MEETING - Wednesday 15 September 2010
Art in Paris - the most DECADENT city in the world!
The can-can girls, the cabaret, the expositions & the artists. Baudelaire urged Manet to become a flaneur. He told him that to be a truly Modern painter he needed to go out and paint the real heroes of modern life - the dispossessed who could no longer afford to live in the new, modernized Paris.
This lecture covers a lot of art history - from classical academy painting to Picasso’s arrival at the squalid Bateau Lavoir in Montmartre. We look at the various paths art took during this time and where those paths led. It sums up the enormous energy & eccentricity in Paris during this period.
Linda Collins has been employed by the Historic Royal Palaces for the past 19 years as a Guide/Lecturer based principally at Hampton Court Palace.
She lectures regularly for NADFAS, both at home and abroad and also for the National Trust. Linda is a freelance lecturer at Tate Modern & the National Gallery.
You might also like to go to Linda Collins' website, where further details can be found.