William Morris modernised craft for Victorian taste. Function, simplicity and beauty were aligned, and a feeling for how things were made became something to value but the price of the new artisan furnishings was beyond the pocket of artisans. Scandinavian design in the 40s and 50s emphatically re-introduced natural materials to modernist taste, solving Morris's problem of how to make craft values available to all and Ikea was born. Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1901 talk Craft and the Machine sought to reconcile Morris’s craft values with modern material and industrial production. Stephen will trace this idea in Wright’s early work and the pioneer designs of the Vienna Secession. Other designers and designs will include Morris' Red House; Voysey's The Orchard, Joseph Hoffman and Villa Stocklet; Alvar Aalto's Villa Mariea as well as current Ikea design.  

Stephen Taylor is an artist and art historian. He studied John Constable as a post graduate at Essex and Yale, taught at Felsted School and became Head of Painting at The Open College of the Arts and course director at the Inchbald School of Design. In 2000, Stephen turned to landscape painting with early shows at King's College Cambridge, Meisel’s New York and Vertigo in London. Now he has pictures in private collections world-wide and his book Oak: One tree, three years, fifty paintings was featured in the Guardian and was an Oprah Winfrey Book of the Week.

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10.00am – 3.00pm Including lunch

People think they know Constable through images on chocolate boxes and biscuit tins but often they don’t really understand his most familiar works! Sarah Cove is on a mission to open the eyes of the public to Constable as the ‘Jackson Pollock of the 1830s’. Through publications, lectures and TV appearances she has demonstrated just how radical his extraordinary technique was for its time. She shows that in many ways he is a true ‘Father of Modern Painting’ through his influence on the French 19th century landscape tradition that led directly to Impressionism, Cezanne and ultimately Picasso!

Sarah Cove is an accredited paintings conservator-restorer, technical art historian and lecturer with almost 40 years’ experience working on paintings for the heritage and private sectors. She lives and works in Falmouth, Cornwall, but also has a permanent base in London. As a conservator, she specialises in British portraiture, 19th-20th century British landscapes and oil sketches on paper and board. Alongside her conservation practice, in 1986 Sarah founded the Constable Research Project and she is now the leading authority on Constable’s oil painting materials and techniques. She has appeared in several TV programmes for the BBC notably Constable in Love with Andrew Graham-Dixon and twice on Fake or Fortune? where she was instrumental in the discovery of 3 ‘lost’ Constables. Other research interests include Tudor and Jacobean Portraiture, the 19th century Newlyn and St Ives schools and early-to-mid 20th century British painting generally. She has been a lecturer for The Arts Society since 2003 and is a very experienced speaker having lectured independently since the 1980s at major public venues across the UK, USA, Australia and New Zealand. Her presentations are lively and enthusiastic as she speaks without notes with an inimitable passion that comes from presenting her own work and research with wonderful images.

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10.00am – 3.00pm Including lunch

 Since the middle of the sixteenth century, the Cavendish family has moved in and out of the pages of history, sometimes making its mark with scandal, sometimes with politics, sometimes with learning, and always with style. This Special Interest Day introduces you to three of the most intriguing members of the family: Bess of Hardwick, the four-times-married founder of the dynasty; the 1st Duke of Devonshire, labelled “the most dissolute man in London”; and the Bachelor Duke, amiable custodian of the dukedom in the early nineteenth century.

Dr Gillian White specialises in the history and visual arts of late medieval and sixteenth-century England. After beginning her career at the Warwickshire Museum, she then worked for the National Trust as Curator/Collections Manager at Hardwick Hall, Derbyshire, about which she wrote her PhD at Warwick University. Since that she taught part-time at Leicester University in the Centre for the Study of the Country House and continues to teach History of Art in the Department of Continuing Education at Oxford University and elsewhere.

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How did the British view themselves and their subjects in the era of imperialism? How did imperial subjects view the British? This study day considers these questions by exploring a range of images, buildings, objects and art forms from across the British Empire. Beginning with a broad view of the empire and imperial art in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, we will go on to focus more closely on Imperial India. We will consider the arts and architecture of the vibrant capital city of Calcutta, the ‘second city’ of the British Empire throughout the nineteenth century. We will then take a detailed look at the life and art of one of India’s cultural giants, Rabindranath Tagore. 

