Autumn Term 2024:
07 November - 05 December (5 weeks)
Members: £55 Non-members: £66
Concessions: £20 (call the office 020 8340 3343)
Diane will examine four of the most important avant-garde artists of the twentieth century whose ideas were firmly rooted in the spirit of the Spanish tradition, as well as the urgent desire for cultural renewal following ‘the disaster’ of 1898. We will focus on the early artistic endeavours of Picasso, Miró and Dalí as they moved between Madrid, Barcelona and Paris. A session will be devoted to the passionate Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí, and finally we will look at artists’ responses to the Spanish Civil War.
1. Picasso’s ‘Outsiders’ – Madrid and Paris
2. Antoni Gaudí – Catalan modernisme, the transformation of Barcelona
3. Joan Miró – the Catalan in Paris
4. Salvador Dalí and Fredrico García Lorca – painting meets poetry
5. The world darkens – artists and the Spanish Civil War
Dr. Diane V. Silverthorne is a music-loving art historian with special interests in Europe around 1900, particularly Vienna, and on the synchronicities between music and art. She has published widely on these subject. She lectured at Birkbeck, and at Central Saint Martins on cultural studies, and regularly gives public talks – at the Royal Academy, The South Bank Centre, the National Gallery, the Freud Museum and the V&A. Her edited volume, Music, Art and Performance: Liszt to the Riot Grrrl is published by Bloomsbury.
