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Art Appreciation Weekly

Published on 30 January 2025 04:31 PM

Art Appreciation Get Together 

Run by Healthy Generations (online)
 
Art Appreciation is an online Get Together which is now run by Healthy Generations.  Run by knowledgeable volunteer, Manmeet, they have sessions every week, and the following special editions on 4th and 25th February.
 

How to join? 

To join these sessions, please sign up to the Healthy Generations Online Art Appreciation Group at: https://healthygenerations.org.uk/art-appreciation/ 
 

Special editions coming up

Wallace Collection: Social Class in Art Wallace Collection
Join Jon Sleigh on Tuesday 4th February 2025, 9.30am to 10.30amimagejy3tr.png
 
To discover stories of social class within art at The Wallace Collection is a fascinating journey of emotion. Together we'll find secrets hiding in plain sight, coded messages, vivid history and most importantly - a way to see ourselves. Each story will have stunning access to the artwork detail in high definition, our opportunity to get close-up to each and step beyond the gallery barrier.
 
Thanks to Wallace Collection for use of photo.
 
 
 
 
Sound effects will bring the atmosphere to life, and as before if you would like to join us, we have an optional taste and touch along at home.
 
To join in you’ll need:
  • Tea / coffee or a hot chocolate to drink
  • Cake, biscuits, or a treat made with sugar
  • Something gold to touch - (it can be real gold or something that is the colour gold - do you have a wedding ring, keepsake, item, or a piece of jewellery you can look at or hold?)
  • Either a pastry, some bread in any form, or a piece of toast to smell / taste
Leighton House: Frederic, Lord Leighton and Mary Lloyd
Join Charlotte Villiers on Tuesday 25th February 2025, 9.30am to 10.30am
 
For the Victorian artist Frederic, Lord Leighton, drawing from life was integral to his process. He built longstanding relationships with a small number of models, who reappear in his work over several years. His home even incorporated a dedicated models’ entrance doorway which led to a small changing area with a fireplace at the back of his studio.
 
Mary Lloyd began to sit for Leighton around 1893 and continued until his death. She features in several of his pictures, including Corinna of Tanagra (1893) which now hangs in the studio. Mary’s life offers a fascinating glimpse of how an unmarried woman was able to support herself by modelling for many of the most prestigious artists of the day, including John Everett Millais and Lawrence Alma-Tadema, and what happened once a modelling career was over.