This talk explores Avercamp's artworks showing crowds of people of different ages, religions and social classes engaged in common activities: skating, sledding, and playing games.
Project Category: Art History Events
Witches’ Bodies in Art
This talk uses the term ‘witch’ broadly, looking at art of a wide range of witches’ bodies to explore culture’s ideals of beauty.
Magic and Mystery in Peter Doig’s Art
This talk will discuss Peter Doig's, a mesmerising exploration of dreams and magic, where reality and imagination seamlessly intertwine.
Mystery, Miracles and Magic: the work by the artist M.C.Escher
This talk on art of M.C. Escher is an exploration of pattern, space and surrealist viewpoints which create optical illusions where one sees reality change into the abstract in a way that both makes sense and does not at all
The Magic Body: Visualising Medieval Medicine
This talk looks at the body in ancient and medieval medical art, its balances and its magical properties.
How (Not) to Behave: the satires of William Hogarth
This lecture will focus on William Hogarth’s unique approach to satire, examining how his works not only entertained but also educated his audience on societal norms and behaviours.
Hieronymus Bosch: Universal Disorder
In this talk we will examine paintings by Hieronymus Bosch depicting stories of temptation, sin and accountability, which are still relevant today.
John Singer Sargent’s Cosmopolitan Aesthetics
In this talk we will examine how John Singer Sargent, a citizen of nowhere, cosmopolitan, became everyone's favourite portraitist.
Art on the Silk Road
This talk examines the rich artistic heritage that flourished as a result of the extensive trade network - the Silk Road.
Superstar: What Andy Warhol know about contemporary celebrity
During this talk through an in-depth analysis of Andy Warhol's portrayals of iconic figures we'll learn about his vision of contemporary media culture.