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Picture This is based on the assumption that the eye can and must be trained. What makes an artwork pleasing or disturbing is something we can understand only if we take the time to respond and engage with it. We live in a world full of visuals, but because of the excess, we tend to be less appreciative of design. Our sight has become jaded, lazy even: we tend not to stand in front of an artwork, denying the attention and dialoguing it deserves. The series of engagements at Picture This are meant to reverse this neglect. 

Picture This is structured as an 15 hour module, comprising a series of interactive slide shows, exposing you to artworks from all over the world, past and present. However, art history is not our pursuit but learning to get pleasure from art is. So even if you just delight in a riot of lines, shapes, colours and tones, you too would get pleasure from these sessions. At the end of the course the participant will be able to ‘look’ at artworks with a trained eye and be able to enjoy, appreciate and articulate their visual experience.

About the Instructor: 

Apurva Kulkarni, an academic, artist, and curator with over 30 years of experience, is a postgraduate in Art History from M.S.U. Baroda. He has taught art history, design, cultural studies, and art and film appreciation at institutions including the Goa College of Art, the Goa College of Architecture, MES College, Goa University, Kala Academy’s College of Music and Theatre, and galleries across Goa. A pioneer of performance and installation art, he founded Goa’s first art group, Synchronicity, in the mid-1980s and has curated renowned exhibitions such as I Am Red and Kama Interrupted. Currently mentoring artists globally, he continues to inspire through his multidisciplinary expertise and passion for the arts.

Course Structure:

Prologue: What is art?

Themes: Images of Divinity | The Body The Portrait | Landscapes | Still Life | Slices of Life

Elements of Art: Line Shape/Form Tone Colour Texture Space

Epilogue: Process