A Taste of the 20th Century: Innovations in Painting and Sculpture (DRAKE HALL)
OSHR 2018This course will explore the art world’s dizzying changes that came fast and furious throughout the 20th century. Innovation, imagination, evolution, revolution, and the continual search for personal voice, led the artists’ charge. Picasso spoke of painting what he knew, not what he saw. Pollock believed new needs needed new methods, and Saul Bass asked, "Have you ever thought that radical ideas threaten institutions, then become institutions, and in turn reject radical ideas which threaten institutions?" The course will begin with pioneers of the century such as Matisse and Picasso, follow chronologically through the decades, and end with the installations and new media of the 1990’s. The format of the class will be illustrated lecture/discussion with optional readings.
Margaret Sharkoffmadrid teaches Art History for the Colorado Community College Consortium and works with the College Board’s national AP Art History program. She taught art and art history in the Washington, DC area for 18 years and served on faculty panels at the Denver Art Museum, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, and the National Gallery of Art. She has been an OLLI Instructor since 2018.
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