History of Art: Landscapes - Visualizations and Creations

Location:

Greensboro Shrine Club, High Point Road, Greensboro, NC, USA

Cost:

$ 120.00 per person

Duration:

1h 30min  –  19h

About this experience

Tuesdays, 2:00 – 3:30 pm     
October 13 – November 17 

We might suppose that views of Nature composed of settings, topography—natural and built features—flora and fauna, seasons of the year, times of day and night would seem to be the most obviously desirable and least problematic subjects among the artistic genres.  However, the history of art reveals that the genre of landscape has had a very uneven cultural presence and a critical reception that changes between censure and praise.  Its fate has been determined by changing attitudes about its perceived merits, both as subject and techniques of execution.

Even though landscape has had its ups and downs (sorry, couldn't resist), one fact is beyond dispute: the genre has received the attention of first-rate artists who produced the dazzling works we shall be viewing and considering during our sessions.  We will be examining works that conjure the most evocative vistas of waking dreams. 

 

 

Week 1: Introductory Thoughts on this Topic  

  • Ancient Gardens in the Roman World - Rural and Urban Distinctions
  • Landscape Architecture & Manuscript Painting: The Middle Ages: The Hortus Conclusus

Week 2

  • Landscape Architecture: The Renaissance: The Italian Garden
  • Landscape in Painting: Subject and Background

Week 3:  Landscape Architecture: 

  • The Reign of Artifice
  • The French Formal Garden

Week 4:  Landscape Architecture

  • The Appearance of Nature Unleashed
  • The English Landscape Garden and the Picturesque

Week 5    

  • Landscape Painting
  • The Romantic Landscape - The Environment of Feelings

Week 6

  • Landscape Painting
  • The Intended Landscape - Modern Evocations

 

Refund Policy

To receive a refund, a written request must be received 3 business days before the first class. A $25 processing fee will be deducted from the refund. Cancellation requests received less than 3 business days before the first class but before the second meeting will receive a 50% refund. 

ALL written requests should be emailed to emeritus@spartanstrategiesinc.org or mailed to the address below.

Spartan Strategies, Inc.
Attn: Emeritus Society
5900 Summit Avenue, #201
Browns Summit, NC  27214

 

 

Your Host

Richard Gantt (MA, UNC Chapel Hill; MFA, UNC Greensboro) retired from the UNC Greensboro School of Art, where he taught art history for more than 30 years. His many research interests include architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design of 17th-century France, and 17th and 18th-century architecture, urban planning, and nationalist agendas in early modern London. The area of concentration of his studio work for the MFA was in painting and drawing, specifically, landscape painting.