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Students are welcome to join (or leave) at any time (any session/week) since no prior skills or information are needed for these creative sessions! Each session is independent! Also, this is a dyslexic and dysgraphic friendly course! For most of the class, there will only be music playing and art on the screen (with no writing). For each session, I will choose one masterpiece and pair it with some accompanying music, and this will be the inspiration for that day's creations. All are welcome! 

This is a relaxed arts appreciation course where learners will gain exposure to various styles of visual art and music in a relaxed way, and learn to take time to savour and reflect as they enjoy the arts. We will discuss our personal interpretations and connect these art-music pairings to our stories, experiences, and feelings, as we discuss our observations. We will also note how art is often fluid, as we compare how the various art-music pairings change our interpretations and lead to new narratives.

This course is designed to help students embrace their creativity. Each class will be an informal gathering where each student will work independently on a personal project in response to the art-music pairing. Each participant is welcome to respond in their own creative way, whether it is through visual art, dance, photography, creative writing, journalling, poetry, music, or drama.

Each week, I note the artist's name, nationality, birth/death years, the art movement/style with a definition, and post a map showing where the country is located. 

If you are interested in a specific art masterpiece or musical selection, please contact me prior to the class to figure out when that particular class will be offered.

ARTISTIC INSPIRATION
Week of - "Spring Outing of the Tang Court" by Zhang Xuan (Unknown but between 713 and 755 CE; Gongbi)
Week of - "A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains" by Wang Ximeng (1113; Colour landscape on silk scroll)
Week of - "Dancing and Singing- Peasants Returning from Work" by Ma Yuan (Unknown but between 1155-1235)
Week of - "Along the River During the Qingming Festival (清院本清明上河圖)" by Zhang Zeduan (1186; Chinese landscape/shān shuǐ)
Week of - "Night Revels of Han Xizai" by Gu Hongzhong + the 12th century remake (Unknown but between 1163 and 1224)
Week of - "Mona Lisa" by Leonardo da Vinci (1503–1506; Renaissance)
Week of - "The Chess Game" by Sofonisba Anguissola (1555; Renaissance)
Week of - "Wanluan Thatched Hall (婉娈草堂图)" (1597; Expressionism and Chinese landscape/shān shuǐ)
Week of - "Still Life with Lemons, Oranges, and a Pomegranate" by Jacob van Hulsdonck (1630; Baroque)
Week of - "The Wine Glass" by Jan Vermeer Van Delft (1660; Dutch Golden Age; Baroque)
Week of - "Girl With a Pearl Earring" by Jan Vermeer Van Delft (1665; Dutch Golden Age; Baroque)
Week of - "Vanitas Still Life" by Maria van Oosterwijck (1668; Baroque)
Week of - "Merrymakers in an Inn" by Adriaen van Ostade (1674)
Week of - "清 陸漢 山水八開 冊/Eight Landscapes" by Lu Han (1699; Ink and color and symbolism)
Week of - "Wangchuan Villa" by Wang Yuanqi (1711)
Week of - "Peaceful Start for the New Year" by Ding Guanpeng (1748; Ink and color)
Week of - "Morning" by Claude Joseph Vernet (1760)
Week of - "A Romantic Landscape with a Ruined Castle" by Robert Adam (1778-1787)
Week of - "Pergola with Oranges" by Thomas Fearnley (1834)
Week of - "Music in a Tavern" by Carlos Morel (1839)
Week of - "The Boy from the Coast" by José Agustín Arrieta (1843; Genre painting)
Week of - "Takiyasha the Witch and the Skeleton Spectre" (or "Mitsukuni Defying the Skeleton Spectre Invoked by Princess Takiyasha") by Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1844; Ukiyo-e and Triptych)
Week of - "Shirasuka: Shiomi Slope,no. 33 from the series Fifty-Three Stations of the Tokaido (Tōkaidō gojūsan tsugi)" by Utagawa Hiroshige (1847-1852)
Week of - "The Old Mill" by George Inness (1849)
Week of - "A Muleteer and a Weaver from Vélez" by Carmelo Fernández (1850-1851)
Week of - "Indian and Mestizo, Province of Pamplona" by Carmelo Fernández (1851; Watercolour)
Week of - "Miners in the Sierras" by Charles Christian Nahl and August Wenderoth (1851-1852)
Week of - "Landscape with Farmhouses and Palm Trees" by Camille Pissarro (1853; Impressionism)
Week of - "Courtyard" by Alexandre Gabriel Decamps (1855)
