Prestigious art lecture in Munich Professor Maria Lalic gave a lecture at the Fine Arts Academy in Munich on Thursday 7 February.
The ‘Landscape Paintings’ which link the name of a paint and particular landscape by paintings and places.
Professor Lalic is Principal Lecturer in Fine Art at Bath Spa and an artist of international repute. She was invited to give a lecture as part of the Academy’s ‘Jour Fixe’ series. Jour Fixe is an annual lecture series organised by students of the Academy who invite selected artists to speak on a particular topic.
Speaking about her lecture Professor Lalic said: “It was a tremendous honour to be asked to give this lecture, and significantly for me, in relation to Max Doerner. His seminal text, ‘The Materials of the Artist and their Use in Painting', was hugely influential to me as a student and remains a valuable source of information.”
The event was open to both students and members of the public with a workshop for students being held the following day. The lecture and related workshop was fully funded by the Akademieverein (a circle of friends and supporters of the Munich Academy of Fine Arts) and the Studentenvertretung (Student Council). The Academy of Fine Arts in Munich was established in 1770. Notable Alumni include Giorgio de Chirico, Vasily Kandinsky, Josef Albers and Paul Klee.
Professor Lalic’s talk was held on the centenary of the first ever lecture at the Academy and discussed ‘The Material of Colour. The Colour of Material’ in relation to her paintings. These can be broken down into three groups: The ‘Colour and Metal Paintings’ in which certain paints are used with the metals from which they derive; The ‘History Paintings’, in which a Winsor and Newton paint chart is used as a readymade for the categorisation of colour by era, and;
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