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Music Appreciation: Art and Music Studies: Anniversaries Exhibitions and Events Autumn 2024
The course aims to encourage learners to attend art exhibitions and/or musical events with a greater background knowledge in order to enhance appreciation. If actual attendance is not possible, to undertake independent research and hence, enjoy a more active and cultural lifestyle. The class also offers an opportunity for learners to interact socially with like- minded people in intellectual pursuits. It also encourages learners to acquire critical and analytical skills through debate and discussion. The course covers all styles and periods from the Renaissance to the present day. It is multi media to accommodate diverse learning styles and preferences. It is suitable for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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Dates:Mon 16/09/2024 -
Mon 25/11/2024Times:1:30pm - 3:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Ripley Arts Centre (Bromley)
24 Sundridge Avenue
Bromley
BR1 2PXTutor:Andrew RothwellCourse code:Q00017440How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £100.00
Art and Music Studies: Anniversaries Exhibitions and Events Autumn 2024
The course aims to encourage learners to attend art exhibitions and/or musical events with a greater background knowledge in order to enhance appreciation. If actual attendance is not possible, to undertake independent research and hence, enjoy a more active and cultural lifestyle. The class also offers an opportunity for learners to interact socially with like- minded people in intellectual pursuits. It also encourages learners to acquire critical and analytical skills through debate and discussion. The course covers all styles and periods from the Renaissance to the present day. It is multi media to accommodate diverse learning styles and preferences. It is suitable for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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Dates:Tue 17/09/2024 -
Tue 26/11/2024Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Fairkytes Art Centre (Hornchurch)
51 Billet Lane
Hornchurch
RM11 1AXTutor:Andrew RothwellCourse code:Q00017514How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £100.00
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The course aims to encourage you to attend art exhibitions and/or musical events with a greater background knowledge in order to enhance appreciation. If actual attendance is not possible, to undertake independent research and hence, enjoy a more active and cultural lifestyle. The class also offers an opportunity for you to interact socially with like-minded people in intellectual pursuits. It also encourages you to acquire critical and analytical skills through debate and discussion. The course covers all styles and periods from the Renaissance to the present day. It is multi media to accommodate diverse learning styles and preferences. It is suitable for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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Dates:Thu 19/09/2024 -
Thu 28/11/2024Times:1:30pm - 3:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Wanstead House (London)
21 The Green
Wanstead
London
E11 2NTTutor:Andrew RothwellCourse code:Q00017607How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £100.00
Art Appreciation: Artist Movements from the early 20th Century
From the Blue Rider to the Bridge to Dada, the emergence of modernism in the early 20th century saw a flourishing of artist groups who challenged what art is and how it should be made and seen. In this course, we’ll look at some of the key collectives, leading artists who were part of them and their artistic innovations, including among others Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Ernst Kirchner, Kurt Schwitters and Marcel Duchamps.
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Dates:Thu 17/10/2024 -
Thu 14/11/2024Times:2:45pm - 4:45pmDuration:5 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Ruth MulandiCourse code:Q00017291How you'll learn:OnlineStatus:Waiting listFee rangeFree to £37.00
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Duration:12 monthsFee:£15
Women Artists
American art historian Linda Nochlin in 1971 posed the question as to “Why have there been no great women artists?”. Women artists have been overlooked, undermined, and forgotten over the centuries. This course will write them back into art history by focusing on the most committed and accomplished women artists from the 17th Century to the 21st Century covering women painters, sculptors, installation artists, and performance artists.
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Dates:Sat 19/10/2024 -
Sat 30/11/2024Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:The Drive Methodist Church (Redbridge)
Eastern Avenue
Redbridge
IG4 5ABTutor:Jolanta JagielloCourse code:Q00017555How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £60.00
Art Appreciation: Stravinsky and Russian art
The course aims to encourage learners to attend art exhibitions and/or musical events with a greater background knowledge in order to enhance appreciation. If actual attendance is not possible, to undertake independent research and hence, enjoy a more active and cultural lifestyle. The class also offers an opportunity for learners to interact socially with like- minded people in intellectual pursuits. It also encourages learners to acquire critical and analytical skills through debate and discussion. The course covers all styles and periods from the Renaissance to the present day. It is multi media to accommodate diverse learning styles and preferences. It is suitable for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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Dates:Sat 16/11/2024 -
Sat 16/11/2024Times:10:00am - 4:00pmDuration:1 sessionsLocation:Trinity Church (London)
100 Mill Hill
The Broadway
London
NW7 3TBTutor:Andrew RothwellCourse code:Q00017561How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £30.00
Art and Music Studies: Anniversaries Exhibitions and Events Spring 2025
The course aims to encourage learners to attend art exhibitions and/or musical events with a greater background knowledge in order to enhance appreciation. If actual attendance is not possible, to undertake independent research and hence, enjoy a more active and cultural lifestyle. The class also offers an opportunity for learners to interact socially with like- minded people in intellectual pursuits. It also encourages learners to acquire critical and analytical skills through debate and discussion. The course covers all styles and periods from the Renaissance to the present day. It is multi media to accommodate diverse learning styles and preferences. It is suitable for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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Dates:Tue 07/01/2025 -
Tue 18/03/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Fairkytes Art Centre (Hornchurch)
51 Billet Lane
Hornchurch
RM11 1AXTutor:Andrew RothwellCourse code:Q00017546How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £100.00
Music:
The course aims to encourage learners to attend art exhibitions and/or musical events with a greater background knowledge in order to enhance appreciation. If actual attendance is not possible, to undertake independent research and hence, enjoy a more active and cultural lifestyle. The class also offers an opportunity for learners to interact socially with like- minded people in intellectual pursuits. It also encourages learners to acquire critical and analytical skills through debate and discussion. The course covers all styles and periods from the Renaissance to the present day. It is multi media to accommodate diverse learning styles and preferences. It is suitable for beginners and connoisseurs alike.
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Dates:Wed 08/01/2025 -
Wed 19/03/2025Times:1:30pm - 3:30pmDuration:10 sessionsLocation:Wanstead House (London)
21 The Green
Wanstead
London
E11 2NTTutor:Andrew RothwellCourse code:Q00017609How you'll learn:In venueAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £100.00
Art Appreciation: Women in Renaissance
This course will cover a discussion of the importance of the social and sexual mores of the times in history. There will be four weeks to look at the life and work of these remarkable women, Sofonisba Anguissola, Artemisia Gentileschi and Lavinia Fontana. We will cover the problems that faced them because of their place that their sex ensured they were kept in. Then at the ways they employed to get round these societal problems.
Then we shall study their body of work under the context of the moment of history that they lived in.
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Dates:Mon 13/01/2025 -
Mon 03/02/2025Times:10:00am - 12:00pmDuration:4 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Kate PhillipsCourse code:Q00018049How you'll learn:OnlineAvailability:10+ places remainingStatus:AvailableFee rangeFree to £29.60
Art Appreciation: Spanish painters from Velazquez to Miro
An introduction to the rich history of painting in Spain, which had produced some of the most important and influential artists in art history - from Baroque masters Velázquez, El Greco, and Murillo to romantic figurehead Goya and impressionist Sorolla to the vital role Spanish painters like Dalí, Picasso and Miró played in the development of 20th Century Art.
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Dates:Thu 06/03/2025 -
Thu 10/04/2025Times:2:45pm - 4:45pmDuration:6 sessionsLocation:OnlineTutor:Ruth MulandiCourse code:Q00017449How you'll learn:OnlineStatus:Waiting listFee rangeFree to £44.40