Monday, January 26, 6 – 8pm
Students in front of Cézanne’s The Card Players. Image © The Barnes Foundation
$90; members $81
(2-hour workshop)
About the Class
Does listening to a particular sonata or jazz composition influence how we perceive a painting? What formal analogies, such as symmetry, rhythm, and repetition, emerge when we experience a musical composition and a work of visual art together? In this two-hour workshop, we’ll explore questions like these as we combine art history with the Barnes Method, reviving Albert C. Barnes’s practice of pairing art and music in the galleries. As we view iconic paintings by Paul Cézanne and listen to equally iconic compositions by Mozart, Beethoven, and others, we will consider and discuss the connections between visual and musical creativity.
Barnes classes will:
- Sharpen your observational and critical thinking skills.
- Improve your ability to communicate about art.
- Deepen your appreciation for cultures and histories outside your own.
About the Series
Our Sound and Color series revisits Dr. Barnes’s original vision of pairing music with visual art, drawing inspiration from his historical lectures and curated playlists. Using the Main Gallery as both a classroom and a concert hall, each sensory-rich workshop explores how visual and aural elements interact to shape perception, evoke emotions, and create meaning.
Instructors
Alison Boyd
Boyd is director of research and interpretation at the Barnes. She studies the intersection of multiple modernisms in American and European art in the first half of the 20th century, with a focus on the arts of the African diaspora and the politics of museum display. Boyd contributed to the 2023 publication The Barnes Then and Now: Dialogues on Education, Installation, and Social Justice.
Kaelin Jewell
Jewell is a senior instructor in adult education at the Barnes and has been teaching art history for nearly 15 years. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in photography and art history from the University of Louisville’s Hite Institute of Art and Design and has a PhD in ancient and medieval art history from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. Jewell is also a trained archaeologist and has worked on projects in the American Midwest and Sicily.
What Our Students Say
“The instructor is a gifted individual who is able to [engage] with all different kinds of learners and motivate us to want to learn more, see more, and experience more. I would highly recommend any course by this instructor.” —Collection Concentration: Medieval Modern with Kaelin Jewell
“Martha Lucy knows how to balance her lecture with fact, excellent painting selections, and inclusion of the students.” —The Art and Life of Toulouse-Lautrec with Martha Lucy
“The best class to understand the elements of art. The instructor’s expertise and warmth, along with the excellent discussions with my classmates, made it a truly wonderful experience.” —The Elements of Art with William Perthes
“This class offered rich insight into Picasso and his contemporaries—the gallery scene, turn-of-the-century politics, Catalan culture, along with Picasso’s approach to composition and contemporary European culture. It was so informative.” —Picasso in Focus: New Discoveries at the Barnes with Christine Romano and Naina Saligram
“Caterina loves the material she presents and infuses all her classes—of which I have taken many—with that infectious enthusiasm.” —Rendez-vous au Café: Café Culture in 19th-Century Art with Caterina Pierre
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Discovering Daumier’s The Ribalds
This immersive workshop is an opportunity to study and discuss an individual work in the Barnes galleries. Instructor: William Perthes
The Traditions of Art
Trace art’s evolution from ancient to modern times while immersed in the Barnes collection galleries. Instructor: Kaelin Jewell