Courses in the history of contemporary art. Free Online Art Courses

School of collectors and experts

Winzavod, 4th Syromyatnichesky lane, 1

What they teach: the school enrolls in several courses, including "Modern Russian art”, “Collector”, “Many faces of Italy”, “Historical mosaic of art and life”, “Architecture”, “Beautiful France”, “Great Britain”, “Description and analysis of works of art”

Teachers: Kirill Svetlyakov (head of the department of the latest trends Tretyakov Gallery), Sergey Popov (owner of the pop/off/art gallery), Alexandra Obukhova (research fellow at the Garage Museum), Kirill Alekseev (ex-employee of the Tretyakov Gallery, now Associate Professor at the Kosygin Textile University)

How: the average cost of the course is 40,000–55,000 rubles.

The school positions itself as a pass to the world of art. Here they promise not only to teach the history of art, but also to teach future collectors and experts how to behave correctly at vernissages and in dealing with gallery owners and artists. Small groups, there is an individual course of study. Field classes and lectures are held in museums, galleries and artists' studios. The "Basic Course in Art History and Introduction to the Art Business" includes 24 group lessons lasting 3 hours, of which 19 are lectures and 5 are field trips. Each student is provided with a course CD so as not to forget the content of the lectures. Classes are held in the mornings or evenings twice a week. The school is located in a well-known center of contemporary art, which gives a certain guarantee for the quality of education. The teaching staff is highly qualified art critics, which also confirms the seriousness of such training. Apparently, the course is designed to "improve the skills" of professionals already working in the field of contemporary art, or novice collectors.

Phillips Auction House Education Program

Vozdvizhenka, 7/6

What they teach: modern Art

Teachers: Stas Shuripa (artist, art theorist), Alina Makeenkova (lecturer at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), Maxim Shishigin (art critic, artist), Vita Khlopova (choreography researcher)

How: 5 lectures - 10,000 rubles.

The educational program, supported by the Phillips auction house, was launched by Marina Dobrovinsky in 2008 and consists of two areas - thematic lectures and the history of contemporary art. The first direction includes lectures on classical art, the second - history is counted from late XIX centuries to the present day. Classes are held once a week in the evenings. The program includes art history courses for art lovers and collectors, excursions and trips abroad, as well as lectures by authoritative figures from the art world. Overseas trips lasting three to four days promise to help you get to places you could never go without an escort from the Phillips house, as well as leave time for dinner and shopping. The program is designed for the amateur level, its main goal is to teach the listener to navigate in contemporary art.

Cultural platform "Synchronization"

Bobrov Lane, 6, Strastnoy Boulevard, 12

What they teach: art history guide in 5 lectures - "Antiquity", "Middle Ages", "Baroque and Classicism", "Romanticism - Symbolism", "Realism - Modernism"

Teachers: Elena Lichmanova (lecturer of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), Natalya Vostrikova (art critic), Elizaveta Borovikova (expert appraiser of antiques), Olga Chuvorkina (art critic)

How: 1 lecture - 900 rubles, 5 lectures - 3500 rubles.

Here the lecturers follow not an academic, but a cultural approach. In teaching, the emphasis is not on academic learning, memorizing dates and periods, but on research interesting facts and paradoxes of culture. Lecture topics are extraordinary and answer witty cultural questions. For example, why in ancient Greece could a portrait be a crime? How can a Mannerist artist create if everything has already been invented before you? How did the artist turn from a romantic into a conscience of the era? It is announced that the course is aimed at "those who want to have an idea about the main stages in the development of fine arts and learn to understand the monuments of any era, style and direction." Simply put, for those who are quite professionally interested in art without the goal of getting into a university. Lectures are given on weekday evenings or on weekends. Groups of about 25 people. In addition, separate lectures are given here on various interesting topics: about the artists who changed the art of the twentieth century, as well as about the most bright personalities past, for example, about Caravaggio and why he can be called the first modern artist.

