum is committed to the idea that stories, myths, any story written to influence people, building a community is very important to society, building a society and creating a community. Art illustrates this story, so it is a temple to the people’s art.”
