ARTALK

GALLERY LUNCHTIME TALKS

Summer Season 2007


Every Wednesday, 12.30-1.00pm


September 5

Tones and Textures    John Paynter

Back to basics: the essentials of painting as a work of art.


September 12

Does Prison Work?John Staples

Prisons and the imprisoned have held a fascination for artists since at least classical times. The Victorian moralists sought to illustate the redemptive possibilities of incarceration.


September 19

The French and Us    Diana Hitchcock

Our nearest have not always been our dearest, but the interchange of artistic ideas through the centuries has been mutually beneficial. Who has gained most?

White Roses
September 26

Victorian Genre Painting; Earnest Moralising
              or Self-serving Bourgeois Propaganda?
Philip Kerrigan

Derided at the beginning of the 20th century, admired for their stirling values by the end of the century, what are we to make of the Victorians today?

The Volunteers

And... for October : Gordon Hollingsworth, Seacoast and the Elements, November: Corita Myerscough, and... for

December: John Staples.   

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