Category: Group – Talking Art
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Talking Art – Vorticism
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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…
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Talking Art – Italian & Russian Futurism
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Futurism was an artistic and social movement that originated in Italy, and to a lesser extent in other countries, in the early 20th century. It emphasised dynamism, speed, technology, youth, violence, and objects such as the car, the airplane, and the industrial city. Its key figures included Italian artists Filippo Marinetti, Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrá, Gino Severini…
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Talking Art
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The artists who came to be known as Fauvists (“Wild Beasts”) emphasised colour as a structural and expressive methods into art in the early twentieth century. Their impact was such that the world of art shifted on its axis: all subsequent movements were influenced, and the “look” of the man made environment changed irrevocably. From…
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Talking Art Meeting
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The next meeting of the Talking Art Group has been postponed to Tuesday 28th May, when we will be looking at the work of three proto-expressionist artists: Edvard Munch, James Ensor and Kathe Kollwitz.