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Instructor: Craig Griffeath
Mondays, Oct. 19, 26, Nov. 2
3:00 – 5:00 PM, Berger Center
3-week session. Cost: $50
Course Description:
Local art historian Craig Griffeath returns to OLL with the concluding chapters of his popular Art in America saga, following the development of American art and culture through the 20th century and beyond. Starting with the arrival of the first Modern Art from Europe around 1900, we’ll see how America’s artists overcame resistance to assume a position of dominance in the Modern Art dialogue. Three multimedia chapters track the profound changes in American art and society, from the Roaring ‘20s and the Great Depression to Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art and the vexing Culture Wars of our own Postmodern world.
Course Details:
Week 1: America’s First Modern Artists 1900-1940
Robert Henri and the Ashcan School. The Armory Show and the 1920s. Frank Lloyd Wright, Alfred Stieglitz, Georgia O’Keeffe, Charles Sheeler. The 1930s—American Art Deco. The Chrysler Building and Rockefeller Center. Stuart Davis. American Scene and Social Realism. Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Ben Shahn, Dorothea Lange. The Harlem Renaissance—Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas.
Week 2: American Art Ascendant: The 1940s and 50s
Postwar prosperity and Cold War paranoia. Surrealism in America—Arshile Gorky, Willem de Kooning and Abstract Expressionism. Pollock, Newman, Rothko and Motherwell. Postwar Sculpture: David Smith, Louise Nevelson, Joseph Cornell. Neo-Dada and early Pop: Larry Rivers, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns. Romare Bearden and Jazz. Populist art—Grandma Moses, Andrew Wyeth, Norman Rockwell.
Week 3: Pop to Postmodern: the 1960s and Beyond
Post-painterly Abstraction—Frankenthaler and Noland. Minimalism—Ad Reinhard, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, Donald Judd, Richard Serra. 1960s Pop Art: Lichtenstein, Rosenquist, Oldenburg, Warhol. The left Coast: Diebenkorn and Thiebaud. Segal and Kienholz. Earth Art: Smithson, de Maria and Turrell. Postmodernism: Mark Tansey and the History of History, Feminist and Identity Art. Postminimalism and Anti-Form. Philip Guston, the 80s art bubble, Haring and Koons, issues in art and society today.
Instructor Biography:
Veteran art historian Craig Griffeath taught art and music programs for 25 years at Academy of Art University. He holds a Masters in Humanities/Art History from Dominican University and a Certificate in Western Arts Education from the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, where he served on the Docent Council from 1992-2004. Since retiring and moving to Sonoma in 2021, Craig has continued developing new programs to bring the story of art into the life of the community..
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