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Art History Lectures - Spring 2016
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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The Modern Masters I
Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh
Tuesday 19 January

The actuality is very far from the myth, of course, and would be enough to make anyone think twice before making the leap.
The pictures are a different story - full of colour and the exotic, anti-materialistic and ‘primative’, they do seem to advertise a purer alternative to Modern Life, and that is the secret of their success. This lecture looks at all phases of Gauguin’s stylistic development, his great innovations, his scurrilous life and his lasting influence.

This lecture examines Man, Myth and Metier.
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The Modern Masters II
Georges Seurat and Paul Cezanne
Tuesday 9 February
Accepted by many as the most influential of all the Post Impressionists, Paul Cezanne today enjoys an unassailable reputation with critic and public alike, as the father of Cubism, and, thereby, 20th Century Art. Not so in his own day, as success came very late to the most famous ‘miserablist’ in art (with the possible exception of Morrissey. Cezanne is famed for his dedication, his singleness of purpose, and his relentless pursuit of a style which is less a conscious style than a method, capable of ‘making over Poussin from Nature’ – of creating an ‘architectonic’ approach to painting which would give weight, structure and 3D form to the flat surface of a canvas and the veils of colour attached to it.
We look at his life (angry and frustrated), his influences (Neo-Classicism, Realism, Impressionism, Japanese Art) and his considerable legacy (Picasso, Braque, and virtually everyone else), and try to find the man behind the misanthrope.

We look at his great masterpieces - ‘Sunday Afternoon on the Grande Jatte’, ‘The Models’, ’Parade’, ‘Bathing at Asnieres’, as well as his method, his followers and his short but brilliant life.
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The Rag Trade
A History of Fashion in Art, and Art in Fashion
Tuesday 8 March


Lots of gorgeous pictures, naturally,
featuring satins and silks, frocks and fascinators, jewels and gee-gaws,
ruffs and hose, shoes and socks.

All proceeds from this lecture will go to the charity ‘Riding for the Disabled’.
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The Modern Masters III
Edgar Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Tuesday 29 March

This lecture looks at Degas the Impressionist, Modernist, Classicist, Painter, Photographer, Sculptor.

Superficial though this might sound, the changes he brought to art were significant and lasting; like Degas, a great admirer of the Japanese colour woodblock, Toulouse Lautrec exploited its potential to the full, notably in a short but game-changing series of posters for the theatres and cabarets of Monmartre, and its meteoric star performers. Through the posters and the paintings we can breathe the air, share the thrills, (thankfully without paying the price of admission) to this most captivating and dangerous of worlds.
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