Long before the Mona Lisa, Whistler's Mother, The Scream and American Gothic became art world clichés, each was in its own way a bold statement made by an artist at the forefront of innovation. We will explore how works such as The Birth of Venus by Botticelli, Rembrandt's The Night Watch, Las Meninas by Velázquez, Van Gogh's Starry Night, Vermeer's Girl with the Pearl Earring and Dalí's The Persistence of Memory fit into the context of their creators' careers and the broader culture from which they arose.
This course is presented by the University of Toronto's School of Continuing Studies.
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| J. A. M. Whistler, Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1, 1871. Musée d’Orsay. |