Dr John Stevens gained his PhD in History from UCL, before going on to teach British Imperial History, Indian History and Bengali Language at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS, University of London). His biography of the Indian guru Keshab Chandra Sen – Keshab: Bengal’s Forgotten Prophet - was published by Hurst and Oxford University Press in 2018. He is a regular visitor to India and Bangladesh and has lectured at numerous Indian universities. He also works as a consultant on Indian affairs and teaches the Bengali language to private students. He has appeared many times in the Indian media, and was a guest on BBC Radio Four’s In Our Time, discussing the poet and artist Rabindranath Tagore. 

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Art Deco has the reputation of being the most glamorous and popular style of the 20th century which was prevalent during the 1920s and 1930s. We will review the development of the style within the context of its social and economic environment and look at specific examples of objets d’arts, including silver, jewellery, furniture, ceramics, clocks and architecture.  The range of designers, craftsmen and artists that we will contemplate will include, but not limited to, E-J Ruhlmann, René Lalique, Tamara de Lempicka, Jean Dupas, Georgia O’Keeffe, Eileen Gray, Romain de Tirtoff (Erté), René Vincent and English ceramicist, Clarice Cliff.In addition to some examples of domestic and civic Art Deco buildings in the UK, we will also touch on certain architectural buildings in New York, Miami, Mumbai, and Napier, thus confirming Art Deco’s full global reach and appeal.

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Pamela Campbell-Johnston has an MA Hons in Art History from St Andrew's University and over 30 years of lecturing experience to undergraduates, adult groups, and Friends and Patrons of the Royal Academy of Arts as part of the Adult Education Department's programme of events. She also conducts numerous guided tours and focused gallery talks on individual works of art.

This Special Interest Day is made up of a contrasting trio of lectures on iconic liners, the gritty realism of the turn-of-the-century Ashcan painters and the glamour of Tiffany. It makes for a highly popular and entertaining mix. 

Brian was a senior modern languages teacher in an independent grammar school for many years, He has also enjoyed a successful parallel career since the 1980s as a professional artist and interior designer. Since 2006 he has been regularly appointed to a number of prestigious ocean and river cruise lines, either as resident artist, guest lecturer on art history or as destination speaker for more than forty countries. Most recently this work has successfully extended to art guiding through important towns and museums in France, Belgium, Holland and Spain. 

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Most art history is centered around men, but in the late 19th and 20th centuries women began to play an important role in art and patronage. This lively study day looks at the fascinating lives of 5 women:

Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Misa Sert, Suzanne Valadon and Marchesa Luisa Casati

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We trace the development of the chair in terms of its construction and style from ancient times through to the 19th century, which will hopefully surprise attendees with just how much there is to reveal about such a familiar item. The role of the chair as a symbol of power and authority in religious and courtly ritual and official settings will be examined as well as its social significance as something of a “status symbol” in a more vernacular context. Have you ever wondered where the phrase “sitting on your money” came from?  This discovery day will tell you! 

Participants are encouraged to bring along chairs for examination and discussion which should date pre-1910.

Programme:

10.00                   Registration & Coffee

10.30 -11.30       Part 1: Seats of power & symbols of authority

                             Comfort break

11.50 -12.50       Part 2: Chairs for the common (wo)man

                             Lunch

2.00 – 3.00         Part 3: The designers come to town      

                             Plus: discussion of your chairs

To learn more about Janusz take a look at his website.

https://januszspeaking.com/about/

Now on Zoom

Two Lectures 2.00 - 3.00 and 3.30 - 4.30

Lecture content to be finalised (two lectures instead of three), but will contain some of the folowing:

Beginnings: Morals, Martyrs and Marketing: The Invention of Childhood

Children’s literature has only been recognised as a distinct genre for about 250 years. Its evolution is a fascinating story, echoing the recognition of childhood as an experience in its own right, not merely as preparation for maturity. So, as social and historical changes prompted a changing view of childhood, more and more books for children began to be produced, with the establishment of a commercial children’s book market. In this first lecture we examine the different strands which fed in to the development of this new literary form and look at the importance of pictures from the earliest times onwards.

