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Founded in 1994, THE COURSE offers art history lectures, opera and literature courses, guided museum visits and London walks.
In this 5 part series, Nicole Mezey, looks at how symbolic, illuminating, awe inspiring – the mastery of light has been a vital tool of the western artist. The course looks at such forms as stained glass, the natural light of Constable, the brooding emotion of Rubens and the reflections of Impressionism in an attempt to understand the fascination of light and its immense possibilities for the artist.
ALL THAT GLISTENS …
In the third lecture, we examine the gold of medieval altarpieces or the use of light itself in the form of photography, and how artists use materials to capture, mediate and explore our relationship with the subject. We look at materials from gold to glass to mosaic to understand how the medium affects the message.