MEETING - Wednesday 20 January 2010
Barry Venning : PICASSO'S "GUERNICA" AND THE SPANISH CIVIL WAR
In April 1937, a massive air raid by the German Luftwaffe on the Basque town of Guernica in Northern Spain shocked the world. Hundreds of civilians were killed in the raid which became a major incident of the Spanish Civil War.
The bombing prompted Picasso to begin painting his greatest masterpiece... Guernica, a prophetic vision of the Second World War, and now recognised as an international icon for peace.
Lecturer: Barry Venning – author of books on Constable (1992) and Turner (2003)
Graduating with an MA in the History of Art (Courtauld) Barry Venning has been an Associate lecturer for the Open University since 1986, teaching advanced courses on Modern Art, Italian Renaissance and "Art and its Histories".
Between 1982 and 1990 he was visiting lecturer at Kent University, whilst from 1987 until 1992 he was a part-time lecturer at the Chelsea College of Art. Since 1992 he has been a lecturer in Art History at Brooklands College for Further and Higher Education in Weybridge.