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Saturday, March 15, 2003 (Note: membership is not required to attend the final three events of our season.) 11:30 A.M. introductions, followed by lunch at noon and the talk at 12:45 P.M. by: Hilary Hope Guise Art historian, author and artist, Hilary was born in Cape Town, South Africa and attended the University of Cape Town. She then moved to London to attend St. Martin’s School of Art, Birkbeck College and University College for post-graduate studies. She lives with her family in St. John’s Wood, London and in the South of France. She works and lectures in the National Gallery, the Courtauld Collection, Tate Britian, Tate Modern and the British Museum, all in London, and the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. She has exhibited her art in England, South Africa and the United States. Since 1997, she has been a lecturer on Art History and Ancient Art for the National Fine and Decorative Arts Society in the UK and Europe. Hilary is our second Evelyn Wrench speaker of the season. Her talk, illustrated by slides, is titled: "The Courtauld Collection" Unique in England as a collection that was formed entirely in the 20th century, the Courtauld Collection combines the finest examples of early gilded altarpieces with some of the greatest works of the Impressionists and Post Impressionists. We study the deeply expressive early Flemish Master of Flémalle, Robert Campin; also a late work by the great Florentine painter Botticelli; from Venice we study a unique narrative by Giovanni Bellini and works by Tiepolo; from the North we have Lucas Cranach’s vision of the Garden of Eden and Pieter Breugel’s haunting "Woman taken in Adultery". And then moving on to the Impressionists, we encounter Manet’s shocking "Le Déjeuner sur L’Herbe" and his last masterpiece "The Bar at the Folies-Bergère", also the heart-warming landscapes of Provence by Paul Cézanne, the glittering Mediterranean sea in Monet’s "Antibes", and Van Gogh’s intense "Self-portrait with a bandaged ear". This journey takes us through some of the finest moments in the history of Western Art and all in the warm atmosphere of a personal collection. |