HENRI MATISSE: THE ARMCHAIR PAINTER

There are few artists as beloved as Matisse. Discover why, and how he brought Rubensian sensuousness to Modernism.​

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MyHealthAngel

 

Nov 2024

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Detail, Henri Matisse, The Blue Nude, 1906, Baltimore Museum of Art

ART AND LEADERSHIP AS A VERB

Three straightforward questions. Does art help us learn better? Does participating in the process of experiencing art in a more interactive way help us to get more out of it? Do discoveries with art help us outside the museum, even at work? All data points point to a resounding yes, to all three. Ignoring these realities leaves too much on the table. It’s time to keep pace with an ever-changing world and workplace and come to terms with how to balance top-down with participatory methods. Art tackles these issues head-on and shows us how to become proficient in new ways of thinking better suited to these changing winds. It helps raise awareness and engage cultural change, necessary goals for everyone in the org chart, not just for designated leaders. Time to learn how. ​

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BluSPARC

 

Nov 2024
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Detail, Paul Cézanne, Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1904, Philadelphia Museum of Art

AUGUSTE RODIN: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS

Auguste Rodin is deservedly among the most celebrated artists in the canon. Discover how the Janus-like Rodin at once looked backward and forward in time, bridging the gap between academic and avant-garde, linking disparate figures like Michelangelo and Cézanne. As he famously quipped: “I invent nothing, I rediscover.” Unpack what Rodin gleaned from Impressionism and how his work contributed to the modernist sculptural developments in the School of Paris during the first decade of the 20th century.
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MyHealthAngel

 

September 2024

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Detail, Auguste Rodin by George Charles Beresford, half-plate glass negative, 1902

CLAUDE MONET: PAINTER OF THE HERE AND NOW

Discover how light, nature, societal changes, Japonisme, the Franco-Prussian War, and so much more inspired Claude Monet to make some of the most iconic works in the art historical canon.​

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MyHealthAngel

 

July 2024

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Detail, Claude Monet, La Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, Musée d'Orsay, Paris

LEONARDO DA VINCI: MIND/BODY IN SYNC

Highlighting the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition at the California Science Center, this talk unpacks why Leonardo is truly iconic. As a master of science and artistry, he fashioned works like Mona Lisa and Vitruvian Man as a bridge that united the two paradigms in a truly cosmic harmony. Nature, art, life, and the cosmos all in a profoundly harmonious nexus. Discover what makes his work and legacy so fascinating, even more than 500 years after his death.

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Road Scholar

 

May 2024

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Detail, Leonardo da Vinci, The Vitruvian Man, ca. 1490, Galleria dell'Accademia, Venice

MODIGLIANI: MYTHIC MODERNIST

Amedeo Modigliani is among the most mythologized artists in the canon. Inspired by his love of poetry, his portraits are direct and honest, cutting through to the marrow of his sitters. With his iconic images of female nudes, he dared to show women unapologetically as agents of their own bodies and sexualities. His sculptures similarly pushed the envelope, stylistically merging Parisian modernism with African-inspired iconographies. From his groundbreaking work to his early death at the age of thirty-five, discover why Modiglaini’s life and work is indeed the stuff of legend.

 

MyHealthAngel

 

May 2024

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Detail, Amedeo Modigliani. Young Woman in a Yellow Dress (Renée Modot), 1918. Collection Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’Arte. Long-term loan to Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Torino

THE BAUHAUS: UNITY OF THE ARTS

In 1919, Walter Gropius, the founder of The Bauhaus, had a clear goal: “to create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions which raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist.” In the aftermath of WW1, he dared to provide a model for the role of art and architecture in a new type of society. For a brief period before it closed in 1933, the many famed teachers and students at the school – from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Paul Klee – dared to think outside the box, ultimately ushering in an era of forward-thinking art and architecture bound together by a shared collective unity. This four-part series explores how we are still unpacking its remarkable legacy.​

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The Barnes Foundation

 

March 2024

 

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Building Dessau, 1925-26

ICONIC AMERICAN ARCHITECTURE, PART 1 & 2

Two-part series highlighting key themes of American architecture ca. 1900 to the present. Part 1 focuses on residences and commercial buildings. Why is Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater so iconic? What do major skyscrapers reveal about commercialism? Investigate how architects of the period reimagined spaces. Part 2 investigates spaces for enrichment and reflection; and public buildings, monuments, and memorials. What does Thomas Jefferson’s University of Virginia Rotunda reveal about his philosophies concerning governance? How does Maya Lin’s Vietnam Veterans Memorial speak to its target audiences? Interrogate how great architects of the period thought outside the box.

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MyHealthAngel

 

January/March 2024

 

Detail, WTC1 and WTC Path Station, New York

MASTERWORKS OF ART AFTER 1900

How is an artistic masterwork best defined? What are some of the most important artworks from the past century or so? Four-part lecture series explores how Cubism, Pop Art, and other movements grew out of their respective eras. Interrogate how modernism evolved into a rich tapestry of global contemporary art. Unpack how great art at once reveals something about its maker and all of us experiencing it today.

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Road Scholar

 

January 2024

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Paul Klee, Ad Parnassum, 1932, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland