| 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: | £1 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: suspended until the end of the year
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 July 2026
This month let's look at a genre of art- the Still Life, perhaps one of the earliest artistic expressions and international.
A stream of very different styles and treatments from the earliest to contemporary works of art, I hope will inform and interest our members
Tuesday 25th August 2026
And this month, a Movement in Art! Last year we looked at Art Deco, and Art Nouveau, our August topic, preceded it very closely. I wonder which movement our members prefer?
This month I shall be abroad all month but our own Nigel Mounfield will be taking the session on materials pertaining to sculptures. As a retired teacher he is used to giving talks with slides and physical artifacts.