The Golden Age: Fantasy Restored – Beasts, Birds and Burlesque

Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne in 1837 heralded great change in the children’s book world. Factors such as the social reforms of the 1830s and 40s, a growing middle class, more schools and a rise in literacy meant an ever increasing demand for a wide choice of books for children. At the same time technological advances led to improvements in printing and reproducing pictures, enabling writers and artists of originality and vision to initiate the first ‘Golden Age’ of children’s literature in the late 19th century. We end with a glance at some enduring classics from the early part of the new century.

Lecture 3: The Big Picture: Trials of Life – Secret Sorrows, Audacious Adventures and Cosmic Conflicts

The last eighty years or so have of course seen further significant transformations, both in form and in content. In this lecture we focus on some of the trends and themes which writers and artists have tried to encompass in their works; we’ll see how modern children’s literature explores all sorts of aspects of human experience and addresses ethical and emotional issues with exciting, moving, thought provoking and often spellbinding stories and pictures. We come right up to date looking at recent publishing sensations and at an explosion of artistic creativity in the world of the contemporary picture book. 

Biography

Elizabeth has over 25 years' experience lecturing on a range of subjects including classical art and architecture, aspects of the visual arts and the links between literature and art. She has lectured for the WEA, the Universities of Bristol and Southampton Departments of Continuing Education, Royal Society of Arts, Dillington House, Jane Austen Society, Thomas Hardy Society, Brussels Brontë Society, Finzi Society, the Art Fund, Dorset County Museum and literary, historical and philosophical societies nationwide. Has also lectured on study tours to Rome, Aachen, Cologne, Brittany and the Dordogne, as well as all over the UK. Lectured in Australia and New Zealand in 2011 and is returning to Australia for two further lecture tours.

CANCELLED

Following coronavirus advice from The Arts Society head office, we have regretfully cancelled this study day and hope to reschedule a date in the future. All monies will be refunded.

The Art Deco style is considered by many people to be one of the most lively chapters in the history of art. Covering a 30-year period up to 1939, it can broadly be divided into three stylistic periods: ‘de luxe’, modernistic, and streamlining.

Programme: 10.00am Registration and Coffee

10.30 – 11.30am - Session I

We begin with a brief reminder of the difference between Art Nouveau and Art Deco. We then look at the development of Art Deco ‘de luxe’, influenced by designs from Austria and Germany, and the arrival of the Ballets Russes in Paris before the First World War. The new fashions of Paul Poiret as well as the fine furniture, metalwork and glassware of leading French designers such as Ruhlmann, Brandt and Lalique all belong to the ‘de luxe’ period. The first session ends with the important Exhibition of Decorative Arts held in Paris in 1925, where the work of these designers was shown to great acclaim.

11.50 to 12.50pm - Session II 

The second session is about Modernistic Art Deco, sometimes termed Zig-Zag Moderne, of the late 1920s.   Cubism, The Bauhaus, and the excitement of the machine age, influenced design towards geometrical imagery, from skyscrapers to everyday household objects.  

12.50: Lunch 

2 to 3pm - Session III 

In the afternoon session, we look at Streamlining.    During the Depression years, American industrial designers harnessed the concept of speed to develop repackaged, streamlined products – from refrigerators to vacuum cleaners – to make the public ‘buy’. With the advent of the ‘talkies’ in the 1930s, the movies played a key role in disseminating an image of art deco glamour throughout the world.  

Anthea Streeter studied the Fine and Decorative Arts in London and continued her studies at Harvard University. It was while at Harvard, where there was great enthusiasm for American design, that she became interested herself in 20th century architecture. Since returning from America she has taught on courses in Oxford and London, lectured on the Country House course in Sussex, and for several private groups around the country. Special interest in the architecture and design of 20th century.

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You are invited to a Christmas Lunch Party and Lecture

At:   Taunton Racecourse
On:  Tuesday, 3rd December 2019. 12 for 12.30pm
Lecture:  'The Opera Singer Phenomenon' starts 2.30pm

Lunch is a traditional Christmas turkey main course with mince pies and coffee to follow.
(Vegetarian option and special diets catered for).

