Learning to Look: Art and Visual Culture

What will I learn?

Join artist and enthusiastic art lecturer Nick Pearson, for a wide-ranging and entertaining series of art and design-related lectures around specific artists, movements and visual culture in general. No prior knowledge or art education required – just an open mind! These are the kind of lectures you might hear if you were on a full-time art & design course, and are the very ones Nick delivers on various foundation and degree-level art courses he teaches/has taught on. Learners may join the course in any of the three terms Course Content Term 11. Antonio Gaudi 2. Visual Language (I) 3. Visual Language (II) 4. Ukiyo-E: Japanese Woodblock Printing 5. A Partial History of Graphic Design 6. A History of Photography (I) 7. A History of Photography (II) 8. A History of Collage 9. Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes 10. Artists Noteboks Term 211. Damien Hirst 12. Advertising in Art Deco Period 13. Sonia Delaunay 14. Birth of Surrealism in Jazz-Age Paris 15. The Bloomsbury Group 16. Colour Photography 17. 20th-century Modernist Architecture I 18. 20th-century Modernist Architecture II 19. Art & Visual Illusion 20. The Life and Work of Grayson Perry Term 321. ‘My Generation’ Art in London in the 1960s 22. Post-Modern Architecture 23. Secret Knowledge: David Hockney’s theories on the use of lenses in art history 24. The Mirror in Art 25. ‘The St Ives School’ Pt I 26. ‘The St Ives School’ Pt II 27. 18th-century Caricature 28. Tracy Emin 29. The Impressionists and oth