Workshops Catalogue
The Workshops are composed of 6 to 8 lectures of two hours each and are conducted in English. The Classroom Workshops are only held in Gothenburg, Sweden.
The Workshops within the Painting Analysis Series are listed below. Different Workshops open during the year following a chronological pattern. The Workshops currently open for registration are on the Upcoming Workshops Calendar.
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RENAISSANCE (6 Lectures)
Workshop Content:
– Introduction to art history and art periods
– Main characteristics of Renaissance Period
– Renaissance styles, painters and techniques
– Early, Italian, Northern, Venetian Renaissance styles and Mannerism
– Analysing famous Renaissance paintings
Subjects: Creation, Life of Christ, New Testament, Greek-Roman Mythology, Northern Renaissance and Genre Painting
Artists: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raffaello, Botticelli, Masaccio, Giotto, Van Eyck, Dürer, Brueghel, Tiziano, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini and many more
BAROQUE-ROCOCO (6 Lectures)
Workshop Content:
– Baroque Main Characteristics
– Baroque Styles, Painters, Regions
– Italian, Spanish, Flemish, Dutch & French Baroque
– Comparison of Baroque & Renaissance
– Rococo Main Characteristics
– Distinguishing Renaissance, Baroque & Rococo Paintings
Subjects: Old Testament Stories, Greek-Roman Mythology, Royal Painters, Dutch Golden Age & Genre Painting
Artists: Caravaggio, Rubens, Rembrandt, Gentileschi, Van Dyck, Velazquez, Vermeer, Poussin, Fragonard, Boucher, Watteau & Utrecht Caravaggisti and many more
18th-19th CENTURY ART MOVEMENTS (6 Lectures)
Workshop Content:
– Main characteristics, styles, artists, historical background and painting analyses of:
* Neoclassicism
* Romanticism & Orientalism
* Pre-Raphaelites
* Academic Art
* Realism
* Impressionism
* Post-Impressionism & Neo-Impressionism
* Symbolism
* Art Nouveau
Artists: David, Ingres, Delacroix, Gericault, Goya, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, Orientalists, Pre-Raphaelites, Courbet, Manet, Millet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Moreau, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cezanne, Seurat, Klimt, Mucha and many more
VISUAL ANALYSIS (8 Lectures)
Workshop Content:
– Understanding Main Elements of Painting
– Review of the techniques and styles of:
* Renaissance, Baroque, Rococo
* Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Academic Art
* Realism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism
– Comparative Analysis: Portraits & Landscapes
– Comparative Analysis: Historical, Mythological, Religious & Genre Paintings
– Analysing mixed paintings from all periods
Artists: Artists from 15th to 19th Century art movements and periods
MODERN ART I “1900-1920” (6 Lectures)
Workshop Content:
– Modern Art definition, concepts & timeline
– Characteristics, styles, historical backgrounds, artists and analysis of famous paintings of:
* Fauvism
* Expressionism
* Cubism
* Futurism, Orphism, Vorticism
* Suprematism, Constructivism
* Pittura Metafisica
* Dada
* De Stijl
– Comparisons and distinguishing movements from each other
Artists: Matisse, Derain, Kirchner, Kandinsky, Marc, Macke, Schiele, Kokoschka, Chagall, Picasso, Braque, Boccioni, Malevich, De Chirico, Duchamp, Mondrian and many more
MODERN ART II “1920-1945” (6 Lectures)
Workshop Content:
– Interwar Modernism definition, concepts & timeline
– Characteristics, styles, historical backgrounds, artists and analysis of famous paintings of:
* Bauhaus
* Precisionism & Art Deco
* Interwar Classicism & Neue Sachlichkeit
* Magic Realism
* Surrealism
* Concrete Art
* American Scene & Regionalism
* Social Realism
* Socialist Realism
– Comparisons and distinguishing movements from each other
Artists: Kandinsky, Klee, Picasso, O’Keefe, Lempicka, Grosz, Dix, Frida Kahlo, Dalí, Miró, Magritte, Ernst, Wood, Wyeth, Hopper, and many more
MODERN ART III “1945-1965” (6 Lectures)
Workshop Content:
– Post-War Modernism definition, concepts & timeline
– Characteristics, styles, historical backgrounds, artists and analysis of famous paintings of:
* Organic Abstraction
* Abstract Expressionism
* Art Informel
* Neo-Dada, Fluxus
* Kinetic Art
* Pop Art
* Nouveau Réalisme
* Post-Painterly Abstraction
– Comparisons and distinguishing movements from each other
Artists: Pollock, Rothko, Rauschenberg, Johns, Tinguely, Warhol, Lichtenstein, Klein, Arman, Saint Phalle, Christo & Jeanne Claude and many more