Art Lecture Series

This lecture one is an overview of the art world and covers different mediums of art, oil
paintings, works on paper, and limited editions, as well as advice about collecting: the
advantages, risks, “how to”, judging, and sources, such as dealers, auctions, and ads.

This lecture is devoted to Vincent Van Gogh and the last 67 Days of his life in Auvers-sur-Oise,
France.

This lecture discussed Warhol and the American Pop Art Movement led by Andy Warhol.

This lecture is an inspirational walk through the South of France, an art historical travelogue
focusing on Picasso, Chagall, Miro and Matisse. This presentation focuses on the art and history
of the region as well as the sights, experiences and recommendations of a passionate cultural
traveler.

An art market case study, explore the lives and legacies of Keith Haring and Jean-
Michel Basquiat. This slide presentation examines the art as well the myths and realities
of the brief lives of two of the biggest names in the contemporary art market. The
discussion includes an overview of the spectacular rise of Street Art as an art historical
successor to the Pop Art movement.

The moment of Impressionism marked the rise of new life of leisure taking hold in and
around Paris. Modern rail networks radiating from Paris created new possibilities for
weekend and holiday travel which became an important theme for the Impressionist.
This art history travelogue features an overview of Mr. Taglialatella’s favorite artists and
the places they traveled and painted.

An overview of one of the most dramatic moments in art history, the brief and intense
few weeks that Vincent van Gogh and Paul Gauguin lived and worked together in the
South of France.

This lecture examines some of the most colorful and important collectors of the 20 th
century. The great women that forged our cultural heritage including the Stein’s, the
Cone sisters of Baltimore, Isabella Stewart Garner of Boston and Louise Havemeyer of
New York, and even Marjorie Merriweather Post.

This lecture is an introduction to the first great American art movement of the post-war
world, including the leading artists and critics that shifted the center of gravity of the
western art world from Paris to New York City.

Dominic Taglialatella will give a lively presentation on the age of Rembrandt and
Vermeer, a time when the young Dutch Republic took the world by storm in commerce,
culture and science!

In his inimitable style, Dominic Taglialatella will present a straight forward overview of
the life and significance of the most important artist of the first half of the 20 th century.
This chronological examination simply explains each stage of Picasso’s life and artistic
development.

Dom Taglialatella will be presenting a very personal history of his first-hand travels and
experiences representing the major figures of the most important European Art
Movement of the post war years, the CoBrA Movement.

From the Italian Renaissance through the birth of Modernism. Mr. Taglialatella examines the
lives and legacies of three of Europe’s most important artists with a particular emphasis on how
these artists shaped the public spaces in some of our favorite travel destinations.

Reflecting on his decades in the world of art, Mr. Taglialatella shares some common sense
observations and insights on collecting and investing in fine art.

Art in public spaces has been a feature of humanity from time immemorial. Mr. Taglialatella
examines some important highlights in the history of mural paining, with a special emphasis on
the 20 th Century and the contemporary Street Art movement.

Dom Taglialatella discusses Surrealism, one of the defining cultural movements of the
20th century and how it influenced art and literature, originating in Paris in the 1920’s.
Mr. Taglialatella will briefly introduce the lives and work of the principal artists of
Surrealism; from the early pioneers such as Andre Másson, Max Ernst, Joan Miró and
Man Ray, to later arrivals like Salvador Dalí and René Magritte that re-energized the
movement in the early 1930’s.

Dom Taglialatella recounts the life and legacy of Joseph Duveen, arguably the most
important art dealer of the early 20th century. Duveen famously observed that, “Europe
had plenty of art and America had plenty of money.” In the course of his dynamic career, he was the art dealer to Henry Clay Frick, William Randolph Hearst, Samuel H. Kress,
Andrew Mellon and John D. Rockefeller, just to name a few.