Matthew Collings Talk at Bath Literary Festival 2011

THE BATH CHRONICLE
March 1, 2011

UNITED KINGDOM--Artist, art historian, TV presenter and writer, Matthew Collings had come to the Bath Literary Festival to give two talks including one being on the Bible in Art. He is the well known as announcer of the Turner Prize winners on TV, talk convincingly on his perception of the principles that lie behind this concept. The fact that he is himself an artist gave relevant authority to his explanation that as a painter he had explored these principles in order to understand why he creates art and how it can be made better. Travelling through the ages from the earliest cave drawings to what Collings called the contemporary bric-a-, he gave examples of the ten principles he believes bring perspective and order to art – and thus beauty. His list included illustrations of the concepts of simplicity, spontaneity, animation and pattern and ranged from the spectacular road bridge at Millau in southern France to Michelangelo’s paintings in the Sistine Chapel. The Bath Literature Festival 2011 continues until Sunday 6th March.. [link]