The Art of Conversation
(round two – a condensed version)
Conversation Topics
Session One
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
5:30-7:30pm or until the conversation is complete
Session Two
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
5:30-7:30pm or until the conversation is complete
Session Three
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
5:30-7:30pm or until the conversation is complete
Session Four
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
5:30-7:30pm or until the conversation is complete
Let us begin with “Politics and Postmodernism” as our first topic. I will introduce thought and artwork for open discussion. Artists who practiced during the tumultuous time of the Vietnam War helped change almost every aspect of Western Culture. Minimal and process art was the way of the current with artists like Sigmar Polke, Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg.
Session two starts with the beginning of the 1970’s when critics will say there were no new art movements that dominated the world. Pop art had fizzled out, abstraction had reached a climax and nothing new and radical seemed apparent. In retrospect, however, several new artists clearly did emerge. Coined “Pluralism” this time in history was typified by no clear movement, but a diversity that was difficult to categorize. Different backgrounds, a combining of materials and thought, women artists such as Faith Ringold, Audrey Flack and Judy Chicago joined the ranks of Romare Bearden, Duane Hanson and Chuck Close.
Because the 1970’s turned out to be so rich in diverse thought and artistic practice, it pays us to continue the conversation of the late 70’swith artists like Alice Aycock, the later work of Philip Guston, and lesser recognized painters like Jorg Immendorff, all of whom created groundbreaking lifetimes of creative thought through their objects.
In the last session of this series, we move to the 1980’s with Anselem Kiefer, Jennifer Bartlett, Susan Rothenberg and Elizabeth Murray who said “One finds art in the streets, or you find it at
home right in front of you. I paint the things that surround me- things that I pick up and handle every day, that is what art is”
As her abstract biomorphic paintings suggest, life is a series of crosscurrents of experience which do not lend themselves to literal translation. She and others of her era help us to
understand that art is often an ephemeral set of loosely translated experiences rather than an easy to interpret set of obvious objects.
This class is a conversation about specific historical periods in art and a cursory introduction to a few artists who practiced the specific style. The world has been influenced by art and artists from the beginning of time. From setting trends to reactionary politics. Thinking about and discussing art makes us more aware of society as a whole.
Because of the vastness of possibility, and considering information applicability and interest, I will focus, for now, on periods of time in recent years so that we may all feel a real connection to it. Most materials are provided.
Instructor: Teri Moore
Sign up for individual sessions for $25 per session or the entire series for $90!
Come discuss, make a little something that mimics the topic’s ideology, and stretch your brains, letting your creative juices flow.
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