| Group Leader: Robert Sedgley Email Address: talking.art@u3ajavea.com Meeting Venue: Javea Players Studio, Carrer del Cronista Figueras Pacheco 6, Javea Meeting Day and Time: Fourth Tuesday of the month, 11am to 12pm Cost 2€ per person Accepts new members: Yes but contact Robert first before attending. |
- Next meeting: Cubism. Tuesday 25th February
“Art is a lie that makes us realise the truth” – Picasso
“It took me four years to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to paint like a child. ” – Picasso
“Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.” – Picasso
“There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you can’t explain.” – Braque
“Perspective is a ghastly mistake which it has taken four centuries to redress.” – Braque
“Whatever is valuable in painting is precisely what one is incapable of talking about.” – Braque
Cubism is an early-20th-century avant-garde art movement begun Paris that revolutionised painting and the visual arts, and influenced artistic innovations in music, ballet, literature and music. Cubism has been considered the most influential art movement of the 20th century, introducing collage as a modern art form. The movement was pioneered in partnership by Pablo Picasso and George Braque, and joined by Jran Metzinger, Albert Gleizes, Robrt Delaunay, Juan Gris and Fernand Léger.
In France, offshoots of Cubism developed, including Orphism, abstract art and Purism. The impact of Cubism was far-reaching and wide-ranging in the arts and in popular culture. Throughout Europe and Russia Futurism, Suprematism, Dada, Constructivism, De Stijl and Art Deco developed in response to Cubism.
”Art has the power to help economies thrive, to educate and enrich societies, and to create greater cultural understanding. We are reminded now more than ever of the power of the arts….We believe in the restorative power of the arts….” – advertisement by the Bank of America.
Talking Art Meetings
The meeting takes the form of an illustrated talk of about fifty minutes or so with time afterwards for questions or discussion. We are concentrating on the Modern period, from the end of the nineteenth century; but any period, movement or particular artist may be focused on, pondered and discussed if a member requests.
In a recent Norwegian scientific paper, looking at of two groups of pensioners, it was discovered that those who looked regularly at artworks, and in particular modern ones with brighter colours, found a marked improvement in their health and general sense of well being. So there it is: ART IS GOOD FOR YOU.
Whether you are an experienced gallery goer or sporadic sightseer and would like to know a little more about art, about why a painting or sculpture is considered an important cultural icon, or wish to expand your present knowledge and look a little deeper into the background, the techniques and the lives of the artists, Talking Art is the space for the adventure. Come and join in the conversation or just listen and enjoy.
If you find Nigel Spivey’s subtitle – how humans made art and art made us human – to his Television Series (2005) How Art Made the World puzzling, and a challenge to your ideas, then the monthly meetings are for you.
Past Meetings
Below you will find links to documents which contain the detailed presentations given at past meetings. Remember to save these to your device if you want to keep a copy.
