Galleries in Motion 2018: NeoClassic/Romantic Painting at Guilford Free Library
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January 30, 2018 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Art Slide Lecture Series with Joy Pepe
The 36th annual Galleries in Motion, a four-part series held at the Guilford Free Library and the Scranton Library in Madison will focus on Neoclassic and Romantic Painting in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Joy Pepe, Professor Emeritus, Lyme College of Art, who now teaches at University of Hartford & Central Connecticut State University, leads this popular visual lecture that takes place twice in Guilford and twice in Madison.
Neoclassicism and Romanticism have nearly parallel origins in the eighteenth century in both England and France, and elements of both approaches coexist in the other. This series of talks will explore this cultural phenomenon with two English and two French painters.
Rooted in the culture of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as in the idealism of Renaissance art, the “new classicism” represented the Enlightenment principles of logic, morality and empiricism, while early Romanticism relished emotionalism, exoticism, and the frightening. We will consider how four artists merged the boundaries of the two styles to forge powerful images of ancient history, contemporary politics, science and technology, nature, and animal and human form.
Free and open to all. No registration necessary.
GEORGE STUBBS (1724-1806)
Tuesday, January 30, 2 pm, Guilford Free Library
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID (1748-1825)
Tuesday, February 6, 2 pm, Scranton Library, Madison
JEAN-AUGUSTE-DOMINIQUE INGRES (1780-1867)
Tuesday, February 13, 2 pm, Scranton Library, Madison