29th Feb – 28th April
10am – Midday
Artpocket
Muspole Street
Norwich.
NOW TAKING BOOKINGS FOR INDIVIDUAL SESSIONS. £25. Pay on the day. Email: art@katedunton.com to reserve a place.
FIVE WEEK COURSE – THURSDAY MORNINGS
Many of the artists at the heart of the modernist movement – Matisse, Picasso, Sonia Delaunay, Josef and Anni Albers – worked across a wide range of mediums including textiles, theatre design, stained glass and ceramics. In this fun and friendly course, we’ll dig deeper into these lesser known aspects of their work. We’ll explore how working across different art and craft practices allowed avant-garde artists to escape the restrictions of classical painting and sculpture, opening up bold new approaches to colour, abstraction, and artistic expression.
29 Feb – The Cabaret Scene and ‘the Total Work of Art’.
7 March – Modernism and Dance: Sonia Delaunay & the Ballet Russes.
14 March- Abstraction and Textiles: Anni Albers and the Bauhaus Weavers.
21 March- The Freedom of Clay: Picasso’s ceramics
28 March – Stained Glass: Matisse and Josef Albers.
No prior knowledge or experience necessary.
What You’ll Learn:
- A deeper appreciation of the textiles, theatre designs, ceramics, and stained-glass work of leading modernist artists in the first decades of the twentieth century.
- An understanding of the artistic cabaret that spread across major European urban centres, and how this fostered an experimental and collaborative approach between many forms of art making.
- Familiarity with important ideas about arts and crafts and ‘the total work of art’ developed in the nineteenth century.
- Strategies for exploring colour, texture and form, and how to draw inspiration from these if you are a maker yourself.
- Confidence in your own curiosity, and how to build on this to dig deeper into the social, political and artistic aims that drove modernist artists.
How You’ll Learn:
- In a relaxed, friendly, and welcoming environment, over tea/coffee and pastries.
- Through close-looking at artworks.
- Through mindful reflection on your own emotional, personal, and creative responses.
- By developing and refining your own curiosity-based questions, and exploring for answers in a range of fascinating materials provided as part of the session.
- Through friendly, informal discussion with class-mates.