Updated: 30-July-2024-RL Group Risk Assessment - August 2024
Our History of Art Group explores artworks within their social, cultural and historical contexts. We seek to include a variety of artworks and art movements from around the globe, from ancient to modern times. Each year members select a theme or themes to study over the ensuing year. A small group of volunteers then suggest a monthly topic programme to fit the chosen theme/s, the final version being agreed by all members. Each month one or more members usually volunteer to provide some background information and illustrations on that month’s topic. The discussions are lively, interesting and informal.
The Group functions on the basis of shared learning, with no-one being an expert in the field. Art reference books owned by the group, a u3a visualiser (used to project art objects and illustrations from books onto a screen) and a u3a laptop are all available to the Group. Southwell Library, where the group meets, has excellent visual aid equipment to facilitate the projection of illustrations.
The Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in Southwell Library between 2.00-4.00pm.
As the photo below shows, we came out of "Covid Hibernation" in time to have a stall at our Southwell u3a Open Day in Southwell in August '21 and built on the success of this again in '22 and '23.
See below for the programme we have planned right through to 2025.
Our History of Art Group explores artworks within their social, cultural and historical contexts. We seek to include a variety of artworks and art movements from around the globe, from ancient to modern times. Each year members select a theme or themes to study over the ensuing year. A small group of volunteers then suggest a monthly topic programme to fit the chosen theme/s, the final version being agreed by all members. Each month one or more members usually volunteer to provide some background information and illustrations on that month’s topic. The discussions are lively, interesting and informal.
The Group functions on the basis of shared learning, with no-one being an expert in the field. Art reference books owned by the group, a u3a visualiser (used to project art objects and illustrations from books onto a screen) and a u3a laptop are all available to the Group. Southwell Library, where the group meets, has excellent visual aid equipment to facilitate the projection of illustrations.
The Group meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month in Southwell Library between 2.00-4.00pm.
As the photo below shows, we came out of "Covid Hibernation" in time to have a stall at our Southwell u3a Open Day in Southwell in August '21 and built on the success of this again in '22 and '23.
See below for the programme we have planned right through to 2025.
U3A History of Art 2024 Programme
16 January 2024: Members free choice
Any portrait from any century and for any reason: One portrait per member.
Theme : Textiles, Tapestries and Fashion over the centuries.
Month 1: Feb 2024
Session 1: Introduction including differences between art and craft
Session 2: Bayeux Tapestry
Month 2: March
Medieval Tapestries:
Session 1: Hardwick tapestries
Unicorn tapestries
Session 2: Apocalypse tapestries
Month 3: April
Art/fashion from 19th century
Session 1: “When Art and Fashion Collide”
William Morris (1834-1896)
Session 2: Grayson Perry (1960- )
Month 4 May
Fashion designers and collections from 19th century
Session 1: Gabrielle Chanel (1883-1971)
Mary Quant (1930-2023)
Session 2: Vivienne Westwood (1941-2022)
Theme 1: Major Artists over the centuries.
Theme : Major Artists over the centuries.
Month 1: June
Session 1: Early Netherlandish 15th century:
Hieronymus Bosch (1450-1516)
Jan van Eyck (1390-1441)
Session 2: Early Italian Renaissance 15th century:
Piero della Francesca (1415-1492)
Month 2: July
High Italian Renaissance 15th-16th century:
Session 1: Michelangelo (1475-1564)
Session 2: Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
Month 3: August
European artists 19th-20th century:
Session 1: Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Session 2: Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
Month 4: September
British artists 20th -21st century:
Session 1: Francis Bacon (1909-1992)
Lucian Freud ((1922-2011)
Damien Hirst (1965- )
Session 2: Tracey Emin ((1963- )
Bridget Riley (1931- )
Theme : Art in Public Spaces over the centuries.
Month 1: October
War and conflict
Session 1: Triumphal memorials:
ancient Roman
recent
Session 2: Commemorative:
war memorials
genocide
terrorism
Month 2: November
Tombs, memorials, and belief system images.
Session 1: ancient belief systems:
Totem poles
Easter Island statues
Celtic crosses
Session 2: Street memorials e.g., Oscar Wilde
Tombs
Gravestones
Churches
Month 3: December
Commemorative
Session 1: Secular building exteriors
Public Squares
Session 2: Open Spaces
Month 4: January 2025
Celebratory and Street Art
Session 1: Celebratory:
Sport stadia
Railway stations
Fountains
Session 2: Street art:
Banksy
Street walls
Graffiti?
Click for Archived 2022-2023, 2019, 2018 and 2017 programmes
2020 and 2021 programmes are not archived, given extensive disruption due to Covid pandemic.
2020 and 2021 programmes are not archived, given extensive disruption due to Covid pandemic.
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