Name: Talk Series – How Artists Made their Mark in Sculpture, Sketches & Outdoors
Start: 2024-05-07T14:00:00+01:00
End: 2024-05-07T15:00:00+01:00
Location: Ashmolean Museum

$Talk Series \u2013 How Artists Made their Mark in Sculpture, Sketches & Outdoors$

Course of three one-hour talks over three weeks on Tuesdays in May 2024 on:
7 May, 14 May & 21 May
In person and online via Zoom
Booking is essential and tickets are £24 for either the in-person and online course.
Visit the website for details:
https://www.ashmolean.org/event/how-artists-made-their-marks-in-sculpture-sketches-and-outdoors
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With Juliet Heslewood, art historian and author
This course of three talks led by Juliet Heslewood will explore three very different mediums through history where artists have made their mark from Classical Greek sculpture to artist sketches and the more modern-day landmark art in the outdoors.
Talk 1, Tue 7 May 2024 - Relief Sculpture: Marking Stone
In the past, public sculpture was often 'in the round', to be viewed from all sides, or as flat pieces for vertical display, in relief. Blocks of stone were incised using various tools as the sculptor moved from surface design into a deep - or shallow - carving. The talk will look at styles of carving relief, from the Greeks through to the Romanesque and the Renaissance period of Donatello and Michelangelo, and includes a glance at those 'signatures' known as mason's marks.
Talk 2, Tue 14 May 2024 - Preparatory Work: Thinking in Sketches
Few finished works of art were achieved without much preparation. Sometimes a fleeting moment could inspire - marked in a sketchbook. Or a composition required various trial runs before a final decision was made. This talk includes work by Rembrandt, Constable, Rossetti and Seurat among others where preparatory sketches, sometimes highly-worked drawings, reveal the fascinating early stages of major works of art.
Talk 3, Tue 21 May 2024 - Landmarks of Art: The Out of Doors
We often think of art being confined to galleries. Public buildings such as churches could be said to change city or landscape views. Ancient white horses on hillsides are still visible whereas in recent times, the land itself has become a medium for artists. Richard Long marked the land and paths which he trod. Andy Goldsworthy and Robert Smithson explored aspects of nature where the work of art was to disappear entirely.
Part of the Making a Mark season of events