Thursday 26 April 2012
Lytham Hall
Linda Collins
Linda Collins has been employed by the Historic Royal Palaces for the past 21 years as a Guide/Lecturer at Hampton Court Palace.
She lectures regularly for NADFAS, both home and abroad and also for the National Trust, U3A and variuos UK universities. Linda has a special interest in Paris and French Art. Linda is a freelance lecturer at Tate Modern & the National Gallery and an independent lecture organiser.
The day will include three sessions:
Lautrec, Moulin Rouge, 1891
The first session will begin in Paris in 1850. The city was known for its colourful, artistic, bohemian lifestyle and its exceptionally vibrant society with cabarets at places such as the Moulin Rouge, high kicking can can dancers like the famous Jan Avril , and exotic entertainments captured by painters such as Toulouse Lautrec and Manet. The lecture will explore the development of art from academic paintings through to the Impressionists, the Post impressionists and beyond, examining how the thread of art moves ever forward crossing boundaries and creating new forms.
At the beginning of the second session, we revisit Paris once more, this time looking at those artists who challenged the legacy of the Impressionists and Post Impressionists. With World War II looming there was an exodus of artists from Europe, and many moved across the Atlantic to New York. By the Forties and Fifties there was a demand to identify and conceptualise a “truly American style”, which we will explore in some depth.
In the third and final session, Linda will invite participants to share with the group images of paintings they particularly like…or dislike. She will then introduce us to various methods employed by art historians over the years, which will enable us to effectively, analyse and describe works of art. We will then have the opportunity to apply these to our chosen paintings and to others which Linda will use as illustrations.
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