ARTALK

GALLERY LUNCHTIME TALKS

Summer Season 2007


Every Wednesday, 12.30-1.00pm


August 1

A Bluffer's Guide: How to Talk Knowledgeably
                 (Without Actually Knowing Anything)
   
Tim Marvell

This talk is a must for all art lovers and budding politicians.


August 8

Forgotten Events: Mulready & Holland Brian Naylor

Not recollections of a music hall turn from the past, but a peek at the work of the Irish genre painter, William Mulready RA (1786-1863), and fellow artist John Holland, recalling an age when democracy was a political principal rather than a synonym for the market economy.


August 15

Fantin-Latour    Peter Miller

Peter takes a further look at the paintings on display in our current exhibition.

White Roses

August 22

William Hogarth: The First "Brit" Artist. Rodney Anness

How this artist's extraordinary originality brought a new self-confidence to our native art.


August 29

A Mystery TourMonica Nelson

Monica's tours are always a delight, and you may be sure that all will be revealed by one o'clock.


Don't forget to look out for other fine works on display...


Refreshing the Weary

And... for September: John Paynter, Tones & Texture, John Staples, Nathan Drake - The New Terrace Walk , Diana Hitchcock, The French & Us, and Philip Kerrigan, Victorian Genre Painting - Earnest Moralising or Self-serving Bourgeois Propaganda?   

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