Higher School of Art Practices and Museum Technologies (HPMT), Faculty of Art History, Russian State University for the Humanities

Miusskaya Square, 6 (RGGU building)

What they teach: history domestic art of the twentieth century, the language of fine arts, the history of Russian art, the history of contemporary art, art Western Europe until the end of the 19th century

Teachers: Alexandra Danilova (researcher at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), Alexander Markov (teacher at Lomonosov Moscow State University), Tatyana Malova (art critic), Irina Zakharchenko (candidate historical sciences), Ilya Pechenkin (Associate Professor, Russian State University for the Humanities)

How: 51 000 rub.

An academic art history program taught by university-level educators. Here we start from antiquity and ancient Russian art and end with contemporary art of the twentieth century. Students are promised to be taught how to describe and analyze works of art. The course is designed for 228 academic hours, classes are held in the evenings. The course is rather addressed to RSUH applicants who are aimed at entering the university. graduate School HPMT is a division of the Russian State humanitarian university created in 2011. In addition, here you can listen to an additional course "Art Practice" (160 hours), where Valentin Dyakonov, Ilya Budraitskis, Boris Klyushnikov and Larisa Grinberg give lectures on curatorial practice (for a fee). The training is designed for beginner curators.

Institute of Cultural Education "Kultprosvet"

Luzhnetskaya emb., 6

What they teach: general history of art with an emphasis on the basics of attribution and examination of antiques

Teachers: leading experts in the field of antiques and art history, including 26 candidates of sciences, 10 doctors of sciences, 2 laureates of the State Prize of the Russian Federation

How: depends on course

The school practices both daytime and evening forms of education, both long courses and short courses. The emphasis here is not only on the academic teaching of art history, but rather on the fundamentals of attribution and examination of antiques. Special Program Arte Vera is designed for training antiquarians, the Academy cycle is for an in-depth course on a chosen art history topic. The school promises to provide students with internships in the funds and exhibition halls of leading museums. In groups of 7-10 people. Training is designed for future antique dealers and expert appraisers.

Association "Manege" together with Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov

Museum-workshop of Nalbandyan, Tverskaya, 8/2

What they teach: general history of art in several courses

Teachers: Ivan Tuchkov (Dean of the Faculty of History, Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov), Nadezhda Nalimova (Senior Lecturer, Department of General History of Art, Moscow State University named after M. V. Lomonosov)

How: one lecture - 500 rubles, 11 lectures - 5000 rubles.

On March 30, 2016, Manege and Moscow State University launched the General History of Art lecture course. Its first part, read from March to June, was devoted to art ancient world. The second, designed for the period from September to the end of November, is dedicated to the art of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. The next course is expected to start in early 2017. While the decision to extend the course is under discussion. It is announced that " key concepts history of art, such as the cultural and historical era, style, direction, art school, will be explained by examples of specific works. The program was compiled on the basis of the art history course of Moscow State University, taught by the luminaries of the department. Unique opportunity"study" at the university for little money.

Lecture hall of the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin

Volkhonka 8–10, 14, Kolymazhny per., 6, building 2

What they teach: history foreign art

Teachers: staff of the Pushkin Museum

How: one lesson in a lecture subscription - 300 rubles, the subscription price is determined by the number of lectures.

For eighty years the lecture hall of the Pushkin Museum im. A. S. Pushkin introduces everyone to the history of Western art. In 2016–2017, they offer subscriptions to lectures on the history of art from ancient times to the present day, as well as series of lectures on the architectural appearance of cities and art collections museums in the world. You can listen to a course on Western European art of the 17th-19th centuries, impressionism, the work of Andy Warhol and pop art, Everyday life in Ancient Greece, the history of cinema from the Dadaists to Fluxus and modern video art. Lectures are addressed to a wide variety of audiences: adults and children, lovers of the classics and avant-garde, students and grandmothers, amateurs and professionals. In fact, in Pushkinsky's lecture hall, one can obtain university knowledge in all areas of foreign art, and even learn directly from originals or museum copies from professional art historians.

Moscow Multimedia Art Museum

Ostozhenka, 16

What they teach: history of modern art, photography, architecture, fashion

Teachers: art historians and artists of Moscow

How: from 500 rub. for the lecture

At MAMM you can listen to lecture courses on the most different topics. For example, about the history modern architecture, sculpture, painting, about photography, about Diaghilev, about the art of the Ancient Ages, about producing, as well as shooting a fashion editorial, whatever that means. There are lectures for children, teenagers, adult art lovers, for every taste. Lectures are read by both super-professionals, like Igor Mukhin (course - 49,000 rubles), as well as recent graduates of the Rodchenko School and fashionable photo editors.

