Vectis Decorative and Fine Arts Society Lecture

Doors open at 7.15pm. Tea, coffee and bar are available before the lectures which begin at 8.00pm.

We ask you to be seated by 7.55pm. They finish at approximately 9.15-9-30pm Guests are welcome at a cost of £7 and £2 for students.

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Paris 1850-1900: The most DECADENT city in the world!

The can-can girls, the cabaret, the expositions & the artists. Baudelaire urged Manet to become a flaneur. He told him that to be a truly Modern painter he needed to go out and paint the real heroes of modern life - the dispossessed who could no longer afford to live in the new, modernized Paris.

This lecture covers a lot of art history - from classical academy painting to Picasso’s arrival at the squalid Bateau Lavoir in Montmartre. We look at the various paths art took during this time and where those paths led. It sums up the enormous energy & eccentricity in Paris during this period.

Lecturer Profile: Linda Collins MA, BA(Hons), dip francais, was employed at Hampton Court Palace for 22 years before becoming an independent lecturer.

Linda lectures regularly for NADFAS, both home and abroad and also for the National Trust, U3A and various UK universities. Linda has a special interest in Paris and French Art. Linda is a freelance lecturer at Tate Modern & the National Gallery and an independent lecture organiser.

Image: Circa Sassy under CC BY 2.0