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Frye Art History Lecture Series http://fryemuseum.org/program/art_history
The 2011-2012 Frye Art History Lecture Series has sold out. But don't despair; individual day-of tickets are available at the door if there is space (thus far, we have never turned anyone away). Standby numbers will be distributed at the information desk on a first come, first served basis beginning one hour prior to the program . When seats become available, numbers will be called in front of the auditorium fifteen minutes before the program begins and remaining tickets will be sold.
Lectures are held in the auditorium of the Frye Art Museum, 704 Terry, Seattle, WA 98104. Coffee and dessert are provided after each evening lecture.
Individual tickets for each Thursday night lecture
and reception are $11 members/seniors/students/teachers/artists; $16
nonmembers. Individual tickets for Friday lectures are $10
members/seniors/students/teachers/artists; $15 nonmembers. Artists with Scalpels
October 13, 7 pm or
October 14, 11 am
Max's unsettling masterpiece The Anatomist suggests the artist's scientific interests and belongs to a long tradition of depictions of surgeons at work, including powerful images by Rembrandt and Thomas Eakins.
Safe Havens: Vincent Van Gogh and Jacob Lawrence
November 3, 7 pm or
November 4, 11 am
Both Van Gogh and Lawrence voluntarily sought
treatment in psychiatric hospitals, and both left images that deal
movingly with their experiences of institutionalization, healing, and
society’s view of mental illness.
Trois Crayons: Eighteenth-Century French Drawing
December 1, 7 pm or
December 2, 11 am
Watteau perfected the art of drawing “aux trois
crayons:” in red, white, and black chalk. With this exquisitely simple
formula, he and his followers produced ravishing drawings that were
perfectly in tune with their era.
Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience
January 5, 7 pm or
January 6, 11 am
In 1788, William Blake developed a novel printing technique for Songs of Innocence and of Experience that allowed him to combine verse and image into accessible yet profound musings on the human condition.
Bull Jumpers and Octopus Vases: Minoan Art
February 9, 7 pm or
February 10, 11 am
The Minoan culture of Bronze Age Crete involved deep
reverence for nature, as evidenced by stunning pottery, jewelry, and
other objects featuring lively depictions of plants and animals.
Velazquez: Las Meninas
March 8, 7 pm or
March 9, 11 am
Diego Velazquez’s 1656 painting of himself
painting the infant Margarita and her entourage is one of the most
influential works in the history of art. Luca Giordano called it “the
theology of painting;” Picasso deconstructed it.
Hiroshige: 100 Famous Views of Edo (and Then Some)
April 12, 7 pm or
April 13, 11 am
100 Famous Views of Edo, completed in
1858, was Hiroshige’s final series of woodblock prints. Its dramatic
landscape compositions, daring croppings and brilliant colors would
indelibly influence later Western art.
Delacroix on Beauty
May 10, 7 pm or
May 11, 11 am
Eugène Delacroix, one of the last great
painters of literary scenes, kept a journal through much of his career.
His own thoughts on beauty, nature, and art provide insight into this
complex, opinionated man.
Memling, Carpaccio, St. Ursula
June 7, 7 pm or
June 8, 11 am
Around 1490, Vittore Carpaccio in Venice and
Hans Memling in Bruges created works featuring martyr St. Ursula.
Memling’s shrine and Carpaccio’s murals testify to the differences
between Northern and Southern Renaissance art. | | OTHER VENUES:
Creative Retirement Institute at Edmonds Community College: Fall Quarter:
Women Artists
September 21, 28; October 5, 12
10 am-12 pm
Edmonds Conference Center
In
1971, Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women
Artists?” sent a generation of art historians searching to rediscover the work
of female painters and sculptors. This
course will look at women artists working in Renaissance Italy, Rembrandt’s
Holland, Impressionist France, and other fascinating cultural milieus. We will focus on some of the most significant ones, including Artemisia
Gentileschi, Judith Leyster, Maria Sibylla Merian, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Rosa
Bonheur, Käthe Kollwitz, and Georgia O’Keefe.
This course dovetails with Steven Lowe’s course on women composers.
Participants may attend either or both classes offered by Steve and Rebecca.
Women's University Club
Art and the Bible
No work of literature has been the subject of more Western
art than the Bible, and these six lectures for members of the Women's University Club and their guests will explore ways in which different
artists have approached biblical themes over a span of nearly 1500 years.
In the Beginning: The
Book of GenesisOctober 31
In the first book of the Bible, God creates the heavens and
the earth. We will look at two visual
retellings of this tale - mosaics from the Roman-era synagogue of Hammam Lif,
Tunisia and frescoes on the Sistine Ceiling by Michelangelo.
Rembrandt and the Old Testament
November 28 In paintings, drawings and etchings,
Rembrandt mined the Old Testament for scenes of sentiment and suffering that
became for him a mirror of humanity.
Apocryphal Heroines:
Susanna and Judith in Veronese and Tintoretto
January 23 In late Renaissance Venice, Veronese and Tintoretto produced
a number of forceful, even sexy, images
of Israelite heroines Susanna and Judith, whose stories were relegated to the Apocrypha.
The Gospel According to Giotto
February 27 New Testament stories brilliantly cloak the walls of Padua’s
Scrovegni Chapel, erected in 1305. Giotto, the greatest painter of the age,
developed a powerful new narrative style in his frescoes of the life of Christ.
James Tissot’s “Life of Christ”
March 26 High society
painter Tissot dedicated his late career to biblical
scenes. He traveled to the Holy Land and
created nearly 700 New
Testament watercolors feature strongly original, modern interpretations.
At the End: Picturing
the Book of Revelation
April 23 The final book of the Bible, the Revelation of John, abounds
in dramatic descriptions. An elegant 14th-century
French manuscript and Albrecht Dürer's vigorous woodcuts give us two very
distinctive evocations of the dread events of the apocalypse.
Private Groups If you are interested in having me speak to your group, please call 206-524-0870 or use the Contact Me page. | |