Evening lectures are held at Moor Park Mansion, WD3 1QL, except for the first lecture on 'Hieronymus Bosch' which will be available only via Zoom because our speaker is based in the Netherlands. The lectures are also available simultaneously online via Zoom. A unique link is emailed to members and visitors on the day before each lecture. In addition to the lecture one can also book supper (except for the first lecture on 'Hieronymus Bosch).
Non-members
If you wish to 'attend' as a visitor (either in person or via Zoom) please use the booking form on this website after 20 September 2021, the cost is £10.00 per lecture.
Time
If you book the optional supper please arrive at 18:00, otherwise arrive in person from 19:00. Refreshments are available. The lectures begin at 19:30.
For Zoom users click the link at 19:15 to join the Zoom audience for a chat before the lectures.
28 Oct
THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER 2021 - EXCEPTIONALLY THIS LECTURE IS ONLY AVAILABLE VIA ZOOM
The Fruits of Sin
The Art & Times of Hieronymus Bosch
Speaker:
Sophie Oosterwijk
Early Netherlandish painter Hieronymus Bosch created fantastic worlds peopled by devils. Was this the work of a visionary, a heretic, or even a hallucinating madman? To his contemporaries Bosch was a gifted artist!
2 Dec
20th Century Russian Art & Art Renaissance
The Historical & Cultural Background
Speaker:
Natalia Murray
By the mid-1800s the Russian Imperial Academy of Arts had become old-fashioned and did not answer modern demands. These tensions exploded in 1863 when 14 students resigned from the Academy and founded the Society of Travelling Exhibitions of the Works of Russian Artists. Their artistic legacy defined the character of the period, referred to as the Russian Renaissance.
24 Mar
Cezanne
The Unlikely Father of Modern Art
Speaker:
Dr Caroline Levisse
Cezanne, famed for his paintings of still lives and bathers, French peasants and the Mont Sainte-Victoire, later began a revolution in painting. His ever-more courageous, 'modern' mode of painting conveyed the essence of a subject rather than its mere 'impression'. He showed a radical disregard for the realism dominant since the Renaissance and pointed the way to the increasingly abstract experiments of the 20th century.
26 May
L.S. Lowry
A Visionary Artist
Speaker:
Michael Howard
LS Lowry was really a painter of the human condition. His work is the visual counterpoint of TS Eliot's poetry and we can claim him as our English Van Gogh. Original works by Lowry and other relevant artists will be viewed at the lecture.
21 Jul
The Arts of East Asia
In the Orbit of China
Speaker:
Marie Conte-Helm
What were the key historical and cultural developments that shaped the arts of China, Korea and Japan? Chinese art and culture will be explored by considering the influence of written language, spread of Buddhism and trading links. From painting to pottery, textiles to lacquer-ware, the cult of nature and love of decorative arts all percolated through these three countries.
