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Famous works of art taken apart.
We are delighted to announce details of our 2010 - 2011course covering:
1. Introduction
Certain works of art have become so familiar to us, so ‘iconic’, that they tend to be taken for granted.
The aim of this course is to breathe life back into them by looking at their context and tracing their impact on art in the times that follow. We will see how Mona Lisa acquired a beard, how a Renaissance nude becomes a 19th century courtesan, how the brooding spirit of Romantic Landscape painting resounds in Rothko abstractions, how Vermeer’s interiors look back to Piero della Francesca and forward to Seurat and Mondrian.
Classes are from 10.30 to 12.30
Cost Per Term £195
Cost for 2 Terms £350
Cost per lecture £39
1 |
14 January |
2010 |
Leonardo’s “Mona Lisa” |
2 |
21 January |
2010 |
Titian’s “Venus of Urbino” |
3 |
28 January |
2010 |
Raphael’s “School of Athens” |
4 |
4 February |
2010 |
Four sculpted Davids: Donatello, Verrocchio, Michelangelo, Bernini |
5 |
11 February |
2010 |
Vermeer’s “Music Lesson” |
6 |
4 March |
2010 |
Turner’s “Rain, Steam and Speed” |
7 |
11 March |
2010 |
Picasso’s “Les Demoiselles d’Avignon” |
2. Dreams and Nightmares in Art
Art’s capacity to capture the real world is matched by its ability to conjure up imaginary ones, sometimes pleasurable and perfect, sometimes terrifying. This course looks at some of these dream and nightmare makers.
Classes are from 10.30 to 12.30
Cost Per Term £195
Cost for 2 Terms £350
Cost per lecture £39
1 |
22 April |
2010 |
Hieronymous Bosch |
2 |
29 April |
2010 |
Francisco de Goya |
3 |
6 May |
2010 |
William Blake |
4 |
13 May |
2010 |
Edward Burne-Jones |
5 |
20 May |
2010 |
Gustave Moreau + Odilon Redon |
6 |
10 June |
2010 |
Salvador Dali |
7 |
17 June |
2010 |
Louise Bourgeois |
3. Art and Mythology
Classical mythology has provided rich subject matter for art from ancient times to the modern period. By virtue of their universal significance and appeal, myths have been told and re-told in art across time. The general structure of this course is chronological yet for this reason each lecture moves beyond the specific time frame of its title.
Classes are from 10.30 to 12.30
Cost Per Term £195
Cost for 2 Terms £350
Cost per lecture £39
1 |
30 September |
2010 |
The Classical period I |
2 |
7 October |
2010 |
The Classical period II |
3 |
14 October |
2010 |
The Renaissance period I |
4 |
11 November |
2010 |
The Renaissance period II |
5 |
18 November |
2010 |
The 17th century |
6 |
25 November |
2010 |
The 18th century & 19th century |
7 |
2 December |
2010 |
Dali and Picasso: Narcissus and the
Minotaur |
(2011 Dates to be decided)
A further exploration of well known works of art, this time focusing on the modern period. The course begins with a hyperactive and aggressive embodiment of the future in Boccioni’s iconic sculpture and concludes with Hirst’s confrontational image of the century’s end. In between these two cultural markers, themes of pleasure and horror paint a picture of a complex era.
| 1 | Umberto Boccioni’s “Unique forms of Continuity in Space” |
2 |
Henri Matisse’s “The red studio” |
3 |
Henry Moore’s “Reclining figure” |
4 |
Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica” |
5 |
Francis Bacon’s “Screaming Pope” |
6 |
David Hockney’s “Bigger Splash” |
7 |
Damien Hirst’s “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone
Living” (The Shark) |