PRE-RAPHAELITISM: DREAMS OF AN EARTHY PARADISE

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

Following on from last year’s course on the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, we look at some of the later Pre-Raphaelite pictures which proved to be the perfect vehicle for the dreams and aspirations of Victorian society. This course will investigate attitudes to women, men and relationships through the key preoccupations which emerged in painting and literature of 

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NORWEGIAN ART: THE EMERGENCE OF THE MODERN

Higham Hall College Bassenthwaite Lake, Cockermouth, Cumbria, United Kingdom

19th century Norway was culturally impoverished by 600 years of foreign control, but by the mid-1800s art was becoming a potent expression of national pride, culminating in the realism of Christian Krohg and the exuberant celebrations of Norwegian landscape of Harald Sohlberg and Nikolai Astrop.  Tim Stimson   Residential: £350 Non-residential: £245