Program Details

Masters and Masterpieces Updated Weekly Topics

Instructor
Terryl Lawrence
W382
Video Catch-up
Available

Course Description

Many creative artists work with similar themes and ideas, but their resulting art invariably differs. Approaches to subject matter are markedly dissimilar as each artist experiences objects in personal ways, and representations generally echo perception. Works are formulated based on distinctive experiences, learning, and emotional responses. We can also add the choice of material used into that equation. Topics may be the same, but presentations are individual and unique. This series will look at the manner in which various genres have been treated, leading to the production of individual masterpieces.

Lectures

  1. Stuart Davis & Roy Lichtenstein: Diverse Interpretations in POP Art
  2. Fauves and Expressionists: Signs of the Times
  3. Edward Hopper and Eric Fischl: Compelling Figurative Images
  4. Gustav Klimt and Kehinde Wiley: Embroidered Canvases
  5. Andy Warhol and Shepard Fairey: Appropriated Visions
  6. Pollock and DeKooning: Expressive Abstractions
  7. Irving Penn and Richard Avedon: Photographic Innovations
  8. Amedeo Modigliani and El Greco: Painterly Exaggerations

About the Instructor

  • Terryl Lawrence, Ed.D. earned her doctorate in the Arts from Columbia University. She has had numerous exhibitions of her paintings and photographs in New York and Florida and is the recipient of many awards, including a national grant in the Humanities. She currently teaches Art History at Palm Beach State College and is a published writer.