Art History Talk - Whistler

Art History Talk – Whistler – A Butterfly with a Sting in its Tail!

Date: Thursday 27th February 2025

Timings: 2.00pm for the Lecture, followed by Tea & Cake in the Pavilion Gallery at 3pm (doors open from 1.30pm)

Venue: Penarth Pier Pavilion

Ticket/s: £15.75per person (+ booking fee) - Ticket price includes Tea & Cake

Join us in February to hear acclaimed art history lecturer, Stella Grace Lyons’s illuminating talk on Whistler.

Whistler could be both exasperating and enchanting at the same time.

Accounts describe him as arrogant, pugnacious and difficult. Even he acknowledged this, calling his autobiography ‘The Gentle Art of Making Enemies’.

His paintings were as delicate as his personality was aggressive. Influenced by the Art for Art’s Sake movement, he aspired to a style of painting inspired by musical composition, calling his paintings Nocturnes, Arrangements or Harmonies. His best paintings shimmer with colour and emotion.

This talk will explore a selection of his works, including the work at the centre of one of the most scandalous legal trials in Art History. Expect some fireworks!

‘Without sacrificing scholarship, Stella Grace Lyons has a most engaging way of hooking an audience into sharing her passionate interest in art history, drawing three dimensional human stories and experiences from the two-dimensional canvas'
- Maev Kennedy, Guardian Arts Correspondent

Following the talk, please stay for tea and cake, served in the Pavilion’s beautiful Gallery.

Sgwrs Hanes Celf – Whistler – Glöyn Byw gyda Phigiad yn ei Gynffon!

Dyddiad: Dydd Iau 27 Chwefror 2025

Amser: 2.00pm ar gyfer y Ddarlith, wedyn Te a Chacen yn Oriel y Pafiliwn am 3pm (drysau ar agor o 1.30pm)

Lleoliad: Pafiliwn Pier Penarth

Tocyn(nau): £15.75 y pen (+ ffi archebu) - Mae pris y tocyn yn cynnwys te a chacen

Ymunwch â ni ym mis Chwefror i glywed sgwrs ddifyr y darlithydd hanes celf o fri, Stella Grace Lyons ar Whistler.

Gallai Whistler fod yn gyffrous ac yn swynol ar yr un pryd.

Mae cyfrifon yn ei ddisgrifio fel haerllug, anghwrtais ac anodd. Cydnabu hyn, gan alw ei hunangofiant yn 'The Gentle Art of Making Enemies'.

Roedd ei luniau mor sensitif ag oedd ei bersonoliaeth yn ymosodol. Wedi'i ddylanwadu gan y mudiad Art for Art's Sake, roedd yn dyheu am arddull o baentio a ysbrydolwyd gan gyfansoddi cerddorol, gan alw ei luniau’n Nocturnes, Arrangements neu Harmonies. Roedd ei luniau gorau yn disgleirio gyda lliw ac emosiwn.

Bydd y sgwrs hon yn archwilio detholiad o'i weithiau, gan gynnwys y gwaith yng nghanol un o'r treialon cyfreithiol mwyaf gwarthus yn Hanes Celf. Disgwyliwch ychydig o dân gwyllt!

‘Heb aberthu ysgolheictod, mae Stella Grace Lyons yn defnyddio dull hynod ddifyr o ennyn diddordeb cynulleidfa i rannu ei brwdfrydedd dros hanes celf, gan dynnu straeon a phrofiadau dynol tri dimensiwn o’r cynfas dau ddimensiwn’
- Maev Kennedy, Gohebydd Celfyddydau The Guardian

Ar ôl y sgwrs, mae croeso mawr i chi aros i gael te a theisen gartref flasus, wedi'u gweini yn Oriel hardd y Pafiliwn.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Penarth Pier Pavilion, The Esplanade, Penarth, United Kingdom