Talks | Post-Impressionism – History Reframed with Dr. Matthew Whyte at Triskel Arts Centre

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Art Historian Dr. Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series, which takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautiful, sometimes scandalous, and always fascinating moments in the development of Western civilisation.

Week 3: Post-Impressionism
How do artists continue to capture a rapidly changing world? Following the birth of Modernity and the innovations of the Impressionists, artist continued to seek new ways to best capture and express the character of modern life. It was not long before the inventions of the Impressionists were subject to revision. In this lecture, we encounter artists such as Paul Cézanne, who attempted to tackle a problem that arose from the Impressionist focus on the fleeting: how could this art become like that of the museums if its subject was inherently impermanent? We also turn our attention to sculpture which, until Auguste Rodin, was still gripped by the Classical Tradition and had not yet met with the avant garde inventions seen in painting. Rodin’s sculpture is as novel as it is beautiful, proposing a fascinating solution to capturing the fleeting forms of Impressionism in the solid media of bronze and marble.