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Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 Arts 13 examined are Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp, Isamu Noguchi, Louise Bourgeois, Carl Andre, Robert Art History Irwin, and Hiroshi Sugimoto. Internet access required & Theory to retrieve course materials. ARTS Reg# Z0538CA For information on enrollment, location, and space Through Apr 22: $195 / After: $215 availability call (310) 825-9971. For information Westwood: 413 1010 Westwood Center 13 Art History & Theory on course content call (310) 206-1422 or email Wed 7-10pm, May 22 & 29 [email protected]. Pasadena: Norton Simon Museum 14 Art Studio Workshops ✷✷Sat 11am-2pm, Jun 1, 3 mtgs 16 Photography NEW COURSE Roni Feinstein, PhD, Institute of Fine Arts, New York Royals, Romance, and Rococo: University The 18th-Century French Interior 862.45 Art 0.9 CEU Survey of Western Art History: Part III One of the focal points of elite life in the mid-18th X 446.3 Art 4 units century was the ostentatious display of artworks in and This art history survey concentrates on the masterpieces around the home. Functional yet artistic objects were of architecture, painting, sculpture, and related arts from simultaneously in the background and forefront of daily the late 17th through early 20th centuries. The course life. French collectors put a wide variety of objects on begins with the transition from Baroque to the Age of view, such as paintings, sculpture, furniture, decorative Enlightenment and Romantic-Classicism in the 18th arts, books, and dress, as a means of exhibiting wealth, century. Continuing with Realism, Impressionism, and intellect, and taste. In this course, students explore the Post-Impressionism, instruction emphasizes the work of period of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour, in Goya, Monet, Degas, Cézanne, van Gogh, and Rodin. concert with the extraordinary creative virtuosity and Special emphasis is given to contemporaneous develop- talent of artists, designers, and such craftsmen as Wat- ments in architecture from Jefferson’s Monticello and teau, Boucher, Clodion, Meissonier, and van Risenburgh. the Arc de Triomphe to the skyscraper. The variety of Internet access required to retrieve course materials. movements that ushered in the 20th century include a Reg# Z0786CA study of Munch and German Expressionism, Matisse and Through Mar 23: $115 / After: $125 Fauvism, and Picasso and Cubism, continuing through Westwood: 413 1010 Westwood Center the work of Mondrian and the architecture of Gaudí and Tue 7-10pm, Apr 23 & 30 Frank Lloyd Wright. Courses in this survey series may Los Angeles: Getty Center, be taken in any order. Pricing for Skirball Members Gary Baseman 1200 Getty Center Dr. is $105 through May 15/$115 thereafter; call (310) ✷✷Sat 1-4pm, May 4, 3 mtgs 206-1422 for promotional code. Internet access Lilit Sadoyan, MA, UC Riverside, Gallery Teacher, J. required to retrieve course materials. & Perversion and Play Paul Getty Museum. Ms. Sadoyan’s museum experi- Reg# Z0523CA ence includes former and current positions held at the Through Mar 2: $495 / After: $539 In partnership with the Skirball J. Paul Getty Museum, Museum of Modern Art in New Westwood: 416 1010 Westwood Center Cultural Center, this course presents a York, and Huntington Library & Art Collections. Tue 6:30-9:30pm, Apr 2-Jun 11 lecture on artist Gary Baseman’s work Los Angeles: Getty Center, and practice. Students also have the NEW COURSE 1200 Getty Center Dr. ✷✷Sat 10am-1pm, May 4, 12 mtgs opportunity to tour his first museum From Modernism to Gehry No refund after Apr 9. survey, and participate in a conversa- and Beyond Mary Beth Carosello, MA, University of Chicago. Ms. tion with the artist afterward. 865.77 Art 0.9 CEU Carosello has most recently worked in the education This course is offered in association with the Museum of and curatorial departments of the J. Paul Getty The lecture is given by Denise A. Contemporary Art and their exhibition “A New Sculptural- Museum, MOCA, and St. Louis Art Museum. ism: Contemporary Architecture from Southern Califor- Gray, an art and museum consultant nia.” Some have argued that, since the mid-80s, Los NEW COURSE who has worked with Baseman since Angeles has been become the creative center of Ameri- 2007. The museum tour is led by can architecture. This course begins with an overview Gary Baseman: Pervasion and Play Doris Berger of the Skirball. lecture on modernist architecture. The second session 861.12 Art 0.6 CEU includes an extensive tour of the exhibition, to examine Bridging fine and commercial arts, Gary Baseman has Page 13. the prolific and experimental architecture that has been worked prolifically in multiple media for over 3 decades. produced in the last 25 years in Los Angeles. The last Melding the worlds of illustration, toy and game design (Cranium), fine art, film, and animated television, this Gary Baseman, The Door Is Always Open, 2012, acrylic on session clarifies the complex social, economic, and board (courtesy of the