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Still Life Painting
Revealed
National Gallery of Ireland, Lecture Theatre
The subject of still
life painting has fascinated artists and the public since images
first appeared in ancient times and it continues to be equally popular
even today. Still life is a genre of painting that allows the artist
more freedom in the arrangement of the composition than does painting
other types of subjects, such as landscape, portraiture or narrative
pictures. Prior to 1700, still life painting often contained religious
and allegorical symbols that related to the objects depicted. Modern
still life painting frequently moves beyond the two-dimensional
surface to employ three-dimensional mixed media, using found objects,
photography, computer graphics, video and sound.
TICKETS AND INFORMATION
- €25 (study morning,
coffee breaks & tour); €15 students.
- Tickets may be purchased
in advance from The Gallery Shop in the Millennium Wing, Clare
Street, Dublin 2. Tel. 01-663 3518.
- A lunch voucher for
the National Gallery Café costs € 7.50 (soup, sandwich,
tea/coffee).
- Enquiries to the Education
Department, National Gallery of Ireland. Tel. 01-663 3504.
PROGRAMME
| 10am |
Welcome
Raymond Keaveney, Director |
| 10.10am |
Vignettes
from the History of Still Life
William Gallagher, Freelance art history lecturer |
| 10.40am |
Two
Leading Dutch Still Life Painters: Willem Claesz. Heda (1594-1680),
A Banquet Piece, c.1635 and Pieter Claesz (1597/8-1660), A Breakfast
Piece, 1637
Dr. Adriaan Waiboer, Curator of Northern European Art, National
Gallery of Ireland |
| 11am
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Morning
Coffee |
| 11.30am |
Spanish
Still Life Painting: Grapes and Greatness: Fruit Still Lifes
in the 17th Century
Dr. Peter Cherry, Lecturer and Head of Department, Department
of the History of Art and Architecture, Trinity College Dublin |
| 12am |
The
Artist's Perspective on the Practice of Still Life Painting
Geraldine O'Neill, Artist |
| 12.30pm
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Panel
Discussion Chair: Declan McGonagle, Director, National College
of Art and Design |
| 1.30pm |
Conclusion |
| 3pm |
Tour of still life
paintings in the National Gallery of Ireland
Meeting Point - The Shaw Room
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