'Reading' Great Paintings #4
Event Details
Join the London Literary Salon at the National Gallery in London to look at masterpieces by Piero della Francesca, Antonello da Messina, Canaletto, Turner, Monet and Degas. Sean Forester, a classically trained painter and literary discussion leader, will help you to think about form and content in paintings: how are drawing, colour, composition and brushwork used by the artist? What do you feel when looking at a particular picture and why? What ideas are visually expressed here?
The artworks we will view are displayed in a Padlet here. As we look at paintings in the gallery we will explore Classicism, Romanticism and Impressionism. What characterises these different approaches? How do individual artists fit into these broader movements?
This afternoon study will last for three-and-a-half hours, with approximately two hours in the gallery followed by tea and cake and group discussion. Our group of no more than eight will meet at 1.00 pm at the Getty Entrance of the National Gallery and then move to the Crypt at St. Martins in the Fields for refreshment and discussion.
JOINING DETAILS:
- Single meeting in-person study at the National Gallery, led by Sean Forester
- Thursday 18 April 2024, 1.00-4.30 pm
- The paintings we will study: Piero della Francesca Baptism of Christ; Antanello da Mesina Portrait of a Man and St. Jerome in his Study; Canaletto The Doge’s Palace and the Riva degli Schiavoni and Piazza San Marco; Turner’s The Fighting Temeraire; Monet The Thames below Westminster and Water Lilies; Degas La Coiffure.
- £60.00 (to include background notes, as well as refreshments at the Crypt Café in St Martin in the Fields)
