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Frenzy & Self Control 3/3
Talk
Shifting Liberties and Other Consequences
18 Jun 2015
Event times
Thursday, 18th June, 7.00 to 8.00 pm.
Cost of entry
Tickets £10 incl. glass of wine or juice
Address
- Rockfield Road
- Hereford
- HRI 2UA
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Train to Hereford, then bus to city centre. We are a short walk from the city centre between the Cathedral and the River Wye Bridge.
Professor Allen Fisher will be giving an illustrated talk at the Gallery from 7 pm on Thursday 18th June as part of our Magna Carta 800 celebrations.
About
SHIFTING LIBERTIES AND OTHER CONSEQUENCES
The talk emphasises the work of Jacques-Louis David, William Blake and Francisco Goya produced during the period of the French Revolution and its aftermath; the work of Gustave Courbet in the mid-nineteenth century; the work of Pablo Picasso in the 1930s, ‘50s and ‘60s.
What set out to be a review of responses to liberties became a review of how those liberties were in a continual struggle between the faction in power and the subjugation of the populace.
The talk is illustrated by a range of important paintings and poetry; from David’s Oath of the Horatii to Eugène Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, from Blake’s Europe A Prophecy and Jerusalem, to Courbet’s Burial at Ornan, and a range of work by Picasso concluding with his mural, War and Peace. The talk will also include pertinent extracts from the poetry of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley and Pablo Neruda.
