Art and Alcohol
Wed, Oct 05
|Los Angeles Breakfast Club
Enjoy a catered breakfast, silly songs, club traditions, and special presentation each week at the historic Los Angeles Breakfast Club.


Time & Location
Oct 05, 2022, 7:00 AM – 9:00 AM
Los Angeles Breakfast Club, 3201 Riverside Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
Guests
About the event
ABOUT THE PRESENTATION: According to a pervasive myth, the intake of alcohol triggers creativity and helps you think outside the box. Great names in art history such as Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Jackson Pollock, and Francis Bacon were famously heavy drinkers. But how did artists reflect on alcohol in their work? What was the context in which they represented alcoholic beverages and the people enjoying them (or not so much)? How did artists make intoxication part of their social and cultural critique? From Ancient Egypt and Greece through the likes of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Manet, Picasso, Rodchenko, and Koons, we’ll see how artists have used alcohol to bring their messages across.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Joes Segal is Chief Curator and Director of Programming at the Wende Museum of the Cold War in Culver City since 2014. Segal completed his PhD in 1997 at the University of Amsterdam. He has lectured internationally,…
Tickets
Breakfast Tickets
$25.00
+$0.63 ticket service fee
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