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Art History Online 10 Week Course with MonLife Heritage Museums

This broad ranging and absorbing course needs no background in art history, just a desire to look harder at art and understand its developments more clearly. This series of ten evening evening illustrated talks with popular Monmouthshire lecturer Eleanor Bird takes us from 1910 to 1950, giving an overview of the art and artists of the age.

Course Length - 10 weeks of one hour evening lectures (one week off for half term)
Course Dates - Monday 20th January - Monday 31st March (no class Monday 24th February)
Time - 7pm - 8pm
Medium - Online via Zoom (with recordings available afterwards)
Course fee - £55

(Recordings available so that any lectures missed can be caught within 4 weeks, on Zoom)

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Diving into the work of artists who stood on the shoulders of Cubism – or reacted against it – and those who began to paint in pure abstraction, this ten-week online evening class explores the period from 1910 to 1950. It introduces the many ‘isms’ of the early 20th century in straightforward language, from Expressionism to Abstract Expressionism, from Franz Marc’s blue horses to Jackson Pollock’s astounding creations. This series of one-hour lectures is an opportunity to gain an overview of the period and understand what the Modernists were hoping to achieve.

Image: Large Blue Horses by Franz Marc, 1911 (Walker Art Center, Minneapolis)