Join us for an enlightening journey through the lighter side of art history, where serious themes meet playful execution, and laughter becomes a catalyst for an insight.
Project Category: Art Movements Events
Surrealist Objects: Fetish and Fantasy
Although the Surrealists worked with many of Freud’s conceptions, this talk focuses in on 'the fetish', how it inspired surrealist ‘objects’.
Vanitas: a matter of life and death
This talk will look at the theme of ‘vanitas’ (the emptiness of the material world and the presence of death) in the history of art to better understand how past cultures have thought about the impermanence of life and how this type of thinking leads to a greater understanding of a life worth living.
Educating the Future: Black Mountain College
This talk introduces Black Mountain College, its educational philosophies and how it intended to shape the future of art and learning. We will look at the core of the school’s curriculum specifically focusing on the art and pedagogical work of the school's first art teachers Anni and Josef Albers.
Gender Roles in the Home: Contemporary Art
Through the eyes of a range of female artists, see how gender roles have been challenged by artists all over the world, including Frida Kahlo, Louise Bourgeois and Tracey Emin.
Mistaken Sentiment: Impressionism and Motherhood
This talk will explore the complex subject of motherhood expressed by unconventional impressionist women artists (like Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot and Eva Gonzalès) to get us to, perhaps, rethink contemporary sentiments associated ‘motherhood.’
Beautiful Ruins: Turner’s Venice
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.
Dreaming Before Nature: the art of the symbolists
The late 19th century gave birth to the symbolist movement. In rebellion against scientific empiricism (seeing is believing) that had become a dominant school of thought, the symbolists favoured what could not been seen: dreams, fantasies and the imagination.
An Interview with Art Historian Bojana Popovic
We are excited to invite you for an open interview with art historian - Bojana Popovic. Do you ever wonder which galleries you should visit when traveling abroad? Would you like to observe a sale in an auction house but not sure how to join? Would you be interested to learn about private galleries? Join our informal conversation with Bojana and use this exclusive opportunity to ask your questions.
Andy Warhol: A Rise to Success
Many now acknowledge Andy Warhol as being one of the most radical artists of the 20th century. However, his fame and success were not immediate. In this session discover the turbulent life story behind one of the most important American artists of all time, Andy Warhol.