Art History In Action: A Creative Approach to Art History

When - Monthly Nov 2020 - June 2021

Age - 5-17

Where - Bothwell Arts Center, LIVERMOREARTS.ORG

 
A HYBRID Art Class Series with THOMASIN DEWHURST

This course, for students ages 5 to 18, introduces some of the major periods in ART HISTORY, and a variety of ideas and practices in Western and Non-Western arts and architecture. Students develop an understanding of art history through analyzing works of art and placing them in historical context. Students also explore how different cultures, theories, materials, processes, techniques and audience make an impact on the growth of art-historical movements.

OVERVIEW

Taught by professional artist and art educator, Thomasin Dewhurst (M.A.F.A.), the nine-month course will cover a new topic every three or four weeks. With each new topic, there will be one art history lesson, followed by two to three lab-style classes where students create their own art based on the particular art history topic.

The course will be an online course, with possible in-person art-making camps and field trips (dependent on health and safety protocols). Classes will be divided by age as necessary. Online classes will be held via Zoom.

Scholarships available (sponsored by the Wente Foundation for Arts Education)

We are offering a discount if you sign up for 6 or more months. Select which months, or the whole series, and at checkout enter in the discount code that pertains to your order. Discount code must be entered at the time the order is placed, no discounts will be given after checkout is complete.

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COURSE SUMMARY

November 2020: Diego Rivera and William Kentridge

Topic: The history and art of mural painting.

Art-Making Project: Make a mini wall and public park out of cardboard. Design a mural for the wall. Use a fresco technique to create the mural. Participate in an actual mural project in Livermore (future activity)

 

December 2020: Ancient Greek architecture and David Hockney’s Rake’s Progress

Topic: The Parthenon and the set-design of David Hockney. A comparison and art-making partnership.

Art-Making Project: Make and draw a cardboard diorama of the Parthenon in the style of David Hockney’s theater set designs.

 

January 2021: Frank Lloyd Wright, Antoni Gaudi and the Civic Center Meeting Hall in Livermore

Topic: Modern architecture – nature and building.

Art-Making Project: Design a paper mache landscape. Design and create a building that relates materially and aesthetically to your created landscape. (Possible two-day LVPAC art camp at the Bothwell Center.)

 

February 202: Impressionism and Post Impressionism,Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin

Topic: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and the craft of paint-making and painting.

Art-Making Project: Paint an oil painting timescape from Impressionism to Post-Impressionism along the river Seine in Paris. Make and paint with your own paint.

 

March 2021: Traditional Japanese Art: Ink wash Painting and Woodcut Printing

Topic: The history of Japanese Art – Its similarities to, differences from, and influences on Western Art.

Art-Making Project: Print-making, ink wash and watercolor on watercolor paper in the form of a three-paneled triptych. Stretch watercolor paper. Make a print using various objects – buttons, leaves, cardboard cutouts.

 

April 2021: African Art and Archaeology (various countries)

Topic: Ancient to modern African art, the archaeological process, and the craft of ceramics.

Art-Making project: Using kiln-firing clay, make an African style pot, using clay-working techniques. Glaze and fire the pot. Fill the pot with items from an imaginary archaeological dig.

 

May 2021: Renaissance: Italian and Northern – Painting and Sculpture

Topic: The art of the Renaissance and the influence of the rising merchant class.

Art-Making project: Paint a realistic still-life in the style of the Northern Renaissance painters. Include a window behind the still-life depicting linear and atmospheric perspective in the style of the Italian Renaissance painters.

 

June 2021: Installation Art

Topic: Installation Art and the perception of self and space.

Art-making project: Create a cardboard box museum room with installation and museum visitors. Use collage and found objects. Imagine yourself as both the viewer and the artist.

 

July 2021: Op Art and the Bauhaus

Topic: Visual Design, and the art of optical illusions in Art History.

Art-Making project: Create and decorate a miniature chair in the style of the Bauhaus artists. Create a room for the chair, and decorate it with an optical illusion that stems from the chair design.

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