LIfetime Learning - Doug Cason presents a lecture on "Why did they stop painting "pretty" pictures?"

Doug Cason is a full time member of the Art Faculty at Blinn College in Brenham and teaches Art Appreciation, Art History and Painting and Drawing. He will discuss how in the early 19th century, painters began to revolt against the classic codes of composition, draftsmanship, and heroic subject matter. Patronage by the church and state was sharply declining at the same time that artists' views were becoming more independent and subjective.
This will be an interesting discussion of how artists sought the signs of change and novelty and the scenarios that made up contemporary life.