Visits & Study Days Ways of Looking at Painting Friday 24th April 2026 13.30 – 16.30 with sandwich tea in the interval Tutor: Alice White, contemporary artist and lecturer Two lectures which examine the more traditional styles of painting as well as more modern. Alice provides a painterly perspective on famous artworks from 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed as artistic risk-takers, whose new combinations of glazes, surfaces, pigments and processes re-defined the language of painting. Title: Sea and Sky Date between 1830 and 1845 Medium: gouache and watercolor on paper. Collection Tate Britain These two forefathers of experimentation led the way for modern artists such as Pollock and Fontana, who went beyond the brush, the canvas, and the gallery wall itself, in search of the meaning of making. Sculpture Concetto spaziale Natura (1959-1960) by Lucio Fontana in the Netherlands. Photo: Paul Downey from Berkhamsted, UK Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 £35 Visitors welcome. Email: katfisch00@hotmail.com
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Visits & Study Days Ways of Looking at Painting Friday 24th April 2026 13.30 – 16.30 with sandwich tea in the interval Tutor: Alice White, contemporary artist and lecturer Two lectures which examine the more traditional styles of painting as well as more modern. Alice provides a painterly perspective on famous artworks from 17th to the 21st centuries. Rembrandt and Turner are revealed as artistic risk-takers, whose new combinations of glazes, surfaces, pigments and processes re-defined the language of painting. Title: Sea and Sky Date between 1830 and 1845 Medium: gouache and watercolor on paper. Collection Tate Britain These two forefathers of experimentation led the way for modern artists such as Pollock and Fontana, who went beyond the brush, the canvas, and the gallery wall itself, in search of the meaning of making. Sculpture Concetto spaziale Natura (1959-1960) by Lucio Fontana in the Netherlands. Photo: Paul Downey from Berkhamsted, UK Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 £35 Visitors welcome. Email: katfisch00@hotmail.com
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