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City Lit

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Description

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    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

This gallery-based course looks chronologically at key works of Western art on show in London’s collections from the Renaissance to the early 20th century. It examines paintings from the different ‘genres’ of painting: narrative, portrait, scenes from daily life, landscapes, animal, religious and still life, discussing each painting in the context of its era and its artist’s career.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

- List the six ‘genres’ of paintings and discuss their key characteristics
- Identify different periods, styles and genres of painting from selected examples
- Participate in discussions about art from a variety of periods, with greater confidence, and express an informed personal response.

You may wish to buy books to support your learning, but this is not a requirement.

You will be taught with guided visits, discussion and handouts.

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Subjects

  • Painting
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Course programme

- Painting before ‘genre’ –religious and allegorical works from the early and late Renaissance
- History (Narrative) Painting – How do artists tell a story?
- Portraits – what do portraits tell us about the person(s) they represent
- Scenes of everyday life –the humour and hidden moral messages of Dutch artists
- Landscapes and Seascapes – What can these paintings tell us about their owners and patrons?
- Animal painting
- Still Life – how ordinary objects can have hidden meanings.
- Modernist Painting – Did the legacy of ‘genre’ continue into the twentieth century?

Additional information

You may like to take some of other courses in art history on offer such as VB 105 Styles in Art. General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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