Class: Kerrin Meis - Romanticism

Four Fridays: Mar. 7-28 • 10:00-12:00 pm • $120

As the Age of Enlightenment immolated itself in the flames of the American and French revolutions, Romanticism emerged as the cult of the individual – of sensibility over reason. Abandoning heroic and rhetorical themes, painters and sculptors escaped reality, reveling in the infinite, in distant, exotic lands, in dreams and fantasies and the dark terror of the psyche. We study painters and sculptors in France, England, America, and Germany, including Goya in Spain. Kerrin Meis taught art history at SFSU for ten years and now lectures for the College of Marin and Dominican University and leads study tours in Europe. Her Book Passage classes have been big favorites for years.