Art
Baroque Art: A Sensory Indulgence - 0182
During the 17th century, European artists came to Rome to study Renaissance masterpieces and works of classical antiquity. They returned home and melded new ideas into their own particular culture. This resulted in a fascinating variety of works that reflected the passions, intellect and spirituality of the era. Spectacular achievements in technical virtuosity ranged from the intense theatricality of a painting by Caravaggio to the balanced serenity of an intimate interior by Vermeer. Short readings will be provided as well as weekly slide lists and works consulted.
Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Five classes:
Section A: Thursday evenings, 7 – 9 p.m., September 24, October 1, 15, 22, 29
Section B: Thursday mornings, 10 a.m. – noon, October 22, 29, November 5, 12, 19
Registration Deadline: Section A: September 17; Section B: October 15
Cost: $100
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Calligraphy for Everyone - 0151
An introduction to the techniques, tools, history and culture of the calligraphic arts. We will concentrate on three of the essential styles used by contemporary calligraphers: foundational, italic and copperplate. Homework will be regularly encouraged.
Instructor: Don King
Audience: Anyone age 15 and up with or without previous calligraphic knowledge who may not be able to draw a straight line and whose handwriting is terrible.
Ten classes: Tuesdays, 7 – 9:30 p.m., September 29, October 6, 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, 17, 24, December 1 Registration Deadline: September 22
Cost: $250 (materials will be provided by instructor – approx. cost $75)
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Into the Light: Art in the Age of the Italian
Renaissance - 0181
This course will attempt to create a context for artists and their works in Florence, Rome, Venice and outlying Ducal courts during a revolutionary period that heralded not only the rebirth of classical art but the birth of modern civilization. Short readings from Castiglione’s “The Book of the Courtier,” “Leonardo on Painting” and Vasari’s “Lives of the Artists” will be provided, as well as weekly slide lists and works consulted.
Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Five classes: Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, September 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14
Registration Deadline: September 9
Cost: $100
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Laying the Foundation for Visual Art - 0178
Using a variety of media, students will explore the fundamentals of good design. The class will begin with large-scale charcoal studies that focus on composition, line, shape and form and from these studies develop a finished work. Changing media, students will use gouache to paint a gray scale to be used as a reference for values in a small painted composition. A printmaking unit will continue the consideration of composition as well as shape, texture, pattern, positive and negative space. Moving into color, the class will look at familiar works of art to understand how artists have used color. Students will create primary, secondary, monochromatic and complimentary color pieces.
Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and art teachers, Meredith students and alums
Six classes: Wednesday evenings, 7 – 9 p.m., September 9, 16, 23, 30, October 7, 14
Registration Deadline: September 2
Cost: $120
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On the Heels of Impressionism: Art from
1880–1905 - 0188
Even as the Impressionists achieve notoriety, the next avant-garde movements are underway. Post Impressionist artists Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin continue the anti-bourgeois, anti-academic attitude of the Impressionists, but each moves art in a new direction. This course will explore the unique styles of these artists before turning to look at Symbolism, Art Nouveau and the sculpture of Auguste Rodin. Finally, students will consider America’s growing thirst for art from across the Atlantic as well as that of native sons John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins.
Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Six classes:
Section A: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, September 29, October 13, 20, 27, November 10, 17
Section B: Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, October 21, 28, November 4, 11, 18, December 2
Registration Deadline: Section A: September 22; Section B: October 14
Cost: $120
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