OLLI Art History
REVISIONIST ART HISTORY
You've probably taken at least a basic art history class at some point and we know you've visited your fair share of museums around the world, but why not take this down time to revisit the most famous works of art with new eyes? For the next four weeks we'll experience 4 artworks per week in an interactive and engaging way. With the freedom to influence what pieces/artists are discussed as well as ample time to ask questions during the course plus external references to explore on your own; this community moment is certainly the antidote to visual boredom that we're all craving! Botticelli, Vermeer & Picasso, we're all in this together!
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WEEK 1:
THURSDAY, APRIL 2ND
Girl with a Pearl Earring
Meisje met de parel
ARTIST: Johannes Vermeer
DATE: c. 1665
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
The Lady of Shalott
ARTIST: John William Waterhouse
DATE: 1888
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
week 2:
THURSDAY, APRIL 9th
Judith with the Head of Holofernes
ARTIST: Artemesia Gentileschi
DATE: 1614ish
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
Judith Beheading of Holofernes
ARTIST: Carravaggio
DATE: 1590ish
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
week 3:
THURSDAY, APRIL 16th
Still Life with Dance
ARTIST: Henri Matisse
DATE: 1909
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
The Embrace
ARTIST: Gustav Klimt
DATE: 1910ish
PREPARATORY DRAWINGS AT SCALE
Canons (Improvisation No. 30)
ARTIST: Wassily Kandinsky
DATE: 1913
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
I am the Village
ARTIST: Marc Chagall
DATE: 1911
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
Tahitian Women on the Beach
ARTIST: Paul Gauguin
DATE: 1891
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
week 4:
THURSDAY, APRIL 23rd
Alva’s Top 10!
“The Raft of Medusa”
Le Radeau de la Méduse
ARTIST: Théodore Géricault
DATE: 1818
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
Self Portrait
ARTIST: Albrecht Durer
DATE: 1500
MEDIUM: oil on panel
Nymphéas or “Water Lilies” series
ARTIST: Claude Monet
DATE: 1890-1926
MEDIUM: oil + pastels on canvas + paper
Chair No. 14
ARTIST: Michael Thonet
DATE: 1859
MEDIUM: 6 bent wooden pieces + 10 screws + 2 nuts
St. Blaise Murals in the Russell Chantry, Lincoln Cathedral
ARTIST: Duncan Grant
DATE: 1953
MEDIUM: tempera on plaster???
The Mouse on St. William’s College Door in York, England
ARTIST: Robert Thompson
DATE: 1920s
MEDIUM: English oak
“When the Heart Is Young”
ARTIST: John William Godward
DATE: 1902
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
Villa Savoye
ARTIST: Le Corbusier
DATE: 1929
Rug Textile
ARTIST: Otti Berger
DATE: c. 1929
MEDIUM: wool?
“Orange Outline”
ARTIST: Franz Kline
DATE: 1955
MEDIUM: oil on paper, mounted on canvas
What will next week’s WORKS be? You can help me decide!