Art Talks with Martin Randall

TUCSON ART TALKS brings Art Talks on a wide variety of art history topics to your public library, school, residential facility, business, auditorium or home. With years of experience speaking at museums, libraries and other venues in the Tucson area, these highly popular and engaging talks are sure to fascinate and delight!

In the 19th century artists from Europe and America started to venture to the East – the Orient as it was then known – for centuries, to the West, a forbidding and mysterious region. They brought back images of people, cultures and traditions unlike anything they or their fascinated audiences had ever seen. 

For a time these paintings became controversial in the west, but nowadays they are highly sought after, particularly by museums and collectors from the region, as they seek to access images of their own heritage and a way of life that has now forever disappeared.

In this talk we look at the world of these artist-travelers – who became known as the Orientalists – and journey with them through North Africa, the Middle East, and even as far as Persia and India, exploring their lives and the extraordinary legacy of art that they left us.

Free admission.

 If you ask most people if they can think of a Scandinavian artist, they may only be able to come up with one name - the Norwegian painter Edvard Munch and his iconic painting The Scream. But there were many other talented Scandinavian artists who are less well known, who produced gorgeous paintings that capture the lives, the spirit, the scenic beauty, and the unique light of the North.

Join us on a journey north through the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland as we explore the work of the artists that lived and worked there.

Free admission.

 Georgia O'Keeffe has been called 'The Mother of American Modernism'. In this talk, through her paintings as well as through archival photographs and quotes from her letters and interviews, we examine the remarkable life and work of Georgia O'Keeffe, from her humble childhood on the plains of Wisconsin, through her time in New York with the renowned photographer and gallerist Alfred Stieglitz, and focusing especially on her time in New Mexico where she spent the last five decades of her groundbreaking life capturing the rugged beauty of this stark landscape. 

Free admission.