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55-01 Tamara de Lempicka

47:11

53-02 René Magritte

1:06:01

09-01 Gothic Cathedrals

58:24

08-01Romanesque Art 900-1200

57:22

07-01 Medieval Art 800-1000

45:10

11-01 The Extremes of Mannerism

Today's talk is on Mannerism which began around the 1520s in Florence and Rome and then spread throughout Italy and beyond until the 1590s when it began to be replaced by the Baroque.
It is known for mannered and exaggerated style with unnatural colours and artificial elongated limbs, small heads, and contrived poses.
It followed the High Renaissance typified by the work of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael who were seen to have reach the pinnacle of the accurate representation of the human form and the pinnacle of the representation of beauty. Artists such as Jacopo da Pontormo broke away from this with an expressive, arty, self-conscious and sometimes bizarre style.
I have organised this talk as a step-by-step journey from mild to extreme examples of Mannerism ending with this artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo.
My PDF notes are here www.shafe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/11-01-The-Extremes-of-Mannerism.pdf

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53-03 Salvador Dalí

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Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) was one of the most eccentric and renowned artists of the 20th century, famed for his surrealist works. He had a flamboyant personality, and theatrical self-promotion. In this talk I focus on his painting rather than his idiosyncratic life. He was a child prodigy who went to art school but decided no one there was good enough to educate him so he left. Initially he was...

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55-01 Tamara de Lempicka

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Tamara de Lempicka's life reflects, and her work embodies, the spirit of Art Deco and the Jazz Age in the 1920s and 30s. Although she lived until 1980 and continued to paint she is know for the work she did during that period and it saw a revival during the 1970s. She is now regarded as an important artist of the Art Deco period. My PDF notes are her:www.shafe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/55-01-Tam...

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53-02 René Magritte

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René Magritte (1898-1967) was an artist who provokes us and makes us think as well as amusing and troubling us. Every painting is a mystery for which there is no answer. It is difficult to resist trying to solve the mystery so I will suggest interpretations which will, of course, be wrong because as Magritte said, “It is the mystery that illuminates knowledge." My PDF notes are available here w...

58:24

09-01 Gothic Cathedrals

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Gothic cathedrals are the moon landing of the medieval period. The stretched technology to the maximum, they were horrendously expensive, and they were the most exciting constructions of the age. The term Gothic was first used as a term of abuse by the Italian Renaissance artist and art historian Georgio Vasari to describe the architecture of the medieval period. He wanted to emphasise its crud...

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08-01Romanesque Art 900-1200

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Romanesque spans the period from the 10th century to the 12th century. The term was invented in the nineteenth century to describe a period that was seen to be heavily influenced by Roman architecture with its round arches and thick walls although the art was inspired not only by Roman but more by Carolingian, Ottonian and Byzantine styles. I look at Romanesque architecture and art across Europ...

45:10

07-01 Medieval Art 800-1000

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Charlemagne was a skilled military leader who greatly expanded his Frankish kingdom. He conquered vast swathes of Europe, including Lombardy, Saxony, and Bavaria, uniting much of Western and Central Europe under his rule. This wasn't all peaceful conquest though. The Saxons resisted fiercely for over 30 years, and Charlemagne's tactics to enforce Christianity weren't always gentle, as seen in t...

99-09 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Part 2)

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99-09 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Part 2)

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This is Part 2 of the history of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. As I move into the modern world it becomes more difficult to shock, create controversy and bring about change, as everything is in flux, there are no absolutes, no foundations. I pick up where I left off in Part 1 with the Aesthetic Movement and move through the nineteenth century to World War One. During the twentieth centur...

99-09 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Part 1)

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99-09 The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (Part 1)

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There have been over a quarter of a million paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy over 250 years. From these I have had to narrow it down to about 50 which I have divided into two talks. To do this is looked for the most controversial as controversy is often a precursor of change and change helps us define periods and movements in art. Controversy arose from works depicting * Women shown in ...

10-04 Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna

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10-04 Giovanni Bellini and Andrea Mantegna

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Giovanni Bellini (c. 1430-1516) and Andrea Mantegna (c. 1432-1506) were born just a year apart but with very different backgrounds. However, his artistic genius led to Mantegna's marriage to Nicosia Bellini and the two artists were then related by marriage and worked closely together but in different styles. Bellini was a restrained person who produced emotional art and Mantegna was an emotiona...

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10-05 Lorenzo Lotto

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Lorenzo Lotto (Venice, 1480 - Loreto, 1557) was one of the great portraitists of the Renaissance and was the first to capture character and psychological depth. When he died he fell into complete obscurity until he was rediscovered in the nineteenth century and he is now seen as the first modern portraitist. Lotto was one of the most unique and fascinating artists of the Italian Cinquecento. Hi...

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98-02 Tate & the Turner Prize

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The Turner Prize is 40 years old this year and has become a great and often controversial British institution. It is awarded to any artist working in Britain or a British born artist working anywhere in the world. Some example include: 1984, the first Turner Prize was awarded to Malcolm Morley, an English artist who had been living in the United States for 20 years. The rules state it can be aw...

1:12:25

17-03 Thomas Gainsborough

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Thomas Gainsborough was one of the leading portrait and landscape painters of 18th-century England and a founding member of the Royal Academy. He was known for his quick painting style and light palette. He became famous as a society portrait painter but he considered himself primarily a landscape painter. He spent much of his career outside London, the centre of the English art world, painting...

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13-01 Caravaggio

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Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, known as Caravaggio, is known today for his turbulent life and his deep, dark and passionate paintings and his intense realism and dramatic lighting influenced future generations of artists. He was a famous and popular artist in his lifetime but always embroiled in controversy and disputes either about he painting or his life. He inspired the next generation o...

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38-03 Auguste Rodin

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Auguste Rodin is unique in the history of art for his intense determination to bridge the gap between the past and the present. What mattered for him in his own work was the expressive power of the body and he found it in the works of the Ancient Greek sculptor Pheidias and the Renaissance artist Michelangelo. Download my lecture notes from my website www.shafe.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/38-03-Au...