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Course Title / Art History: Exploring 20th Century Art Movements and Women in Art
Course ID / C2416222 / Tutor / Dr Alice Strickland
Start date / 18/09/2012 / Day(s)/time(s) / Tuesday 14.00
No. of sessions / 20 / Hours per session / 2 / Fees / £150
Venue / Compass Theatre, Glebe Avenue, Ickenham, Middlesex UB10 8PD
Branch/Partner / Ruislip & Uxbridge
Branch/Partner contact details
Publicity Description
We will explore 20th century art movements in Europe and look at the influence of the European avant-garde in America. We will also trace the history of women’s involvement in the arts through women painters, sculptors and collectors of art.
Course Aims
What is the course for? What is its main purpose? E.g. to provide a brief introduction to the principles of garden design, with a view to applying them in your own garden.
To develop a knowledge of 20th century art movements in Europe and America and acquire a knowledge of major women artists and their work focusing on Western European traditions from the Renaissance to the 20th century.
Main Topics Covered
FIRST TERM
1.  Introduction to 20th Century Art Movements: The Art of Abstraction
2.  ‘Wild Beasts’: Henri Matisse and the Fauves
3.  The German Expressionists of Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter
4.  Pablo Picasso and the birth of Cubism
5.  De Stijl and its founding father Theo van Doesburg
6.  An Italian Influence: Italian Futurism and British Vorticists
7.  The Surrealist Dream
8.  Gallery visit – Estorick Collection/Tate Modern
9.  Abstract Expressionist New York
10. An Optical Illusion: Pop Art and Op Art
SECOND TERM
1.  Introduction to Women in Art - Renaissance Woman: Sofonisba Angiussola, Lavinia Fontana and their contemporaries
2.  The Baroque Era – the art of Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Sirani and Judith Leyster
3.  18th century Portrait-painters: the Rococo portraitists Rosalba Carriera and Vigee Le Brun
4.  A Woman in a Man’s World: The First Female Royal Academicians Angelica Kauffman and Mary Moser
5.  Victorian Women Artists: Lady Butler and Lucy Kemp-Welch
6.  Daughters of Impressionism: Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt
7.  Surrealist Women: Dorothea Tanning, Leonora Carrington and Leonor Fini
8.  Gallery visit – National Portrait Gallery/Royal Academy
9.  20th century Women Sculptors: Barbara Hepworth and Elisabeth Frink
10. Conclusion and Women artists working today
Pre-course preparation, reading, internet research etc.
Whilst reading is not mandatory, it will enhance your enjoyment of the course if you do some reading in preparation for, and throughout, the course. Below is a short list of books for those who wish to do some preparatory reading. Further titles will be given each week on your handout.
TITLE / AUTHOR / PUBLISHER
Styles, Schools and Movements
Tate Women Artists
Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology / Amy Dempsey
Alicia Foster
Rozsika Parker and Griselda Pollock / Thames & Hudson
Tate Publishing
Routledge and Kegan Paul
Essential costs/materials
There are a variety of volumes of compendia on 20th century art movements and women artists available, many can be bought inexpensively from second-hand book stores or charity shops.
Entry Requirements/Level
None
Title of qualification to be gained (if any) / N/A
Awarding Body (if any) / N/A
Teaching and learning methods used
PowerPoint, handouts, worksheets and group discussion
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course learners will be able to:
1. Know major art movements of 20th century
2. Distinguish the work of different art movements
3. Know major women artists from the Renaissance to the present day
4. Place women artists within the social and historical background in which they worked.
How will you know you are learning?
Feedback from learners during class and their group participation. Learners’ contributions will also inform on their level of subject knowledge which will be monitored each week and any adjustments to teaching methods will made through observation.
Suggested Further Study and Progression Routes
Further WEA courses, Birkbeck department of Continuing Education and one-off lectures at the Courtauld Institute of Art, Tate and the Royal Academy.
Brief tutor profile
Dr Alice Strickland read History at Exeter University and holds a PhD in History of art on women war artists. She lectures and writes on 20th century British artists and their art education. Most recently she has given papers at the Malvern Festival, Tate Britain and the Dame Laura Knight Society. She has recently contributed to a book on British art education to be published by Ashgate in 2013.

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