2016-17 Art History Lecture Series at Gage

Based on our lecture popularity this past year, Gage Academy of Art will again be offering series of 12 lectures on art history from the 15th through 20th Century on a wide variety of subjects.



Degas, The Rehearsal Onstage, c-1874, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Featuring Gage teaching artists as well as art historians from the Seattle art community, these lectures will give a thoughtful look inside the artists and movements that helped shape art from the Renaissance through the 20th Century.

 

Register online for a single lecture, a quarterly series or the entire 2016-17 program, and delve into the techniques, ideologies and personalities that define art in our world.

 

Gates of Paradise, East baptistery doors, Ghiberti, 1425-52

Fall 2016
RENAISSANCE & BAROQUE ART
Wednesdays
7:00pm-8:00pm

Oct 26 - CAROL HENDRICKS: The Gates of Paradise

I have visited Florence several times, where I have been fortunate to have seen this work of art in person.  The Gates of Paradise is endlessly inspiring and was transformative in art history.

In addition to authoring this blog I am the Adult Program Director at Gage and earned my MA in Art History from Temple University.

Adoration of Christ, Central Panel of the Portinari Triptych, Hugo van der Goes, c-1473-78

Nov 2- HAMID ZAVAREEI: Northern Renaissance: History, technique and materials

Hamid has taught painting for years at Gage and he has been researching various historic pigments and techniques of the of the Renaissance.

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas,1656 Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid

Nov 9 - JIM PHALEN: Rembrandt vs. Velázquez: The Clash of the Titans

Gage Artistic Director and Co-Founder Gary Faigin is an extremely knowledgeable art historian.  The Italian Baroque painter Caravaggio is one of his favorite topics.

Nov 16 - REBECCA ALBIANI: Juan Sánchez Cotán and Spanish Baroque Still-Life

Rebecca has been lecturing at the Frye Art Museum for years in a very popular sold out lecture series. She was a Graduate Lecturing Fellow at Washington’s National Gallery and a Fulbright Scholar in Venice. She received an MA from Stanford University and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Winter 2017
19th TO EARLY 20TH CENTURY ART
Wednesdays
7:00pm-8:00pm

Auguste Rodin (French, 1840–1917). The Thinker, 1904. Cast bronze

Legion of Honor Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco 

Gift of Alma de Bretteville Spreckels

Jan 25 - MIKE MAGRATH: Rodin

Mike teaches a variety of sculpting classes at Gage, including the Sculpting Atelier.  He has an MFA from the University of WA and has been creating his own figurative sculptures for years. 

Feb 1 - KIMBERLY TROWBRIDGE: Landscape Painting 

Kimberly earned her MFA in painting from the University of WA and launched her own Atelier at Gage this fall.  She is one of the most engaging and dynamic speakers.  She says of teaching-

“It is through my desire to communicate with others that I have developed a meaningful lexicon as an artist; recognizing the relationship between my creative and teaching practices has been profound for me in uncovering the role and importance of my audience.”
-Kimberly Trowbridge

Degas, Café Concert at Les Ambassadeurs, 1876-77, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon

Feb 8 - TERRY FURCHGOTT: Degas

Terry has been a popular instructor at Gage for over 15 years.  She works in acrylic and pastel and counts Degas among her influences.  You can find her work at the Lisa Harris Gallery in Seattle.

John Singer Sargent, The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 

Feb 15 - RICHARD WEST: John Singer Sargent and the American Mural Renaissance

Richard West is an expert on 19th Century American painting, he was a long time Gage Trustee and was the Director of the Frye Art Museum from 1994-2003.  Before that West was a scholar and former director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Maine; the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the Newport Art Museum, Rhode Island; and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art.

Spring 2017
20TH CENTURY ART
Wednesdays
7:00pm-8:00pm 

April 12 - GARY FAIGIN: Giorgio Morandi

Gage Artistic Director and Co-Founder Gary Faigin is an extremely knowledgeable art historian.  The Italian painter Morandi is one of his favorite painters.  He has put the Morandi Museum in Bologna on his Top 10 Art Must See list.

April 19 - OLIVIA BEAUFAIT: Constantin Brancusi

Olivia is a painter, instructor and arts administrator.  She received her MFA in painting from the University of WA and has shown her work in local art galleries.  She is very interested in modern, contemporary and abstract art and Brancusi is an inspiration for her.

