The Arts Society Kennet & Swindon `TASKS’ – January 2024 Meeting – The Lecture: ‘Bruegel: the Seasons of the World’ by Gavin Plumley

The January 2024 meeting of TASKS will be on Monday 15^th January.  The lecture will begin at 11.00 am. Guests most welcome – £7 fee.payable at the door.

The Lecture: Bruegel: the Seasons of the World by Gavin Plumley

In 1565 Peter Bruegel (the Elder) was commissioned to create a series of paintings for a dining room in Antwerp. These paintings charted the course of a year, or the progress of the seasons and they changed the way we view the world through art. Landscape had hitherto been simply a decorative backdrop to portraits, religious paintings and even profane subjects from classical mythology. In Bruegel’s hand, landscape, and the way we interact with it, became the focus of the painting, irrespective of the actual subject matter portrayed.  This lecture explores how Bruegel pioneered a new way of observing and thinking about the environment and our own place within that cosmos.

THE LECTURER: GAVIN PLUMLEY. Gavin is a writer and broadcaster. He appears on BBC Radio 3 and 4, and contributes to newspapers,magazines and opera and concert programmes. Lectures widely about the culture of Central Europe during the 19th and 20th centuries.  His first book, A Home for All Seasons, is recently published.

Ellendune Centre, Wroughton,  SN4 9LW