THIS LECTURE will introduce you to Antoni Gaudi (25 June 1852 – 10 June 1926) and his EARLY YEARS. We will study the following works; Nau Gaudí de Mataró, Plaza Real, Güell Pavilions, El Capricho, Casa Vicens, Palau Güell, Bodegas Güell & Casa Calvet
VALENCIA CITY HISTORY & GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE
THIS LECTURE will explore the history of Valencia city from the time of the Romans and the Muslims through its Visigoth and Catholic Gothic eras.
SPANISH SOCIAL REALISM -The Most Provocative & Political Paintings of the 19th & 20th Centuries - tba
THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY CLASS where we meet some of Spain's most brilliant academic realists, who transformed the political and social problems of modernisation into cultivated images with the dimensions and rhetoric of epic history paintings.
GLORIOUS GANDIA - Lecture & Field Trip - tba
It is followed up with a FIELD TRIP - This is a Ride-Share excursion to Gandia where we visit the historical places and monuments that makes Gandia so glorious!
19th Century Spanish Summers for the Bourgeoisie
The 19th century witnessed the emergence of the Spanish bourgeoisie taking their summer holidays by the sea, at a beach or spa resort, that combined health, recreation and social life. The Spanish beaches were filled with changing huts and sunbathing chairs, walkers in their fashionable clothes stylishly dressed parents sitting under umbrellas watching their children swim and many other novel phenomena that contemporary artists immortalized.
ART TALK - SEDUCTION IN SPANISH ROMANTIC ART & HISTORICAL CULTURE
Karla Darocas will explore the painting styles of several 19th c Southern Spanish Romantic artists and talk about a few of their popular cultural paintings that from an Andalusian expression allude to the modest wooing rituals of couples during their courtship.
ART TALK - THE SILK SHAWLS AND CARNATIONS OF SEVILLE
Karla Darocas will highlight the Seville artist Gonzalo Bilbao (1860-1938), a painter of Spanish traditions in the Seville school style. His success came by combining Andalucian elements related to customs, regionalism, and symbolism.
SEVILLIAN GARDEN OF THE SENSES
ART TALK by Karla Darocas will focus on the emblematic paintings of the Sevillian "garden of the senses" where history, popular past, light, colour, sounds, and pleasant domestic visions yield an appreciation of Sevilla landscape art.
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