HYBRID: In the classroom and online. A Zoom link will be sent to all one day before class.
This is about art and about history, but it is not art history. Let's be footloose and fancy free, and just follow our feet from one imaginary gallery to another, from one museum to another, to an astonishing building here and a surprising home or factory there. Without any boundaries of time or space, let's enjoy the work of creative people, one by one, asking ourselves how the font of human ingenuity is opened and nourished and fulfilled. The imagined gallery we visit for this class will feature the work known as Rembrandt's Hundred Guilder Print. The intense emotions of its figures have inspired other artists over the years. We will also examine some of these other artists’ creations, including our presenter's sculpture recently installed at Saint Mary's Chapel in Ann Arbor. Michael R. Kapetan is an artist whose own work is informed by the scientific, the aesthetic, and the spiritual as he creates holy images for churches, synagogues, and temples, plus unique solar sculptures that mark the turning of the seasons. Mike is retired from the University of Michigan’s School of Art. He holds a degree in art history from Harvard University, and a master’s degree in sculpture from the University of Michigan.
