SMF Artist Talk with Pat Musick: Charles Bunnellat Colorado College

MUSIC AND ART TALK 1:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 17 Agents of Care Space, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College Exploring the life and works of abstract painter, printmaker and muralist Charles Bunnell, presented by Pat Musick, FAC visiting artist. Bunnell's 1959 Untitled will be available for Talk patrons to view in the Gathering Place: Permanent Collection Reinstallation, in the FAC's First Floor Galleries on the day of the event. To see the piece on the way to the Talk, guests should walk with the group coming from Packard Hall following Music at Midday. Patrons who miss seeing the work beforehand will also have an opportunity to view it afterward. Bunnell attended the Broadmoor Art Academy — precursor to the Fine Arts Center — where he studied under American impressionist Ernest Lawson in 1927 and 1928 and then became an instructor at the prestigious Academy in 1929. He is among the few artists who learned traditional painting at the Academy and later adopted a more purified form of abstraction in his paintings. In his paintings, pure color and shape are the elements through which our ultimate response is sensory, emotional, and intuitive.