Affordable and stimulating, the Gage Lecture Series invites art students and the general public to become better acquainted with artistic techniques and art history. You can register for a whole series or simply “drop in” for a particular lecture that interests you.

 

Kenneth Rosen Lectures:

Principles of Perspective Drawing

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with Gary Faigin
Tuesday, 7:00pm-8:30pm, 9/8-11/16

Faigin offers entertaining lectures for artists of all levels in this eight-part lecture series reviewing the principles and history of perspective with demonstrations, drawings and images. The lectures can be taken sequentially as a series, or independently of each other.

For the accompanying studio class, see Perspective Drawing, taught by Michael Lane.

This class fulfills a Foundation Drawing Program requirement. Learn more about the Foundation Drawing, Painting and Modernism Programs.

Sept 28 The Basic Principles of Perspective
Oct 5 The Fence-Post Principle: The Figure in Space
Oct 12 One- and Two-Point Perspective Retracing History
Oct 19 Construction on a Grid
Oct 26 Two-Point Perspective
Nov 2 The Still-Life: Ellipses, Reflections, Water & Mirrors
Nov 9 Freehand Perspective
Nov 16 Perspective in Art History

ALL LEVELS/PUBLIC WELCOME
L1007 $98 for series/$14 at door

Full Series $98

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Contemporary Art Lectures:

Art in Context,

with Lauren Klenow
Wednesday, 7:00pm-8:30pm 9/29-11/3

There are many significant transitions that have happened in art since the turn of the 20th century. From the popularization of modern art museums to the abandonment of conventional art venues, artists continue to re-imagine the definition of art and how it is experienced.
This six-part series examines the shifts in art history from the moment Impressionists took their canvases outside to how contemporary art has changed throughout the 20th century. The series concludes with an investigation of what is happening today in 2010 with discussion of international and local artists whose work can be seen here in Seattle.

Sept 29 Leaving the Studio: Impressionism and Post Impressionism - Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Odilon Redon
Oct 6 Combining Art and Architecture: Bauhaus and Modernism - Lazlo Maholy Nagy, Piet Mondrian, Josef Albers, Kasimir Malevich
Oct 13 Awakening the Unconscious: Surrealism - Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Max Ernst, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte
Oct 20 Post World War II, Why Make Art: Abstract Expressionism - Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Clyfford Still
Oct 27 Leaving the Museum: New Media Art - Ana Mendeita, Doug Atkins, James Turrell, Christo
Nov 3 Here and Now: Contemporary Art - Kiki Smith, William Kentridge, Whiting Tennis, Jeffery Mitchell, Joseph Park, Gretchen Bennett, Mandy Greer, Claire Cowie

ALL LEVELS/PUBLIC WELCOME
L1008 $70 for series/$14 at door

Full Series $70

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SAM Guided Tours

Picasso by Faigin

@ Seattle Art Museum
Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:30pm 11/10
Wednesday, 3:00pm-4:30pm 12/1

Gage Artistic Director Gary Faigin brings the artist’s eye and the art historian’s context to his overview of the exhibition Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso, Paris, on view at the Seattle Art Museum this fall. This first-time major Northwest show presents iconic works from eight decades of Picasso’s legendary career. Faigin walks you through the major periods of the artist’s prolific output while referencing his complex personal life, artistic milieu and development as the most wide-ranging and innovative artist of the 20th century. Audio equipment is provided and tour participants are invited to continue the conversation at a no-host happy hour at the SAM TASTE Restaurant afterward. Tour limited to 24. SAM admission not included.

ALL LEVELS/PUBLIC WELCOME

TR1002 Nov 10 $15/person



TR1003 Dec 1 $15/person