Art Talk with Gay Bechtelheimer
Artist and educator Gay Bechtelheimer will return to the SAAC stage with a new spring “Art Talk” lecture series. Please join us for a brief reception, followed by an entertaining dive into the context, characters, and culture of a variety of art movements.
Image: Street, Dresden Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1908 (reworked 1919; dated on painting 1907)
January 30th, German Expressionists
Tuesday Evening reception starts at 6:30 p.m. with the lecture to follow in the theatre
Wine, Beer, and a Snack
Free Event • Open Seating
Reservation Encouraged • Complete the Form Below or Call 870-862-5474
Bechtelheimer is currently hosting a three part series that highlights the European modernists, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and the German Expressionists, whose work transformed conventional methods of creating art in the 20th century.
Returns to the SAAC stage on Tuesday, January 30 artist Gay Bechtelheimer will present the next “Art Talk” focusing on the work of the German Expressionist painters. Focused on presenting the world through emotional experience, rather than physical reality, Expressionism was a modernist movement of the early 20th century. The artists’ work was reflective of the quickly changing modern world in which they suddenly found themselves.
“Amid the dramatic urbanization and industrialization that occurred in Germany prior to World War I, a collective group of artists known as the German Expressionists depicted their zeitgeist, the feelings of disillusion they saw and felt in society as the promise of war loomed,” said Bechtelheimer. “Their work was emotive and unrestrained as they conveyed their ideas of the anxious realities they were experiencing.”
The free event will begin with refreshments starting at 6:00 p.m. in the lobby, followed by Bechtelheimer’s presentation onstage.
