Seduction had been one of the enduring themes of art since Eve offered Adam an apple and UK artist and freelance lecturer Lynne Gibson will discuss it with Noosa group ArtsNational next week.
She will describe how courtly love blossomed in manuscripts and miniatures of the Middle Ages and the Italian Renaissance offering a cast of amorous gods and goddesses as well as how “puritanical Dutch and prudish Victorians tut-tutted over the loose morals of fallen women.”
In our permissive society has the ‘Battle of Sexes’ killed the spirit of romance? This lecture celebrates the theme of love and courtship through painting.
As well as lecturing internationally, Lynne has also worked professionally as an etcher and a painter in oils. Solo and group exhibitions have included the RWA, the British Museum, the Guild Gallery in Bristol and London’s Barbican. Her work is held in private and public collections and has been used in a range of publications, including newspapers, periodicals and for book covers.
She says it is easy to take colour for granted in our manufactured world. and in a second lecture she discusses how before organic chemistry the most desirable pigments were often rare, exotic, or poisonous.
Merchants supplied cochineal ‘grana’ from the holds of Spanish galleons, pungent golden nuggets from India and lapis rock carried by camel train from the mountains of Badakhshan. Alchemists prepared deadly King’s Yellow, mysterious Vitriol of Venus and Moorish Gold concocted from basilisk powder and human blood. This lecture tells the stories of alchemy and adventure behind some our beautiful and colourful paintings.
ArtsNational Noosa. Double lecture, Saturday August 17 at St Mary’s Church, 17 William Street, Tewantin at 2.30pm. Bookings preferred: membershipnoosaadfas@gmail.com Visitor fees: $30 pp includes afternoon tea.
