Category: Group – Talking Art
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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…
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Talking Art – Vorticism
25th November 2025 Vorticism was a London-based modernist art movement formed in 1914 by the writer and artistWyndham Lewis. The movement was partially inspired by Cubism and was introduced to the public by means of the publication of the Vorticist manifesto in Blast magazine and The Rebel Art Centre, set up in opposition to the…
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Talking Art – Italian & Russian Futurism
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…