Winter Lecture: The Colour of Cornwall at M Shed
Winter Lecture: The Colour of Cornwall at M Shed in Bristol, See official event dates, Check official times, at M Shed. M Shed - November Winter Lecture: The Colour...
M Shed - November Winter Lecture: The Colour of Cornwall M Shed's November Winter Lecture explores the colour of Cornwall with expert speaker Alison Bevan. The painters who formed the 'Newlyn School' in the 1880s believed that the wonderfully clear Cornish light was best caught using a muted palette. As the 20th Century dawned, a younger generation of artists, including Dame Laura Knight, suffused their works with glorious sunshine and the sparkling azure of the Cornish sea. Later generations moved away from realism, yet Cornish colours creep into an extraordinary variety of 20th Century work too. In this talk, Alison Bevan will explore the way that artists have captured the colour of Cornwall, in all its senses, over the past 150 years, through both familiar and less well-known works. This talk accompanies The Secret Life of Colour, a...
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- Princes Wharf, Bristol, BS1 4RN
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