Talking about Art. January – May 2013

| Programa

Comenzaremos el año con los grandes creadores del siglo XX, una vez vista la obra de los impresionistas, para adentrarnos en el Expresionismo, el Cubismo, la Abstracción….). Tendrá lugar los siguientes miércoles de cada mes:

Enero

9. Our speaker of the BBC celebrates the new century and the birth of modern art with her hero, Paul Cézanne. «Without him, the story that follows would never have happened.» (Perhaps, but…) Then she’s on to Pablo Picasso’s experimentation, focusing on the controversial canvas, Demoiselles d’Avignon, in which, she says, he «abolished perspective» and «the integrity of the human body.» While it took centuries for the host and I to part company (Cézanne), she wins me back with her brilliant proclamation that Picasso was as «famous as no other 20th–century artist, except perhaps one: The only artist whom the mighty Picasso greatly admired—and felt threatened by—was the mighty Matisse.» Unfortunately, her focus lingers on The Riffian, and his chapel at Vence before leaving Matisse for Wassily Kandinsky and Piet Mondrian, the doorway to abstract art, via Surrealism. Salvador Dalí’s Persistence of Memory provides the program’s most entertainment moment as, in her lisp, Beckett utters, «Horrible painting,» before ending the segment with Marc Chagall and Paul Klee.
16. The last segment finds our host crossing the Atlantic to admire the titans of the New York School. On abstract expressionism she muses, «It takes time, but if you just…refuse to be off put, you’ll find these paintings surprisingly rewarding.» Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning and Mark Rothko are highlighted, but the sister will not let us escape without identifying the revolt against what the artist felt, by portraying only the superficial they could see: Andy Warhol and Jasper Johns. Minimalists Frank Stella and Agnes Martin fill the screen until we head back to Britain’s «great white hopes,» Balthus, Francis Bacon and Lucien Freud.

Una vez realizado el recorrido por la historia, haremos un maravilloso recorrido geográfico, que nos acercará a los grandes creadores de los principales países de Europa:

30. Florence: Botticelli, Allori, Fra Angelico

Febrero

6. Vienna: Rubens, Mantegna, Veronese.
13. Paris: Cézanne, Matisse, Watteau. Venice: Carpaccio (Scarpaccia), Giorgione, Titian.

Marzo

27. Rome: Bernini Caravaggio, Michelangelo’s Pieta (filmed at a time after the attack). Berlin: Baldung, Burgkmair, Altdorfer.

Abril

3. Madrid: Velàzquez, Goya. Antwerp: Bruegel, Rubens, Jordaens
24. Edinburgh: El Greco, Gerard David, Ramsey. Amsterdam: ter Borch, Rembrandt, van Gogh.

Mayo

8. Amsterdam: ter Borch, Rembrandt, van Gogh.

Horario: 19:30 Video o exposición; 20:00 Coloquio; 20:30 Fin.