Classes in Spring and Summer 2012

Wargrave

January 2012

Meet the Rivals - The Italian High Renaissance: Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Titian

Tutor: Kate Phillips.

Venue: The Hannen Room, St Mary’s Church, Station Rd, Wargrave, RG10 8EU

A ten-week course starting on Thursday 12^th January 2012, 10.00-12.00. Fee £79.00.

The class is planned to coincide with the exhibition of Leonardo da Vinci paintings at The National Gallery from November 2011 to February 2012.

We shall explore the lives and works of the most important Italian High Renaissance artists. We shall look at who influenced them, how they responded to what went on around them and discover how they influenced others who followed them.

April 2012

Photography as Art

Tutor: Sandra Smith.

Venue: The Hannen Room, St Mary’s Church, Station Rd, Wargrave, RG10 8EU

A seven-week course starting on Thursday 19^th April 2012, 10.00-12.00. Fee £56.00

The course will explore the development of photography as an art form and significant new way of making pictures from its invention in the 1830s to the present day. Artists featured include Julia Margaret Cameron, Alfred Stieglitz, Henri Cartier Bresson and Robert Capa.

We shall explore the development of photographs through a study of the different types of pictures made in the period covered by the course. The approach will be thematic, with investigation of the portrait, landscapes, pictures of events and the idea of photography as a contemporary art form. We will not discuss the technical aspects of taking photographs although the major technical innovations will be explained. Currently the most exciting class I'm teaching. Sandra Smith, Course tutor.

Shiplake

January 2012

Beyond the classical top ten: Discovering great music

Tutor: Chris Skidmore

Venue: Shiplake Church Hall, Reading Rd, Shiplake, Henley-on-Thames, RG9 4BS

A six-week course starting on Tuesday 10^th January 2012, 2.00pm-4.00pm. Fee £48.00.

Are you confused by all the recorded classical music that’s available? Would you like to know more but don’t know where to start? This course is for you. Each week we will start with a well-known piece and take a musical journey to find others that are related to it, learning a little bit more about music on the way.

Enrol and pay online on the WEA website at www.wea.org.uk

For a Booking Form call Sylvia Ewan on 01189 403485 or email sylvia.ewan@btopenworld.com

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