BLAKE & PALMER: VISIONARY & DREAMER

William Blake, renowned for his poem ‘Jerusalem’, is England’s greatest poet/painter. A young disciple of his, Samuel Palmer, found his spirituality in the English landscape, painting images unique to British art. Blake’s complex theology and dramatic pictures are in stark contrast to the gentle pastorals of Palmer’s English countryside.   Tim Stimson (Lincolnshire www.highamhall.com/tim-stimson) Residential: 

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FULLY BOOKED: SWEDISH IMPRESSIONISM: ART AND SOCIETY TRANSFORMED

In this course we will look at The Opponents ,who can be likened to the Swedish Impressionists. Carl Larsson and Anders Zorn, with other significant artists, evolved new ways of depicting their world, whilst concerned that their art should also contribute to a more enlightened society, which they successfully helped to create.   Tim Stimson 

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FULLY BOOKED: THE PRE-RAPHAELITE BROTHERHOOD

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

In this course of illustrated lectures & discussion we will investigate the contribution made to the art world by three great Victorian painters - John Everett Millais, William Holman Hunt and Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their art embodies so much that is at the heart of English identity: poetry, love of nature, love itself. Long the 

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DANISH ART: THE GOLDEN AGE

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

From the early crisp, clear, bright & cheerful images of a gentle landscape and its people in the 19th century, Danish artists evolved a fascinatingly rich diversity of approaches in the dynamic period between 1800 and the early 20th century. British art collections contain few Nordic pictures, so for many these artists will be a 

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