Art Appreciation

This group meets on the 3rd Monday each month from 10.30 am – 12.00 pm.  We are currently meeting in Brinsley Parish Hall meeting room.

New members are welcome. For more information contact Helen Baker tel. 01773 710743 or email helenbaker2@hotmail.com

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Future Meetings:

Art Appreciation – Programme for 2023

16th January

 Planning
Change of meeting day to Wednesday 22nd February Visit to Lakeside Art’s Djanogly Gallery to see Sophie Ryder: Sculpture, drawings, prints. Meet at venue at 11:00 am
20th March Hidden women in art – Marianne
17th April Photography – Christine
15th May Outing to exhibition – tbc
19th June Magritte – Helen
17th July Colliers Wood – Show and Tell – All members
August Summer Break
18th September Russian Dissident Art – Speaker, Stuart Hancock
16th October Stanley Spencer – Janet
20th November James Tissot – Audrey
December No meeting

 

 

Visit our gallery

Past meetings and visits:

Visit – November 2022 

A group of us went to Patchings Art Centre near Calverton to see two exhibitions.

The first called ‘The Artist Collection 2022’ was a collection of works from 8 winners of ‘The Artist’ Exhibition awards 2021.  There was a great variety of styles to look at and we had fun picking out our favourites. Unfortunately, my favourite of Whitby Beach had been sold – it was only £1400!

Whitby Beach – Michael Salt

The Diagnosis – Mark Fennell       

A stitch in time – Michelle Ashby

 

The second exhibition was ‘Transcribing the Landscape’ by Susan Isaac, a local artist.

We were initially struck by the rather imposing images in this exhibition.  There was a lot of dark outlining of buildings and features. However, as we acclimatised and began to study the paintings inclose up we were able to appreciate them more.  The artist has worked as an archaeologist and is trained in fine art and sculpture.  We could see the influence of her interest in architecture in the strong shapes of the buildings she painted and saw her bold use of colour. She has been a wild card winner on ‘Landscape Painter of the Year’.

Helen Baker

Meeting – Monday 17th October 2022
THE 4th PLINTH
Lily gave us an engaging account of the history of the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar  Square. Pru Leith wrote to The Standard newspaper in 1994 with the suggestion that the 4th Plinth ( which had been empty for 140 years) should be used to carry a new work of art each year. Lily then presented us with 13 examples of  some of the artwork which had been used. The best known was probably Alison Lepper Pregnant by Mark Quinn, but  an amazingly diverse array of works of art had been used, including One and Other by Anthony Gormley, Powerless Structures, Cock and The Invisible Enemy Should Not Exist. Our task was to put names to the pictures – not so easy! She finished by presenting us with some definitions of art, and applying them to the art we had been discussing. An excellent and well thought out presentation.
David Hale

 

Art Appreciation Archive 2021

Art Appreciation Archive 2020

Art Appreciation Archive 2017-19

 

Here are some links to follow.  They allow you to ‘visit’ some great museums worldwide:

Guggenheim Museum, New York – 3D tour

Musee d’Orsay, Paris

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam – 3D tour

Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Uffizi Gallery, Florence – install Google Arts & Culture app to explore virtual reality tour

MASP, Sao Paulo – install Google Arts & Culture app to explore virtual reality tour

National Gallery of Art, Washington – install Google Arts & Culture app to explore virtual reality tour

Paris Museums – 100,000 images online for free viewing

Googles Art site – explore in 3D many places of interest

Most detailed ever photograph of The Night Watch goes online – Rijksmuseum

https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/most-detailed-ever-photograph-of-the-night-watch-goes-online