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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. No tests or papers to write. Short readings will be provided as well as weekly slide lists and a disc of work viewed in class. Course two in series.

Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Five classes:
Section A: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, February 2, 9, 16, 23, March 2
Section B: Thursdays, 10 a.m. – noon, March 11, 18, 25, April 1, 8
Registration Deadline: Section A: January 26; Section B: March 4
Cost: $100

Focus on High Renaissance (Prerequisite—Into the Light: Art in the Age of the Italian Renaissance) - 0190

The brief period from 1495 – 1520 saw the creation of some of the most revered works of European art. This course will offer a focus on this “High” Renaissance and its artists: Leonardo, Bramante, Michelangelo, Raphael, Giorgione and Titian. No tests or papers to write. Short readings will be supplied by the instructor as well as a disc
of slides seen in class.

Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Three classes: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, January 12, 19, 26
Registration Deadline: January 5
Cost: $60

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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. Course one in series.

Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Five classes: Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, January 13, 20, 27, February 3, 10
Registration Deadline: January 6
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. Finally, 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: Fridays, 10 a.m. - noon, January 22, 29, February 5, 12, 19, 26
Registration Deadline: January 15
Cost: $120

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Pointed Pen Script Calligraphy - 0189

Learn the essential skills and techniques necessary to write this beautiful 18th century script, using traditional tools and materials.

Instructor: Don King
Audience: Anyone over the age of 14 with a desire to learn the art and craft of beautiful writing.
Six classes: Tuesdays, 7 – 9 p.m., March 23, 30, April 6, 13, 20, 27
Registration Deadline: March 16
Cost: $120 (materials will be provided by instructor)

Rococo to Revolution and Beyond: The Rococo, Neoclassicism and Romanticism - 0183

During the 18th century, artists weave their way from the lighthearted, enchanted artifice of Rococo Art to a new revival of classical antiquity, Neoclassicism. The constraint and formality of the Neoclassical style reveals the artist’s response to the reasoned thinking of Enlightenment philosophers. Paradoxically, by century’s end this revolution of the mind becomes the catalyst that liberates the Romantic artist and allows an unfettered exploration of emotion and imagination. No tests or papers to write. Students will be provided with selected readings, slide lists and a disc of slides reviewed in class. Course three in series.

Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Six classes: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, April 27, May 4, 11, 18, 25, June 1
Registration Deadline: April 20
Cost: $120

Shattering Tradition: Modern Art Before 1914 - 0191

The competing impulses of tradition and innovation resulted in radical formal and stylistic developments between 1904 and 1914 that culminated in abstraction. This course will look at Fauvism and Cubism and their effects on Expressionism and Futurism. Students will also look at American Art through the lens of the Ashcan School and the 1913 Amory Show. No test or papers to write. Short readings will be supplied by the instructor as well as a disc of slides seen in class. Course six in series.

Instructor: Donna Darnell
Audience: Lifelong learners, humanities and studio art teachers, museum docents and volunteers
Six classes: Section A: Wednesdays, 10 a.m.– noon, February 17, 24, March 3, 10, 17, 24;
Section B: Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – noon, March 9, 16, 23, 30, April 6, 13
Registration Deadline: Section A: February 10;
Section B: March 2
Cost: $120

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