Category: Group – Talking Art
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Talking Art – Hudson River School – October
The next meeting of the Talking Art group this term will be on 27th of October at the Javea Players’ Studio Theatre. This will be a second attempt at the session originally planned for 22nd September. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement which flourished between 1825 and 1870 and typically depicted the Hudson River Valley.…
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Talking Art – Hudson River School
The first meeting of the Talking Art group this term will be on 22nd of September at the Javea Players’ Studio Theatre. The Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century American art movement which flourished between 1825 and 1870 and typically depicted the Hudson River Valley. It is associated with a group of painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by Romanticism…
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Talking Art – Marcel Duchamp
Marcel Duchamp (1887 – 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life. One of four artist siblings Duchamp was the first artist to elevate…
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Talking Art – Dada
Dada was an international art movement founded as the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich with nightly performances and manifestos by the poet Hugo Ball and the performance artist Emmy Hemmings. It developed in the context of the Great War and Futurism, and later quickly spread to Berlin, Paris, New York City and a variety of artistic…
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Talking Art – Der Blaue Reiter
Der Blaue Reiter (English: The Blue Rider) is regarded as the second wave of German Expressionism. The artists associated with Der Blaue Reiter were important pioneers of modern art of the 20th century; they formed a loose network of relationships, exhibiting together, but not an art group in the narrower sense like Die Brücke (The…
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Talking Art – Bauhaus German Art School
By popular request The next talk will be on the 24th February, all being well. We will be looking at the Bauhaus, the influential German school of art founded by architect Walter Gropius and which first flourished in the Weimar Republic, until forced to close by the Nazi regime. However, many of it’s tutors moved…