The Changing Faces of Fame
From Watts to Warhol
From Garbo to Gaga
A Pictorial Talk by Rob Dickins C.B.E.
Thursday 24 May 2012
7pm - 8.30pm
£8 (£7 for Friends) to include a glass of wine
Watts Gallery is home to The Rob Dickins Collection of Victorian photographs. An important collection, numbering more than 4,000 images it includes photographs of all the artists and celebrities of the day.
Rob Dickins will illustrate how our perception of the famous and celebrated has been influenced by portraiture over the decades since G.F. Watts created his Hall of Fame in the 19th Century.
Rob Dickins has spent 40 Years in the Music Industry and worked alongside Madonna, Cher, Seal, Enya, Malcolm McLaren amongst many others and will share his observations on how fame is portrayed by painters, photographers and graphic artists and how changes in style bring forth a different interpretation of iconic figures…how those changes are collaborations of the artist and the icon and how influences filter through the eras
From publicly displayed portraits to newspaper and magazines; from cinema to television and on to the myriad of new media outlets…the faces of the famous are always looking at us and we at them
The famous have never been so omnipresent as they are today but with all of this sensory overload, how can they be remembered in the years to come?
The talent of the portrait artist, as ever, will have a lot to do with it.