Also paying bar and raffle. Disabled access and facilities available. Those wishing to attend the lecture only are welcome at 2pm. 
Guests will be charged £7.00 and a mince pie and coffee are available for £1.00 per person.

£15.00 per person for Arts Society Taunton members. £22.00 for guests (this includes the guest lecture fee £7)

Tickets must be purchased in advance, no later than 29th November 2019

BOOKING FORM

OUR LECTURE: -            

The Opera Singer Phenomenon

Tim Mirfin

How do opera singers make that noise? Why do they make that noise? An examination by a practitioner of this extraordinary phenomenon of human evolution, including an overview of some of the many other challenges opera singers face,  interspersed with both lecture-live singing and recorded examples and anecdotes. You really don't need to like opera for this to prove interesting.

"FULLY BOOKED"

Programme: 10.00am Registration and Coffee

10.30 – 11.30am - Session I

Gardens in Italy from the Emperor Hadrian to the Emperor Napoleon

A survey of the development of gardens in Italy from the Roman gardens of the 1st Century AD to the English style gardens of the end of the 18th Century. We start in Tivoli, and then move to Renaissance Florence at the height of Medici power and splendour, from the 16th Rome and the wonders of the Villa d’Este (a return to Tivoli). The charm of the Villa Lante contrasts withs the disturbing monsters of Bomarzo and the serenity of Castello Ruspoli, The Baroque glories of Frascati, Isola Bella on Lake Maggiore and Caserta near Naples are the last great effort before Italian gardening became Anglicised at the end of the 18th century.

11.50 to 12.50pm - Session II 

The Grand Tour: The Perils and Pleasures of the Eighteenth Century traveller’s Journey to Italy
The Grand Tour was a largely eighteenth century phenomenon, which reached the height of popularity in the years between 1715 and 1789 In its heyday, scores of young men (and a sprinkling of enterprising women) were dispatched by parents and guardians, to acquire at least a veneer of culture. This lecture follows the progress of a Grand tourist through Europe, largely through contemporary paintings, gives examples of some of the souvenirs they returned with and tells of some of the difficulties facing the intrepid traveller in the pre-railway age.

12.50: Lunch (please bring your own or Hestercombe does lunch nearby)  

2 to 3pm - Session III 

The Influence of Italy on 18th Century English Gardens

The revolution in garden design in the 18th century which brought about the English Landscape garden was the result of a number of influences, among them the Grand Tour. Gentlemen and aristocrats, returning from Italy, inspired by the classical ruins around Rome, Renaissance villas and the landscape of the Roman Campagna, determined to surround their newly built classical country houses with a suitably Italian landscape. The result was the transformation of England by both professional and amateur gardeners, from William Kent and Lord Burlington to Capability Brown’. This lecture looks at the development of the landscape garden from the early attempts at Castle Howard and Blenheim through to the mature style at Stourhead,  Petworth and so many others.

Biography: Inchbald School of Design 1990 (Dip ISD). Head Gardener, Old Rectory Farnborough 1990-92. Faculty Director, Design History Inchbald School of Design. Garden Designer 1992. A lecturer for The Arts Society since 1995. Organiser of The Arts Society's garden study days and tours in the UK and Europe. Organises tours to the best private gardens in the UK, Italy, France and South Africa. 'Garden Manis', a book on garden ornaments, published in 2000. 

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Programme: 10.00am Registration and Coffee

10.30am - 11.30am - Session I
The Medieval Guildhall - a London nerve centre for 2,000 years - sculpture, monuments and art in this gothic treasure trove. In the centre of the City of London stands its ancient headquarters, the medieval Guildhall. The present building dates from 1411 and remarkably is still in use today. The crypts are even earlier, and the whole building stands on the site of London’s Roman amphitheatre. It contains a wealth of wonderful monuments that commemorate significant events over the centuries, including victories at Trafalgar and Waterloo. This lecture describes the Guildhall exterior and interior and explores its fascinating history.

