Art History: From Impressionism to Pop Art Event Information page

 

This six-week course is open to all, whether you already have some knowledge about Art History or the subject is completely new to you.

 

Find out how The Impressionists got their name and became one of the most successful art movements in the world. 

 

Discover how friends Van Gogh and Gaugin created new styles that were inspired by Japanese art and find out how Picasso and Braque invented Cubism! 

 

Learn how the anti-war Dada group created chaos in their club, the Cabaret Voltaire in Switzerland during World War One, and find out why Salvador Dali was thrown out of the Surrealist group by Andre Breton. 

 

Discover how modernist design was born in Germany at The Bauhaus between the wars, and how modernist designers and artists came to the UK bringing new styles of art and architecture including abstract art and Brutalism with them. 

 

Learn how modern art made America the centre of the art world after World War Two, with the work of Jackson Pollock and the Abstract Expressionists. Find out how Pop Art developed in the US with Andy Warhol's silk screen prints, and in the UK when Peter Blake teamed up with The Beatles to create the famous Sgt Pepper album cover. 

 

You don't need any specialist knowledge to enjoy this course and the sessions are informal and relaxed.

 

Week 1 - Impressionism

Week 2 - Post Impressionism (Gogh, Gaugin)

Week 3 - Cubism, Dada and Surrealism

Week 4 - Modernism (Constructivism, Bauhaus, De Stijl)

Week 5 - Abstract Expressionism

Week 6 - Pop Art

 

6 Weeks

Thursday evenings 7.00 pm to 9.00pm

Running from 6th March to 10th April 2025.

£75.00 for the course

Please note there is a booking fee per transaction. £1.00 online or by telephone, 50p at the Box Office.

 

 

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 now work as a Curriculum Coordinator for an adult education organisation in Devon, overseeing Creative Arts and Digital Skills provision for adults across the county. I also run courses for Adults in Art History and Film Studies locally.

 

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!