Lunchtime lecture: Cezanne – from aspiring Impressionist to Post-Impressionist revolutionary
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- Start Date: 23 Oct 2025End Date: 23 Oct 2025Thu (Daytime): 13:00 - 14:00OnlineFull fee £14.00 Senior fee £11.00 Concession £9.00
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What is the course about?
Born in Aix-en-Provence, he arrived in Paris in the 1860s determined to succeed as an artist, but his work was constantly rejected by the art establishment. He exhibited with the Impressionists in the 1870s, but later returned to his native Provence to pursue a dogged progress towards a radically new approach to painting.
Monet would call Cezanne “the greatest of us all”; to Picasso, he was the father of modern art; and for Georges Braque, he was a key influence on Cubism.
What will we cover?
• An introduction to the work Paul Cezanne – his style and preferred motifs
• The development of Cezanne’s painting technique
• Cezanne’s relationship to the Paris art world.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
• Discuss Cezanne’s repeated use of similar motifs
• Describe at least two key differences between Cezanne’s early and late style
• Discuss whether Cezanne’s painting process was revolutionary or built on contemporary ideas.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
This course is open to all.
You should be able to operate basic elements of Zoom, e.g. microphone, camera and log in.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
You will be taught with lecture and slide presentation. This course does not include an active discussion element, but there will be time for Q&A at the end of the session. This is a live lesson course - sessions are not recorded or available on demand for reasons of copyright, data protection and digital infrastructure.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
There are no additional costs.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
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Julia Musgrave got her first degree in Chemical Engineering and went on become a Chartered Information Systems Engineer and IT project manager. In 2008 she decided that life was too short for just one career and decided to become an art historian. She has a Graduate Diploma in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute of Art and an MLitt in ‘Art, Style and Design: Renaissance to Modernism, c.1450 – c.1930’ from the University of Glasgow. She gained her Ph.D. at the University of York for her research into the involvement of Roger Fry and the Bloomsbury Group and the social networks of the British art world in the development of the Contemporary Art Society from 1910 to 1939. She is Co-Director of the London Art Salon and an accredited Arts Society lecturer.
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