“The idea of rivalry is not the macho cliché of sworn enemies, bitter competitors and stubborn grudge-holders slugging it out for artistic and worldly supremacy. Instead, it is about yielding, intimacy and openness to influence. It is about susceptibility.” (Author Sebastian Smee, The Art of Rivalry)

In this online series of lectures, Dr Marie-Anne Mancio shares the stories, artworks and legacies of various pairs of artists who have competed and cross-influenced each other while working in similar mediums, or with similar ideas.

In the second of this 'Double Acts' series we explore the work of two photographers: Vicki DaSilva, an American light painter and graffiti artist who makes single frame time exposure photographs at night (which she calls ‘light graffiti’); and Man Ray whose solarization technique with its halo-like outlines was discovered accidentally when he was working with Lee Miller.

Grab a glass of wine if you are on Europe time, or a coffee if in the USA and join the London Art Salon for our series of Zoom lectures with Dr Marie-Anne Mancio.

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