Lecture hall MMOMA

Tverskoy Boulevard, 9

What they teach: history of modern Russian and foreign art of the XX-XXI centuries

Teachers: Gleb Napreenko (critic, Chief Editor project "Disagreements"), Nina Lavrishcheva (research fellow at MMOMA), Olga Turchina (research fellow at MMOMA), Alexandra Danilova (research fellow at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts), Sergey Khachaturov (critic, lecturer at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov), Stas Shuripa (artist, art theorist), Alexei Maslyaev (MMOMA curator), Ilectra Canestri (fashion expert)

How: one lecture - 350–400 rubles, 10 lectures - 3000 rubles, 20 lectures - 5600 rubles, there is a system of benefits

From September to December, MMOMA offers two separate courses, dedicated to history contemporary art - foreign and Russian. Russian art (16 lessons) is read from the end of the 19th century until today, foreign (18 lessons) - from the beginning of the 20th century to our time. Here they will tell not only about Kazimir Malevich, Picasso and Vladimir Tatlin, but also about the most contemporary artists- Taus Makhachev, MishMash and Damien Hirst. Lectures are read by current critics, curators, theorists who are actively involved in the current art process. The courses are designed for a wide range of fans of contemporary art. Since March, you can listen to MMOMA new program dedicated to interdisciplinary artistic practices: the interaction of contemporary art with other areas of culture - theatre, music, design, fashion, photography and architecture.

Tretyakov Gallery

Lavrushinsky lane, 12, Krymsky Val, 10

What they teach: history of Russian art

Teachers: employees of the Tretyakov Gallery

How: 1 lecture - 270 rubles, 6 lectures - 1320 rubles, further depending on the course

The Tretyakov Gallery has a global lecture hall where you can learn everything about Russian art. In Lavrushinsky Lane, the course "Museum University" is taught, from ancient Russian art to landscape painting XIX century. "Museum University" on Krymsky Val begins with avant-garde masters and ends with art early XXI century. The Tretyakov Gallery also offers numerous lecture and art programs on various topics related to the exposition.

National Research University Higher School of Economics

online

What they teach: basic course art history

Teachers: Alexandra Staruseva-Persheeva, Artem Dezhurko, Maria Kalinina - lecturers at the HSE School of Design

How: is free

Online course designed for students humanitarian areas, as well as applicants art universities who take the history of art. Here they read the basic course, from the ancient world to the art of the twentieth century. the main objective- give an idea of ​​the evolution of styles in the history of Western European art and about the most important phenomena in the history of culture. The course is sustained in the tradition of classical art history. As Alexandra Persheeva writes: “In our course, each lecture has two semantic levels. First, we give basic information about the art of a particular era, and then we touch on more subtle points, talk about how people lived and thought, and reflect on the connection between art and the spirit of the times.” In total, the course takes 12 weeks, a week you need to spend 6 hours on training.

School of Veronika Kalacheva (Kalacheva School)

online, or in one of the buildings of the School (in person)

Teacher: Tatyana Bykovskaya (art critic)

What they teach: Basic Art History Course from Egypt to the Renaissance (online), from Egypt to Cubism (online)

How: RUB 18,000 / RUB 10,000

In the School of Veronika Kalacheva, where the main classes are devoted to teaching painting from scratch, art history lovers will be taught to distinguish Monet from Manet, and Van Dyck from Van Eyck. Here they follow the motto: “Everything as we love it: interesting, with soul and simple human language". Face-to-face classes (a course of 8 lectures) are held on weekends, you can sign up for online lessons at any time. Here they are extremely friendly towards future applicants: “All you need is good mood, time and Internet access. Classes will be divided into 2 parts - lecture, where you will get all the necessary knowledge, and practical. The courses are clearly designed for the amateur level and are addressed to those who want to learn more about art at their leisure.