Week of - "Asakusa Rice Fields and Torinomachi Festival (Asakusa tanbo Torinomachi mode), from the series 'One Hundred Famous Views of Edo (Meisho Edo hyakkei)'” by Utagawa Hiroshige (1857)
Week of - "Muleteers Crossing the Pyrenees" by Rosa Bonheur (1857; Realism)
Week of - "Equality before the Law" by Francisco Laso (1859)
Week of - "Weaning the Calves" by Rosa Bonheur (1859; Realism)
Week of  - "The Spanish Singer" by Édouard Manet (1860; Realism)
Week of - "Diogenes" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1860; Academic: Historical, Greek mythology, and Orientalism)
Week of - "A Stop in the Field" by Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1861; Romanticism)
Week of - "Un domingo en los suburbios de San Isidro" by Prilidiano Pueyrredón (1861; Romanticism)
Week of - "Changing Pastures/Rowing Boat" by Rosa Bonheur (1863; Realism)
Week of - "Old Oaks at Bas Bréau" by Adolphe Martial Potémont (1865)
Week of  - "The Collector of Prints" by Edgar Degas (1866; Impressionism)
Week of - "The Horse Market" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1867; Academic: Historical, Greek mythology, and Orientalism)
Week of - "Bashi-Bazouk" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1867; Academic: Historical, Greek mythology, and Orientalism)
Week of - "Sacramento Indian with Dogs" by Charles Christian Nahl (1867)
Week of - "The Tulip Folly" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1867; Academic: Historical, Greek mythology, and Orientalism)
Week of - "The Carpet Merchant" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1867; Academic: Historical, Greek mythology, and Orientalism)
Week of - "The Love Chase" by Charles Christian Nahl (1869)
Week of - "Eagle Head, Manchester, Massachusetts (High Tide)" by Winslow Homer (1870)
Week of - "A Pass in the Bullring" by José Jiménez Aranda (1870; Costumbrismo & genre)
Week of - "Riders Crossing the Desert" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1870; Academic: Historical, Greek mythology, and Orientalism)
Week of - "Summit of the Sierras" by Thomas Moran (1872/1875)
Week of - "Figaro's Shop" by José Jiménez Aranda (1875; Costumbrismo & genre)
Week of  - "Au Café-Concert" by Edgar Degas (1875-1877; Impressionism)
Week of - "Chariot Race" by Jean-Léon Gérôme (1876; Academic: Historical, Greek mythology, and Orientalism)
Week of  - "The Plum" by Édouard Manet (1877; Realism)
Week of - "Seventeenth-Century Interior" by Charles Gifford Dyer (1877)
Week of  - "In the Conservatory" by Édouard Manet (1879; Impressionism)
Week of  - "One of the Family" by Frederick George Cotman (1880; Romantic Realism)
Week of - "Strange Flower (Little Sister of the Poor)" by Odilon Redon (1880)
Week of  - "Little Dancer Aged Fourteen" by Edgar Degas (1878-1881; Sculpture)
Week of - "Conversation in a Sevillan Courtyard" by José Jiménez Aranda (1881; Costumbrismo & genre)
Week of  - "Waiting" by Edgar Degas (1880–1882; Impressionism)
Week of - "Cliff Walk at Pourville" by Claude Monet (1882)
Week of - "The Song of the Lark" by Jules Adolphe Breton (1884)
Week of  - "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte" by Georges Seurat (1884 to 1886; Neo-impressionism and Pointillism)
Week of - "The Departure of the Boats, Étretat" by Claude Monet (1885)
Week of - "Étretat: The Beach and the Falaise d’Amont" by Claude Monet (1885)
Week of - "Snow, Boulevard de Clichy, Paris" by Paul Signac (1886; Post-impressionism)
Week of - "Les Andelys, Côte d’Aval" by Paul Signac (1886)
Week of - "The Infinite Search, from Night" by Odilon Redon (1886)
Week of - "Flower Girl in Holland" by George Hitchcock (1887)
Week of - "Terrace and Observation Deck at the Moulin de Blute-Fin, Montmartre" by Vincent van Gogh (1887)
Week of - "Apple Picking at Eragny-sur-Epte" by Camille Pissarro (1888; Neo-impressionism)
Week of  - "Green Field" by Vincent van Gogh (1889; Post-impressionism)
Week of  - "Landscape from Saint-Rémy" by Vincent van Gogh (1889; Post-impressionism)
Week of - "Street in Italy" by Belmiro de Almeida (1889; Realism)
Week of  - "The Starry Night" by Vincent van Gogh (1889; Post-impressionism)
Week of - "Somewhere There Must Be Primordial Shapes Whose Bodies Are Only Images” by Odilon Redon (1889)
Week of - "Chinese Street Scene" by Robert Frederick Blum (1890; Watercolor and gouache over graphite)
Week of  - "Wheatfield with Crows" by Vincent van Gogh (1890; Post-impressionism)
