Courses

Art History Lectures

In this popular series the AGN invites a respected authority on the arts to give a series of 4 or 5 talks, generally held on Monday evenings at the Gallery. The schedule for 2012:

January 23 “Higher and Brighter”.  Andrew Gregg, head of the art department at Trinity College School, talks about The Age of Cathedrals, arguably the most astonishing period in western art history, considered by some as the true Renaissance. The talk will provide some 11th and 12th century context, surveying examples of cathedral building from Romanesque to High Gothic in Autun, Vezelay, St Denis, Chartres among others, and noting differences in English cathedral designs.

January 30 “Reflections of a Curator”. James Campbell, current executive director at the visual Arts Centre in Bowmanville and former director /curator at the Riverbrink Museum in Niagara on the Lake, talks about experiences from his career with both public and private art collections.

February 6 “Painters and Drawing”. Andrew Gregg explains the role of drawing in the work of artist, from the Renaissances to the present. Some made drawing the heart of their entire enterprise, other, like Hals and Caravaggio, left no drawings. Some drawings made for their own sake can stand alone, others were an aid to the finished painting.

February 13 “Women in art Philanthropy”. Gabrielle Peacock, CEO at Oshawa’s Robert McLaughlin Gallery, introduces us to some of the little-known women of the 19th, 20th, and 21st century who have been strong supporters of artists and their work.