A History of Art from c1850 – c1960.
Tuesday 15th September - 7pm – 9pm
£80.50 (including 50p booking fee).
A 6 week overview of the major art movements and key artists (and some lesser known names!) in Europe and America from around 1850 to around 1960.
Find out how the Impressionists got their name and how Van Goch and Gaugin reinvented art. Get an insight into the fractured surfaces of the Cubists and how the Dada group enraged audiences at their club, the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich. Find out how dreams and the subconscious influenced the Surrealists and how modern warfare impacted on art and artists. Dip into the ‘pure painting’ of the new American rebels, the Abstract Expressionists and find out how Pollock created his huge canvases. Witness how British artists captured the vibrancy of popular post-war culture and how Warhol recreated the ‘American Dream’ with his silk screen prints and avant garde films.
Everyone is welcome! It doesn’t matter if you don’t know much about art history or if you have some knowledge already, this course is a chance to get a good overview of the period in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. Discussion and interpretation of the art and artists featured is very much encouraged, but equally, if you are content to take it all in and learn more about what inspired the great artists of the modern era, then this course offers an informal and open approach to around 100 years of art history that changed the way we view art for ever!
Price £80.50 for the 5 week course (including 50p booking fee).
Tutor: Steve Roberts – Biography
I graduated with a BA Hons in History of Art, Architecture and Design (2:1) in 1997, I have a PGCE (FE) with Keele University (1999), and gained a Masters Degree in Media and Cultural Studies with The Open University in 2009.
I taught History of Art and Contextual Studies between 2001 and 2004 at Leeds College of Art and Design and York College (including teaching undergraduate modules and dissertation supervision) and delivered an undergraduate Film Studies module at the University Gloucester University. I also taught Film, Media and Contextual Studies at Joseph Chamberlain and Birmingham Metropolitan Colleges in Birmingham between 2004 and 2013.
I have a broad knowledge and understanding of art historical periods , movements, artists and theory and also in film and media history and theory. I like to mix these together and throw in some popular culture/music history/literature for good measure!
