Art History Lecture Series with Tom Quinn

Six Thursdays, October 8-November 19 (No class on Nov. 5)

5:00-7:00 p.m.

$168

Adults

This class is offered on Zoom and in person and can be a combination of both.

Every enthusiastic 21st-century artist benefits from a knowledge of the art that came before. We look at slides of the greatest Western art, from prehistory to the mid-twentieth century, with lively discussions of the relevance of the art of the past to that of the present—and the future.

Week 1. We begin by addressing certain questions, like: What is art history? Does it pass aimlessly, or will it converge on a goal? What is the purpose of studying art history? Why do we concentrate on Western art? Why are most of the artists men? In what ways do the motivations to create art change from one culture and period to another — and in what ways do they remain constant? We see slides of the cave paintings of France and Spain. Early sculptures and reliefs, architecture and pottery from Sumeria, Assyria, and Persia. The great pyramids and the Sphinx. Ancient Egyptian painting and sculpture. Archaic vase painting and sculpture, Greek temple architecture, Classical and Hellenistic sculpture. Roman architecture, sculpture, and fresco painting. Byzantine architecture, sculpture, and mosaics. Romanesque and Gothic churches, Gothic sculpture, and Medieval manuscript illuminations

Week 2. The early Renaissance art of the Trecento, the great Renaissance painters and sculptors like Masaccio, Botticelli, Mantegna, and Piero della Francesca

Week 3. The High Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael. Mannerism from Bronzino, Pontormo, Parmigianino, etc. The great Renaissance artists of Northern Europe: Van Eyck, Bosch, Dürer, Cranach, Holbein, etc.

Week 4. The great Spanish painters El Greco and Velázquez, the Roman artists Bernini, Caravaggio, and Poussin. Dutch painting from Rembrandt, Hals, and Vermeer. Eighteenth-century English painting from Hogarth, Gainsborough, Constable, and Turner. The neoclassicism of David and Ingres

Week 5. First great American artists. Nineteenth-century French painting from Delacroix, Courbety, and Corot. The great impressionists Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Cassatt, Whistler. Post-impressionism from Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne

Week 6. American regionalists, abstract expressionism, pop art, and contemporary art.

The class registration fee will show as Ticket Goat on your bank statement. The instructor will have a list of names, so tickets are not necessary.

• Washington State law (ESSB 5814) requires that certain services be taxed when sold. Art classes fall under this new law and we are required to charge sales tax on all in-person and online classes.
• Refunds or class credit will not be issued for missed classes.
• Refunds will only be issued in the event of a class cancellation by the Spokane Art School.
• Preregistration is required for all classes. Instructors can not take payments.
• Online registration closes 48 hours before the class begins.
• Classes with fewer than three registrations will be cancelled and the registration fee will be refunded.