School-studio "Sleeve"

Earth shaft, 59/2

What they teach: art history from antiquity to the present day

Teacher: Anna Guseva (teacher at Lomonosov Moscow State University, graduate of the Glazunov Academy)

How: one-time visit - 700 rubles, 5 lessons - 3200 rubles, 20 lessons - 11000 rubles.

Here they promise to teach not only the history of art, but also the understanding of "the internal processes of the spiritual life of mankind, which were reflected in the masterpieces of fine art." In addition to lectures, seminars are held. Classes are held on Saturdays. Reading in November Ancient Rome. The school was founded by Alexander Rukavishnikov, academician of the Academy of Arts, lecturer at the Surikov Institute. The main profile of the school is the preparation of young sculptors for admission to the university, for them, in general, an optional course in the history of art is designed.

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Krymsky Val, 9

What they teach: modern Art

Teachers: Natalia Sidorova (employee of the Tretyakov Gallery), Tatyana Bortnik (art critic)

How: 13 000 rub. subscription

The course taught at the Garage is called "Following the Footsteps of Contemporary Art". Cezanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, Duchamp, Warhol, Beuys, Kabakov and even Banksy - here they study the history of contemporary art through the personality of artists. The course consists of 20 lessons - 10 are read in February - April, 10 in September - December. But the great thing about educational program Garage is after all a series of lectures and individual lectures by leading art historians, artists and curators. The cycle "Simply Art" is led by the famous art critic and teacher of Moscow State University Andrey Kovalev, inviting to a conversation famous artists. Unique program lectures "Asymmetric similarities" are conducted by art critic Irina Kulik, creating dynamic pairs of authors who are not close enough in time or style. Entrance is free by registration.

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Journalist Anastasia Kokonova wanted to understand the history of art and organized courses to study it. It turned out to be a classic university education, only without frames curriculum. The group has been engaged for the third year, and the final is not soon. The Village spoke with Anastasia about how to comprehend art and whether it is possible to bring the matter to the end.

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Anastasia Kokonova

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Four years ago, I got the idea to create a gallery of contemporary artists. I just realized that this is not enough in the city. I didn't have any foundation other than business courses, management projects, and artist acquaintances. I wrote to friends, discussed my idea and realized that we have a very open environment, my project will be supported. There was a lack of knowledge in the field of art, and I wanted to study it on my own. Quite by chance, one guy from management courses advised me to get acquainted with the doctor of art history Alexander Nikolayevich Donin and gave me his phone number. I called right away. She said: "Hello, I'm Nastya, I want to study art." We met near the University named after N. I. Lobachevsky, and he seems to have perceived me as a blonde-twisted tail. But he liked the idea, we agreed, and I quickly assembled a group.

Knowledge without "crusts"

Classes began at the professor's house. A small room with a projector: the walls are filled with bookcases, an oak table and a sofa on which listeners sit in two rows. At the first meeting, we realized that we didn’t even understand at all famous works. And we were all very hooked.

There were people in the group who were not directly connected with art. Designer, photographer, girl journalist - all my friends. A motley company, and initially it was not serious for everyone. I wanted a fundamental education, but without a diploma and five years of study. Everyone probably has their own goals, but we were very united by respect for the teacher. Alexander Nikolaevich Donin is the only professor of art history in Nizhny Novgorod and an amazing storyteller.

The group expanded, and we decided to move to a more spacious hall of the Ziferblat. A local audience was added, some of us decided to leave, and a little chaos escalated. Once we even almost quarreled over money. It seemed inconvenient to study in Ziferblat, because it active life distracted us from work. We moved into a room former gallery, but high rents have sowed controversy. I remember that we asked Alexander Nikolayevich about reducing the price for a lesson, and he replied that he spends seven days a week preparing one lecture. Well, we didn't ask anymore.

An experiment with an infinite program

I liked the clear rules of these meetings. You can’t be late even for a minute, you just won’t be allowed to attend, if you miss, explain honestly. The professor also asked not to call these meetings courses, better - a community. Despite the seriousness of the topics that we were taught, the atmosphere of the classes was homely, after the lectures we often had tea parties, the professor treated us to tinctures.

