Experiencing Nature Through Art: The Cultivation of Perception

This course highlights three stages in the evolution of aesthetics, beginning by tracing the progressive development of landscape art by painters from the Renaissance to Romanticism, proceeding to a kind of interactive artwork from Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism, and culminating by pointing to visual practices that enable viewers to themselves generate a luminous aesthetic experience within a natural setting.

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Dr. Bruce Elliott teaches courses all throughout the Bay Area. Through lecture and extensive visuals, his courses highlight the dynamic interaction between historical developments and artistic expression.

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Member Praise for "Experiencing Nature"

There was an amazing amount of information about art, nature, sensory experience. It was very interesting to see how Bruce Elliott moved from focusing on nature in graphic art to the enhanced experiential state that we can achieve in our own lives. I LEARNED A LOT!! Thank you.

Bruce is a very engaging lecturer and his love and knowledge of the subject pull the student in. I don't have much background in art history and appreciation but he has inspired me to be open to taking other classes of this nature.