| Status: | Active, open to new members |
| Convenor: | |
| Group email: | Art Appreciation group |
| When: | Monthly on Tuesday mornings 10:00-12:00 4th Tuesday of the month |
| Venue: | Mapperley Plains Social Club Concert Room |
| Cost: | £2 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..
Venue: The main hall of the Social Centre (where general monthly MaD meetings take place)
Room Hire Contribution: £2
PLEASE : Although all members are welcome for each monthly session. if you decide the group is not really for you, for whatever reason, or you can no longer make the commitment please let me know.
Tuesday 28th October 2025
As we haven't yet focussed on an individual artist for a session, let's look at one influential and key artist from art history, Henri Matisse. You will doubtless know of some of his work but this talk will comprehensively relate his personal life and works over his very long career.
Tuesday 25th November 2025
As November traditionally includes Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day, we will look at 'war' as a topic this November, and how artists from different Movements portrayed the subject. From just prior to the turn of the century and into the 4th decade of the 20th Century, the traditional styles of painting were giving way to new ideas about how to portray subject matter. We will look at War from this perspective
Tuesday 27th January 2026
Turner v Constable
Born within a year of each other but as different as chalk and cheese! The presentation will compare the two great British artists and hopefully give a comprehensive view of their lives and work