Dialogues
Lectures on Art
Lectures are one hour in length, fee $10, students are free
Monday, April 7, 10:30am
Cecilia Beaux
Cheryl Leibold, Archivist, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Cecilia Beaux, a pioneering and independent woman artist, has been overshadowed
in the histories of American art by others, such as Mary Cassatt or Georgia
O'Keeffe. In conjunction with the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
exhibition, Cecilia Beaux, American Figure Painter, Academy archivist Cheryl
Leibold will discuss Beaux's career, with special emphasis on the archival
photographs.
Sunday, April 13, 2pm
Painting, Poetry and the Possibility of Democracy
Timothy Hawkesworth, Artist
Poets talk about making a temple of the inner ear for sound to echo down into
the psyche; painters have to make a temple of the belly and withstand how marks,
paint, and imagery go into our bodies. In this lecture, Timothy Hawkesworth will
discuss how social and political dialogue is designed to separate us from the
experience of living in our bodies, and how painting and poetry are ways to
close that gap.
Sunday, April 20, 2pm
Violet Oakley, American Renaissance Woman
Dr. Patricia Likos Ricci, Associate Professor of the History of Art,
Elizabethtown College
Violet Oakley's fame as a muralist was based on her talent for translating the
great traditions of Italian Renaissance painting into an American idiom suitable
for the Renaissance Revival architecture of the early 20th Century. Oakley was
welcomed into the male-dominated field of mural painting because of her mastery
of Renaissance drawing and painting techniques and her ability to formulate
historical and symbolic themes. This lecture will trace Oakley's artistic
development, her theory of art and her Renaissance role models.
Monday, May 12, 10:30am
Catching a Likeness: the Relationship of Sitter and Artist in Portraiture
Paul DuSold, Artist
How much of what we see in a portrait is the expression of the subject and how
much is the expression of the artist? The manner in which the face is painted
shows in striking ways the artistic aims and preoccupations of those who painted
them. Join Paul DuSold for this richly illustrated talk.
Sunday, May 18, 2pm
Chalk Drawings and Oil Sketches: an Exploration of Benjamin West's Working
Practices
Jennifer Thompson, Assistant Curator, European Painting and Sculpture before
1900, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Known primarily for his large-scale history paintings and described by one
contemporary as "great by the acre," Benjamin West also produced many small
drawings and sketches. In these works he experimented with elements of a
composition, studied models, or prepared ideas for presentation to patrons. The
talk will explore what these studies reveal about the grand canvases made by
West for his royal and aristocratic patrons and for exhibition at the Royal
Academy of Arts.
Sunday, June 1, 2pm
The Telescope of Modernity: Winslow Homer's Sharpshooter and Civil War Gun
Vision
Alan C. Braddock, Assistant Professor, Art History Department, Temple
University
In some of his earliest pictures as a young artist, Winslow Homer represented
telescopes as helpful tools of personal and communal enlightenment. After his
experience as an artist-journalist in the Civil War, Homer returned to the theme
of telescopic viewing in various ways, but his mature works embodied troubling
new complexities about vision in modernity - notably its frequent association
with violence and death.
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