Impressionism

We are going to sit at our favorite café with a cup of coffee or tea, and enjoy life while sharing with you as my friends the knowledge of this subject which I have developed over my entire life as a practicing artist and art historian. In this course we will also seek to learn from the French how to enjoy life, the Joie de Vivre, which is the main theme of these beautiful paintings. Impressionism revolutionized the way we see and convey the world around us. In this course we focus primarily on French Impressionism.  First we cover the founders of Impressionism: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec. Then we will explore the work of some less well known, but excellent artists: Vuillard, Fantin-Latour, Pissarro, Berthe Morisot, the sculptor Rodin, Caillebotte, and the Spanish master Sorolla. Everything covered in this course is based on direct and first hand observation focusing on the works, the art,  rather than on all the tangential things.

I teach lecture courses and studios as I wish they would have been taught to me. Much of the graphic material in my lectures is taken or generated first hand directly by me on site. I teach to learn. I teach subjects as I wish they were taught to me. The Mission Statement. Education is a tool for the improvement of successive generations. I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius

This course is designed under the premise that humans should be taught in a way that is modeled after the educational patterns of evolution.

The design, development and application of educational systems based on the educational principles of evolution generates a philosophy and methodology of education in synchrony with the evolutionary education system that is firmly and deeply rooted in each of us.

Education for evolution is an educational system designed to help propel humans forward in the natural course of evolution. The purpose of education for evolution is to enhance and strengthen the natural evolutionary process of humans through the mechanism of education. The means to achieve this objective is the design of a curricula based on the same educational techniques and strategies used by natural evolution, enhanced and guided by the application of conscious educational decisions.