| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Leader: |
Robert Sedgley
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| Group email: | History & Appreciation of Art group historyofart@u3aoliva.org |
| When: | Monthly on Tuesday afternoons 5:00 PM-7:00 PM |
| Venue: | Biblioteca de L'Envic |
| Cost: | Free |
The activity of the group is to further our understanding and appreciation of art through an illustrated talk from the leader and with contributions from the group. All are welcome; whether expert or not come and join in the conversation, find out more about the wonderful and surprising world of art.
We have now been running for about twelve years and have come in our chronological survey up to the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and are looking at the revolution in the visual arts that we call Modernism. For new members who wish to acquire a background understanding of what went before I recommend reading the notes of previous meetings. These are complete from the earliest paintings on the walls of caves, up to the early moderns: Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism and Futurism. However, this is by no means compulsory – we are not an exam group!
All are welcome; whether expert or not come and join in the conversation, find out more about the wonderful and surprising world of art!
Leader: Robert Sedgley
Next meeting
The next meeting will be on Tuesday 3rd of February
We will have a session which I call COMPARE AND CONTRAST. How do we tell a Titian from a Manet, a Turner from a Canaletto? What is the story behind a van Eyck or a de Hooche? Where are they similar, how do they differ? How can we decipher a painting from a detail? What is the meaning in an abstract painting? The presentation will look at four ways of looking at art: - Spot the Difference - Same Actors, Different Story - What is Going On? - Now you See it. Now You Don't. Hopefully, at the end of the meeting members will have a little more knowledge and confidence in recognising the differences between artworks.
"Creativity is that marvellous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition."– Max Ernst
“Painting is neither decorative amusement, nor the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.” – Max Ernst
"And Loplop, bird superior, has transformed himself into flesh without flesh and will dwell among us." – Max Ernst
"The famous pipe. How people reproached me for it! And yet, could you stuff my pipe? No, it's just a representation, is it not? So if I had written on my picture “This is a pipe”, I'd have been lying!"– René Magritte
"Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist." –René Magritte
"The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown." – René Magritte