SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild and UAMA present art lecture series

Tammy Bearden

The SaddleBrooke Fine Arts Guild is pleased to present a series of free lectures in partnership with the University of Arizona Museum of Art during September and October. Kicking off the series will be a presentation entitled A Magical, Mystery Tour of Art and will be held on Wednesday, September 7, 2016, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., in the Mesquite Grill at HOA 2. Docents Fleurette and Marc Wallach will provide an interactive lecture in which audience members are invited to participate. Fleurette and Marc suggest, “Let’s let art take us out of ourselves and lead us to a more magical mysterious experience. Let’s let art set us on a search to find the answers to the mystery within the midst of things—A Magical, Mystery Tour of Art asks the viewer to participate in some detective work. How do we read a painting? What are the clues? How do we use the clues that the artist has provided? What magic does art evoke in us? According to Francis Bacon, “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.” Fleurette and Marc, who are SaddleBrooke residents, come to us with impressive credentials. Marc was a docent at the Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, New Jersey (outside Princeton) for five years and Fleurette, who grew up in Philadelphia, studied at the Philadelphia Art Museum and the Barnes Foundation. She also was a docent at the Grounds for Sculpture before moving to Arizona.

Looking ahead, on Wednesday, October 5, 2016, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m., docent Gerry Bates will present a lecture on Degenerate Art in which he will discuss the 1930s Nazi-led campaign of “cultural purification” by purging Germany of all forms of modern art.

Please mark your calendars and plan to come early for coffee. Remember, both lectures are free and are in the Mesquite Grill.