For the third year, every Sunday, people are engaged in self-education for three hours. Everyone is wondering when we will finish. But this is a real experiment: the professor does not plan the program and just talks as much as he sees fit. People ask when there will be a lecture about the Renaissance period, but it is not approaching. Many still leave - they are afraid of uncertainty and do not want to spend it is not clear how many years on courses. Life is short, but the history of art is eternal.

I can't say that over the past three years, one of the listeners has become an art critic. This is an informal education, and it will probably be difficult to apply. I also can’t say that for people it’s just fun on weekends. This is a kind of attempt to build their own relationship with in-depth education.

Art against old age

For the past six months, I have not been attending classes due to a family situation. In September I moved to Bogorodsk to young man and his grandmother, who has Alzheimer's. I was exhausted in a week and could not go to Sunday lectures. Disease loved one became an obstacle, but I found a new inspiration - urbanist Andrey Amirov's courses on contemporary art. They fit better both in the schedule and in my needs - after the fundamental history, modernity began to be missed. Andrey's thoughts about performance inspired me to create a blog about Alzheimer's - this is my small act of creativity in journalism. Art taught me to see inspiration in everything, even in illness. It helps me learn to live with this problem.

Through this experience, I learned something important. The head cannot work without inspiration. They say that a thinking person ages less, but it seems to me that this is not entirely true. Grandmother worked a lot with her head, thought about how to live in difficult time how to make ends meet - and her brain just broke from overload. In order not to grow old, you need to work not only with your brains, but also with your soul. Without inspiration, nothing will work, and it never comes from the head. I strive for the interaction between inspiration and mental work. Learning art for me is a mental work. Vent.

I received two and a half years of courses, which I myself organized, and then I was carried away somewhere. The professor and his students are studying now without me. The idea of ​​creating a gallery came to naught, and during this time, new places for contemporary artists appeared in the city. My idea was implemented, and it's not bad.

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I worked in many Nizhny Novgorod universities and noted that, say, for a hundred students there are only two or three people who will be interested in art. The rest - no. Today's students are brought up in such a way that they have in the foreground money, money, dresses, Jewelry. But even out of these two or three, there is very rarely someone who has a strong desire and the opportunity to study all this in more detail than prescribed by the university course. In this community, I tell 20-30 times more material. In fact: a university course is at best three semesters. And we have already passed three years, and we started with primitive art and now we reach only the developed Middle Ages. How much we still have ahead - at least for the same period of time, and maybe even longer.

thinking man it is common at least sometimes to think about why man and mankind exist. Mostly people are busy creating purely material goods and striving to take away these goods from each other, which results in wars and other unpleasant things. I am convinced that man was created for something completely different. In addition to mastering the cosmos, as thought 50 years ago, the goal of mankind is to create works of spiritual life. I mean architecture, music, literature, art, dance and so on. And so one part of humanity creates it, and the other can cognize and assimilate it. And somewhere to eat, something to wear, somewhere to sleep - this is the tenth thing. It so happened that I have a fairly large amount of knowledge in this area and I see the purpose of my life in transferring this knowledge to someone. That's all.

In this compilation, you can listen to audio recordings of 30 real lectures for Oxford University students. Topics are completely different: from European medieval architecture to Chinese art. Lectures read the best teachers Faculty of Art History at the University of Oxford, visiting lecturers from the Universities of Essex and Edinburgh, as well as professionals from the commercial field.

The free online course focuses on Western art and covers the period from the Italian Proto-Renaissance of the 13th century to modern art. The purpose of this introductory course, according to its authors, is not so much to introduce the audience to some specific works and facts from the history of painting, sculpture and architecture, how much to push for further research and deeper immersion in topics of interest. A series of lectures should teach you to understand art, to consider it in a historical and cultural context. The course is approximately 25 hours long and consists of 11 thematic blocks arranged in chronological order. Each block offers tasks or topics for reflection, as well as links to various online sources for self-study.

Massachusetts College of Art introduces the history of European art through the example of 24 greatest works. Among them are not only paintings, but also sculptures, architectural monuments, musical and literary masterpieces. In the collection, for example, were the Athenian Parthenon, Laocoon, the Gospel from Lindisfarne, " The Last Supper» Leonardo, “The Abduction of Europe” by Titian, engravings by Dürer. The course ends with a discussion of the work of Jackson Pollock. You will see how the perception and interpretation of certain works of art changes over time, what relationships bind the artist, his creation and the viewer, how the era affects the perception of the work. All lectures can be listened to for free on Kadenze.