Week of - "The Big Tree" by Paul Gauguin (1891)
Week of  - "Tiger in a Tropical Storm (Surprised!)" by Henri Rousseau (1891; Naïve and Post-impressionism)
Week of - "Beach at Cabasson (Baigne-Cul)" by Henri Edmond Cross (1891)
Week of - "Early Morning, Tarpon Springs" by George Inness (1892)
Week of - "Reading" by José Ferraz de Almeida Júnior (1892)
Week of  - "Evening on Karl Johan Street" by Edvard Munch (1892; Expressionism)
Week of - "Sita" by Odilon Redon (1893)
Week of - "The Place du Havre, Paris" by Camille Pissarro (1893)
Week of - "The Ameya" by Robert Frederick Blum (1893)
Week of - "A Stag" by Rosa Bonheur (1893; Realism)
Week of - "The chatterbox" by Belmiro de Almeida (1893; Realism)
Week of - "Boy with a mandolim" by Belmiro de Almeida (1893; Realism)
Week of - "Place des Lices, St. Tropez" by Paul Signac (1893; Neo-impressionism)
Week of - "Fox Hunt" by Winslow Homer (1893)
Week of - "Fine Weather (or Country Idyll)" by Belmiro de Almeida (1893; Realism)
Week of  - "The Underground Railroad" by Charles T. Webber (1893; Realism)
Week of - "In the Time of Harmony. The Golden Age is not in the Past, it is in the Future" by Paul Signac (1893-1895; Neo-impressionism)
Week of - "Woman Bathing Her Feet in a Brook" by 
Week of - "Pont Boieldieu in Rouen, Rainy Weather" by Camille Pissarro (1896; Neo-impressionism)
Week of - "The Spat" by Belmiro de Almeida (1897; Realism)
Week of - "Bad news" by Belmiro de Almeida (1897; Realism)
Week of - "The Gulf Stream" by Winslow Homer (1899)
Week of - "After the Hurricane, Bahamas" by Winslow Homer (1899; Watercolour)
Week of  - "The Dance of Life" by Edvard Munch (1900; Expressionism)
Week of - "A Friend in Need" by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge (1903; Kitsch)
Week of - "Flower Clouds" by Odilon Redon (1903)
Week of  - "Girl With Rabbit" by Paula Modersohn-Becker (1905; Expressionism)
Week of  - "The Sun" by Edvard Munch (1909; Expressionism and Symbolism)
Week of - "The Pine Tree at Saint Tropez" by Paul Signac (1909; Neo-impressionism)
Week of  - "Four Girls" by Auguste Macke (1910; Expressionism)
Week of  - "Spirit of the House, Still Life With Cat" by Auguste Macke (1910; Expressionism)
Week of  - "Blue Horse I" by Franz Marc (1911; Expressionism)
Week of - "The Yellow Cow" by Franz Marc (1911; Expressionism)
Week of  - "At the Cycle-Race Track" by Jean Metzinger (1912; Modernism, Cubo‐Futurism, and Cubism)
Week of  - "Paysage" by Jean Metzinger (1912; Cubism)
Week of - "The Monkey" by Franz Marc (1912; Expressionism)
Week of  - "Large Bright Showcase" by Auguste Macke (1912; Expressionism)
Week of  - "The Foxes" by Franz Marc (1913; Modernism, Expressionism & Cubism)
Week of  - "Terrace of the country house in St. Germain" by Auguste Macke (1914; Expressionism)
Week of  - "Girl in the Greenery" by Auguste Macke (1914; Expressionism)
Week of  - "Deer in the Forest II" by Franz Marc (1914; Expressionism)
Week of - "Love of Winter" by George Wesley Bellows (1914)
Week of - "The Last of New England—The Beginning of New Mexico" by Marsden Hartley (1918-1919)
Week of - "Entrée du port de la Rochelle" by Paul Signac (1921; Neo-impressionism)
Week of - "Cabin in the Cotton" by Horace Pippin (1931-1937)
Week of - "Starry Night and the Astronauts" by Alma Thomas (1972; Contemporary/Abstract)
Week of  - "BrainChain" by Willem den Broeder (2001; Surrealism)
Week of  - "Landscape With the Red Car" by Denis Barsukov (2004; Expressionism)
Week of  - "Winter Morning" by Denis Barsukov (2005; Expressionism)
Week of  - "In the Studio" by Denis Barsukov (2007; Expressionism)
Week of - "A trip to Hills and Lakes in Spring" by Chen Minglou ()
Week of  - "Batik" by Yanci Andreas (2010; Abstract Impressionism)
Week of - "Fairy Tale" by Marta Scmatava (2010; Surrealism)
Week of  - "Stillleben im Winter" by Matthias Laurenz Gräff (2011; Expressionism)
Week of - "Varo Remedios" by Quinn Comendant (2011)

Movements & Styles:
Renaissance
Baroque
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
Academic
Realism
Pre-Raphaelite
Impressionism
Naturalism
Post-Impressionism
Neo-impressionism
Pointillism
Naïve
Folk
Symbolism
Fauvism
Expressionism
Cubism
Cubo‐Futurism
Constructivism
Futurism
Abstract
Surrealism
Abstract Expressionism
Modernism
Pop
Graffiti
Digital Artwork
*Hand-coloured etching (printmaking)
*Woodblock prints

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