A Time of Change: Music and art at the end of the 19th Century

Details

When: Wednesdays, Feb 11 – Mar 11 1:30 – 3:30 pm

Where: The Hampton Inn

Cost: $189.00 for 5 session(s)

Type: In Person

Category:

• Humanities Courses
• Music & Theatre

Instructor: Kevin Justus received his PhD in Art History from the University of North Carolina and his Masters in Music from the University of Arizona.
Kevin Justus

Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne and Van Gogh plus Debussy, Satie and Ravel

As Impressionism became the dominant style in the visual arts near the end of the Nineteenth Century, artists such as Seurat, Gauguin, Cezanne and Van Gogh began to rebel, critique and abandon “the style of light”, in favor of something far more scientific on one hand, or far more emotional and personal, on the other.  The composers were doing much the same thing, embracing Impressionism as with Debussy or trying to find a new modernist way led by Satie and Ravel. Join us to examine the cultural, social and political environment in the last quarter of the Nineteenth Century, unpacking this jarring but remarkable moment in cultural creation and cross-fertilization as we seek to investigate why, despite all this artistic fervor or perhaps because of it, the world was beginning to fall apart.