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Pewsey Vale Arts Society June lecture
3 June @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
The June lecture of the Arts Society – Pewsey Vale, will take place on Tuesday 3rd June at 2.30pm in the Bouverie Hall, Pewsey. This is the last lecture before the summer break.
Frank Woodgate will speak on The Bird in Art from Pre-history to the Present Day.
Most people love watching and listening to birds, from colourful jays to squawking parakeets, and this lecture enables us to look at them in all their glory. From Aboriginal rock decorations, millennia ago, to the present day, birds appear in many different guises: as hunters and hunted, doves as symbols of peace or the holy spirit. Or we find them as attributes or the alter ego of gods: for example Juno’s peacocks, Jupiter’s eagle or Minerva’s wise owl. This lecture not only celebrates the beauty of these wonderful wild creatures, but also shows the huge variety of ways in which artists have painted or sculpted them over the years. As Sir David Attenborough said: “Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?”
Please visit our website, taspv.org.uk for further information.
Tea and cake will be served AFTER the lecture. Non-members are very welcome to attend – £7 cash or card on arrival.
