Languages & Culture
Art Appreciation: Women’s Images of War: Official and Unofficial
Course details
Course code
Q00019085Course date
Start: 08/10/24
End: 22/10/24
Number of classes
3 sessionsBranch
Hatfield PeverelTutor
Guest SpeakerFee range
Free to £25.20
How you'll learn
Venue
Scout & Guide HQ (Hatfield Peverel)Church Road
Hatfield Peverel
CM3 2LB
Level of study
Availability
You can enrol online for this course
Course overview
In order to redress the balance of the narrative, each week this course covers different women artists depicting aspects of war set within the historical context. There will be a bias towards British artists, but not exclusively. You will look at artworks that these artists produced before, during, and after a war and these artworks will be in different mediums from pencil to oil and encompass print mediums too.
Course description
We start with a look at a remarkable artist and her epic historical paintings, a genre very much a male domain. Then, we move onto WW1 and women artists who were driven to create art of the scenes around them, despite, in most countries, women were not allowed to be official war artists. World war II brings the first official British women war artists and images of the home front, and aspects of war. Finally, in 1945 we meet an amazing, self-funded, Canadian artist who paints the war’s end battlefields, there are images by survivors, and we end with another remarkable artist who captures the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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