Services 1 — Renée Farrington in Words and Pictures

OLLI Meetings with the Masterpieces

Renée has been continuing a series of Meetings with the Masterpieces at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at California State University Monterey Bay (OLLI @ CSUMB). The classes showcase Renée’s connections between the art she loves and everything else she loves — and Renée loves everything. Connections include books, music, pop culture, movies, comics, and more.

The most recent Meetings with the Masterpieces (Nov. 7, 14, 21) are available to peruse below with the recording, slides in PDF, and supplementary videos. Meetings with Masterpieces will return in the Spring Term of OLLI @ CSUMB. The details will be provided below and new catalog is now viewable on the OLLI website. Registration opens January 18th.

OLLI @ CSUMB provides a dynamic community for those aged 50 and better living in the Monterey Bay Peninsula (and beyond to those with access to Zoom) in many fields including (but not limited to) science, history, music, and art.

Meetings with Even More Masterpieces (Upcoming!)

Meetings with Even More Masterpieces Experiencing the masterpieces brings a deeper connection with the artists—and often with ourselves and how we see our world. Each session will focus on a theme and how it was communicated by several different artists. First, we'll look at art of the land, sea and air, and the animals that inhabit them. Next, we'll explore how artists view society across time, cultures and countries. In our final session, we'll examine the various ways artists of different eras use color. Throughout, our emphasis won’t be on scholarly and technical facts, but rather on enjoying what we see in the work itself.

Dates: Tuesdays, May 14, 21, 28

Time: 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.

Place: Livestream Zoom + Recorded

Meeting with Even More Masterpieces: November 21

To view slides, click here.

Supplementary Videos

Full Youtube Video played in class of Kehinde Wiley following Slide 28. Two additional Kehinde Wiley videos just below.

Video about Art at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia following slide 70.

Full Video about Pierre Bonnard, “Painter of Happiness” from the Tate following slide 72.

Full Youtube Video played in class following Slide 75.

Full Video following Slide 80.

Full Youtube Video following Slide 86.

Meeting with Even More Masterpieces: November 14

To view slides, click here.

Supplementary Videos

Full Youtube Video about slide 9: The Vermeer Collection.

Full Youtube Video about slide 36: Bruegal’s Fall of the Rebel Angels

Full Youtube Video about slide 46: The Lost Leonardo

Full Youtube Video about slide 57: Jerry Saltz.

A video retrospective on Ed Rusha (Slide 82)

Meeting with Even More Masterpieces: November 7

To view a PDF of slides, click here.

Forum

Patrice Vecchione’s article can be found here at the Monterey Herald.

To answer the question abouts Barba Cantos:Apelles painting Campaspe (After van Haecht) 2018. I found the artwork in the Lumas Gallery o New York where you can see it––or buy it on line. It is a digital photo montage.

Here is a link to the offer:

https://www.lumas.com/pictures/lluis_barba_cantos/apelles_painting_campaspe_van_haecht_ii/

Supplementary Videos

Full Video about Odilon Redon’s The Cyclops following Slide 11.

Full Video about Ghosts of Hokusai following slide 29. Thanks to Maria, here is the translation of the first two Japanese characters in the video: strange female apparitions.