BASC70043 - Basic Program Exploration of the Visual Arts

Course Description

Art is - thrillingly - always with us, and ever new. In Plato’s Symposium, Socrates describes Eros (or Love) as the desire that drives one toward that which draws one - toward the loving of humans, the begetting of works of art, the founding of cities, the clamoring to understand that is philosophia. The same Eros or desire leads us to take in and respond to works of art. Basic Program studies look directly at classic texts without the mediation of secondary commentary. Here, kindredly, we will explore directly a wide selection of the Art Institute of Chicago’s and other sites’ spectacular holdings, engaging them primally, in unmediated intercourse and discussion. First meeting at Gleacher Center, the following nine meetings on sites, which will be announced.