April 26- RYAN WEATHERLY: Giacometti

Ryan is a painter and a popular instructor at Gage.  He received his MFA in painting from the University of WA. He told me he has always been interested in the Italian 20th century sculptor Giacometti.


May 3 - CHARLES EMERSON: Richard Diebenkorn

Charles studied with Josef Albers at Yale and has been a popular painting instructor at Gage for years.  His lectures are not to be missed, he is a font of knowledge!

On this Date in History, August 25: Birth of George Stubbs and death of Henri Fantin-Latour

What happened on August 25 in art history?

English painter George Stubbs (August 25, 1724- July 10, 1806) was born in Liverpool in 1724.  Stubbs is best known for all his drawings, prints and paintings of horses and his research on horse anatomy.

Whistlejacket, George Stubbs, 1762, National Gallery of Art, London

Stubbs wrote a book in 1766, The Anatomy of the Horse, which was a groundbreaking text and contained 24 etchings of detailed horse anatomy, skeletons and muscular structures.

Homage to Delacroix, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1864, Musee D'Orsay, Paris

Also on this day French painter Henri Fantin-Latour, (January 14, 1836 – August 25, 1904) died in 1904 in France. 

Fantin-Latour was one of the artists who exhibited work in the famous Salon des Refusés in Paris in 1863.  His participation in the exhibit inspired his 1864 painting Homage to Delacroix (shown above).

Fantin-Latour was best known for his beautiful floral still-life paintings, he was known for his talent in painting colors and textures and continued to paint in a realist manner throughout the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist periods.

Asters and Fruit on a Table, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1868, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Rollercoaster derailed at Strathclyde theme park

"At least 10 people are thought to have been injured when a rollercoaster derailed and crashed into a children`s ride at a Scottish theme park..."

"Eyewitnesses say it crashed to the ground leaving a number of people trapped inside - while a group of heroic dads attempted to free them..."

"Chief inspector David Bruce said `A joint investigation by Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive is now under way,` reports the Daily Record..."

"Richard Lyle MSP, whose constituency includes Strathclyde Country Park where the theme park is situated called for a `full investigation` into the incident."

"He told STV: `I`m totally concerned and horrified at this terrible accident`..."

"M & D`s theme park has suffered a number of incidents since 2011, it has been claimed."

"The Tsunami ride, which today crashed to the ground and landed on a children`s ride first operated in Spain and France before coming to the UK in 2003 at the Hull Fair."

"The Italian-built ride was then transported to the Millennium Dome in London, where it spent the Christmas season before being dismantled and transported north to M & D`s at Strathclyde Park in 2004..."

"It is still not known what caused the rollercoaster to derail."

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/live-tsunami-rollercoaster-crash-mds-8287128

Student challenges history professor and is threatened with expulsion

"A Native American student at Cal State Sacramento University was told by her history teacher that there was no genocide against the indigenous population of North America. When the student, Chiitaanibah Johnson, took issue with this claim and challenged him, she was ejected from the class and expelled."

"The professor said he didn’t care for the term `genocide` as he didn’t think it accurately describes what happened in relation to Native American history."

"U.S. History Professor Maury Wiseman accused Johnson of `hijacking` his class when she challenged him on this. He also pointed out that he was very offended at her accusations that he was a `bigot` and `racist`..."

"By the end of the week, he had expelled her from the class, according to Vincent Schilling, writing for Indian Country Today Media Network."

"`The whole thing started on Wednesday,` Johnson said in an interview with ICTMN. `He was talking about Native America and he said the word genocide. He paused and said ‘I don’t like to use that word because I think it is too strong for what happened’ and ‘Genocide implies that it was on purpose and most native people were wiped out by European diseases`."

"At first, even though she was outraged at the professor’s comments, she decided against responding… So she wrote what he said down."

"`I wrote it down. I was enraged for what I felt were obvious reasons. I didn’t say anything [on Wednesday] because I knew that if I didn’t have anything specific to back it up in terms of tangible or solid evidence that he would not take my comments into consideration`."

"But on Friday, after the teacher’s discussion on the Iroquois Confederacy and the Portuguese expeditions, she confronted him – she had no other choice..."

"So she stood up and began reading from an article by the United Nations that defined the term as `the deliberate killing of another people, a sterilization of people and/or a kidnapping of their children`."

"Humiliated in front of the class, the professor stopped her and he said,`that is enough`."

Read more http://countercurrentnews.com/2015/09/history-teacher-denies-native-american-student/