Joan Baker

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Baker recalls Ceri Richards discussing a Max Ernst surrealist painting.

Kim Howells visits artist and lecturer Joan Baker who remembers being taught by Welsh artist Ceri Richards at the Cardiff School of Art during the Second World War. She recalls Richards bringing in a surrealist masterpiece 'Bride of the Wind' by the German artist Max Ernst for the students to learn from and discuss. Includes views of the painting. Howells discusses Baker's career - first of all a lecturer at the Cardiff School of Art, then in later life a landscape painter producing artworks depicting the south Wales landscape.
From: Framing Wales Episode 3
First Broadcast : 10 March 2011

Teachers' notes

Age Group : 7-9,9-11,11-14

Subject : Art & Design

Topic : Art history, Landscapes, Painting and drawing

Keywords : Joan Baker, Max Ernst, Ceri Richards, Surrealism

Notes : Pupils could try and recreate some of Baker's landscapes, as shown in the clip copying her style. See Joan Baker for details on her life and career . Investigate the careers of her two main inflluences - Ceri Richards ( see Ceri Richards ) and German surrealist painter Max Ernst some of whose paintings can be viewed on Your Paintings- Max Ernst.

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