The Course / Desire and Longing in Art / It Started with A Kiss 1/10

When:
September 22, 2020 @ 10:45 am – 12:45 pm
2020-09-22T10:45:00+01:00
2020-09-22T12:45:00+01:00
Where:
The University Women's Club
2 Audley Square
London W1K 1DB
Cost:
£63.00
Contact:
Mary Bromley
020 7266 7815

The Course is an award winning organisation which offers art history, music, literature and garden lectures.

In this 10 week series on Desire and Longing in Art, you will look across the centuries at how artists have explored the enduring themes of love, courtship, marriage and sexual desire.

Session 1

It Started With A Kiss

Whether in work by Brancusi, Magritte, Rodin, Klimt, or in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photograph of a sailor on V‐J Day in Times Square, the kiss is a powerful motif in art, but it isn’t always what it appears.