Lecture - Dutch Painting & Rembrandt

Laura McPhee and Abelardo Morell share their responses to the range of works gathered from local collections for the exhibition The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Paintings in Boston Collections. McPhee is renowned for her panoramic landscape vistas; Morell for his city views captured with a camera obscura, as well as magical still lifes. The work of both photographers offers parallels to the close and transforming attention 17th-century Dutch painters gave to the everyday world. 58 mins 6 sec

http://forum-network.org/lecture/dutch-paintings-poetry-everyday-life


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Ms. Martin gives an overview of a major Rembrandt exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and suggests ways to look at the works of this master artist. 34 mins 44 secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/rembrandts-journey-painter-draftsman-etcher

Lectures - Sculpture

High Museum of Art Exhibition Curator Gary M. Radke discusses how art historians try to reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's sculptural production. Da Vinci evidently made plans for and produced sculpture throughout his career, but little of it survives. Radke also presents arguments for attributing two previously unrecognized figures to da Vinci. 1 hour 54 secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/da-vincis-sculptures-decoded


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Mary Pat Matheson, executive director of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, discusses what TIME Magazine named as one of the top 10 Museum Exhibitions of 2008. The Atlanta Botanical Garden is the final 2009 destination of the tour, with 20 of Henry Moore's monumental sculptures in a single locale. 49mins 23secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/moore-america

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Sophie DesCamps, curator of the Musée du Louvre, discusses colors in Greek and Roman ancient bronzes. This lecture is presented in conjunction with the exhibition "Louvre Atlanta: The Louvre and the Ancient World". Descamps has co-authored the book The Ancient Greeks: In the Land of the Gods. 1hour 4 mins

http://forum-network.org/lecture/color-greek-and-roman-ancient-bronzes

Lectures - Impressionism

In keeping with the Australian art museums' tendency to stage Impressionist exhibitions every summer ad nauseum here are some lectures on Impressionism.



Dr. David Brenneman, director of collections and exhibitions and Frances B. Bunzl, family curator of European Art, explores the impact of Claude Monet's Water Lilies on the history of modern art. The focus of Monet's last 25 years, the Water Lilies represents his largest body of work from his famed garden in Giverny. Though now known as Impressionist masterpieces, this series is also cited as one of the first forays into Abstract Expressionism.
50 mins 40 secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/claude-monets-water-lilies

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David Brenneman, director of collections and exhibitions at Atlanta's High Museum of Art, draws comparisons between Monet's work and the masters of the Dutch landscape tradition, as well as other Old Master traditions.
54mins 30secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/claude-monet-and-landscape-tradition

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Ross King reveals how Impressionism reordered both history and culture as it resonated around the world.

While the Civil War raged in America, another very different revolution was beginning to take shape across the Atlantic, in the studios of Paris. The artists who would make Impressionism the most popular art form in history were showing their first paintings amidst scorn and derision from the French artistic establishment. King's The Judgment of Paris chronicles a seminal period when Paris was the artistic center of the world, and a revolutionary movement had the power to electrify and divide a nation. 52mins 40secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/impressionism-and-judgment-paris

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Ann Dumas, a leading independent scholar on Impressionism, talks about the Impressionists dialogue with the art of the past.

The popular view of Impressionism is that it broke completely from the artistic traditions of previous centuries. In truth, the Impressionists copied the Old Masters and transformed their motifs and compositions into something completely new. 47mins 20 secs

http://forum-network.org/lecture/looking-back-impressionism

Online Lectures on Art

In 2006 and again in 2007 I featured some online lectures on the arts. I have now visited the site again and hand selected and bookmarked around 50 more lectures which I will post here and on Blakkbyrd. Most of them are around an hour long, that's fifty hours of material to listen to whilst working in the studio.

They all come from the same source.

"The Forum Network online library features thousands of lectures by some of the world's foremost scholars, authors, artists, scientists, policy makers, and community leaders, available to citizens of the world for free."

"We offer weekly podcasts, which you can subscribe to through iTunes or the NPR Podcast Directory. We also offer a subset of downloadable videos through our iTunesU and YouTube channels. Search on "Forum Network" in any of these publishing sites."

http://forum-network.org/page/about-forum-network