Art Lectures with art historian Adrian Sumner
Hartford Methodist Church Hall
Beach Road, Hartford, Northwich CW8 3AD
2.00pm - £5.00 including refreshments
Plenty of free car parking
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Living Rooms
The Organic Architecture of Art Nouveau
Tuesday 19 May
A new lecture illuminating all aspects of the wild and exotic architecture of Art Nouveau, looking especially at Eastern Europe (Grand Budapest Hotel and all that, including Moscow and Prague), but studying the brilliant individual styles of Brussels, Glasgow, Vienna, Paris, Nancy, Riga, Barcelona and Munich.
So look out for the inspired creations of Gaudi, Horta, Guimard, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Josef Maria Olbrich, Otto Wagner, Eisenstein, and many more - both familiar and alien.
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Links with the Heritage Tour to Stroud and Berkeley Castle on Sunday 31 May - Click here for more information.Click to add link to your
Online book on Art Nouveau here.
Contemporary Art
The Art of Now
Tuesday 9 June
A peek into the newest developments in contemporary art, highlighting the doings of the risk-takers, snook-cockers, and general innovators.Whether you like 'street-art' or not, some of its practitioners have become international stars, as well as major museum-attractions at home. We will try to work out their place in the grand scheme of things, as well as examining what's happening in Museums and Galleries, Public art, and the 'Inter-web' computer-me-bobs.
Don't worry - includes paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures, as well as installations, cyberspace, mixed-media, walls and bridges.Click here to book tickets online or phone 01606 41597.
Links with the Heritage Tour to Bristol on Saturday 20 June - Click here for more information.
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BBC Radio 4 Reith Lectures "Playing to the Gallery" with Grayson Perry here.Art Deco Posters
Tuesday 7 July
A chance to whistle through some of the greatest, most beautiful, most evocative posters ever designed as we Black-Bottom through the Roaring Twenties and the Thirties as they plunge headlong into World Conflict. Entre-Deux-Guerres indeed.Trains, Boats, Planes and Automobiles, as well as classics from the Silver Screen.
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Links with the Northwich Art Trail throughout July - Click here for more information.
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Art Deco book here.
Gardens in Art
Tuesday 4 August
The relationship between Gardens and the Visual Arts is as old as Horticulture itself, starting way before the Hanging Gardens of Babylon.We will pick out the best and brightest pictures from Myth and Pre-History, the Dutch and Italian Golden Age and numerous English Gardening crazes, as well as looking at celebrated actual gardens and the art they contain, not to mention maps and plans, and the photographs inspired by Gardens old and new.
Ha-has and Mazes, Fountains and Wetting Sports, Flowers, Fruit and Vegetables, Grottoes and Follies; we have it all. Click here to book tickets online or phone 01606 41597.
Links with the Heritage Tour to Renishaw Hall and Gardens on Saturday 8 August - Click here for more information.
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