TALK 2024: Save the Children: Children in Art |
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| Held at: | The Holy Name Church, 42 Arbrook Lane, Esher, KT10 9EE |
| Lecturer: | Dr. Laurence Shafe |
| Dates: | Wednesday 13th March 2024 |
| Time: | 12:00-14:00 |
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| Description: | This talk is to raise money for ‘Save the Children’ and it covers the representation of children in art from the ancient Egyptians to the present day. It skips through the many roles imposed on children over the centuries, from Tudor and Stuart succession, to eighteenth-century destitution to the Victorian’s invention of the modern idea of childhood. Artists covered include Van Dyck, William Hogarth, Gustave Doré, John Millais, Mary Cassat, Käthe Kollwitz, Pablo Picasso, Norman Rockwell, Grayson Perry and Martin Parr. |
TALK 2024: Social Class in Victorian Painting |
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| Held at: | The Lightbox, Chobham Road, Woking, GU214AA |
| Lecturer: | Dr. Laurence Shafe |
| Dates: | Saturday 16th March 2024 |
| Time: | 10:30-12:30 |
| Fee: | £15 adults, £12 for members and students |
| Description: | The nineteenth century was a time when there was a massive divide between the rich and the poor. It was a time of discontent with the Peterloo Massacre, the Swing Riots and Chartism leading to the closest we came to a nineteenth-century revolution. Laurence shows how artists dealt with these and a wide range of Victorian social changes—increasing industrialisation, the treatment of the poor, the role of women and on a more positive note summer holidays and the invention of childhood. The talk is illustrated by many of the leading Victorian artists such as John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt, George Frederic Watts and Gustav Doré. |
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