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Claude Monet, Grainstack (Sunset), 1890–91. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Join Hilary Hope Guise for ‘Time’, the final talk in an exciting series of three beautifully illustrated lectures exploring the depiction of light, space and time in art. These core features of our physical world have been the same for millennia – and yet, down the ages, artists have always found different ways to interpret them.
Time:
How do we frame time when it is constantly on the move and nearly all art is static? First, perhaps with symbolic images, like the hour-glass, or the nails in Van Gogh’s boots? But iconography must evolve, to become an agreed ‘language,’ and this becomes inadequate as the modern industrial world speeds up. In the 19th century we see the Impressionists’ rapid and cheeky images of a changing world convey the pace of city life as in Monet’s flag-waving Paris, and later, in the evolving colours around his corn stacks, how he actually captures time.
Brushstrokes speed up and eventually disappear, annihilating human gestures in the machine-made consumerist images of the 20th century. Finally, we see in the installations of Andy Goldsworthy, that in Nature herself, time is the great destroyer.
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