Meetings with Even More 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). This is the fourth in the series. OLLI @ CSUMB provides a dynamic community for those aged 50 and better living in the Monterey Bay Peninsula (and now to those with access to Zoom) in many fields including (but not limited to) science, history, music, and art. Video recordings will be posted as soon as they are available to the public. Each session has responses from the participants and bonus videos that Renée wants to share.
Session 1
Connections with the Masterpieces
To view the Powerpoint slides, click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.
Responses to Connections with the Masterpieces
“My mom brought me this from England 45 years ago, and I couldn’t wait to pull it out after your presentation because I recognised the Henry the eighth. Now I will always know who Has Holbein the Younger is.
Also, we are so happy when you showed a painting that we recognized from your last class(es). Repetition is how we learn. Thank you so much for the old and the new that you are showing/teaching us. It’s all been invaluable. 45 years of seeing this repeatedly, and now I recognize it... for what it is.
I’m so gratified that you really understood what that meant to me to know the painter of my stylized Henry VIII. It brought my mom close. And as you’ll see below, it inspired me to find a place for it in my new remodel. Destined, without my previous knowledge, to be right next to the 2 cups I have left from the set she brought me from another trip to England.”
“Christina Baker-Kline’s book A Piece of the World is a stunning portrait of a very private person and we get to spend time with the artist Andrew Wyeth!”
“I loved the Francis Baco tribute and think that the unfinished Homage to him by Freud was really powerful.”
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Session 2
Tales of Two Countries
To view the Powerpoint slides, click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2. Bonus! There were more videos to share than fit in the timeframe of class. Below the Responses to Tales of Two Countries are 3 videos not included in the original presentation but well worth watching.
Responses to Tales of Two Countries
“Mercury in the water deformed the children in Japan.”
“The national anthem lyrics come from the “Defense of For McHenry”, a poem written on September 14, 1814, by 35-year-old lawyer and amateur poet Francis Scott Key after witnessing the bombardment of For McHenry by British ships of the Royal Navy”
“Saw an ad in the NY Times on Sunday for auction of print of photo of woman with children with estimated price of $35,000”
“Rockwell is a master of composition!”
“150 + Dylan paintings are found at Bob Dylan Retrospectrum or at the Halcyon Gallery in London. A new Dylan Center opened last week in Tulsa which focuses on the creative process. At the least, Dylan is the Renaissance/Universal Man”
“Horace Pippin is also a wonderful Black painter”
Recommended Video 1: This is about Manet's painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère
Recommended Video 2: This is about Norman Rockwell’s Rosie the Riveter
Recommended Video 3: This is about the Faith Ringgold Show that is coming to the deYoung in San Francisco
Recommended Video 4: This is about Toulouse-Lautrec’s AT THE MOULIN ROUGE.
Recommended Video 5 (Bonus from a class participant!): Thanks so much, Bruce, for introducing us to Bob Dylan’s art. I loved his videos you shared with me, particularly JOKERMAN that is kind of like a Musical romp through the Masterpieces classes, Fun!
Session 3
Meetings with the Mind
To view the Powerpoint slides, click here for Part 1 and here for Part 2.
Responses to Meetings with the Minds
“Equating surrealism with magical realism is interesting.”
“I took my granddaughter to the Dali museum in Monterey. She was a bit underwhelmed until we saw a painting she had in her art class. Suddenly Gramma had credibility.”
“Disconcerting to learn of Dali’s love for fascism.”
“The new Thomas Crown Affairs also immortalized the bowler hat of Magritte.”
“Excellent class today and so timely for me. I feel as if I’m living in a toxic fog with all the horrific news - like the creature in The Scream. And if I could paint I would create my own Garden of Earthly Delights.”
Renée Responses
Remember the New Yorker caption contest? Here is the winner.
