About this Event
What gives a painting its power? How did Giotto make the walls of the Arena Chapel sparkle with light and life, how was Rembrandt van Rijn able to sculpt the surface of his portraits using textured paint, or Artemisia Gentileschi able to charge the subjects of her canvases with so much visceral drama?
On Friday 10th July, artist and writer Lachlan Goudie comes to the 5x15 stage where he will be in conversation with historian Sir Simon Schama for an evening exploring how the world’s greatest paintings were made.
Behind every painting is a world of material and method. Pigment mixed with egg yolk, beeswax or oil. Colours drawn from crushed insects, minerals and rare dyes. Techniques refined and passed down through generations. Each new material changed not only how artists worked, but what they could imagine.
Drawing on the ideas in his new book The Secrets of Painting, Lachlan Goudie looks beneath the surface of art. From the cave walls of Chauvet to the studios of J. M. W. Turner and Jackson Pollock, he traces the materials, techniques and breakthroughs that have shaped painting, and with it, human creativity.
Together, Lachlan and Simon will explore how great paintings are made, and why they continue to move us, generation after generation.
5x15. Where great stories are told live.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Conway Hall, 25 Red Lion Square, London, United Kingdom
GBP 32.00 to GBP 74.99
