THIS LECTURE will explore the history of Valencia city from the time of the Romans and the Muslims through its Visigoth and Catholic Gothic eras.
SPANISH SOCIAL REALISM -The Most Provocative & Political Paintings of the 19th & 20th Centuries - tba
THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY CLASS where we meet some of Spain's most brilliant academic realists, who transformed the political and social problems of modernisation into cultivated images with the dimensions and rhetoric of epic history paintings.
GLORIOUS GANDIA - Lecture & Field Trip - tba
19th Century Spanish Summers for the Bourgeoisie
The 19th century witnessed the emergence of the Spanish bourgeoisie taking their summer holidays by the sea, at a beach or spa resort, that combined health, recreation and social life. The Spanish beaches were filled with changing huts and sunbathing chairs, walkers in their fashionable clothes stylishly dressed parents sitting under umbrellas watching their children swim and many other novel phenomena that contemporary artists immortalized.
ART TALK - SEDUCTION IN SPANISH ROMANTIC ART & HISTORICAL CULTURE
ART TALK - THE SILK SHAWLS AND CARNATIONS OF SEVILLE
Karla Darocas will highlight the Seville artist Gonzalo Bilbao (1860-1938), a painter of Spanish traditions in the Seville school style. His success came by combining Andalucian elements related to customs, regionalism, and symbolism.
SEVILLIAN GARDEN OF THE SENSES
ART TALK by Karla Darocas will focus on the emblematic paintings of the Sevillian "garden of the senses" where history, popular past, light, colour, sounds, and pleasant domestic visions yield an appreciation of Sevilla landscape art.
2nd Summer Season of Spanish ART TALK 2021
FREE ZOOM LESSONS about some of my favorite Spanish Paintings & Artists and their Historical Stories.
** ART APPRECIATION will help you to enjoy your living and traveling in Spain so much more because when you visit the magnificent cultural museums, castles, cathedrals, art galleries, you will undoubtedly see art all around you!!💗
CATALAN MASTERS OF LIGHT EXHIBITiON
The Most Amazing & Famous Spanish Historical Paintings Of The 19th Century
IN THIS CLASS, we will marvel at the master painters who took the historical genre of painting to an amazing level of complexity and personality. We will be amazed at their narratives and be charmed by their romantic flare. The techniques of these artists are determined by realism and impressionism and blended into an eclectic mix. These are truly the most amazing and famous works of 19th-century historical genre. You will also learn about Spanish history as themes from Spanish legendary stories and tales are recreated for our pictorial pleasure!
* Instructor: Karla Ingleton Darocas, Hons. B.A. Fine Arts
Late 19th Century Spanish Orientalist Painters of Landscapes, Cultures & Costumes
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THE ENIGMA Dionisio Fierros (1827-1894) was a Spanish Romantic painter who painted a “Vanitas”, an allegorical still life, for the Marquis ...
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The most frequently reproduced motif throughout the history of art, especially in Western art, is the subject of the mother with child. Th...
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"Galatea of the Spheres"," painted by the surrealist artist Salvador Dalí in 1952, is a remarkable testimony to Dalí's u...