Spanish Art II – Goya to Dali and beyond
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Begins: Friday 22 October 2021
Until: Friday 19 November 2021
(11am-1pm) - Lettsom House, First Floor, 11 Chandos Street, London W1G 9EB (NB: There is no lift in this building)
- Lecturer: Jacqueline Cockburn
This course captures Spain as it emerged from war and entered a modern industrialised world. Struggling with its tumultuous past yet reaching for a brighter future it will be Barcelona which will encapsulate its modern artistic dilemmas until the country was plunged once again into war. Well-known artists such as Goya, Sorolla, Dalí, Miró and Picasso as well as architects such as Gaudi will be explored alongside many others including Solana, Romero de Torres, Casas, Rusiñol and architects Montaner and Cadafalch. We will end with the contemporary artist Antoní Tàpies and his meditations on Spanish art over the period.
Lectures
Week 1: Goya’s world (1770-1828)
Emerging from the shadows; Goya’s self portraits
Detachment; Goya’s Black Paintings
Week 2: Painting the South (1830-1919)
Perpetuating the myth; painting Andalucía
Joaquin Sorolla- painter of light
Week 3: Modernisme (1860-1909)
Catalan Modernista painters and sculptors
Gaudí and Modernista architects
Week 4: Young in Barcelona (1881-1920)
Picasso; from Malaga to Barcelona
Joan Miró and the leaving of Barcelona
Week 5: Civil War and beyond (1920-2000)
Salvador Dali, García Lorca and the Spanish Civil War
Antoni Tàpies, a meditation on a void
Lecturer
Dr Jacqueline Cockburn is a specialist in Spanish Art, Literature and Language. Jacqueline has a BA in Modern Languages from Durham University, an MA in Applied Linguistics, a further BA in Art History and a PhD from the University of London in Art History and Spanish (2002). Her doctoral thesis is on Garcia Lorca’s drawings. She is Managing Director of Art and Culture Andalucia running residential courses in Andalucía, Southern Spain in the art and culture of the region. She is a guest lecturer for Christie’s Education, lectures at the V&A, The Royal Academy, The Art Fund and a range of other institutions.
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