Short break

11.50am to 12.50pm - Session II
Romans and Romantics – The Guildhall Art Gallery, one of the country’s real hidden gems. The City of London Corporation has been commissioning and acquiring art for nearly 350 years and now owns a vast and diverse collection. This talk explores the outstanding display of works in the Guildhall Art Gallery. We will look at paintings from the 17th and 18th centuries including the Floating Batteries of Gibraltar by John Singleton Copley – currently the largest canvas in any UK gallery. Then we’ll see some of the sparkling Victorian and Pre-Raphaelite collection, including paintings by Rossetti, Millais and Holman Hunt. The gallery also owns many 20th Century works. Built on the site of London’s Roman amphitheatre, which is open to the public, the gallery is one of the real hidden gems in the centre of London.
12.50pm (lunch – please bring your own picnic. Coffee available in hall.  Or Hestercombe House provides very good food if you prefer to leave the premises.)

2pm to 3pm - Session III
An armchair stroll around the Square Mile For most of the past 2,000 years, the City of London has been very good at making money. In Roman times it was a bustling and successful trading port and is now home to hi-tech international finance. The fruits of these riches are still around for all to see in this virtual tour. Within a short walk of the Guildhall and St Paul’s Cathedral is a treasure trove of wonderful buildings and public art. This talk starts with a look at the institutions that are the backbone of the City of London – including the Bank of England, Lloyds, the Stock Exchange, and the City Livery Companies. Then we will dive into medieval alleyways to explore hidden churches and gardens and finish with a peek at some of the City’s gleaming new skyscrapers.
Ian Swankie is a Londoner with a passion for art and architecture. He is an official guide at Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Guildhall Art Gallery and St Paul’s Cathedral, and gives tours at each venue. He is also a qualified and active freelance London guide and leads regular tours for various corporations and organisations. Six years ago, he established a weekly independent art lecture group in his home town of Richmond in West London, and he gives talks on a variety of subjects. He is an accredited lecturer for The Arts Society
 

A COMBINED CHRISTMAS LUNCH FOR THE ARTS SOCIETIES TAUNTON AND TAUNTON VALE 

At Taunton Racecourse
Tuesday, 4th December 2018
12 for 12.30pm

You are cordially invited to a Christmas lunch party and lecture on Mars and the Muses starting at 2.30pm.

Lunch includes a traditional Christmas turkey main course with mince pies and coffee to follow,
 (vegetarian option and special diets catered for).  Also paying bar and raffle.
Disabled access and facilities available.
Those wishing to attend the lecture only are welcome at 2pm, guests will be charged £5
and a mince pie and coffee are available for £1 per person.
 

Thursday, 25th October, 2018

The Inside Stories: A Study Day with Shauna Isaac

Programme: 10.00am Registration and Coffee

10.30am to 11.30am: The Inside Stories: The real stories behind the most intriguing cases of stolen art and Nazi looted art

These lectures will be based on case studies of both stolen and Nazi looted art. During the talks, patterns will emerge that show common motivations for stealing. The study day will demonstrate the ignorance of the art thieves and show how when valuable pieces of art are stolen, it is a loss to culture and society at large.

Lecture 1 The real stories behind the most intriguing cases of stolen art

We will start the study day by looking at some of the greatest art thefts of the 20th and 21st centuries. This lecture will examine what makes a stolen work of art so intriguing. We will pay particular attention to how the public reacts after an artwork is stolen and what happens to the aura of the stolen objects. Some examples of stolen art that we will discuss include Edvard Munch’s The Scream and the most famous artwork of all time - Leonardo’s da Vinci’s Mona Lisa.

Short Break

11.50am to 12.50pm

Lecture 2 The real stories behind the most intriguing cases of Nazi looted art

For the second lecture, we are going to delve deeper and look at a specific topic of stolen art, which is Nazi looting. We will explore why this type of looting is so intriguing by examining the Nazis’ motivations for the thefts. We will look at the incredible stories behind contemporary cases of Nazi looting and see what happened to famous artworks that were looted.

12.45pm (lunch – please bring your own picnic. Coffee available in hall. Or Hestercombe House provides very good food if you prefer to leave the premises.)

