| Course: | Online Art Appreciation: Modern and Contemporary Irish Art |
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| Category: | Online Courses |
| Description: | Tutor: Dr Jane Humphries is an independent lecturer, writer and curator. This ten-week online course on Contemporary Art will look at Irish and International contemporary art practice from the 1980s to art being made right now. Why has art changed in different decades? We will explore how the increasing influence of social and political change, globalised culture, the art market, social media shapes art making in current Irish and international art practice. Themes
include topics such as feminism and identity politics; the domestic and home;
multiculturalism and globalisation; relational art, spatiality and the
everyday; appropriation - bad painting and the new realism; the rise of the
curator; installation and performance art; time based art and the role of
television and cinema; the changing role of the artist; political art and the
‘new turn’ to online curating/exhibitions as a reaction to the current cultural
climate. How the art world responded to COVID and what the latest developments
are will be an area for discussion. Each week students will be introduced to artists that have been making waves in the contemporary art world in Ireland and abroad and key works explored. At the end of the course, students will be able to identify key artists and works. A visit to view contemporary art in Dublin will be offered at the end of the course.
| Copyright: Kerlin Gallery |
