How to make modern painting? — rate 94500 rub. from the British Higher School of Design, training 3 months, date March 21, 2024.

Language of instruction
Russian

Start date
April 13, 2023

Duration
3 months

Form of study
Full-time

The program will teach you about color and light, working with paints and working with a portfolio, working with sketches and approaches, and will not forget about the brief history of painting and its context.

Main goal of the course — give participants the concept of creative freedom along with a set of professional skills and abilities for their own creative method. It is important not only to expand knowledge of what painting is today, but also to help form your own approach and try as many traditional techniques as possible, as well as original ones.

Course objectives:

— demonstrate what modern painting looks like now, what its history is, what context exists today
— through communication with practicing artists and curators, provide an understanding of how painting lives today
— allow the participant to master painting techniques that will help in the formation of the creative “I” of the painter

The course includes meetings with representatives of the contemporary art community: painters, multidisciplinary artists, curators.

As a result, students will be able to prepare material for a small exhibition of their own works and organize it within the framework of the Moscow School of Contemporary Art.

What you will learn and what you will learn

Think (professional knowledge)
Learn about the most striking approaches in painting of the 20th and 21st centuries;
They will understand how to apply these approaches in their own painting practice;
They will understand painting trends and be able to assess the relevance of a particular technique;
Get an idea of ​​how painting has developed over the past 150 years.

Do (professional skills and abilities)
They will master various painting techniques, methods and practices from painting of the 20th and 21st centuries, learn to apply them, choose the most suitable and the most relevant one for solving your creative problems (collage techniques, light, color, texture, perspective, assemblage, oil, canvas and etc.);
They will be able to distinguish between pictorial approaches based on formal and other characteristics;
They will learn to formalize their ideas, how to prepare portfolios and sketches;
They will analyze how communication between the gallery, curator and artist, curator and artist is built;
They will learn to talk about their works and present them with an understanding of how painting works in the field of contemporary art.

Act (general and supra-professional skills and abilities)
Develop creative thinking through exposure to experimental painting methodologies;
They will learn to professionally analyze painting of the 20th and 21st centuries and use this knowledge in their own creative practice.

For whom

1. For beginners who are starting to try themselves in painting, but do not know any techniques, techniques, or the basic history of painting.
2. For aspiring artists who are passionate about drawing and regularly practice painting, but lack of knowledge and creative thinking prevents them from developing their own artistic practice.
3. For everyone who is interested in modern painting and who is ready to try their hand at it, but does not know where to start.