Video Category: Visual art

In this lecture we will travel back in time to the origin of the clown as an entertainment figure and as the icon of the travelling circuses.

Netherlands produced many comical paintings during the Dutch Golden Age. This talk will examine numerous Dutch paintings reflecting humour.

This talk delves into the fascinating intersection of humour and art, focusing on the use of puns and pranks in avant-garde movements of the 20th century.

In this lecture, we’ll explore some of the most famous and complex Annunciation paintings, including Annunciations by Fra Angelico, Leonardo da Vinci, Carlo Crivelli, Robert Campin, and Sandro Botticelli.

During this lecture we explore the private thoughts of artists as they express themselves to/about the person they venerated.

In this session we will delve into all the ways artists have recently tackled  in their works taboo themes linking to love, sexuality and trauma. 

In this session, we will look at how contemporary artists frequently discussed the connections between pleasure and pain – and continue to do so.

this talk focuses in on ‘the fetish’, how it inspired surrealist ‘objects’ and what role it played in the landmark International Surrealist Exhibition on 1938.