History & Appreciation of Art

Status: Active, open to new members
Group Leader:
Robert Sedgley
Group email: History & Appreciation of Art group
When: Monthly on Tuesday afternoons
From 5.00pm to 7.00pm, first Tuesday of each month
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 eight 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

Our next topic:

SUPREMATISM and CONSTRUCTIVISM

These are two early twentieth century movements originating in Russia but spreading their influence throughout Europe and America.

Suprematism was a visual art movement, Kasimir Malevich being the leading proponent. It asserted "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" while Constructivism stretched its wings wider, encompassing architecture, graphic design, clothing and theatre, as well as painting and sculpture. Naum Gabo was one of the most influential sculptors of the early 20th century.

Tuesday 9th April: 5.00 p.m. at Biblioteca l'Envic

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april 2008

“A painted surface is a real, living form.”
Malevich

"Art can no longer be merely a mirror, it must act as the organizer of the people's consciousness.."
El Lissitzky

"The image my work invokes is the image of good - not evil; the image of order - not chaos; the image of life - not death. And that is all the content of my constructions amounts to.." Gabo