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Guide to Russian art - course 3120 rubles. from Synchronization, training 16 hours, Date: December 4, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 07, 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.
“I am researching Russian art of the 19th and 20th centuries. I’m trying to systematize what’s happening in contemporary art through interviews with young artists for the podcast “What are you doing?” Most of all, I like to determine how different artistic phenomena are related to each other, how the artist’s individual style was formed, and how to reveal veiled symbols and meanings. Art criticism is a science that helps to read visual images, to see more than just an image landscape or black square, but the story that accompanies the appearance of each work on light. In this dialogue with art, doors can be opened to a variety of fields of knowledge.”
Lesson 2
Painting of the 15th - early 18th centuries
From icons to first portraits
During the time of Ivan the Terrible, secular painting began to slowly supplant religious painting. At the webinar, we will find out how these types of art differ from each other and understand whether images of saints are realistic. Let's find out:
- How do the works of the icon painter Dionysius differ from the masterpieces of Theophanes the Greek and Andrei Rublev;
- How portraits appeared in Russian painting and why they were called parsuns;
- What are the workshops of the Moscow Kremlin and how the Armory Chamber united the best icon painters and artists of the 17th century;
- How Simon Ushakov, at the age of 22, received the status of “royal icon painter,” to which other masters had been working for decades.
Lesson 3
18th century: the era of porter
Kiprensky, Rokotov and the emergence of the Academy of Arts
The 18th century was an era of refined manners, grandiose palaces and fragile porcelain. It began with the reformer Peter the Great and ended with the short reign of Paul I, and portraits became the main genre of this time. At the webinar we will find out how secular painting appeared in Russia and learn:
- What the first Russian portraits looked like and who became the first Russian portrait painter;
- What stories are hidden behind the images on the canvases of Rokotov and Kiprensky;
- When did the first art academy appear and what standards were young artists guided by;
- Which of the Russian painters worked in the technique of Leonardo da Vinci;
- What were the beauty standards of the 18th century and what requirements did customers place on portrait painters?
Lesson 4
19th century: the era of romanticism
Aivozovsky, Bryullov, Tropinin
After the war with Napoleon, liberal sentiments began to gain popularity in Russian society, which were reflected in art. Painting became emotional and romantic. At the webinar we will find out which artist became the first Russian romantic and find out:
- Why were the best graduates of the Academy sent to Italy;
- Which Russian painter did the Uffizi Gallery request a self-portrait for its collection;
- Why does the sea in Aivazovsky’s paintings make us worry, rejoice and feel calm;
- Why did Karl Bryullov die?
- What is the everyday genre and who became its founder;
Why do peasant women from Tropinin’s paintings look like airy cakes?
Lesson 5
The Peredvizhniki riot
Savrasov, Repin, Surikov, Kramskoy
At the end of the 19th century, participants in the Association of Traveling Art Exhibitions rebelled against European classics and the strict rules of the Academy of Arts. In the webinar we will learn how this riot changed Russian art, and we will also find out:
How the Partnership was formed and what its path was;
- What did contemporaries think about the Wanderers, and what did European critics think about them?
- How the Russian landscape changed thanks to Savrasov and why the painting “The Rooks Have Arrived” became a classic of Russian landscape;
- What do portraits by Ivan Kramskoy tell about Nekrasov, Saltykov-Shchedrin and Tolstoy;
- How the Peredvizhniki treated the Impressionists and whether they used the discoveries of French artists.
Lesson 6
The many faces of modernity
Serov, Vrbuel, "Blue Rose", "World of Art"
Art Nouveau became the first truly international style, and with its help Russian art also became international. At the webinar we will figure out how modernists changed our ideas about St. Petersburg. Let's find out what's special about Russian modernism and find out:
- How are modernity and symbolism related?
- What artistic associations appeared in the era of modernism and how does the “Blue Rose” differ from the “World of Art”
- How Vrubel came to the image of the Demon;
- Why did all the French women of the early twentieth century dream of a dress “a la Bakst”;
- Which works of Serov belong to the Art Nouveau style;
- How Art Nouveau paved the way for the avant-garde revolution in art.
Lesson 7
Revolutionary vanguard
Malevich, Goncharova, Larionov, Tatlin and avant-garde associations
Of Russian art, the avant-garde is most valued throughout the world for its radicalism. At the webinar we will learn to understand the language of geometric shapes and expressive abstraction, and also learn:
- Why did artists decide to “throw classical art off the boat of modernity” at the beginning of the twentieth century?
- When did the term “avant-garde” appear and why did Malevich not consider himself an avant-garde?
- What the associations “Jack of Diamonds”, “Donkey’s Tail”, “Youth Union” and others brought to art;
- How Natalya Goncharova became one of the most expensive artists in the world;
- Why did Russian artists stop painting portraits and landscapes and replaced them with circles and squares;
- How the “languages” of the avant-garde are used today and what inspires modern architects and designers.
Lesson 8
20th century: from socialist realism to actionism
Kabakov, Kulik and the Soviet underground
During the reign of Stalin, the avant-garde ceased to correspond to the tasks that the state set for art. He did not educate a proper Soviet person and did not glorify the authorities. The avant-garde artists went underground, and socialist realism became the official art of the USSR. At the webinar we will find out how permitted painting coexisted with the underground and how art developed from the 30s of the 20th century until the collapse of the USSR. Let's find out:
How the avant-garde ended;
- Why Alexander Gerasimov became the main artist of the Stalin era;
- What was the Soviet underground like and how it came out of the underground;
- How the “Bulldozer Exhibition” changed Soviet art;
- What is a “total installation”, which was invented by Ilya Kabakov;
- Why did the artist Oleg Kulik pretend to be a dog and rush at people?
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