Tour of world painting - course 5100 rub. from Synchronization, training 11 webinars
Miscellaneous / / December 06, 2023
Synchronization is one of the largest lecture halls in Russia. We provide online courses on psychology, history, cinema, painting and more.
"Synchronization" is a Russian educational platform launched by Maria Borodetskaya and Andrey Lobanov. They offer online courses in a popular science format (psychology, art, cinema, economics, architecture, fashion and design, literature, philosophy, religion, music, etc.)
The cultural platform “Synchronization” is an educational project whose goal is to talk interestingly about striking phenomena, trends, personalities in culture and science. “Synchronization” lectures attract more than 2.5 thousand people every month. a person, offering listeners new and new topics and directions, talking simply about complex things.
Currently, Synchronization conducts more than 200 lectures per month in 19 main areas (painting, architecture, history, philosophy, cinema, fashion, etc.). According to the founders of the project, the most popular area is lectures on painting, which occupy about 30% of the entire lecture program.
During the courses, lecturers—there are 45 of them in Synchronization—try to give students the opportunity to build their own system, which will allow them to add new knowledge to what they have already acquired and broaden their horizons. Therefore, Synchronization offers not only individual lectures, but also special courses, for example “History of architectural styles”, “The language of cinema”, “Guide to the history of art”, lasting two or three weeks.
In 2018, Synchronization launched an online direction.
The team is also developing a corporate direction, offering companies to conduct training lectures for their employees. Clients include McKinsey, Ernst & Young, KPMG, Sberbank Insurance, Swarovski, etc.
Lecturer at the Institute of Humanitarian Education and Information Technologies (IGUMO and IT). Teaching experience - 19 years. Natalya has developed dozens of lectures and courses for Synchronization.
- Did the Italians get the classicism right?
- What kind of paintings can a born sculptor paint?
- How one artist invented a new genre of painting;
- Why can Caravaggio, a 17th-century artist, be called the first director;
- What is “poor art”;
- Why did futurism originate in Italy?
- Which contemporary Italian artists deserve attention.
Webinar 3.
Spain: Velazquez, Goya, Picasso, Dali, Miro
lecturer: Maria Moroz
- Why was Jusepe Ribera voluntarily in Naples prisons;
- How Velazquez managed to become the king's court artist at the age of 24;
- Because of which King Ferdinand VII declared that Francisco Goya deserved to die;
- Why did the surrealists quarrel with Salvador Dali;
- What Pablo Picasso managed to do as director of the Prado Museum;
- What painting did the American writer Ernest Hemingway buy from Joan Miro?
- What is contemporary Spanish art like in the 21st century?
Webinar 4.
Latin America: Incas, Aztecs, Baroque, Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera
lecturer: Polina Rud
- Who and why called this region Latin America and does Latin American art exist?
- What attracted European artists to Latin American countries in the 19th century;
- Why was the Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein interested in Mexican graphics;
- How Latin American artists of the 20th century fought against dictatorship with the help of a bottle of Coca-Cola.
Webinar 5.
Germany: Northern Renaissance, Friedrich, Durer
lecturer: Natalya Vostrikova
- What is the art of the Northern Renaissance and how to understand it;
- What role did the love of engraving play in the formation of German art?
- How Christian Germany deified nature and how this influenced painting;
- Why should German Rococo be sought mainly in churches and not in palaces;
- Why did the Renaissance master Albrecht Durer bring home a hare, and the romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich went to look at the glaciers;
- Which artist was the first to depict battle scenes;
- Why did Germany love poster art so much?
Webinar 6.
Austria: Klimt, Schiele, Kokoschka, Moser
lecturer: Natalya Vostrikova
- What is the Danube school of painting and how artists of this school created dramatic and romantic landscapes in the 16th century;
- How artists of the Biedermeier style showed the world of a small person in the 19th century;
- How Gustav Klimt, who resembled a clumsy bear, became the creator of the most sophisticated and erotic female images;
- Why Austrian Art Nouveau set the tone for all European art;
- What place do contemporary Austrian artists occupy in European art?
Webinar 7.
Great Britain: Gothic, Pre-Raphaelites, Turner, Bacon, Hockney
lecturer: Polina Tokmacheva
- Why did Elizabeth I, judging by the portraits, never grow old;
- Which genres are characteristic of British painting, and which have taken root in it with difficulty;
- Why did most of the neighbors know William Turner as a sailor;
- Which painting caused such a scandal that it was removed from the exhibition and brought to be shown personally to Queen Victoria;
- Why did the artists of the London School return to depicting reality in the era of abstraction;
- How David Hockney became the most expensive artist of our time.
Webinar 8.
Netherlands: Northern Renaissance, Bosch, Vermeer, Mondrian
lecturer: Natalya Vostrikova
- How is it still correct to say: “Dutch painting” or “Netherlands”, and what does Peter I have to do with it;
- How did the Dutch Renaissance differ from the Italian;
- What do owls mean in Bosch's paintings and candles in Van Eyck's paintings?
- How many mysteries are hidden in the paintings of Bruegel the Elder and is it possible to solve them all;
- Who are the Little Dutch and how secular life replaced religion in the subjects of their paintings;
- Why did Vermeer paint his heroes in the same interiors;
- Can Van Gogh be considered a Dutch artist if he created his main masterpieces in France;
- How the works of the Dutch Piet Mondrian ended up at the exhibition “Degenerate Art” in the Third Reich in 1937.
Webinar 9.
France: classicism, romanticism, realism, impressionism
lecturer: Maria Moroz
- Which French monarch began collecting paintings and why Louis XIV is considered a patron of the arts;
- Does romance have anything to do with the style of painting?
- How impressionism turned the art world upside down and what role did the writer Emile Zola play in this;
- Which French masters sold air instead of paintings;
- How painting inspired the French resistance during World War II;
- What ideas have Parisian artists been living for the last 30 years?
Webinar 10.
Russia: icon, Wanderers, avant-garde, socialist realism
lecturer: Maria Moroz
- Why Andrei Rublev became the most famous Russian icon painter;
- Who is depicted in the first Russian portraits;
- Which artist became the favorite of Peter I;
- How is Karl Bryullov’s painting “The Last Day of Pompeii” connected with the War of 1812;
- Why is Repin’s work called the “encyclopedia of Russian life”;
- Where did the Russian avant-garde begin and what new “isms” did the avant-gardists come up with;
- How the role of the artist changed during the Soviet period and how painting was divided into socialist realism and unofficial art;
- What contemporary Russian art looks like and who represents it.
Webinar 11.
USA: 19th century, O'Keeffe, Pollock, Warhol, Liechtenstein
lecturer: Yulia Vorotyntseva
- Why Georgia O'Keeffe is called the mother of American modernism;
- How Jackson Pollock's paintings relate to Navajo sand painting;
- Why was pop art representative Roy Lichtenstein called “the worst artist in the United States”;
- What is color field painting and hard contour painting and how to distinguish between them;
- Why do photorealists create paintings that are difficult to distinguish from photographs;
- Has painting exhausted itself and where should art develop in the “after painting” era?
Let's study 8 artistic movements from which modern art began. We will find out how Monet, Matisse, Picasso, Kandinsky, Malevich and other famous artists created their masterpieces.