LIANG YI TALKS
LIANG YI TALKS
LIANG YI TALKS
LIANG YI TALKS
LIANG YI TALKS
LIANG YI TALKS
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LIANG YI TALKS
Title: Art Nouveau Jewellery: When Japanese Art Came to Europe
Speakers: Gilles Zalulyan and Mathilde Rondouin
Date: Thursday, February 23rd, 2023
Time: 7-8 pm
Language: English
Register at https://bit.ly/ArtNouveauJewelleryConversation
Precious Japanese adornments and artefacts such as kimonos, yukata, katanas, netsuke and maki-e hairpins had remained unheard of in Europe until the mid-19th century and the start of what was called the Meiji Era, translated into the “Age of Enlightenment” in Japan.
When they eventually landed on European shores, those Japanese treasures provoked a stylistic tsunami. Much previously unknown craftsmanship and materials - horn, lacquer, mixed metals, ivory, silk - influenced every layer of creations, especially jewellery. This allowed the birth of one of the most revolutionary artistic movements, The Art Nouveau or “New Art”. European jewellers, glass makers, silversmiths and enamellers started to emulate Japanese art, trying on techniques they had never seen before...
This conversation - Art Nouveau Jewellery: When Japonisme Came to Europe - offers a historic journey through the 1900s in order to capture the essence of Japonisme and its influence on jewellery creations.
Leopoldo Metlicovitz,
Poster for Madame Butterfly,
1904,
Wikicommons.com
LIANG YI TALKS
Title: Qing Imperial Women and Treasures of the Forbidden City
Speaker: Daisy Yiyou Wang, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Hong Kong Palace Museum
Date: Tuesday, April 4th, 2023
Time: 7-8 pm
Language: English
Register at https://bit.ly/april23lyt
A pioneering scholar in the study of Qing palace women, Dr. Daisy Yiyou Wang, Deputy Director of the Hong Kong Palace Museum (HKPM), explores the spectacular treasures on view at the HKPM, and presents her new research on the little-known presence of women in Qing court art and culture. Combining archival documents, object-based study, and interdisciplinary approach, this lecture provides fresh perspectives for the study of Qing imperial art. Dr. Wang will examine Qing imperial paintings and calligraphic works, Buddhist objects, ceramics, textiles, lacquers, metalworks, jades, furniture, and other categories of court art.
Flitting Butterflies (detail) from Yinzhen’s Twelve Ladies
© The Palace Museum