Women have always been involved in art, but it took a long time before they were noticed and recognized. The Tate Britain course explores the struggles women artists have faced, from learning to selling a painting, to fighting for their rights, to feminism in art. You will get acquainted with the works of Barbara Hepworth, Lorna Simpson, Nan Goldin and other artists and see how they reflect contemporary issues gender, equality, freedom, democracy and many others.

The New York Museum of Modern Art introduces its collection from the period 1880-1945. walking along virtual galleries, you will see the main works from the museum's collection, from post-impressionism to early work New York School. The lecturers will tell why the paintings of Cezanne, Van Gogh, Duchamp, Matisse, Picasso and other artists shocked the Academy of Arts in their time, and how they changed the views on traditional painting. The course consists of a series of short lectures on the history of art and is accompanied by video recordings from the museum's picture rooms. The duration of the course is ten weeks, the cost is 7,700 rubles. By the way, MoMA also has a course dedicated to the role of technique and materials in art.

Free course in Russian on the history of contemporary Russian art. It is led by art historian Polina Zotova from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and psychologist Alesya Miyuzova from the Moscow City Psychological and Pedagogical University. In a series of lectures, the authors offer to get acquainted with the basic concepts and forms of art of the 20th century, as well as with the concepts of works by contemporary artists. From the lectures, you can learn how and why the themes and genres in art changed radically in the 20th century, how the development of art is connected with the history of our country, and also for whom and why contemporary art exists.

In this course, the authors offer a look at the history of art from the point of view of the artist. The main task is to understand how the authors create their works, where they draw inspiration from, what is their view of the history of art. Innovators in art, as a rule, know history very well, but at the same time violate traditions. Why? Why should modern game designers take a course in classic drawing? After completing this 9-week course, you can get answers to all these questions. During the training, you will need not only to listen to ten-minute lectures and interviews with artists, but also to practice in museums, galleries and workshops.

Sotheby's offers a whole series of online courses on various art history topics and areas: for example, an introductory course in art history, contemporary art, art history from impressionism to conceptualism, art as business and others. The start of training for these programs begins in the fall (five sessions start in September, and three more in November), but registration for them is already open. One cycle lasts six weeks and costs more than 80,000 rubles; upon completion, you receive a Sotheby's certificate.

What is a museum archive? How are works of art stored? In this course, the staff of the Tate Gallery invites you to take a look behind the scenes and look at archival exhibits, which include both finished works and sketches and drafts left over from great artists. In addition, the course tells how masterpieces are restored and how the theme of memory is analyzed in painting and architecture.

The University of Cape Town has developed an interesting interdisciplinary course dedicated to understanding human health and medicine in the arts and humanities. In the video lectures, a psychologist, an oncologist, a geneticist, a pathologist, a sociologist, a poet and an artist share their reflections on the topic of health, diseases and their treatment, as well as the human essence in general. Among the announced topics are the heart, art and the brain, reproduction and innovation, death and the body, and others. The course is free.

We have compiled a list of the most interesting online courses dedicated to different areas art. Our list will be updated with new training programs. All courses available for free and read in Russian.

Online courses starting soon

ABC drawing - a course at the Universarium, where both a 7-year-old child and adult parents will be taught fine literacy. Maria Titova and Natalya Gritsenko will talk about the basics of composition, contrast and nuance, scale and proportion, as well as silhouette, shape and texture in a series of lectures. The course starts April 10, 2017.

Understand art - a real find for those who dreamed of understanding art, learning to "see" the author's ideas and intentions. From this course at the Universarium, you will master the basic concepts of genres and techniques, learn what a “viewing point” is, and even try yourself in the role of art critics and curators. Starts April 17, 2017.

Draw a theatrical hero - you will know what the features of the work are theater artists, gain skills in depicting a person in makeup and in theatrical costume, you will feel the role of color and form at all stages of creating a theatrical image and stage. The author and lecturer of the course is Elena Alekseevna Agapova, costume designer, teacher at the design department at Moscow State University of Technology. K. G. Razumovsky. Starts at the Universarium on May 15, 2017.

