Art Appreciation Zoom Meetings from January - June 2021

These are the pictures we chose for our Transport theme on 26th January

Harry Beck Rain, Steam and Speed

Turner The White Horse
David Shepherd The Flying Scotsman
Friedrich The Wanderer above the Sea Fog
Vincent van Gogh Landscape with Carriage and Train

For our meeting on Tuesday 23rd February the theme was Weather

Claude Renoir Umbrellas

Pissarro Rue Saint-Honore
Saul Leiter Manhattan Street Photograph
Olafur Eliasson The Weather Project
Francis Danby The Deluge
Tom Roberts A Break Away
Caspar David Friedrich The Wanderer above the Sea of Fog

We all enjoyed our meeting on Tuesday 23rd March and the theme of Spring

Yao Wenhan (Quin Dynasty) The Spring Festival in Ancient China

Georgia O"Keefe Spring
Balthasar van der Ast Flowers in a Vase with Shells and Insects
Grant Wood Spring in Town
Van Gogh Almond Blossom
John Everett Millais Apple Blossom
Pieter Brueghel the younger Spring

The artists and paintings chosen for the meeting 27th April, the theme is Birds and Animals

Abbott Handerson Thayer Red Flamingoes

Carel Fabritius The Goldfinch
Albrecht Durer The Rhinoceros
George Stubbs The Kongouru from New Holland
Henri Rousseau Tiger in a Tropical Storm
Prehistoric Cave Painting
James Audubon Louisiana Heron
The meeting on Tuesday 25th May had the theme of Portraits

Frans Hals The Laughing Cavalier

Dante Gabriel Rossetti Elisabeth Siddal
Paula Rego Germain Greer
Marcus Harvey Myra
Caravaggio The Calling of Mathew
Dorethea Lang Migrant Women
Ai Da Self Portrait

The meeting on 22nd June focused on paintings with Water as the main reference point.

Francisco Gaudi Rialto Bridge

Claude Moneti Water Lilies
Yuko Shimizu Illustration - Women in a bathing ring
Walter Crane The Horses of Neptune
Katsushika Hokusai The great waves off Kanagwawa
Joaquin Sorolla Swimmer at Javea
William Bell Scott Grace Darling and her father William Darling