Drawing from latest ideas within science, history, philosophy and education, this is a lecture/workshop experience that I am taking to galleries and museums across the country.
Over the course of a day, we explore some of the trickier questions which tend to get in the way of our ability to connect with an artwork. By revealing these aspects, we start to see artworks, particularly those we may once have ignored, in a fresh light.
I encourage practical arts-based exercises, so that the museum visitor gets an experiential understanding of the ideas being discussed. It is widely accepted that the arts are very effective at aiding learning and developing self-awareness. Where a straightforward lecture/discussion format might be perfectly adequate, the added physical immersion in a medium promotes unexpected and more personal insights into a subject and reveals new connections between subjects.
By the end of the workshop, hopefully, participants will be more aware of what they bring to a painting (their past, their present) and how a painting can speak to them. They might even be interested in discussing the following:
What art should be being made?
How should it be exhibited and sold?
Bibliography
The Artful Mind – edited by Mark Turner ISBN 0-19-530636-8
Mirror of the World -Julian Bell ISBN 978-0-500-23837-0
Art as Therapy – Alain de Botton ISBN 978-0-7148-7278-0
Selected Essays – John Berger Edited by Geoff Dyer ISBN 978-0-7475-5419-6
Learning to look at Paintings – Mary Acton ISBN 0-415-14890-1
Arts-based Research Practice -Patricia Leavy ISBN 978-1-4625-1332-1
Over the course of a day, we explore some of the trickier questions which tend to get in the way of our ability to connect with an artwork. By revealing these aspects, we start to see artworks, particularly those we may once have ignored, in a fresh light.
I encourage practical arts-based exercises, so that the museum visitor gets an experiential understanding of the ideas being discussed. It is widely accepted that the arts are very effective at aiding learning and developing self-awareness. Where a straightforward lecture/discussion format might be perfectly adequate, the added physical immersion in a medium promotes unexpected and more personal insights into a subject and reveals new connections between subjects.
By the end of the workshop, hopefully, participants will be more aware of what they bring to a painting (their past, their present) and how a painting can speak to them. They might even be interested in discussing the following:
What art should be being made?
How should it be exhibited and sold?
Bibliography
The Artful Mind – edited by Mark Turner ISBN 0-19-530636-8
Mirror of the World -Julian Bell ISBN 978-0-500-23837-0
Art as Therapy – Alain de Botton ISBN 978-0-7148-7278-0
Selected Essays – John Berger Edited by Geoff Dyer ISBN 978-0-7475-5419-6
Learning to look at Paintings – Mary Acton ISBN 0-415-14890-1
Arts-based Research Practice -Patricia Leavy ISBN 978-1-4625-1332-1