Art History Talk – Georgia O'Keeffe, 'More than just Flowers'

Date: Tuesday 8th October 2024

Timings: 2.00pm for the Lecture, followed by Tea & Cake in the Pavilion Gallery at 3pm (doors open from 1.30pm)

Venue: Penarth Pier Pavilion

Ticket/s: £15.50per person (+ booking fee) - Ticket price includes Tea & Cake. Tickets on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/946659984497?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join us this October to hear acclaimed art history lecturer, Stella Grace Lyons's fascinating talk on Georgia O'Keeffe.

Despite Georgia O'Keeffe's insistence that her paintings of flowers were just flowers, they have always been interpreted as containing explicit sexual symbolism.

Georgia O'Keeffe was more than just flowers. She painted cityscapes, nature, animal skulls, and her beloved New Mexico.

Throughout her life she struggled with being pigeon-holed – not only as a painter of suggestive paintings, but as a 'female artist' or as the 'wife' of the photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz.

This talk explores how she overcame these prejudices and went from being a Midwestern farm girl to becoming the first woman to have one-woman shows at major art museums.

Come along and explore the varied work and fascinating life of this determined and driven 'Mother of Modernism', Georgia O'Keeffe.

'Without sacrificing scholarship, Stella Grace Lyons has a most engaging way of hooking an audience into sharing her passionate interest in art history, drawing three dimensional human stories and experiences from the two-dimensional canvas'

- Maev Kennedy, Guardian Arts Correspondent

Following the talk, please stay for tea and delicious homemade cake, served in the Pavilion's beautiful Gallery.