Art appreciation lecture series 2014
Realism to surrealism: European art and culture 1848-1936
Over three 12-week terms, this course traverses a century of major art movements whose ‘isms’ have become part of the everyday lexicon – Impressionism, post-Impressionism, symbolism, cubism, modernism, futurism, German expressionism and surrealism – all distinct artistic styles developed by artists freed from the shackles of representation by the invention of photography and responding to the social, political and artistic challenges of their time.
It begins in 1848 – a year that saw many revolutions in Europe that ultimately resulted in the unification of Germany and Italy into single nations, as well as the formation of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in London.
Following on from 2012’s Absolutism to enlightenment: European art and culture 1665-1765 and 2013’s Revolution to romanticism: European art and culture c1750–1850, this year’s course concludes a three-year investigation of over 250 years of European art and culture.
In 2014, with so much fascinating ground to cover, each term has been increased to 12 lectures, with a host of well-known lecturers from previous years and introducing a new spectrum of experts appearing in the course for the first time.
Please note, Thursday subscriptions are now booked out. Single session bookings still available.
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Full year • Term 1 • Term 2 • Term 3 • Individual lectures: see below
Image: Paul Gauguin Te aa no areois (The Seed of the Areoi) 1892 (detail), oil on burlap, 92.1 × 72.1 cm, The William S Paley Collection SPC14.1990. Photo: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Scala, Florence
Various Wednesdays 6pm and Thursdays 1pm
29 January - 13 November 2014
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Full year: non-member $810, member $580
Per term: non-member $340, member $240
Per lecture: non-member $35, member $25
Term 1: 29 January – 1 May
Term 2: 7 May – 31 July
Term 3: 6 August – 6 November
Test/essay due: 12 & 13 November
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Duration 1 hour
Location: Domain Theatre
Related gallery: European galleries
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Truth and beauty: the Pre-Raphaelite movement
Alison Inglis
From the Wanderers to the neo-nationalists
Rosamund Bartlett
Sheer detail: photography 1840-c1890s
Craig Judd
Victorian classical painters and the cult of beauty
Alison Inglis
William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement
Mark de Vitis
Symbolism: myth and melancholy
Georgina Cole
Ballerinas and muscle men: the body in motion
Jessica Priebe
Tutorial dates
Wednesday 19 March 2014 5pm – 6pm
Thursday 20 March 2014 11am – 12pm
Wednesday 28 May 2014 5pm – 6pm
Thursday 29 May 2014 11am – 12pm
Wednesday 3 September 2014 5pm – 6pm
Thursday 4 September 2014 11am – 12pm
Rodin: the making of modern sculpture
Michael Hill
Manet: painter of modern life
Christopher Allen
The secret garden at Giverny: a key to Monet’s success
Sophie Matthiesson
Techniques of the Impressionists
Michelle Hiscock
Seurat and neo-Impressionism
Anthea Callen
Impressionist women
Lorraine Kypiotis
Japonisme
Jackie Menzies
Space, symbol and spirit in the work of the Nabis
Georgina Cole
Lautrec and the Belle Epoque
Jane Kinsman
Van Gogh’s self-portraits
Christopher Allen
Slide revision test dates
Wednesday 11 June 2014 5pm – 6pm
Thursday 19 June 2014 11am – 12pm
Gauguin in the south seas
Jaime Tsai
The bathing nude
Jessica Priebe
Elemental Cézanne
Michael Hill
The art of James McNeill Whistler
Victoria Carruthers
Klimt and fin-de-siécle Vienna
Lorraine Kypiotis
Antonio Gaudi and Adolf Loos
Peter Kohane
Cubism: Picasso and Braque
Michael Hill
Matisse and the fauves
Lorraine Kypiotis
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and the art of spectacle
Jacqueline Strecker
Space, time and movement in modernist sculpture
Michael Hill
The god of speed: futurism and the avant-garde
Andrew Yip
Divining Psyche: modernist portraiture
Craig Judd
Past and present: Le Corbusier schemes of cities and houses
Peter Kohane
The bitter creativity of art and culture in Weimar Germany
Jacqueline Strecker
Reflections on British modernism
Victoria Carruthers
Deranging the senses: surrealist exhibition and display
Jaime Tsai
Italian art between the wars
Christopher Allen
Classicism: the constant return
Craig Judd
Guernica: Picasso, surrealism and the Spanish civil war
Jaime Tsai
Slide test and essay due dates
Wednesday evening series – 12 November 2014, 6pm
Thursday lunchtime series – 13 November 2014, 11am
Essays due on same dates
Wednesday 12 November 2014 6pm – 7pm
Thursday 13 November 2014 11am – 12pm