Details
When: Wednesdays, Dec 11 – Jan 29 10:00 am – noon
No class Dec 25 or Jan 1
Where: The Hampton Inn
Cost: $199.00 for 6 session(s)
Type: In Person
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Instructor: Kevin Justus , received his Ph.D. in Art History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his Masters in Music from the University of Arizona.
Kevin Justus
By 1900, Impressionism in music and art had become accepted, but artists and composers were becoming dissatisfied with its limitations, and the seemingly endless beautiful representations of the world –a world that was, in truth, quite the opposite. Painters and composers were looking for new ways to represent the world they knew. This jarring but remarkable moment in cultural creation included art movements ranging from Post Impressionism, Symbolism and Expressionism to Cubism and Art Deco. We’ll pay special attention to Gustav Klimt, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso, as well as the careers of composers Richard Strauss, Gustave Mahler and Erich Korngold as we examine the cultural, social and political environment of the first forty years of the Twentieth Century. While looking at and listening to such beautiful cultural achievements, we will also question the role of the arts in the disasters that were to come.