Art and Scandal in Victorian England

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Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and the Bloomsbury Group:

In early twentieth century England, painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant became two of the most prominent and controversial members of the Bloomsbury Group of artists, intellectuals, and writers. Each rejected Victorian ideals and rules of society as they embraced the modern art of Matisse and Picasso and experimented with abstraction, something radically new in British art. Their passion for art was only matched by their scandalous ideas of free love. Her open marriage to art critic Clive Bell and affair with artist Duncan Grant inspired Dorothy Parker, one of America’s greatest wits, to write that the Bloomsbury Group “lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles."

Thursday, January 29 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13812 • $30

BOB POTTER is a graduate of Syracuse University’s School of Visual and Performing Arts. He spent his early career as an art director and creative director for leading media companies including Scholastic Magazines, Time Warner, and National Geographic. Over the past decade, he helped create an arts therapy program for Save The Children, was a corporate development officer for the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and oversaw marketing and communications for the Mystic Seaport Museum. Most recently, he launched a professional development program for art students at the Lyme Academy, and is a docent at the Yale Center For British Art.

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