October 7th, 2002
Antonio Gaudi and the Golden Age of Catalan Architecture
Mervyn Miller
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Gaudi's unique buildings in Barcelona, including the Casa Battló, Parque Güell and Sagrada
Familia cathedral, reflected a life-long concern for the fundamental integration of structure and form. They were set in the context of a burgeoning Catalan culture.
This lecture coincides with the 150th celebration of the birth of arguably Spain's greatest architect.
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November 4th, 2002
Tate Modern:
It's not compulsory to like modern art to enjoy the history surrounding it!
Linda Collins
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This lecture looks at the transformation of the building itself and the social history surrounding the works of modern art whilst remaining free to make one's own judgement on the exhibits. Covering the period from 1900 to the present day, artists such as Monet, Duchamp, Dali, Picasso, Leger, Rothko and Pollock are included.
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December 2th, 2002
The Christmas Story Seen by the Great Artists
Shirley Turner
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Linked with Christmas music and carols, this lecture shows how different artists have depicted the nativity. Examples range from Giotto's frescoes to Raphael, Botticelli, Rubens and Rosetti and ends with Rembrandt's Flight into Egypt. It blends music, paintings and history.
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January 6th, 2003
Princely Treasures:
The European Renaissance Schatzkammer
Timothy Schroder
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One of the greatest artistic phenomena of the Renaissance and Baroque was the development during the 16th and 17th centuries of the dynastic Schatzkammer or Treasury - effectively Europe's first museums. Ruling families such as the Florentine Medici, the Munich Wittelbachs and the Saxony Electors commissioned art works which form a microcosm of the interests, skills and styles of their time.
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February 3rd, 2003
The transfer of Style:
European Influences and American Decorative Arts
Rachel Elwes
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This lecture examines American decorative arts from the 17th to the mid-19th century. It will explore periods of design and fashion in furniture, silver, ceramics and glass from the earliest beginnings of America with the 17th century or Mannerist style, to the Chippendale or Rococo style of the Revolutionary era. It will conclude by surveying the nationalistic embrace of classical prototypes with the Federal and Empire styles.
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March 3rd, 2003
Visual Communication and Effects Photography
Antony De Meester
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April 7th, 2003
Sculpture Inside Out
Irene Luna
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The use and history of bronze with special attention given to different styles ranging from the renaissance to the modern day. Comparisons are made between stone and bronze sculpture in order to highlight the importance of the medium in three-dimensional artworks and what that tells us of the artistic culture and the choices made.
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May 5th, 2003
Some Great English Women Gardeners
Ann Gore
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From the 17th century Duchess of Beaufort to 20th century Victoria Sackville West, this lecture examines the ideals of such disparate gardeners as Elizabeth Lawrence, Gertrude Jekyll and Ellen Wilmott. In reaction to the great formal gardens of the 19th century Jekyll, whose first love was painting, became fascinated by English cottage gardens and proceeded to introduce novel ideas of planting; ideas that led to the formation of the herbaceous border and what we now think of as the typical English garden.
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