TASH Lecture Day January 16th 2025: Picturing People in Post-War London (Jo Walton)
Schedule
Thu Jan 16 2025 at 10:45 am
UTC+00:00Location
The Clubhouse, Henley Rugby Football Club, Dry Leas, RG9 2JA Henley on Thames, United Kingdom | Henley-on-thames, EN
Morning Lecture & Online @ 10:45 / Afternoon Lecture @ 14:15.This lecture will look at the years after the Second World War, when London was dark, grimy and gap-toothed by bomb damage. Yet alongside austerity and the frantic race to rebuild and refurbish there was also enormous creativity and a longing for beauty and glamour.
Artists, such as Lucien Freud, John Craxton and John Minton were developing stark new styles of representing people, taking their inspiration from Surrealism, Expressionism and Romanticism. Francis Bacon was producing dramatic and shocking distortions of the human figure while tutors art the Royal Academy Schools were still forbidding their students to look at the work of such artists as Picasso.
Jo Walton has combined teaching and lecturing with a career in art book selling and has been a volunteer guide at both Tate Britain and Tate Modern. She is now a freelance lecturer for The Arts Society, The National Gallery, The Art Fund and local art societies.
Further details: https://henley.theartssociety.org/events/figures-city-picturing-people-post-war-london
