Paintbrushes at Dawn: The World's Greatest Artistic Feuds, Rows and Quarrels

The Arts Society Leicester present Paintbrushes at Dawn: The World's Greatest Artistic Feuds, Rows and Quarrels

Speaker - Barry Venning

The late Christopher Hitchens, who knew a thing or two about feuds, once wrote that a really first-rate bust-up requires one of at least two things: a clash of strong personalities and a conflict of principles.

The history of art is peppered with serious quarrels: between the great early Renaissance artists, Brunelleschi and Ghiberti, between Constable and Turner in the early 1830s, between Salvador Dali and the Surrealist leader André Breton in the 1930s and, most recently, between the graffiti artists Banksy and ‘King’ Robbo, who painted out and amended each other’s works. There are many more.

Further Information

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Tickets

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£10 for non-members (pay on the door)

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