Drill Hall Gallery Lecture Series: The 50 years that changed painting 1867-1917

Join us for a series of Sunday afternoon lectures with Terence Maloon. This series of 12 lectures – 6 in 2024 and 6 in 2025 – looks at the reorientation of painting from 19th-century Naturalism to 20th-century Abstraction, exploring the shifts and examining the rationalisation that gained a pervasive influence over the entirety of modern and contemporary art.

 

Coombs Lecture Theatre, Australian National University

$10 per lecture, $50 for series of 6

Free for students and Friends of the Drill Hall

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7 April 2024

An allegory of Modern Art—Balzac’s ‘Unknown Masterpiece’

 

5 May 2024

Whistler and colour-music

 

2 June 2024

Monet and Cézanne—light as abstraction

 

7 July 2024

Poetic abstraction —Symbolist Aesthetics

 

4 August 2024

Gauguin’s graphic legacy, from Munch to Kandinsky

 

1 September 2024

Vuillard and the possibility of abstraction in the 1890s

 

2 March 2025

Cézanne’s posterity

 

6 April 2025

Fauvism and the primacy of colour

 

4 May 2025

Cubism and the birth of abstraction

 

1 June 2025

Art after the conquest of the air

 

6 July 2025

The new “nature”—art and science

 

3 August 2025

War and peace—the proliferation of abstraction in a time of conflict