Bob and Roberta Smith
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“The Bigger Picture” with Bob and Roberta Smith RA is a year long course which will run every Tuesday from 27th Sept 2016 – Tues 4th July 2017, 10am – 5pm. The course will be divided into 3 terms of 10 weeks. The fee for the year is £1700
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This special year long course has been designed and will be taught by internationally renowned artist Bob and Roberta Smith. The course ‘The Bigger Picture’ is concerned with thinking about painting in a radically new way and will look at painting as an act undertaken by the artist that has consequences.
We will look both at the process of painting, surface, colour, form, composition and the subject of painting, the personal and political.
Bob and Roberta Smith has devised a course as a response to the crises in postgraduate education. It is aimed at those who wanted to study at postgraduate level but perhaps were reluctant to engage in formal education or to pay the high fees associated with it.
During the course we ask the fundamental question, ‘What kind of artist are you?’ but we critically ask another difficult question, ‘who on earth would be interested in my paintings?’ By addressing this second question we help to engage you in conversations which will root your practice in a community of ideas.
As the title of the course suggests we are looking at the bigger picture, i.e. what is beyond the canvas? We are looking at how art works for the individual artist, sometimes alone in their studio, and how they can influence their worlds and the world around them with their art. We are interested in making paintings and the concerns of painting but also we are interested in symbolism, politics, context and your ability to own your practice.
Come back to art school join the ‘Bigger Picture course’ and as Bob says “MAKE YOUR OWN DAMN ART!”
About Bob and Roberta Smith
Artist, activist, writer and musician, Bob and Roberta Smith is in fact just one man. Bob is an RA, a patron of the Big Draw and the National Association of Educators in Art and Design. Bob was recently a trustee of Tate and sits on the Tate Modern Council he is also a Trustee of the National Campaign for the Arts and a contributor to the Guardian Newspaper. He has extensive experience of teaching and is currently Associate Professor at the Cass School of Art Architecture and Design.
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