Monet? Picasso? O’Keeffe? Not exactly, although they are certainly superstars! But this class will look at a dozen or so artists whom you might not have heard of, but whom you will hopefully find intriguing and exciting. The artists are mostly contemporary, from diverse countries, cultures, and “schools” of art. Some of the artists we will be learning about include Mark Tobey (Northwest School), Wifredo Lam (Afro-Cuban), George Morrison and Allan Houser (Native American), Leonora Carrington (surrealism), Salah Elmur (Sudan), Dorothy Napangardi (Aboriginal), Nikolai Astrup (Norway), and Gabriel Chaile, Martin Puryear, and Marisol Escobar (sculpture). In addition to their works, these artists are all important figures in the movements of art both within their respective media as well as in the art that followed.
((Rebecca Carpenter - In Person: CMU Campus - Wednesday))
