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Rosamond Bernier Lectures
Hear Rosamond Bernier in person!
If your organization is interested in sponsoring a lecture by Rosamond Bernier, please contact her via e-mail.
A selection of lecture topics is listed below. Both lecture
series and individual lectures within series are available. Each lecture
is approximately one-hour long, and fully illustrated with slides of great
artworks and the artists who made them. Many also contain Rosamond Bernier's
personal slides of unknown and unexpected treasures.
LECTURE TOPICS
GREAT ARTISTS
Conversational accounts of Rosamond Bernier's friendships with three masters of 20th century art.
Matisse and Picasso in Close-Up
The Matisse I Knew
The Matisse Nobody Knew
The Picasso I Knew
The Picasso Nobody Knew
The Miró I
Knew
TASTE AT THE TOP: FOUR ROYAL COLLECTORS
Vivid portraits of four great royal collectors.
François
I of France (1494-1547) The king who brought Leonardo da Vinci to France
and
was the first owner of the Mona Lisa.
Charles I of England (1600-1649) The biggest art collector in the history of the Western World.
Christina of Sweden (1626-1689) Passionate amateur of philosophy, music and poetry -- and omnivorous collector of art and artists.
Catherine the Great of Russia (1729-1796) The woman whose block-buying and exuberant patronage created St. Petersburg's magnificent art holdings and enhanced the city with spectacular architecture.
FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM: THE WORLD MADE NEW
Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Cèzanne are shown not only as
painters, but as exceptional human beings.
The Cast of
Characters: The early years: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissaro, Cèzanne.
Modern Art and Modern Manners: Manet, leader in spirit if not in name; Monet from La Grenouiliere (1869) to the apotheosis of Waterlillies (1900's)
Paris by Day
and by Night: The city before and after Impressionism; Degas the quintessential
Parisian; Renior's "take" on the town; Caillebotte and the new
Paris.
An Accessible
Paradise: Masterpieces by Renoir and Monet; New players: Cèzanne,
Gauguin, Seurat; Original Impressionist group unravels.
ART INDOORS AND OUT
The energies of art overflow their traditional areas in four lectures that span the Middle Ages to the present day.
Art and the Book: from medieval manuscripts to 19th century illustrators of genius.
Art and the Garden: garden design reflects painting and sculpture from the Renaissance to Claude Monet.
Art and the Dance: an illustrated journey from court pavane to modern dance.
Art and the Jewel: jewelers through the ages have taken motifs from Gothic cathedrals to Art Nouveau architecture.
PARISIAN WORDS ON THE WING
Great French writers look at art.
The Goncourts: 19th century critics, collectors, taste-makers -- and incomparable gossips.
Charles Baudelaire:
One of the greatest 19th century poets and a pioneer guide to Eugène
Delacroix.
Stéphane Mallarmé:
The French Symbolist: a new voice in poetry, and the admired friend of
Manet, Gauguin, Renoir and Whistler.
Guillaume Apollinaire: The lyric poet, friend of Picasso, who championed the new and the good in modern art.
FOUR FOUR-STAR WOMEN
The extraordinary lives of four very different women, artists one and all.
Madame Vigée
LeBrun 18th century Europe
Berthe Morisot 19th century France
Frida Kahlo 20th century Mexico
Louise Bourgeois Today's New York
LOST AND FOUND IN THE HERMITAGE
Artworks from private collections taken to Soviet Russia at the end of World
War II and hidden--finally revealed in a Hermitage exhibition in 1995. A lecture
in two parts.
PARIS QUARTET
Three quintessential Parisians and a personal tour of the city that inspired them.
Sergei Diaghilev The impresario whose Ballets Russes captivated all of Paris.
Marcel Proust: A great novelist and his obsession with art.
Paul Poiret The flamboyant couturier who reinvented the female form.
A Walk on the Left Bank Rosamond Bernier recalls neighborhood ghosts and the very much alive.
FOUR FRIENDS IN FOUR ACTS
A Frenchman, a German, a Catalan, and Englishman from Yorkshire. Major figures in a continually changing multinational art world, they all talked freely to Rosamond Bernier.
Fernand Léger
Max Ernst
Joan Miró
David Hockney
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