The PSAD Friends regularly host prominent art critics, presenting us with inspiring Art lectures, which are always free to Friends of PSAD members.
The latest AGM meeting on the 9 November 2025 was followed by a wonderful lecture by Mark Hudson Romanticism: Connecting Delacroix and Constable, via a Traffic Roundabout near Golders Green! (With references to Bernard Leach!).
Yes you read it correctly!
Mark has taken us on the poetic journey by looking at the leading artists who expressed romanticism through their works and different styles, depicted nature and people, captured historical moments and different eras. Whilst focusing on two artists – Eugène Delacroix and John Constable – he also showed the relevant works by J. W. Turner, Théodore Géricault, Francisco Goya, Michelangelo, Titian, William Blake, Sophie Rude and Rosa Bonheur. We visited empiricism, great time of discoveries and progress (Newton) and towards modernism, through the images of classical art and abstraction. How very true the Constable’s words ring ‘The essence of art is feeling.’
Mark Hudson is a writer, journalist and chief art critic at the Independent . He is a notable commentator on British contemporary art and author of the book Titian, The Last Days (2009).
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Keep an eye here for the news on our next lecture in the new year.
Review and photos by Sniez Torbarina, FPSAD website and newsletters editor.
