BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:Europe/Dublin X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:VEVENT UID:257@visualartists.ie DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250916T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250916T130000 DTSTAMP:20250911T095320Z URL:https://visualartists.ie/events/the-pre-raphaelites-the-birth-of-moder nism-art-history-reframed-autumn-2025-lecture-series SUMMARY:Talks | Autumn 2025 Lecture Series with Art Historian Dr Matthew at Triskel Arts Centre DESCRIPTION:Art Historian Dr Matthew Whyte offers a new lecture series\, wh ich takes the audience on an art-filled journey through the often beautifu l\, sometimes scandalous\, and always fascinating moments in the developme nt of Western civilisation.\n\nWeek 1: The Pre-Raphaelites &\; The Birt h of Modernism\nIn this first week\, we explore the artists who looked bac k in order to move forward in the first breaths of modernism. Famously ref erred to as the Pre-Raphaelites\, a name which these artists coined for th emselves\, the group looked back to the art of the Middle Ages as an act o f resistance again the Royal Academy\, whose control over artistic product ion and education was increasingly being perceived to be unjust. Pre-Rapha elite art draws inspiration from literature and nature\, focusing on creat ing emotionally and spiritually evocative work. In this lecture\, we exami ne the innovation of artists such as John Everett Millais\, Dante Gabriel Rosetti\, and William Holman Hunt\, also exploring the impact their thinki ng had in the 19th-century Arts &\; Craft Movement and the Gothic Reviv al. Meanwhile\, in France\, another group of artists looked to the here an d now to drive change through their art. The Realists sought an innovative solution that would shed light on the social inequalities that defined mo dern life by doing something never done before: depicting working class li fe as it really was. In this way\, Gustave Courbet\, Jean François Millet \, and others became artist-activists driving change through painting ordi nary working people for the first time in the history of art.\n\n1. Tues 1 6 September\nThe Pre-Raphaelites &\; The Birth of Modernism\n\n2. Tues 23 September\nImpressionism &\; Modern Life\n\n3. Tues 30 September\nPo st-Impressionism\n\n4. Tues 7 October\nThe Artist’s Inner World – Expr essionism &\; Surrealism\n\n5. Tues 14 October\nThe New Industrial Era – Futurism to Pop Art\n\n6. Tues 21 October\nThe World Transformed – C ubism to Abstract Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://visualartists.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025 /08/Picture1-smaller.jpg CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Munster - Cork LOCATION:Triskel Arts Centre\, Tobin Street\, Off South Main Street\, Cork\ , Cork\, T12WYYO\, Ireland GEO:-8.475424;51.897789 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Tobin Street\, Off South Ma in Street\, Cork\, Cork\, T12WYYO\, Ireland;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Tri skel Arts Centre:geo:-8.475424,51.897789 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250330T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR