Outreach for Adult Groups

If you can't come to the Museum, invite the Museum to come to you!

The Boca Raton Museum of Art is pleased to offer a new program designed to bring art into our community. Vision and Voices with the Boca Raton Museum of Art will entertain and education your guests with three choices of compelling, slide-illustrated lecture presentations on Picasso, Chagall, or Impressionism. Descriptions of each are below. For a donation of $125, a speaker will offer your community-based organization a chance to see beyond the walls of the Museum. Call 561.392.2500, ext 136 or email bmartz@bocamuseum.org to reserve a date today.

Picasso and His Women
This presentation gives the viewer an insightful survey of Picasso's life (both his Spanish roots and his adopted country of France), his personality, his works of art, and, of course, his women. This School of Paris painter, sculptor, draughtsman, printmaker and ceramist will leave you in awe of his genius, sometimes outrage you, but always teach you something new and different. We see him preoccupied with images and events that possess peculiar significance for him: the wonder of the human head; the tenderness of maternity; the sacrificial drama of the bullfight; the heroism of classical myths; the artist's relation to the model; and a fascination with both living beings and inanimate objects. With these images we investigate what Picasso himself said, "We now know that art is not truth. Art is a lie that makes us realize, truth, at least the truth which is given us to understand."

Chagall: His Life, His Memories and His Religion
We begin our Chagall presentation by traveling back to Czarist Russia in the 1880s. Our journey commences in a small town called Vitebsk, in Belorussia, where we begin to learn about the Hassidic life of Moyshe Segal. You will see the people and visit the places that dominated Chagall's life and learn about his intimate world. The images presented are focused around his memories of Jewish life, Russian folklore and the Bible. Share with us this twentieth century master's sense of fairy-tale fantasy, his amazing colors and his highly creative style as his works evolved from his homeland to Paris, Germany, America, and finally back to France.

Impressionism: Color, Light and Shadow
Impressionism, a moment of sunshine, an instant of light. This term came from a canvas painted of the harbor at Le Havre by Claude Monet in 1872, Impression Sunrise. In the images presented you have the amazing opportunity to view the artists who dared to go against the French Academy's ideas of romantic painting, intellectualism, prestige and classicism. Artists discussed include Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissaro, Alfred Sisley, Eugene Boudin and Berthe Morisot. Through these glimpses of their world, we can celebrate these artists as visionary women and men, talented artists and great contributors to the world of art.

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