Course continues on: Tuesday, January 26, February 2 and 9, 2010.
Astonishing Art Through The Centuries
Presenter: Dr. Fernando Casas
In these series of lectures we will examine a large group of astonishingly original works of visual art: painting, sculpture and architecture. Along the course of history––from Paleolithic times to our post modern world––visual artists have produced, every so often, works of art that are unprecedented, extraordinarily new and highly original. How did these works come about and what were the artists thinking when they created them?
We shall marvel, wonder and delight at these works, but we shall also develop––as we examine their origin, nature and novelty––an overall explanatory theory for the emergence and disappearance of these highly original expressions.
A small sampling of the works which we shall study:
- The Paleolithic Woman from Willendorf
- Paleolithic Lascaux and Chauvet paintings
- Akhenaton from Ancient Egypt
- Kritios Boy from Classical Greece
- The Pantheon of Ancient Rome
- Ibn Tulum Mosque of Egypt
- The Alhambra in Spain
- Giotto’s Lamentation
- Bosh’s Garden of Earthly Delights
- Botticelli’s Birth of Venus
- Leonardo’s Mona Lisa
- Michelangelo’s Last Judgment
- Grunewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece
- Caravaggio’s Conversion of St. Paul
- Velazquez’ Las Meninas
- Goya’s Black Paintings
- Monet’s Impression Sunrise
- Van Gogh’s Starry Night
- Picasso’s Demoiselles d’Avignon
- Duchamp’s Fountain; Pollock’s #1
- Turrel’s The Light Inside (at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
DATES: The entire course consists of twelve lectures.
They are being offered in four groups of three lectures per season.
Fall 2009: (3 Wednesday lectures)
October 21, 28 and November 4
Spring 2010: (3 Tuesday lectures)
January 26, February 2 and 9
Fall 2010: (3 lectures, dates TBA)
Spring 2011: (3 lectures, dates TBA)
TIME: 1:00 - 3:00 pm
LOCATION: Small Business Development Center
902 Blinn College Road, Brenham
Map showing the classroom location
COST: $60 per group of three lectures
Send your check to: (Sorry, no credit card charges for this event.)
Lifetime Learning
P.O. Box 513
Brenham TX 77834
PRESENTER: Dr. Fernando Casas's CV is at his web site.
The classroom holds only 15 people.
A waiting list will open after the first 15 have paid.
If you’ve paid for a class and can’t make it, send a friend in your place.
Coffee & Brownies will be served!