Talk
Community Lecture Series: Crescendo
MPS Art Therapy presents a virtual presentation by Richard Lacayo, former Time art critic, on how artists like Francisco Goya, Henri Matisse, Edward Hopper and Louise Nevelson made some of their most profound work in the final decades of their lives, even sometimes in the face of enormous personal challenges or brutal upheaval in the world outside.
Richard Lacayo was a longtime writer and editor at Time and, from 2003 – 2016, the magazine’s art and architecture critic. Lacayo is the author of the new book Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph. In 2013, he delivered one of the year’s Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C. on artists in old age.
Learning Objectives:
- Participants will learn ways Goya, Matisse, Hopper and Nevelson produced work in their later years.
- Participants will learn how artists faced personal challenges with their art.
- Participants will learn about the world upheavals as the artists aged and how it affected them.
The MPS Art Therapy Department at the School of Visual Arts is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed creative arts therapists. #CAT-0054.
1.5 CE hours available for LCATs.