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Exploring Modern Art in SF Museums NEW!

From Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism and beyond, San Francisco has distinguished museum collections of modern and contemporary art. The class will visit the museums to study these riches up close. At the Legion of Honor, we will focus on Impressionism and post-Impressionism. In sessions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we'll survey artistic developments from Matisse and Picasso to Pollock and Giacometti. The de Young offers American modernism from the 1920s to the 1960s. Returning to SFMOMA, we'll see the ways contemporary artists have adopted and transformed the inventions of early and mid-20th century art. First class meets at the Downtown Campus; all others meet off-site. About the Instructor: Clark Poling taught for thirty-three years at Emory University, serving as chair of the Art History Department. His publications are on the Bauhaus and on Surrealism, and he has organized exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. He lives in Oakland and has taught at California College of the Arts, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute of the University of California, Berkeley, Stanford’s Continuing Studies, and University of San Francisco.

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