| Status: | Active, full but can join waiting list |
| Convenor: | |
| Convenor: |
Carolyn Luckhurst
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| Group email: | Art Appreciation group |
| When: | Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:00-12:00 |
| Venue: | Mapperley Plains Social Club Games Room |
| Cost: | £3 per person per session |
Please be aware no previous expertise needed, and there are no right or wrong opinions!
The aim: A sharing of our common interest; learning about unfamiliar areas of art and benefitting from observations and the comments of others
The sessions: A wide range of topics including themes, artists, movements, genres and materials, both from art history and contemporary. Visits to exhibitions when the opportunity arises. Discussion and sharing. The most common format will be a slide show presentation
Advice: Please be prompt to each session as there will be a lot to pack in, and if you could bring the right money that would be great! There will be a comfort break mid-way. Please bring your own refreshments to sip during the sessions and ‘munchies’ if you’re likely to feel peckish..
PLEASE : Remember to let me know if you CAN’T make the session in advance. We have a list of members patiently waiting for a place in the group who would appreciate sitting in for a session as a ‘taster’. Similarly if you decide the group is not really for you, for whatever reason, or you cannot make the commitment on a regular basis, also let me know for the same reason.
Monday 24th March,2025
The Dawn of Impressionism (2024 90 minutes)
Broadway Cinema 3pm and 5.30 Seniors £10 + online booking fee £1.20 (unless a member- £8 without booking fee) or £12 non-concession
I will be at the 3pm showing if you’d like to join me. Seat F7
1874 was the year that changed everything; the first Impressionists, “hungry for independence”, broke the mould by holding their own exhibition outside official channels. Impressionism was born and the art world was changed forever.
What led to that first ground-breaking show 150 years ago? Who were the maverick personalities that wielded their brushes in such a radical and provocative way? The spectacular Musée d’Orsay exhibition brings fresh eyes to this extraordinary tale of passion and rebellion. The story is told not by historians and curators but in the words of those who witnessed the dawn of Impressionism: the artists, press and people of Paris, 1874.
If you can’t make either screenings but would liketo seethe film, it is on at the Bonington, Arnold on 18th March 7.30pm and 19th March 4.30 £12.50
Tuesday 25th March
Artists and their mums
Back to the usual format of a presentation. As it’s Mothering Sunday the coming weekend we will be looking at this topic. Many thousands of mother and child works, including Mary and Jesus, exist, but we will be looking at portraits of the mums of individual artists from different periods and movements. You perhaps know many quite well, but with some information and context to them. Let’s see how they portrayed their mothers but also touch on their relationship with them.
Tuesday April 22nd, 2025
Rebirth at Easter time
This month we’ll be looking at Spring and rebirth/renewal, as Easter this year is so close to our meeting date. As usual the presentation will cover all genres and span across art history, including some contemporary pieces of artwork