artist). geographic conditions of this local phenomenon. Archi- course explores the artist’s career as presented in his tects discussed include Frank Gehry, Thom Mayne, Eric first museum survey at the Skirball Cultural Center. The Owen Moss, Michael Maltzan, Barbara Bestor, Lorcan course begins with a lecture which covers the trajectory O’Herlihy, Greg Lynn, Ball & Nogues, and many others. of his pervasive practice and examines its historical Pricing for MOCA Members is $185 through Apr 4/$205 context in both lecture and gallery components. You thereafter; call (310) 206-1422 for promotional code. then tour the exhibition for an opportunity to explore the Internet access required to retrieve course materials. artist’s idiosyncratic world, and to meet and participate in discussion with the Baseman himself, who is present Did You Know? Reg# Z0555CA for the tour of the exhibition. Pricing for Skirball Mem- Through Apr 4: $195 / After: $215 bers is $105 through May 15/$115 thereafter; call Art History, Studio Arts & Photography Courses Westwood: 416 1010 Westwood Center (310) 206-1422 for promotional code. Internet access ✷✷Sat 10am-1pm, May 4, & 18 required to retrieve course materials. Can Serve as DCA Electives Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art ✷✷Sat 11am-1pm, May 11, 3 mtgs Reg# Z0659CA Many art history, studio arts, and Christopher Mount, BA, curator of “A New Sculpturalism: Through May 15: $115 / After: $125 photography courses can be taken Contemporary Architecture from Southern California”. Westwood: 416 1010 Westwood Center ✷✷Sat 10am-1pm, Jun 15 as electives toward the Design Former curator of architecture and design at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Los Angeles: Skirball Cultural Center, Communication Arts Certificate 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd. with approval. NEW COURSE ✷✷Sat 10am-1pm, Jun 22, 2 mtgs Denise Gray, Principal Consultant of MUSED, an art To learn more about applying Arts Brancusi and the Space of and museum consulting firm. Ms. Gray has worked with courses to the DCA Certificate call Modern Sculpture Gary Baseman since 2007, managing his fine and (310) 206-1422. 867.45 Art 0.9 CEU commercial art projects, producing his art perfor- Using the Norton Simon Museum’s exhibition “Beyond mances, and organizing his exhibitions in the United Brancusi: The Space of Sculpture” as a focal point, this States, the United Kingdom, and Italy. class considers methods, materials and concepts of modern sculpture, beginning in the early 20th century and extending to the present day. As per the influence of Constantin Brancusi, the importance of essential forms, of installation and display and of the viewer’s experience in space and time are explored. Brancusi’s Alison Blickle. photography and its impact on the perception of sculp- ture also is discussed. Among the artists to be 14 Arts Enroll at uclaextension.edu or call (310) 825-9971 NEW COURSE Art and Architecture in Los Angeles: Art Studio Workshops 1890-2015 X 450.11 Art 4 units For information on enrollment, location, and space Calligraphy Course fee does not include museum entry fees. availability call (310) 825-9971. For information on This art history course explores the formal, material and course content/prerequisites call (310) 206-1422 The Roman Majuscules theoretical aspects of one of Los Angeles’ greatest or email [email protected]. assets; our architectural heritage over the past 120 Fun and rewarding, calligraphy years. In recognition of the concurrent MOCA Exhibition Enrollment limited in all courses; early enroll- also builds strong design and visual “A New Sculpturalism,” special emphasis is given to the ment advised. Students should have com- radical built forms that characterize work designed in pleted all prerequisites prior to enrollment. literacy skills. An important step in Southern California during the last 25 years. Course mastering letterforms and typog- begins with an exploration of parallel avant-garde art raphy, calligraphy today appears in movements from late 19th century Arts and Crafts, Art Drawing Nouveau, Cubism, and experiments with early skyscrap- everything from personal greetings ers, then move on to cutting edge Early Modernist Basic Drawing I and invitations to corporate logos, projects which in turn give way to iconic mid-century X 5A Art 2 units c advertising, and print pieces. Learn residences. Examples of corporate high modernism, Materials list discussed at first class. post-modernism, regional deconstructivism, and signa- A beginning course in drawing designed to develop and calligraphic alphabets through ture “big-box” masterpieces also are covered. Class expand one’s observational abilities and rendering skills. hands-on assignments and creative concludes with an in-depth consideration of the “LA Students learn methods for sensitively describing lettering projects, such as greeting School” architects of the 1990s and their offspring. objects in terms of line, shape, volume, cross-contour, Includes 2 weekend field trips and 2 guest speakers.