Signs and Symbols: Reading Art
X03.9107
/ $370
SPRING 2010
Continuing Education:
Arts Programs
Why is Botticelli's Venus riding on a seashell? Why are Michelangelo's saints naked? And why are Dali's watches melting? For centuries, artists have used signs and symbols drawn from myth, dreams, and everyday life to tell their stories through pictures. Learning to unravel these visual riddles--what art historians call iconography--adds depth and pleasure to your enjoyment of art. Explore these special images and their meanings in slide-illustrated lectures featuring the art work of Botticelli, van Eyck, Vermeer, Rembrandt, Dali, Picasso, and others. Two Friday-evening tours of the painting collection in the Metropolitan Museum of Art are planned.
Tuition does not include museum fees.Non-evaluative course; grades not issued.
Related Subject Areas: Art History
Course Materials
Section 1
Wednesday 6:45pm-8:25pm
February 17 - April 14
no class 3/17
8 Sessions
Instructor:
Robert Melzak
Location: Woolworth Building, 15 Barclay
