This document outlines the objectives, outcomes, themes, and tasks for a session examining contemporary fine art practice. The key points are: 1. The session will analyze major exhibitions and help students make links between contemporary artists' ideas and their own work. 2. Themes explored by contemporary painters include politics, race, gender, tradition, shocking/subdued works, and relationships with other disciplines and society. 3. The task for students is to research a contemporary artist working within one of the 9 sub-themes, take notes, and give a presentation with visual examples to the group. Feedback will then be shared.

3. Why has Painting Survived?

4. Painting and Politics

5. Jules de Balincourt ‘Ambitious New Plans’

6. Painting and Racial Identity

7. Mark Bradford

11. Painting and Gender

12. Cecily Brown

13. Willem de Kooning

19. The Tradition of Painting

20. Tomma Abts

23. Frank Auerbach

25. Glenn Brown

28. Controversial?

29. Marcus Harvey

30. Subdued

31. Ian McKeever

32. Painting and other disciplines

33. Luc Tuymans

37. Peter Doig

40. Painting and Architecture

41. Chris Ofili & David Adjaye The Upper Room- Tate Britain

42. The Venice Biennale

43. Painting and society

44. Anri Sala