The ArtCenter offers lecture series that address individual artists, movements, and critical theory. Lectures are held on Fridays from 7 – 9 pm, $20 per person. The discounted price for registering for the entire 2008 Art & Members gain entrance to the lectures for $15.
ART & WINE 2008
Lecture 1, June 11
Frida Kahlo/ Painting a Tortured Life
Frida Kahlo depicted the indigenous culture of Mexico in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. She was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Her self-portraits, often expressed her physical pain and suffering.
Lecture 2, August 8
Paris/ City of Art
In Paris, the boundaries of art have regularly been pushed back. Thus, it is not by chance that Paris, in the first half of the twentieth century, is where modern art originated.
Lecture 3, September 26
Bauhaus/ House of Building
The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents and had a profound influence on art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography.
Lecture 4, October 24
Mouton Rothschild/ The Art of the Label
To celebrate the allied victory in 1945, Baron Philippe de Rothschild decided to enrich the wine label with a work of art. This became a tradition and every year, a different artist was chosen to produce the art for that years’ label.
Lecture 5, November 14
The Performing Arts/ A Visual Drama
Throughout the history of the performing arts, visual artists have engaged in a dialogue, creating set designs for the theater, opera and dance.
Lecture 6, December 12
Surreal Things/ Surrealism and Design
Surrealism is one of the most influential avant-garde art movement of the twentieth century. The term was first coined by the art critic and poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917.
Coffee House Series 2008/ The History of Art at the Art Center
Lecturer: Eurydice Kamvisselli
Friday's 7-9 pm - 800 Lincoln Road Gallery
$10 per person fopr members/ $15 non-members
To register or RSVP please call 305.674.8278 Ext. 15
Join us for this lecture series and learn about Art and Artists all while enjoying coffee, sweets & good company.
September 19, 7-9 pm
The Origin of the World as the Headless Torso
A discussion of the history of the female nude in art, focusing on Courbet’s painting & Duchamp’s derivative mold (& more recent reactions such as Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’), using theories of the nude from Sir Kenneth Clark (British right-wing critic) to John Berger (Marxist-Feminist critic).
October 3, 7-9 pm
Look Into My Eyes/ Look In The Mirror
A discussion of intentionality & consciousness in art, focusing on Velasquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ & Magritte’s ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’, using theories of the gaze by Michel Foucault & John Searle, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, & theories of the narcissism of love.
October 17, 7-9 pm
I Hear & Obey: Can Art Exist Without Language?
A discussion of the definition of an artistic masterpiece & the definition of a sophisticated art viewer, focusing on Jackson Pollock & Vincent Van Gogh, using Roland Barthes’ reading of Guido Crepax’s illustration of the Story of O & Arthur Danto: “There is no art work until someone writes about it.”
ART & WINE 2008
Lecture 1, June 11
Frida Kahlo/ Painting a Tortured Life
Frida Kahlo depicted the indigenous culture of Mexico in a style combining Realism, Symbolism and Surrealism. She was married to Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Her self-portraits, often expressed her physical pain and suffering.
Lecture 2, August 8
Paris/ City of Art
In Paris, the boundaries of art have regularly been pushed back. Thus, it is not by chance that Paris, in the first half of the twentieth century, is where modern art originated.
Lecture 3, September 26
Bauhaus/ House of Building
The Bauhaus style became one of the most influential currents and had a profound influence on art, architecture, graphic design, interior design, industrial design and typography.
Lecture 4, October 24
Mouton Rothschild/ The Art of the Label
To celebrate the allied victory in 1945, Baron Philippe de Rothschild decided to enrich the wine label with a work of art. This became a tradition and every year, a different artist was chosen to produce the art for that years’ label.
Lecture 5, November 14
The Performing Arts/ A Visual Drama
Throughout the history of the performing arts, visual artists have engaged in a dialogue, creating set designs for the theater, opera and dance.
Lecture 6, December 12
Surreal Things/ Surrealism and Design
Surrealism is one of the most influential avant-garde art movement of the twentieth century. The term was first coined by the art critic and poet Guillaume Apollinaire in 1917.
Coffee House Series 2008/ The History of Art at the Art Center
Lecturer: Eurydice Kamvisselli
Friday's 7-9 pm - 800 Lincoln Road Gallery
$10 per person fopr members/ $15 non-members
To register or RSVP please call 305.674.8278 Ext. 15
Join us for this lecture series and learn about Art and Artists all while enjoying coffee, sweets & good company.
September 19, 7-9 pm
The Origin of the World as the Headless Torso
A discussion of the history of the female nude in art, focusing on Courbet’s painting & Duchamp’s derivative mold (& more recent reactions such as Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’), using theories of the nude from Sir Kenneth Clark (British right-wing critic) to John Berger (Marxist-Feminist critic).
October 3, 7-9 pm
Look Into My Eyes/ Look In The Mirror
A discussion of intentionality & consciousness in art, focusing on Velasquez’s ‘Las Meninas’ & Magritte’s ‘Ceci n’est pas une pipe’, using theories of the gaze by Michel Foucault & John Searle, Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida, Martin Heidegger, & theories of the narcissism of love.
October 17, 7-9 pm
I Hear & Obey: Can Art Exist Without Language?
A discussion of the definition of an artistic masterpiece & the definition of a sophisticated art viewer, focusing on Jackson Pollock & Vincent Van Gogh, using Roland Barthes’ reading of Guido Crepax’s illustration of the Story of O & Arthur Danto: “There is no art work until someone writes about it.”
