Wed 16 Apr: Charlbury Art Society
Note this is on the third Wednesday not our usual second Wednesday
Artists in St Ives, 1920-1960
Art Historian John Bennett will give an illustrated talk on this highly creative and influential group of artists. His talk will focus on the "modern" period of the colony - circa 1920-1960.
Memorial Hall 7.30
All welcome, non members £5 on the door
St Ives became an important mecca where significant breakthroughs in abstraction were made throughout the 1920s to the 1960s.
Artists in the St Ives School include Barbara Hepworth, Ben Nicholson, Christopher Wood, Alfred Wallis, Naum Gabo, Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, Sir Terry Frost, Peter Lanyon, Bryan Wynter, Patrick Heron, Paul Feiler and Bernard Leach.
In this talk John will be surveying the work of selection of artists who became significant names in the the history of British art in the middle decades of the 20th Century and who made St Ives their home or artistic base during the whole or a part of their career.
The history of art in St Ives is almost synonymous with the history of modern art in Britain for a number of decades in the middle years of the 20th Century.
It is a complicated and multi-faceted story. He has chosen some important episodes and allegiances in this art colony to try and give some account of the range and importance of art in St Ives in 20th Century.
