Picasso’s Blue and Rose Periods Reconsidered
Pablo Picasso, The Blue Room, 1901 © Estate of Pablo Picasso
This seminar will consider Picasso’s life and artistic development from 1899 to 1905. Detailed analysis will be given to major works of the Blue Period, such as Evocation (The Burial of Casagemas) (1901), Self-Portrait (1901), The Blue Room (1901), La Vie (1903) and the haunting La Celestina (1904); and such Rose Period works as The Harlequin’s Family and The Family of Saltimbanques (1905).
Dr Frank Heckes, BA in Art and Spanish (University of California, Davis), MA in Spanish (Indiana University), MA in Art History and PhD in Art History (University of Michigan), is an Honorary Research Associate in Art History at La Trobe University, where he previously lectured for twenty-seven years. Frank is a specialist in Spanish art (1550-2000) and Dutch and Flemish painting (1550-1700). He has been Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis, and in the second half of 2005 he was guest lecturer in Baroque art in the Art History and Theory Department at the University of Sydney. He has held numerous scholarships and grants, such as the Fulbright-Hays Grant and Grant for Research in Spain for Foreign Hispanists. His PhD thesis was entitled Supernatural Themes in the Art of Francisco de Goya (published by University Microfilms International, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1985). His other publications include the book Reason and Folly: The Prints of Francisco Goya (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1998), articles on Jacob Jordaens’ Mercury and Argus and Jan Steen’s Interior and The Wedding Party in European Masterpieces: Six Centuries of Paintings from the National Gallery of Victoria, Australia (National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 2000) and numerous other articles, such as ‘Goya’s Tauromaquia: A Criticism of Bullfighting? (Print Quarterly 18, no. 1, March 2001, pp. 41-63), and ‘Goya y sus seis “asuntos de Brujas”’ (‘Goya and His Six “Subjects Dealing with Witches”’), in Goya, Revista de Arte 295-296, July-October 2003, pp. 197-214.
Date: Thursday 4th of October, 12:10 to 1:45 pm,
Venue: Library Seminar Room, Level 1, Borchardt Library, La Trobe Bundoora Campus / Visual Arts Meeting Room (Bendigo Campus).
For more information - Please contact Dr Adelina Modesti (Convenor, Art History Seminar) a.modesti@latrobe.edu.au or history@latrobe.edu.au
RSVP not required