Art Courses

2016

A new programme of art courses for 2016 offers the opportunity to explore a wide range of topics with expert tutors, placing Pallant House Gallery’s exhibitions and permanent collection in the wider context of Western art history.

From five-session courses to one off study sessions on both weekdays and weekends, there is something for everyone keen to learn more about Modern British art.

Courses will be led by Tate Guides and NADFAS Lecturers Val and Frank Woodgate, Alexandra Epps, and Linda Casey. All courses include coffee and pastries.

Art Courses 2016 From Impressionism to the Turner Prize 15 March – 20 April 2016 10.30am – 1pm6 weekday sessionsFull course £150 (Friends £125)Individual session £30 (Friends £25)

Follow the history of modern art from its beginnings in mid-19th century France to the first decades of the 21st century, demonstrating how and why art during this time caused such excitement, astonishment, bafflement and outrage.

Tues 15 March Origins of Modern Art - Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism

Tues 22 March Breaking with Tradition - Modern movements in the early 20th century

Tues 29 March Art Between the Wars - Totalitarianism vs. the avant-garde

Tues 5 April Post World War 2 - Pessimism and optimism

Tues 12 April Sculpture in the Modern Era - From Rodin to Damien Hirst

Weds 20 April Post-Modernism and the Turner Prize

Making Sense of Modern British Art 2 April – 30 July 2016 11am – 1.30pm5 weekend sessionsFull course £130 (Friends £100)Individual session £30 (Friends £25)

An introduction to modern art in Britain places the Gallery’s rich permanent collection into the context of artistic developments in Britain and Europe. A repeat of the sell-out course from summer 2015.

Sat 2 April Modernism comes to Britain: Sickert and the Camden Town Group

Sat 30 April The art and scandalous lives of the Bloomsbury Group

Sat 28 May Artistic responses to the Great War

Sat 25 June Surrealism in Britain

Sat 30 July Piper, Sutherland and the Neo-Romantics

Modern Art and the Old Masters: Tradition and Innovation 3 November 2016 – 24 January 2017 11am – 1.30pm5 weekday sessionsFull course £130 (Friends £100)Individual sessions £30 (Friends £25)

Compare Old Master paintings with modern treatment of the same subjects in British and international art, examining the extent to which modern art has been inspired by the example of earlier eras.

Thurs 3 Nov Reinventing Tradition

Tues 15 November Portraiture

Tues 29 November Genre

Tues 10 January Still-life

Tues 24 January Landscape

Artists In Focus John Piper In Focus Sat 14 May and repeated Tues 17 May11am – 1.30pmTutor Alexandra EppsIndividual session £30 (Friends £25)

John Piper (1903–1992) was a painter, printmaker and designer, depicting everything from cathedrals to churches, and cottages to coastlines, in a broad range of locations. This study session will reveal the diversity of this dazzling 20th century master, for whom there was no boundary an artist could not cross.

Christopher Wood In Focus Sat 16 July and repeated Tues 19 July11am – 1.30pmTutor Linda CaseyIndividual session £30 (Friends £25)

Christopher 'Kit' Wood (1901–1930) was a talented British artist whose ambition and naïve representational style earned the admiration of many fellow British and European avant-garde artists including Ben and Winifred Nicholson, Pablo Picasso and Jean Cocteau. Wood was a pivotal figure in the development of Modernism in Britain in the 1920s, helping to lay the foundations for radical advancements in the 1930s. This study session will look at Wood’s life, friendships, artistic collaborations and his paintings, particularly focusing on the decade before his tragic death aged just 29.

Pablo Picasso In Focus Sat 17 September and repeated Fri 28 October 11am – 1.30pmTutor Val WoodgateIndividual session £30 (Friends £25)

Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) told his biographer John Richardson that his work was like a diary – ‘to understand it, you have to see how it mirrors my life.’ A deeply personal response to each new love in his life, as well as world events, can be seen in the different styles in which he worked. This study session will show how Picasso’s life, and especially his emotional life, influenced what he painted and how he painted it.

How to bookFor full information and booking please visit pallant.org.uk/art-courses or contact Reception on 01243 770820. Pallant House Gallery 9 North Pallant Chichester PO19 1TJ pallant.org.uk

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Image Graham Sutherland, Landscape in the South of France, 1950 (circa), Oil on canvas, Pallant House Gallery (Hussey Bequest, Chichester District Council, 1985) Pallant House Gallery is a private company limited by guarantee under registered no.5045130 (England and Wales) and a registered charity for England and Wales under no.1102435