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THEME FOR THIRTEEN : Contemporary re-assertions of static and baroque ideals :
A- "Locked-in" vs. eccentric movement
B- Static vs. dynamic
C- Complete vs. incomplete
D- Balance vs. imbalance (tension)

Programs: 

20-# SEPT. 1- Contemporary Painting - illustrating the above ideals or concepts
"Clarity & Obscurity" } Keltic, Viking, Baroque, — Pollack, etc } 
Egyptian, African, Francesca, Mondrian, Rothko etc

SEPT.  27-# 2- "CLASSICISM" - traditional and new concepts of form and content :
order, or EQUILIBRIUM, old and new :

OLD : observable balance (representational content) :
RAPHAEL - "School of Athens"
INGRES - "Apotheosis of Homer"
POUSSIN -

NEW : SEURAT, PICASSO, GRIS, MONDRIAN, to Mid-20th century

OCT. 4-#
3- RENAISSANCE CRISIS : from static, or "locked-in" composition to open, or eccentric, composition :

The transition, through GIORGIONE (Fete Champetre), from his immediate predecessors (BELLINI, GHIRLAN-DAJO, etc.)  to TINTORETTO

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OCT. 11-# 
4- MICHELANGELO'S PROPHETS : ordered movement within the form

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OCT. 18-# 
5- TITIAN'S "EUROPA" " ordered movement within the form, and in the total composition

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OCT. 25-# 
6- VERONESE : ordered movement in "symphonic organization"

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NOV. 1-# 
7- RUBENS : ordered movement in "symphonic organization"
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