Art Lecture 2008

New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, 53 New Walk, Leicester LE1 7EA
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Time: 7.15pm
Telephone: 0116 225 4900

Ticket Price: £6.00

BREAKING THE ICE:
Post-War American Abstract Painting

An illustrated talk by Eric Shanes

In the mid-1940s a new seriousness, originality and inventiveness entered American painting through the works of Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning. Franz Kline, Arshile Gorky, Mark Rothko and others.

In this talk Eric Shanes explores their tremendous breakthrough and shows how it was deeply rooted in expressing responses to modern realities, despite its non-representational imagery.

Eric Shanes is the author of books on Brancusi, Warhol, Hockney and other leading modern artists, as well as on the Impressionists in London and eleven bestselling books on JMW Turner. He is himself a practicising artist and printmaker.

Tickets

Tickets now on sale from the museum shop, price £6.00.
Most major payment cards accepted.
Museum shop telephone: 0116 225 4920.

Tickets also for sale on the door from 6.45pm on Tuesday 14 October.