Summer Season 2007
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?
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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?
