A History of European Painting 2019-20. Draft Programme

In this academic year, I want to continue our overview of the major European art movements in painting from around 1400 - but please remember, as last year, that the selection of artists and their works is inevitably personal and arbitrary.

Again, there will be two groups – meeting on either the first Monday or first/second Tuesday each month. The Monday & Tuesday groups will cover the same sessions but on alternate months, and all members are welcome to attend the alternate meeting if this avoids missing any session. You will understand that planning a year ahead has to be provisional – life may intervene - but I promise to give the maximum notice possible if I need to make any changes.

This year a number of people have found the notes useful and I will try to circulate some a week or so before each meeting. And again, I would welcome any contributions and ideas for our sessions that anyone would like to make. The list is provisional.

Five sessions 1874 – 1940

11. Impressionism (Monday 2nd September & Tuesday 8th October) a) Camille Pissaro (Orchard in Bloom) b) Claude Monet (Gare Saint-Lazare & Rouen Cathedral) c) Frederic Bazille. (Thérèse lisant dans le parc de Méric) d) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (The Swing & The Blonde Bather) e) Gustave Caillebotte (The Floor Scrapers & Paris Street; Rainy Day) f) Berthe Morisot (The Cradle & The Summer Day) g) Edgar Degas (Absinthe & Girl Drying Herself) h) Alfred Sisley (Meadow)

12. Neo-impressionism, Post-impressionism, The Nabis (Monday 4th November & Tuesday 3rd December) i) Georges Seurat (Island of La Grande Jatte) j) Paul Cezanne (The Basket of Apple; Mont St Victoire) k) Vincent van Gogh (Hospital at St Remy) l) Paul Gauguin (Spirit of the Dead Watching) m) Henri Rousseau (Tiger in a Tropical Storm. Surprised!) n) Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (At the Moulin Rouge) o) Pierre Bonnard (Women in the Garden; Nude against the light) p) Edouard Vuillard (Large Interior with Six Figures) q) Felix Valloton (The Visit)

13. Symbolism, Fauvism & Expressionism (Monday 6th January & Tuesday 4th February) r) Maurice Denis (Portrait of Marthe) s) Andre Derain (London Bridge) t) Maurice de Vlaminck (Restaurant de la Machine à Bougival 1905) u) Matisse (Le Bonheur de Vivre) v) Gustave Klimt (The Beethoven Frieze) w) Edvard Munch (The Storm; The Scream) x) Otto Dix (Metropolis) y) George Grotz (Daum marries her Pedantic Automaton George 1920) z) Pablo Picasso (Guernica) aa) Max Beckmann (Birth & Death) 1 14. Cubism, Futurism & Abstraction (Monday 2nd March & Tuesday 7th April) a. Pablo Picasso (Demoisselles D’Avignon, Still life with Chair Caning) b. Georges Bracque (Violin & Palette) c. Juan Gris (Fantomas) d. Robert Delaunay (Homage to Bleriot) e. Fernand Leger (The Card Players 1917; Three Women 1921) f. Umberto Boccioni (Dynamism of a Cyclist) g. Wassily Kandinsky (Little Pleasures 1913) h. Paul Klee (Moonshine) i. Piet Mondrian (Composition II 1930; Broadway Boogie-woogie 1942) j. Kazimar Malevich (Black Square)

15. Dada & Surrealism. (Monday 4th May & Tuesday 2nd June) a. Marcel Duchamp (LHOOQ 1919) b. Giorgio de Chirico (Melancholy and Mystery of a Street 1914) c. Marc Chagall (Self-portrait with Seven Fingers 1913) d. Max Ernst (Men Shall Know Nothing of This 1923) e. Joan Miró (Harlequin’s Carnival 1924-5) f. Leonora Carrington (Inn of the Dawn Horse 1937) g. Rene Magritte (The Treason of Images 1928; The Menaced Assassin 1926) h. Salvador Dali (Metamorphosis of Narcissus 1937) i. Paul Delvaux (The Awakening of the Forest 1939)

Five themed sessions 1400-modern

16. Portraits 1400-1800 (Monday 7th October & Tuesday 3rd September) Wilton Triptych, Jan van Eyck (Man in a Red Turban), Holbein (Sir Thomas More), Leonardo (Ginerva de Benci), Bronzini (Portrait of a Young Man), El Greco (Portrait of a Cardinal), Velazquez (Pope Innocent X), Hals (Regents & Regentesses of the Old Men’s Almhouse ), Rembrandt (The Prodigal Son in the Tavern), Van Dyck (Venetia Stanley), Joshua Reynolds (Kitty Fisher) Boucher (Madame de Pompadour; Marie -Louise Murphy), Marie-Guillemine Benois (Portrait of a Negress)

17. Portraits 1800 - 2000 (Monday 2nd December & Tuesday 5th November) Ingres (Portrait of Monsieur Bertin), G F Watts (Choosing), Cezanne (Mme Cezanne in a Red Dress), Redon (Violet Heymann), Matisse (Woman in a Hat), Picasso (Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler); Weeping Woman, Dix (Journalist Sylvia non Harden), Leonora Carrington (Bird Superior), Warhol (Elvis), Hockney (Mr & Mrs Clarke), Freud (HM Queen Elizabeth II)

18. Women artists 1400 - 2000 (Monday 3rd February & Tuesday 7th January) Sofonisba Anguissola, Barbara Longhi, Lavinia Fontana, Artemisia Gentileschi, Rachel Ruysch, Judith Leyster, Angelica Kauffman, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Rebecca Solomon, Elizabeth Thompson, Emily Mary Osborn, Rosa Bonheur, Berthe Morisot, Suzanne Valadon, Paula Rego, Bridget Riley.

19. Landscapes 1400 - 2000 (Monday 6th April & Tuesday 3rd March Durer, Aldorfer, Cuyp, van Ruisdael, Claude-Lorrain, Richard Wilson, Constable, Turner, Corot, Sisley, Erich Heckel, Paul Nash, Graham Sutherland.

20. Local art & artists (Monday 1st June & Tuesday 5th May) Peter DeWint, Arnold Bennett, John Currie, John Louis Petit, Henry Lark Pratt, Thomas Peploe Wood, ‘Recording Britain’, Turner (Litchfield Cathedral), Reginald Haggar © Patrick Imrie 2019

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