About the Course:
Learning how to appreciate art is a significant cultural support enabling people to observe and enjoy art, art forms, artistic inspirations, creative ideas, and how cultures used art. Art brings an understanding of diversity, how people lived in the past, and connects the issues concerning contemporary life and art today. This course explores how to appreciate art through understanding the lives and works of the artists. Artists seek in some way to connect art to our lives. Both creating and viewing art can provide us means of stating or affirming our personal and collective feelings, thoughts, ideals, and attitudes while we learn values of philosophical ideas and connecting themes through artistic means and experiences.
Art History Class Spring 2023 (Program)
- January 11: What is the driving force behind creating art?
- January 18: Gutai: Japanese avant-garde group formed in 1954
- January 25: Yayoi Kusama (1929- )
- February 1: Mark Dion (1961- ) & Anicka Yi (1971- )
- February 8: Gala Porras-Kim (1984- )
- February 15: Alex Katz (1927- )
- February 22: Katherine Bernhardt (1975- ) & Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
- March 1: Eddie Martinez (1977- ) & Anna Park (1996- )
- March 8: Franz Kline (1910-1962) & James McNeill Whistler (1984-1903)
- March 15: Jeong Zik Seong (1976- )
- March 22: Pat Steir (1940- )
- March 29: Robert Ryman (1930-2019)
- April 5: Cy Twombly (1928-2011)
- April 19: Stanley Whitney (1946- ) & Henri Matisse (1869-1954)
- April 26: Morris Louis (1912-1962) & Brice Marden (1938- )
- May 3: Sam Gilliam (1933-2022) & Angel Otero (1981- )
- May 10: Mary Weatherford (1963- ) & Grace Hartigan (1922-2008)
- May 17: Al Loving (1935-2005) & Oscar Murillo (1986- )
- May 24: Abdoulaye Konaté (1953- ) & El Anatsui (1944- )
- May 31: Lucia Hierro (1987- ) & Joiri Minaya (1990- )
Instructor: Dr. Jinyoung Koh
Jinyoung Koh is a graduate program director and an assistant professor in Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education at Towson University in Maryland. Dr. Koh completed a Doctor of Education in Art & Art Education from Columbia University in New York. He earned a Master of Fine Arts in Photo & Media from the California Institute of the Arts and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His art has received numerous awards and is included in the collections of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Rockefeller Foundation.
- Registration is open through January 5, 2023. All lectures will be conducted in Korean. Tuition is $400 for the semester. Questions and inquiries can be directed to info@ahlfoundation.org.
