Outline of slide lectures
Aspects of Composition Slide lecture by Tony Jackson
The following issues will be discussed with illustrations from Art history and Tony's own work-
Format. Rectangles ,squares, circles, frieze etc.
Symmetry. Asymmetry, Balance, Tension.
Movement of the eye around the picture. Focal points.
Ideals. Harmony, Golden section, Classical form.
The Picture Plane. Depth, recession, illusion.
Figure/ground relationships. Interaction between background and subject.
Light, colour
Challenging the rules.
Landscape and Meaning Slide lecture by Tony Jackson
The development of landscape from being just a backdrop to human stories to being a form in it's own right. The ways in which moods such as beauty, calm, energy, fear and mystery are conveyed will be discussed.
Pre- Renaissance.
Renaissance, Leonardo, Breughel, Bosch.
Classicism. Claude Lorraine etc.
Romanticism. Constable, Turner, Friedrich, John Martin
Symbolism. Landscape as metaphor
Realism, Impressionism
Post Impressionism. Gauguin, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Influence of Japanese prints
Modernism. Cubism, Fauvism, Surrealism, Abstraction
Tony Jackson can provide his own laptop,projector and screen for such lectures. The venue must be able to provide some blackout unless the evenings in the darker part of the year are used.