Building the Barnes: From Paul Philippe Cret to Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
July 9, 2013
2–4 pm

Explore the architecture of the Barnes: take a tour, discuss the Parkway, and think about how the art relates to the Barnes’s new architectural context.

$50; members $45
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

The Nude in Art: Artist, Model, and Sexuality
Leslie Bowen, MFA 
July 15, 16, & 17 (3 days)
10 am–3 pm

The unclothed figure has represented everything from idolized beauty to the provocative and vulgar. Using the Barnes's extensive collection of figure paintings, compare and contrast nudes by Courbet, Degas, Lautrec, Cézanne, Renoir, Pascin, Modigliani, and Matisse. Discussion topics include public reaction to nudes, the artist's intentions, and the relationship between artist and model.

$300; members $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

An Introduction to Ensembles
John Gatti, MFA 
July 16 & 17 (2 days)
10–4 pm

The Barnes combines diverse cultures and art forms; learn about design, aesthetics, and the related conceptual associations of the ensembles.

$300; members $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

Surrealism
John Gatti, MFA
July 26 & 27 (2 days)
10 am–4 pm

What makes a painting surreal? Encounter a world where dreams and reality coexist and artists' reveal their deepest psychological musings. Explore the compositional devices of surrealist and early modernist painters using selected works from the Barnes Foundation collection. We'll analyze works by Miro, Klee, de Chirico, Rousseau, Matisse, and Picasso and actively engage our visual, tactile and olfactory senses via a series of interactive and sensually stimulating exercises and projects.

$300; members $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

An Introduction to Ensembles
John Gatti, MFA 
August 6 & 7 (2 days)
10–4 pm

The Barnes combines diverse cultures and art forms; learn about design, aesthetics, and the related conceptual associations of the ensembles.

$300; members $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

Surrealism
John Gatti, MFA
August 9 & 10 (2 days)
10 am–4 pm

What makes a painting surreal? Encounter a world where dreams and reality coexist and artists' reveal their deepest psychological musings. Explore the compositional devices of surrealist and early modernist painters using selected works from the Barnes Foundation collection. We'll analyze works by Miro, Klee, de Chirico, Rousseau, Matisse, and Picasso and actively engage our visual, tactile and olfactory senses via a series of interactive and sensually stimulating exercises and projects.

$300; members $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

Cézanne
Mondays, September 9–September 30 (four meetings)
6:30–8:30 pm
Instructor: Michael Rossman, MFA

This four-week seminar will survey the principal works of Paul Cézanne in the Barnes collection. It is an opportunity to examine his compelling challenge as a painter and his enduring inspiration for artists of the twentieth century, including Braque, Picasso, and Matisse. Participants will view and discuss paintings central to Cézanne’s development: his earliest landscapes from the 1860s, Bathers at Rest, the great landscape of Gardanne, his numerous still lifes, the Card Players, and the monumental Bathers of 1906.

$300; members, $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300. 

Understanding World Art: From Crete to Callowhill: El Greco and the Barnes Foundation
Tuesdays, September 10–October 1 (four meetings)
6–8 pm
Instructor: Dr. Christopher Pastore

Focusing on the work of Domenikos Theotokopoulos, aka El Greco, this course will examine the relationship between his bravura brushstrokes and idiosyncratic style and the rise of artistic identity. Students will look at El Greco’s training as an icon painter in the “greek style,” his move to Italy, and his later triumphs in Toledo as the preeminent painter of the Spanish Renaissance.  As a part of the investigation of El Greco’s career and prodigious output, we will consider what his paintings meant to his audience during his lifetime and to later generations of artists and collectors. We will then investigate El Greco’s role in the Barnes ensembles and as a model for artists such as Cezanne, Matisse, Renoir and the Post-Impressionists whom Barnes would champion.

$300; members, $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

van Gogh
Mondays, October 7–November 4 (four meetings)
6:30–8:30 pm
Instructor: Michael Rossman, MFA

This four-week seminar will examine Vincent van Gogh as a keen observer of nature, a student of tradition, and an articulate craftsperson. Using the range of van Gogh’s paintings in the Barnes Foundation, students will look at van Gogh’s creative vitality and his experimentation in drawing, spatial depiction, and color harmonics. van Gogh left a lasting impression on other artists, including Matisse and American masters such as William Glackens and Alfred Maurer.  Their works will also be examined in light of van Gogh’s innovations.

$300; members, $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

Understanding World Art
Tuesdays, October 8–November 5 (four meetings)
6–8 pm

More information on this course will be available soon.

Monticelli, Cézanne, and van Gogh
November 18–December 9, (four meetings)
6:30–8:30 pm
Instructor: Michael Rossman, MFA

This seminar is an introduction to the paintings of Adolphe Monticelli (1824-1886), an innovator with the plastic, physical qualities of paint and an acquaintance of Cézanne and Van Gogh. Students will investigate these artists’ technical practices and possible shared influences.

$300; members, $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.

Understanding World Art: Albert Barnes in the Company of Collectors
November 19–December 10, (four meetings)
6–8 pm
Instructor: Blake Bradford, Bernard C. Watson Director of Education, Barnes Foundation

After 90 years, the Barnes Foundation’s collection continues to be a singular experience. However Albert Barnes was not alone in amassing an excellent art collection or in engaging modernism. Explore Barnes’s accomplishments alongside those of Katherine Dreier, Claribel and Etta Cone, Isabella Stewart Gardner, Duncan Phillips, and other of his peers. This course will offer a timeline for what was being collected by Barnes’s contemporaries, both individual and institutional. Students will also be able to consider the artists and works that didn’t enter the collection.

$300; members, $270
Register online or by calling 215.278.7300.