Through an examination of Richter's life and work, we will explore how Richter's unique perspective has allowed him to challenge traditional artistic conventions and push the boundaries of what art can be. We will also examine the ways in which his work reflects his personal experiences and the broader socio-political contexts in which he has lived and worked.
This lecture will explore Rembrandt’s humanity, what drove his interest in these subjects and how he made compelling and compassionate art about some of the marginalised citizens of Amsterdam.
In this session we will focus on artists such as Louise Bourgeois, The Gorilla Girls and Jenny Saville - all of whom have created depictions of the female body from the perspective of women, for an audience of both women and men.
By the end of the 18th century Venice, the great empire, had begun to fall into ruin. This lecture looks at the work of JMW Turner and his inspiration, the poet Lord Byron. It will explain and explore what Venice meant to them, how they saw beauty in its downfall while maintaining the concept its of elegant sophistication.
Join us in this session, to look at how imagination has shaped the works by some key contemporary artists, including Takashi Murakami and Paula Rego
This talk explores recent scientific advances on biological processes underlying the observation of body movements, gestures, postures, and expressions and their consequences for our aesthetic experience of – and empathy towards – art that depicts human figures.
This lecture looks at the work of two artists who explored these 'new' sexual expressions, Jeanne Mammen and Otto Dix, alongside the work of sociologist and activist Magnus Hirschfeld, founder of the Institute of Sexology.
This talk will analise works of two major art historians: Edgar Wind and Aby Warburg. We will talk about the universality of the expression of emotions and movements, the concept of empathy, the phenomenon of collective memory, and the engram and offer a fresh perspective on these views in light of recent research on neurophysiology.
Focusing on the mysterious Canadian landscapes of Peter Doig's childhood and moving to Luc Tuymans's explorations of collective memory, we will explore this theme through specific painterly examples.
This lecture explores Moore's 'Shelter Sketchbook', the artist's feelings for his subjects and how, over time, the artist's intention was lost to suit a more heroic narrative.