2pm to 3pm Lecture 3 The real stories behind the assault on modern art

For the final lecture, we are going to discuss the Nazis’ attack on modern art. Some of our most celebrated artists, such as Picasso, Klimt and Chagall were branded ‘degenerate’ by the Nazis, which was a way to not only enforce the National Socialist aesthetic but also to disgrace art that was previously popular in Weimar Germany. This lecture will demonstrate that trying to discredit a particular type of art was the first step to dismantling a culture.

Shauna studied at Courtauld Institute and Birkbeck College, London and regularly lectures at the Sotherby’s Institute of Art. Currently managing an art recovery company and served on the Looted Art Working Group for the Holocaust Era Assets Conference in Prague, where she was instrumental in drafting the Terezin Declaration on Nazi looting, which was ratified by 46  countries. Has given talks to the Focus-Abengoa Foundation Symposium in Seville, the Courtauld Institite, the Documentation Centre of World War II Cultural Assets, Sotherby’s and Microsoft. Publications include articles for The Art Newspaper, Art and Law Magazine and Art Quarterly

We have joined forces with the two other Taunton Art Societies:  Taunton Evening, and Taunton Vale

at the Flower Show in Vivary Park

on Friday 3rd and Saturday 4th August 2018

The stand will be manned by our Society members on both days, to welcome the public, give out brochures and membership applications forms and generally promote our Society.

Do visit us at stand A8 and give us your feedback:  

theartssocietytaunton@gmail.co.uk

A CELEBRATION TO REMEMBER

NADFAS at 50 Years

The South West Area Team invite you to DARTINGTON HALL

For a Super-Plus Study Day

With exhibitions,displays, lunch, traditional cream tea and access to Dartington’s extensive 1,200-acre estate and their Grade 2* listed gardens.

Tickets include a two-session study-day from PETER MEDHURST, lunch, an Antiques “Call My Bluff” and entry to all the exhibitions. 

We will be leaving Taunton by luxury coach at 8.30am and returning by about 8.00pm

All inclusive price of £59.00

The Arts Society 50th Anniversary Celebration

A lunch party, an anniversary cake, a raffle,

and a lecture ‘Vermeer’s Quiet Interiors’ by Sarah Kelly

At the Racecourse Taunton

On Tuesday 5th June 2018

12 for 12.30pm

Lecture starts at 2.30pm

£16.00 per person, £21.00 for guests (guest lecture fee included)

Lunch includes a free drink on arrival, a starter, main course, cake and coffee

Tickets must be purchased in advance, not later than 31st May

Disabled access and facilities available

Mozart, Salzburg and Vienna; A Tale of Two Musical Cities

A Study Day with Janet  Canetty-Clarke

Programme: 10.00a.m. Registration and Coffee

10.30a.m to 11.30am : Session  I  - The birth in Salzburg, Austria of the Wonder Child: Johan  Chrysostom Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on 27th January, 1756

We will explore the role played by the city in the development of this remarkable child-prodigy, and Janet will play and analyse some of his very early works for the keyboard and for the opera stage. We will discuss the role played by his parents and by his sister, a fascinating angle on the boy’s genius.

Short Break

11.50am to 12.50pm: Session II

The child becomes a man, falls in love, moves to Vienna, marries and produces a family, receives fame (but not always fortune!) presents the “perfect” opera “The Marriage of Figaro”  but to the wrong audience – his decline begins. Visits Prague  and is commissioned to compose “Don Giovanni”.

12.45pm (lunch – please bring your own picnic. Coffee available in hall.  Or Hestercombe House provides  very good food if you prefer to leave the premises.)

2pm to 3pm : Session III:

He becomes a Mason in order to enhance his opportunities, but too late. He dies in the poor quarter of Vienna on December 5th, 1791.

Questions will be encouraged throughout the day which finishes at 3.15pm.

__________________________________________________________________________________Please return booking form together with SAE and cheque made payable to Taunton DFAS to: Jenny Butcher, Threeways, Kingston St. Mary, TA2 8JD, or email taunton@theartssociety.org.

