National Gallery of | Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann Drawing Day: Saturday 22 May 2010 Morning Session for Adults 10.30am-1.00pm Adult Lifelong Learning The National Gallery ‘Drawing Day’ provides an ideal opportunity to encourage people to try their hand at drawing and sketching under the guidance Courses and Events 2009-2010 of professional tutors. While drawing is a universal language understood by everyone regardless of age, language, nationality or education, it often takes support and encouragement to help people to take the first steps to draw. Although most adults claim that they can’t draw, the success of these sessions has proven that there is renewed interest in mark-making and a genuine desire to try sketching.

Drawing Day, which was started in 2004 by the Gallery’s Education Department, has since developed into an annual event that is now carried out country- wide, in partnership with national and local museums, galleries and cultural centres. Pat Coyle A Study of a Head from the exhibition As this event is free and no booking is necessary, please Drawing Studies: A Celebration bring drawing tools such as an A3 sketch book, soft Photo © National Gallery of Ireland pencils, charcoal and an eraser.

Audio Guides, Drawing Kits and Family Packs are available free to borrow from the Millennium Wing Desk. For information on courses, activities and events contact the Education Department.

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Cover: Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), Le Corsage Noir, 1878. Photo © National Gallery of Ireland National Gallery of Ireland The Story of the Great Masters 2009 In 2004, to mark the 150th anniversary of its establishment, the National Gallery of Ireland hosted a series of talks under the title The Story of the Great Masters. Such was the success of this initiative that it was decided to continue the series on an annual basis. Delivered by highly regarded speakers, experts, scholars and art historians, each talk focuses on a key work in the collection and is followed by supper in the Wintergarden Restaurant.

8 October at 6.30pm William Hogarth (1679-1764) The Mackinen Children, 1747 Paul Henry (1876-1958), Guest Speaker: Christine Riding Early Morning Connemara, 1933-4 Curator of 18th and 19th Century British Art Photo © National Gallery of Ireland Tate Britain, 22 October at 6.30pm 15 October at 6.30pm Gabriele Münter (1877-1962) W.D Finlay Lecture: Girl with Red Ribbon, 1906 Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876) Guest Speaker: Dr. Shulamith Behr Landscape and Figures: Falcon Hunt (‘Algeria Remembered’), 1874 Senior Lecturer in 20th Century German Art Guest Speaker: Dr. Nicholas Penny Courtauld Institute of Art, London Director National Gallery, London Dr. Nicholas Penny 29 October at 6.30pm William Hogarth (1679-1764), Eugène Fromentin (1820-1876), Paul Henry (1876-1958) The Mackinen Children, 1747 Falcon Hunt (‘Algeria Remembered’) 1874 Photo © National Gallery of Ireland Photo © National Gallery of Ireland Early Morning Connemara, 1933-34 Guest Speaker: Dr. S. Brian Kennedy Art Historian, Author and Lecturer

The lectures start promptly at 6.30pm on Thursdays Gabriele Münter (1877-1962), Girl with Red Ribbon, 1906 in the Lecture Theatre. Each presentation lasts for © DACS 2009. approx. 45 minutes and is followed by a discussion. Supper is served at 7.45pm in the Wintergarden in the Millennium Wing, provided by ‘With Taste’.

Details: Tickets: €35 per person (includes lecture and supper); Season Ticket: €130 for the entire series. Tickets on sale in advance from the Gallery Shop 01 663 3518. Tickets must be presented for the lecture and for supper. Enquiries: Education Department, National Gallery of Ireland, Phone 01 663 3505. National Gallery of Ireland National Gallery of Ireland November 2009 Special Events Art Studies 2010 The Advent of Modernism

Modern art refers to work produced between 1860s-1970s that is usually associated with art in which the traditions of the past were thrown aside in a spirit of experimentation. Artists explored the function of art and employed new ways of seeing and fresh ideas about the nature of materials. A tendency toward abstraction characterized much modern art with more recent artistic production called contemporary or postmodern art. As modernism entered popular culture, many modernists believed that by rejecting tradition they could discover radically new ways of making art and, with increasing urbanization, it could provide a source for ideas to deal with the challenges of the day. Battles in the Kingdom of Ossory, detail of The Ros Tapestry 14 January Welcome, Raymond Keaveney, Director 6.30 The Advent of Modernism and New Art Forms Professor Nigel Rolfe, Royal College of Art, London 5 Thursday at 6.30pm 21 January Issues of conflict and identity in the work of The Story of The Ros Tapestry 6.30 Jack B. Yeats and Louis Le Brocquy Countess Ann Griffin Bernstorff, Researcher Dr. Róisín Kennedy, University College and Designer, and Alexis Griffin Bernstorff, Project Director 28 January The Impact of Matisse and Picasso on the New Century In association with The Crafts Council of Ireland 6.30 William Gallagher, Freelance art history lecturer 4 February The Shock of the New: 20th Century Graphic Art 12 Thursday at 6.30pm 6.30 Dr Angela Griffith, Trinity College Dublin The Award Winning Università Luigi Bocconi, University Luigi Bocconi, Milan. Milan, and New Works Photo © Federico Brunetti 11 February Modernism in 20th Century Architecture Shelley McNamara and Yvonne Farrell, 6.30 Professor Hugh Campbell, University College Dublin Grafton Architects 18 February American Abstract Expressionism; Pollock and Rothko In association with the Architectural Foundation, 6.30 Janet McLean, National Gallery of Ireland University College Dublin and The Office of Public Works 25 February Modern Irish Sculpture and New Media 6.30 Dr Paula Murphy, University College Dublin 19 Thursday at 6.30pm 4 March The Influence of Andy Warhol and Pop Art Munch, Suffering and Torment 6.30 Dr Éimear O’Connor, Trinity College Dublin Dr. Dieter Buchhart Dr. Dieter Buchhart Director, Kunsthalle Krems, Austria 11 March Modern and Contemporary Irish Art Juan Gris (1887-1927), Photo © Guenter Kargl In association with the Centre for the History 6.30 Catherine Marshall, Art historian, writer Pierrot, 1921. of Medicine in Ireland, University College Dublin Photo © National Gallery of Ireland 18 March 20th Century Masters: Francis Bacon, Lucien Freud 6.30 Dr Margarita Cappock, University College Dublin 26 Thursday at 6.30pm A Norwegian Evening 25 March The Artist Donald Teskey in His Own Words In the Poet’s Chair 6.30 Donald Teskey, Artist, Keeper, with Dennis O’Driscoll and Knut Ødegård In association with Poetry Ireland and the Royal Norwegian Embassy Details: Season Ticket: €88 for 11 lectures. Single Ticket: €8.50 per lecture (Concession 10%: Students/ Dennis O’Driscoll Knut Ødegård OAP/Unwaged/Registered Disabled/Friends of NGI, proof of status required), in advance Events take place in the Lecture Theatre, no booking necessary. Admission is free. from the Gallery Shop: 01-663 3518. A Certificate of Attendance is provided for those who Enquiries: Education Department, National Gallery of Ireland, Phone 01 663 3505. attend the entire course. Venue: Lecture Theatre. Enquiries: Education Department, National Gallery of Ireland, P