Lecture hosted by The Arts Society South West London
Joaquin Sorolla is regarded as a master of light
The next event to be hosted by The Arts Society South West London will be a talk on the Spanish painter Joaquin Sorolla.
The lecture will be given Arantxa Sardina on Monday 13 March at Dryburgh Hall at 8pm. It will also be possible to hear the talk online on Zoom.
Arantxa Sardina is an official volunteer guide at the Tate Gallery, covering the permanent collections and some of the temporary exhibitions at both Tate Modern and Tate Britain. She completed her MA in Art History at the Open University in 2019, where her dissertation focused on fellow Spaniard Joaquin Sorolla, master painter of Mediterranean light and friend of John Singer Sargent.
Her talk will look at Sorolla’s life and art, from early education to success. Having been almost forgotten, he has been rediscovered in the last few years.
Sorolla was a master of light, managing to capture, like no other, the light of the Mediterranean beaches he loved and the energy of Spanish life. He painted what he saw, quickly, to capture that precise moment. As he said "I could not paint at all if I had to paint slowly. Every effect is so transient, it must be rapidly painted.”
Check the society’s web site for up-to-date information on venue and format.
If you have never attended an Arts Society lecture before you are urged to come along and find out about your local Arts Society.
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February 24, 2023
