• Evening Courses
• Looking at Art 1: From Antiquity to the Renaissance
• Looking at Art 2: Renaissance Masterpieces
• Looking at Art 3: The Golden Age of Baroque Painting in Europe 1600-1700
• Looking at Art 4: Impressionism and Beyond
• Contemporary Art 1: An Introduction to Contemporary Art
• Contemporary Art 2: Photography
• Contemporary Art 3: Defining Now
• Furniture, Interiors and Design 1: Utility and Glamour in European Furniture 1600-1700
• Furniture, Interiors and Design 2: Antique Furniture 1700-1800
• Furniture, Interiors and Design 3: Regency, Empire and Biedermeier Furniture


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Evening Courses

Evening courses at Christie's Education are a great way to enhance your knowledge of art and design. Taught by lecturers who live and breathe art, the courses are offered in 4-week modules (one Wednesday evening per week) so that you can build upon your knowledge. Three main strands have been designed - Looking at Art; Contemporary Art; and Furniture, Interiors and Design - to help you progress over the year or simply to fill in any gaps.

SPECIAL OFFER! Book all four Looking at Art modules, or all three Contemporary Art modules, or all three Furniture, Interiors and Design modules and receive 10% off!

Looking at Art 1:
From Antiquity to the Renaissance

6-26 October 2010

Highlighting the great artistic achievements from Antiquity to the Renaissance, this introductory short course will provide you with exciting opportunities to look at and investigate four fascinating periods in the history of art - Greece and Rome, the Early Christian and Byzantine period, medieval art and the Renaissance. In each case an illustrated lecture will explore key themes related to the period, using a variety of carefully chosen objects drawn from different fields. This is an ideal opportunity to find out more about these often overlooked areas and it is also a suitable background for more detailed learning in any of the areas, or for studies related to later periods in the history of western art. It is an ideal foundation course for our Looking at Art modules offered later in the year.

Looking at Art 2:
Renaissance Masterpieces

3-24 November 2010

This four-week course will take four outstanding examples of Renaissance painting and sculpture and set them in the context of their time. Artists discussed will include Carlo Crivelli, Michelangelo and Netherlandish painter, Hans Memling. Studying their work and comparing it with other work of the period, the sessions will give you a fuller understanding of art in the Renaissance in some of the key cities of Europe. Through detailed and close encounters with specific works, the world of the Renaissance is explored and explained, helping you discover more and better understand the artists, their techniques and their masterpieces.

Looking at Art 3:
The Golden Age of Baroque Painting in Europe 1600-1700

23 February - 16 March 2011

European art of the 17th Century is frequently referred to as ‘Baroque’. This course will provide you with ways of identifying this style and also explain some of the religious, cultural and political reasons for its emergence. It will explore how different artists adapted these ideas in varied ways across Europe. From the splendours of Caravaggio in Italy, to Velazquez in Spain, to the glories of Dutch painting or the work of Rubens, Van Dyck and Claude, working at home and abroad, this course will provide you with an exciting introduction to the cultures and contexts of 17th Century painting in Europe.

Looking at Art 4:
Impressionism and Beyond

27 April - 18 May 2011

A fresh take on Impressionism... is that possible? Impressionist painting occupies our lives in the most saccharine form as popular reproductions on calendars and birthday cards. This course aims to reconnect with the most radical and experimental energies of artists such as Manet, Monet, Degas, Morisot and Pissarro. You will examine ways they produced a new embodied vision of a fast changing and modernising world. The course also celebrates the ways the implications of this new subjective way of perceiving the world was taken up and developed by a younger generation of artists including Bonnard, Vuillard, Van Gogh, Cezanne and Gauguin.

Contemporary Art 1:
An Introduction to Contemporary Art

6-26 October 2010

This module will introduce you to issues and debates within contemporary art through lectures focusing on different media. Although many artists work across different media, and critic Rosalind Krauss has argued that contemporary art exists in a ‘post-medium condition’, it remains intriguing to explore art practice through a consideration of such categories as painting and drawing, sculpture and installation art, performance and video. Artists discussed will include Rachel Whiteread, Francis Alys and Bruce Nauman. The final session will be an artist’s talk.

Contemporary Art 2:
Photography

23 February - 16 March 2011

This four-week module surveys approaches toward both the still and moving image in the practice of contemporary art. Looking at a range of photographic, film and video works reaching back to the last century, you will examine the discourses which structure lens-based practices in contemporary art and their reception by institutions in the art world. Photography is a social practice – we all have cameras and take pictures – and yet photography now also commands equal status and attention of museum collections and auction houses. This module aims to provide you with a critical and theoretical framework in order to better understand the status of the image in contemporary art and culture.

Contemporary Art 3:
Defining Now

25 May - 15 June 2011

There is a tantalising challenge to classifying the key features of our own cultural moment. We live it, we can feel its texture but often find it difficult to articulate its boundaries and defining characteristics. This four-week course will introduce you to some of the most interesting approaches and concerns of artists working today. It will include discussion of work in very diverse media including film and video, photography and installation, and conceptual and relational practices as well as the more traditional media of painting and sculpture. An important component of the course will be a session led by a signficant contemporary artist talking about his/her practice and how this work engages with a particular vision of contemporary life.

Furniture, Interiors and Design 1:
Utility and Glamour in European Furniture 1500-1700

3-24 November 2010

If you have a passion for antique furniture then this course is an ideal introduction to a fascinating subject area. In this module, the first in our Furniture, Interiors and Design series, you will explore the development of European furniture in the 16th and 17th Centuries – a particularly exciting time for furniture in many European countries. Using illustrations of surviving pieces coupled with an examination of supporting primary evidence from a variety of sources, you will learn about the impact of the use of new materials and techniques on the evolution of furniture types and look at changing styles in a variety of cultural contexts. Oak furniture in Britain, the evolution of cabinets in Italy, Spain and northern Europe, and the impact of orientalism on the development of European furniture will all be examined in this series of illustrated talks.

Furniture, Interiors and Design 2:
Antique Furniture 1700-1800

23 February - 16 March 2011

This module provides a basic introduction to one of the most popular of antiques media. Concentrating on the Queen Anne and Georgian periods, illustrated lectures will focus on the materials, techniques and styles associated with furniture making in Britain between 1700 and 1800. There will also be opportunities for you to develop familiarity with how to appraise furniture items, to look at cataloguing methods used by saleroom experts and an examination of some of the factors which affect the commercial value of furniture items sold at auction. On completing the course you should be able to identify and appraise a range of furniture types from the periods reviewed.

Furniture, Interiors and Design 3:
Regency, Empire and Biedermeier Furniture

27 April - 18 May 2011

Examine the fascinating changes in furniture and interior decoration which took place in various parts of Europe between 1800 and 1830 during this final four-week module. Starting with France and the rise to prominence of Napoleon, you will learn about the development of the Empire style and the work of designers such as Percier and Fontaine, followed by the related Biedermeier style found in the German speaking lands of northern Europe. The module then moves on to the development of the eclectic Regency style in Britain, focusing on the designs of Thomas Hope and George Smith and makers such as Crace and Gillows of Lancaster. There will also be time for you to look at today's market for Regency furniture.

Bookings

To book your place you can download a booking form here and email it to us at education@christies.com. Alternatively you can book your place over the phone by calling +44 20 7665 4350.