Join us for a friendly online taster lecture to support your current studies and find out what it might be like to study art history at university.
Session time: Monday 27 November, 14.10-15.00
In this live interactive History of Art/Art tutorial, we will be joined by Dr Jack Hartnell, Associate Professor of Art History in the School of Art, Media and American Studies at UEA, who will explore Analysing & Interpreting Previously Unseen Art OR What The Hell Is That?!
Confronted with an artwork that they’ve never seen before, people can sometimes feel a bit helpless. Am I meant to know who this was made by? How do I know how old it is? What is it even meant to mean anyway?
This is because viewing a work of art can come with a lot of expectations, especially that its interpretation should be quick and effortless. But this isn’t always the case. More often than not, understanding the different aspects of an artwork takes time, unravelling itself like a fun puzzle before your eyes.
This webinar will provide you with a set of simple tools that will help with analysing and interpreting any work of art that you are seeing for the first time. Using a range of images from Modern Art to the Middle Ages, you’ll learn to how to look carefully and ask the right questions. And by the end of the session, you’ll be well prepared to understand artworks from around the world in a new way, even if you’ve never seen it before.
Suitable for: Key Stage 5, and equivalent, students studying or with an interest in studying History of Art/Art and related subjects. Teachers and members of school staff, as always, are welcome too and participants can join as individuals from school/college or home, or as a group from school/college.
For details and to book your place, visit:
https://www.channeltalent.co.uk/event/history-of-art-art-analysing-interpreting-previously-unseen-art-or-what-the-hell-is-that-with-dr-jack-hartnell-from-university-of-east-anglia/