Pandora Art Services
Art Appreciation
PANDORA ART EDUCATION COURSES
ART APPRECIATION
Pandora Art Education International brings together art lovers around the world to feed their passion and help them learn and grow. Our programmes help art enthusiasts understand and enjoy how looking at paintings and sculpture or indeed decorative arts can be enriching, energizing and relaxing at the same time. It’s fun, it’s a leisure activity, but it’s also educational and in many ways therapeutic. It is also a fulfilling career path for students, returners or transition to the art world.
Our art appreciation courses are for those with little prior knowledge of the art world who want to learn more and have a basis from which to explore their favourite genres. Others already know something but want to fill gaps in their knowledge.
After this, we can develop our curiosity by researching artists, their practice methods, their circles and the era which influenced their work directly or indirectly. People from different backgrounds can learn to interpret works from new perspectives such as sociology, psychology, history, commerce, literature or music.
The course includes a glimpse of the art market and its importance in the luxury industry and the world of the art collector.
The course is enriched with many supporting reference documents to keep handy to refer back to. Illustrated with images, these helpful checklists, glossaries and articles enable you to quickly understand and grasp the richness of art history and how elements fit together. This is the best foundation for having a handle on the breadth and depth of fine art which will help you move seamlessly to the next level – Art Management.
In the art appreciation course students learn why art is important in our society. They understand the structure of art history as a study and learn terms and vocabulary. Very often the terms can be off-putting or confusing, you may think you understand what they mean but are you sure? Through our narrated lessons or learning in the classroom, we explain this in an easy-to-understand way.
Indian Sunset by Angie Kenber, mixed media on chunky canvas 40cm x 40cm
Artwork of The Month
Angie Kenber
Angie Kenber’s Indian Sunset captures the extraordinary atmosphere of Kerala in Southern India.
Angie Kenber is a longstanding artist based in Bristol, whose practice reflects a deep appreciation of colour, atmosphere and inspiration drawn from the world around her.
Kerala is is a place where colour, light and heat combine to create an unforgettable atmospheric experience. Informed by the artist’s trip to this remarkable part of the Asian continent. Indian Sunset reflects the intensity of the landscape and the clear physical presence of the heat as seen in the interplay of the colour block contrasts, warmth and vibrancy.
For Angie Kenber, the colours of Kerala were impossible to ignore, from the rich greens of the tropical vegetation to the fiery reds, glowing oranges and golden hues of the changing sky. Reminiscent of the work of the Bauhaus artist Paul Klee, Indian Sunset brings these impressions together, translating the memory of a place into a visual expression of its energy and atmosphere.
More than a recollection of a beautiful journey, Indian Sunset is a personal response to the sights, sensations and emotions that Kerala inspired. It evokes that magical moment when daylight begins to fade and the sky takes on its most dramatic colours. Through this semi-abstract scene, the artist brings the Indus to us , wherever we are, in a way that no film or photograph ever could.