Online courses open anytime

How to listen to classical music - 4 lectures lasting from 14 to 20 minutes (in audio recording; there is also a summary) from the Arzamas Academy will tell you what prevents us from enjoying classical music And what you need to know to love her. The course will also talk about how music differs from noise, whether an orchestra can play without a conductor, whether musicians are able to understand each other and about a unique experiment set in the USSR.

What is Ancient Greece – from 6 lectures on the website of the Arzamas Academy you will learn how Greek comedy works, why it’s good to scold people, who paid for performances, why comedians were not afraid to make fun of politicians, why Aristophanes made fun of his friend Socrates, how Greek tragedy works, and why tragedy doesn’t gotta cry. And also about the theater as teaching democracy, about the main Greek tragedy what actually happened to Oedipus the King and why the Athenians didn't like Sophocles' work.

Russian art of the XX century - in 8 video lectures on the Arzamas website, the necessary amount of knowledge is voiced for everyone who wants to understand what he sees in the museum. Topics covered include: Russian modern and Russian avant-garde, how the radical new art of the 20th century was created, what style of painting Stalin created, how the underground was born, who created the most mysterious and intellectual style of the 20th century, why heaps of garbage and fur cups became art, as in art turned hooliganism and self-mutilation.

Russian avant-garde - a course from the Arzamas Academy of 5 lectures on how the new Russian art of the 20th century began. Who were the people who made it, what inspired them and how they shocked the public, and what was the difference between the avant-garde artists of Moscow and St. Petersburg. Andrey Sarabyanov also talks about alogism and zaumi, about the birth and death of Suprematism, how Russian avant-garde artists switched to abstractions and tried to captivate the whole country with their utopias.

Architecture as a means of communication - a course of 8 lectures from the Arzamas Academy on what and how architecture tells us and how to learn to read its messages. Vadim Bass talks about the means by which architecture expresses itself, about adequate architecture for ordinary people, about architecture as a tool of manipulation, how the national question is solved in architecture, and how non-religious architects rethought the church architecture of the last century.

How to understand 19th century painting - Arzamas Academy offers a course of 8 lectures by Ilya Doronchenkov on how eight revolutionary artists comprehended history and modernity. How Jacques Louis David created the standard of civil prowess, why Theodore Gericault's The Raft of the Medusa acquired political meanings, how abstract freedom was embodied in the half-naked beauty of Eugene Delacroix, how Francisco Goya stopped the moment before the execution, and Vasily Surikov wrote the main tragedy history, divided the people and the state and became Russian pride.

English Renaissance theater - 3 lectures and 18 materials from Marina Davydova about the language that the theater of Shakespeare's time spoke with the audience are waiting for you on the Arzamas website at any time. You will learn more about the symbolism of Doctor Faust, how it develops English drama and how it works English theater how it is similar to the world and from where angels and devils should appear.

Archeology of folklore: mythological motifs on the world map – an interesting course on Stepik for everyone who has read the myths and fairy tales of the peoples of the world with enthusiasm, and is now ready to look at their content through the eyes of a researcher. Yuri Evgenyevich Berezkin, professor at the EUSP Department of Anthropology, overlays data on the distribution of motifs and elements of folklore on the map and suggests drawing conclusions about cultural contacts and migrations in the distant past, about which we have little other evidence.

Cinema history – the course at the Universarium is open for viewing and reading at any time. You can view all the lectures in a row or jump to the modules you are interested in and even test yourself with quizzes. Students of the course on examples of work famous directors get acquainted with the history of the formation of domestic cinema.

Fundamentals of portrait photography – 8 lectures on Learn New to help beginners understand camera settings, portrait composition, lighting, and get inspired to take portrait photos. The author of the course is a professional photographer Alexander Khokhlov.

Albrecht Durer and 6 more famous artists of the Northern Renaissance – on Learn new a series of 8 lessons dedicated to such outstanding painters as Albrecht Dürer, Jan van Eyck, Hans Memling, Hans Holbein the Younger, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Pieter Brueghel the Elder and the most mysterious Hieronymus Bosch. Let's try to understand their paintings and learn about the features of these masters.