Join artist Eric Fischl at The Church in Sag Harbor as he muses on three archetypes for emotional and aspirational conditions that all cultures ponder through art: Heaven, Hell, and the Garden.
Speaking specifically about the visual arts of Western art history, Eric’s lecture on Saturday, February 8, at 4 PM will explore how shape, color, line, gesture, pattern, and scale — the language an artist chooses to express feelings, thoughts, dreams, etc. — can be further explored within the dimension of these three classic motifs.
“The archetypes of Heaven, Hell, and the Garden are handy generalizations for the exploration of ways to look at individual works of art though, albeit a little silly,” Eric noted.
Fischl works in multiple mediums, such as painting, sculpture, and prints, but he is known for his large-scale, naturalistic images of middle-class American life.
The talk will explore works of art (in projection) and include Fischl’s musings and interpretations of various paintings and drawings from the past 700 or so years.