1.30 - 3.30pm
The course takes place over 9 sessions on the following dates: 19, 26 September & 3, 10, 17, 24, 31 October & 14, 21 November
The popular series of talks returns with a new programme. Combining art history, biography and critical analysis you will learn about the lives and works of some important artists and topics.
What did these artists do? Why did they do it? Why does it matter?
Each session will incorporate discussion, PowerPoint presentations, handouts and recommendations for further study.
This short course is suitable for beginners and/or intermediate students, learning will take place in a relaxed and friendly environment, without formal assessment.
Course tutor, Richard Dean MA, is a practicing artist and experienced lecturer who has lectured at universities and art colleges in London and the southeast and at Tate Britain.
19 September
Art and Oscar Wilde
“All Art is perfectly useless” he said. Was he right? A talk about the Aesthetic Movement and Wilde’s place as the self-proclaimed “Professor of Aesthetics”.
26 September
Hammershoi Time
Vilhelm Hammershoi is a Danish painter of interior scenes and figures whose true subject is stillness and silence. We’ll look at him and learn how he became his country’s most celebrated artist.
3 October
Picasso blue and Rose Periods
The years between 1901-06 where when Picasso grew from a provincial hero into someone who changed the history of art. We’ll see how it happened.
10 October
Art History -The big ideas
What makes a work of art good? What purpose does art serve? Does art have an end? We’ll see what answers have been given to these questions, and to a couple of others.
17 October
The museum of Lost Art
Imagine a museum containing only art which has been destroyed, vanished or stolen. Let’s consider some possible exhibits, from ancient times to the present.
24 October
Artists of the Great War
In advance of Remembrance Day, a look at some of ways artists documented the Great War. Warning: includes images of war and destruction.
31 October
Pavel Filonov and the Lost Generation of Russian Art
The story of a generation of Russian avant-garde artists, focussing especially on Filonov, my favourite painter and the author of some of the most extraordinary paintings of the 20th century.
14 November
American Realism
From Colonial times to the present day, American artists, including Catlin, Hopper and Wyeth, have felt a strong drive to document their country, its people and its history. Let’s see what they have to show us.
21 November
Warhol and Basquiat
Based on Warhol’s Diaries, this is the story of the New York art world in the 1980s and a friendship and collaboration between two very different artists