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Art Gallery of Alberta
Free

The Matisse Lecture: Stephanie D'Alessandro

Ledcor Theatre
$15 / $10 AGA Members

All Day Sunday
Matisse and more!

12-4 pm
Art Gallery of Alberta
Free with Gallery Admission

Edward Burtynsky, Tim Flannery and Tom Siddon
Citadel, Shoctor Theatre

Presented by the Art Gallery of Alberta and the University of Alberta as part of the Festival of Ideas

Edward Burtynsky, acclaimed Canadian photographer, Tim Flannery, best-selling author of The Weather Makers and Tom Siddon, former Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, will offer provocative insights about how truths can be lost and lies perpetuated on both sides of the oil-versus-water debate.

Art for Lunch
Tracing the Lyrical Lines of Matisse

12:10-12:50 pm
Art Gallery of Alberta
Free

Refinery: Late Night Art Party

9 pm-2 am
Art Gallery of Alberta
$25 / $20 AGA Members

Organized by the National Gallery of Canada and the Art Gallery of Alberta.

During the 1880s, artists across Europe began exploring an inner vision and personal vocabulary of form that was opposed to the preoccupation of the Realists and Impressionists with recording the exterior world. Words such as “mystery,” “suggestion,” and “dream” are often used to evoke the strange beauty of Symbolist art.

In France, Paul Gauguin encouraged a group of painters known as the Nabis (from the Hebrew for “prophets”) to draw upon the imagination and express their emotional responses to subject matter through colour and form, a style he called “synthetism.” The Norwegian artist Edvard Munch spent time in Paris between 1889 and 1892 developing his distinctive style of “psychic Naturalism,” in which he portrayed allegories of the human condition. In the essay “Malerei und Zeichnung” (Painting and Drawing) of 1891, the German artist Max Klinger advocated an art of the mind in order to convey individuality. The prints of the Austrian Karl Moll and the Czech artist Max Kurzweil reflect the decorative Symbolist aesthetic promoted by the Vienna Secession, a group of modernists who split from the more conservative Viennese Artists’ Association (Genossenschaft bildender Künstler Wiens) in 1897.

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Free admission to the AGA on the last Thursday of every month from 6-9 pm