Mozart, Salzburg and Vienna; A Tale of Two Musical Cities

I/We would like to attend the  Study Day on Thursday 22nd March, 2018 at Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall. I/We enclose cheque for £25/£50 made payable to Taunton DFAS and a SAE. Add an additional £5 if you are not a member of Taunton DFAS

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Biography

Janet Canetty-Clarke BMus (London),GRSM,LRAM,ARCM,ARAM

For over 35 years, Janet was a Lecturer in Music for the Centre of Community Engagement at Sussex University, and for Birkbeck College at London University. She now gives individual lectures and study weeks/weekends for Cambridge University at Madingley Hall, for NADFAS, U3A and WEA, the WI and for Aspire (Sussex) Ltd. She was Musical Director and Conductor of the Ditchling Choral Society (now Sussex Chorus) for 37 years, and has been their Conductor Emeritus. She was Guest Conductor of the First All Women Chamber Orchestra of Austria for over 16 years, and made the AADFAS tours of Australia in 1994 and 2001, and of South Africa in 1997.

 There are literally hundreds of books on Mozart in most libraries but the one that answers most questions is The Mozart Companion, edited by H.C. Robins, London, published by Faber and Faber, London

      A Study Day with Rosalind Whyte

Programme:

10.00 am Registration and Coffee

10.30 - 11.30 am Session 1.  The Glasgow Boys and The Scottish Colourists.  In the 1870s a group of young Scottish artists, who became known as The Glasgow Boys, challenged the art establishment and the dominance of classical subject matter.  Influenced by the social realism of the Barbizon School in France, they were committed to painting in the open air and produced wonderfully atmospheric scenes of Scottish rural life. During this session we will explore the Glasgow Boys' work and the influence they would have on the next generation, The Scottish Colourists.

 Short break

 11.50 am - 12.50 pm Session 2.  The Scottish Colourists.  In the early 1900s the group of artists subsequently known as The Scottish Colourists - John Duncan Fergusson, Francis Cadell, Samuel Peploe and George Leslie Hunter – turned their attention to Paris.  Influenced by the French Fauves and Post Impressionists, they used strong, vibrant colours to produce innovative still life paintings, landscapes and portraits.  Painting mainly in Edinburgh and France, they produced some of the most dramatically colourful, progressive and admired works of the 20th century.  In this session we will be introduced to these four artists.

 Lunch

 2 pm – 3 pm Session 3.  During this session we will study the work of the Colourists more closely, from early influences such as the Glasgow Boys, which resulted in comparatively muted canvases, to the vibrant palettes they are more well known for.  We will also chart their biographies, through the paintings they created, to gain an insight into the lives and careers of these four artists and their position within the broader field of Scottish Art. 

 Finish: 3.15 pm

 Please return booking form together with SAE and cheque made payable to Taunton DFAS to:

Jenny Butcher, Magnolia Cottage, Kingston St. Mary, TA2 8JD

The Scottish Colourists

I/We would like to attend the Study Day on Thursday 23rd November, 2017 at Cheddon Fitzpaine Memorial Hall

I/We enclose cheque for £25/£50 made payable to Taunton DFAS and a SAE. Add an additional £5 if not a member of Taunton DFAS

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Biography:

Rosalind is an experienced guide at Tate Britain, Tate Modern, the Royal Academy and Greenwich. She also lectures at Tate, Dulwich Picture Gallery, to independent art societies and on cruises.  She has lead art appreciation holidays in and around Glasgow, exploring the rich variety of Scottish Art.

Ian Pickford is a freelance lecturer and broadcaster, Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company and Freeman of the City of London

.In order to fully appreciate any pieces of silver, it is essential to look at them in the context of the social customs and ways of life of the periods in which they were made. Only then can the reasons for such things as silver chamber pots, elaborate dressing-table sets and lids on cups, be properly understood. 

Why for example were such extraordinary objects as Clock Salts produced in the Tudor period, and, what was mustard served in before 1760? 

 

I a Freeman of the Goldsmiths' Company, Freeman of the City of London. Lecturer University of London, University of Surrey, V&A, National Trust, The Art Fund. He broadcasts on both television and radio. He is also an author and Editor of 'Jackson's Silver & Gold Marks'.

This SW Area Study Day will be held at Buckfast Abbey. Contact Jane Bolton on janenadfasswstudydays@gmail.com for full details and bookings.