2 Audley Square
Mayfair, London W1K
UK
Founded in 1994, THE COURSE offers art history lectures, opera and literature courses, guided museum visits and London walks.
This inspirationally compelling new course creates strength and variety from the vastness of its subject: the Creation of the World and everything in it as encountered by artists and writers throughout the centuries. Now we can read, look at, see what they saw from hill-top, valley-side, shore-line, doorway and windowsill across land, sea and sky: the Earth, and human life in all its glory and diversity. Each week’s programme names just some of the featured artists and writers.
Sea and Sky
Their kindred blues and greys make us yearn towards the mirage of their meeting, often hidden by cloud, storm, the towering swell. Elgar’s Sea Pictures poems; Coleridge, Masefield, Hardy, Tolstoy, Whitman, Blake, Katherine Mansfield, Edna St Vincent Millay, C S Lewis, Keats, Clare; Friedrich, Burne-Jones, Watts, Monet, di Cosimo, Raphael, Courbet, Landseer, Hopper, Renoir, Dali, Seurat, Rubens, van Ruisdael, Turner, Constable, Church, van Gogh, Tiepolo, Gauguin, Hiroshige, Titian, O’Keefe.