Brought to you by The Art Class Online, The Art Class Bexley and The Art Class Wimbledon, The Art Class Online video channel on YouTube presents educational videos on painters and the art and the history of painting in the Western tradition. A selection of the videos can be viewed below.
Pierre Bonnard: the Colour of Time
Educational video on the paintings of Pierre Bonnard looking at how this artist used colour as a means to represent time and memory in his paintings. The video looks at a comprehensive range of Bonnard’s paintings throughout his life(figure, still life, landscape), following his development from his early work as a decorative artist and his involvement with the group Les Nabis, onto his mature phase in the South of France where colour assumes a definitive role in Bonnard’s paintings of memory, time and experience of his life with Marthe de Meligny, his wife and muse.
David Hockney: Double Figure Paintings of the 1970s
An educational video by contemporary British artist, Nicholas Wyatt, that surveys and discusses the large scale double figure paintings that David Hockney made in the 1970s in Los Angeles and London. Amongst the paintings discussed are: Mr & Mrs Clark and Percy (1971), American Collectors (1968) and Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) (1972). This educational video gratefully acknowledges image sources in this video and is brought to you by The Art Class Online, The Art Class Bexley and The Art Class Wimbledon.
Painting the Modern City: London (Part 1: Canaletto, Turner, Monet)
Video lecture by Nicholas Wyatt, artist, surveying how London has been painted by generations of artists from Canaletto to Frank Auerbach. This video is part 1 of 2 and charts the painting of London from the mid 18th century by artists such as Canaletto to Claude Monet’s views of Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament at the dawn of the 20th century.
Painting the Modern City: London (Part 2: Monet, Derain, Sickert, Auerbach)
Painting the Modern City: London (Part 2 ) starts at the beginning of the 20th century with Claude Monet’s atmospheric masterpieces of London’s Waterloo Bridge and the Houses of Parliament and traces how London provided subject matter, not only for home grown talents like Walter Richard Sickert, but also for avant-garde painters from Europe, artists like the French Fauvist painter Andre Derain and emigre painters like Frank Auerbach, evacuated to Britain as a child in the Kindertransport in 1939. Narrated by contemporary London artist, Nicholas Wyatt, this educational video reveals how artists both nationally and internationally have been drawn to London as a global city. First in a series of how painters have painted the great cities of the world from The Art Class Online, The Art Class Bexley & The Art Class Wimbledon.
Style in Western Painting
Introductory video of Powerpoint presentation by Nicholas Wyatt, artist, outlining key categories of style in the development of the painted image in Western art, focusing on the two key categories of Apollonian and Dionysian impulses in Western painting and their expression through Classical and Baroque/Romantic painting, describing the transition of style in painting through the lens of period, culture and individualism.
The Figure in Nordic Painting
Educational video from contemporary British artist, Nicholas Wyatt, discussing how the human figure is represented in the painting styles of Nordic cultures. Artists covered include Edward Munch, Christian Krohg, Wilhelm Hammerschoi, Richard Bergh, Pedr Kroyer, Michael Ancher and the Skagen Group of Painters. An educational video produced by The Art Class Online, The Art Class Bexley and The Art Class Wimbledon. Source material images are in the public domain and are gratefully acknowledged for the purposes of this educational video.
The Representation of Light in Painting
Educational video on the painting of light by Nicholas Wyatt, artist, which asks the question : Is the light of the world the same light as the light of the enlightenment? Speaking from his viewpoint as an artist and drawing on examples of painting (including his own practice) from the European tradition, British contemporary artist Nicholas Wyatt looks at the various ways artists have represented light in painting. The video examines and discusses amongst others the paintings of Leonardo da Vinci, Caravagio, El Greco, Rembrandt and post-Enlightenment painters such as Constable, Friedrich, Monet and Seurat. The video concludes with the painting of light in the 20th century and includes Matisse and the influence photography, cinema and the digital image have had on painting (Richter, Warhol, Koons).
Abstraction and Representation in Painting
Educational video of Powerpoint presentation by contemporary British artist, Nicholas Wyatt, discussing the meanings generated by representational images in Western painting and comparing them with the meanings generated by abstract images in painting. This video, illustrated with key examples from the history of painting and the narrator’s own painting practice, asks such questions as: What is meant by representation and abstraction? How is meaning communicated in these two visual languages? Can abstract and representational paintings share similar meanings?
The Art Class Online video channel on YouTube presents educational videos on painters and the art and the history of painting in the Western tradition.