Art History Classes2021-12-10T13:08:37-05:00

Art History Classes

Spring 2024: Art Through Time: Exploring the History of Art and Anticipating 2024 Exhibitions

  About the Course:  In this course, titled "Art Through Time: Exploring the History of Art and Anticipating 2024 Exhibitions", participants will embark on a profound exploration of art, aiming to foster a deeper appreciation for its richness and diversity. Our odyssey begins by unraveling the fascinating stories of renowned artists and their masterpieces, spanning various periods and styles. By delving into the lives and works of these visionaries, participants will glean insights into the ...

Fall 2023 Art Appreciation through Understanding Artists

  About the Course:  In the course titled Art Appreciation through Understanding Artists, participants will delve into the world of art to develop a profound appreciation for its cultural significance. By gaining insights into various artists lives and works, audiences will learn how to observe and derive enjoyment from art, its diverse forms, inspirational sources, and the utilization of art by different cultures. This exploration will provide a deeper understanding of historical contexts and the ...

Spring 2023 Art History Classes: Inspiration in Art

  About the Course:  Learning how to appreciate art is a significant cultural support enabling people to observe and enjoy art, art forms, artistic inspirations, creative ideas, and how cultures used art. Art brings an understanding of diversity, how people lived in the past, and connects the issues concerning contemporary life and art today. This course explores how to appreciate art through understanding the lives and works of the artists. Artists seek in some way ...

Fall 2022 Art History Classes: The Lives of the Artists

        About the Course:  This course explores how to appreciate art through understanding the lives of the artists. Artists seek in some way to connect art to our lives. People often had difficulty understanding artwork because of the lack of contextual flows and socio-cultural background. Both creating and viewing art can provide us means of stating or affirming our personal and collective feelings, thoughts, ideals, and attitudes while we learn values of ...

Spring 2022 Art History Classes: Art Appreciation through Understanding Art Galleries and Art Fairs

Register Here About the Course:  This course explores how to appreciate art in galleries and art fairs. People often have difficulty understanding artists in galleries and art fairs because of the lack of contextual knowledge and socio-cultural background. The presence of arts and culture overwhelmingly affects respondents’ sense of well-being and satisfaction, their attachment to a place, and their sense of community. Galleries have multiple roles, both visible and invisible: to incubate and support their ...

Fall 2021 Art History Classes: Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea

  About the Course:  This course examines the modern and contemporary art of Korea. People often had difficulty achieving cultural proficiency with the lack of contextual knowledge and cultural background struggled to gain cultural competence as a lifelong process of increasing self-awareness. The stories of artistic and historical contexts will help us better understand Korean modern and contemporary art and culture as active lifelong learners. Click to download: Art History Class Fall 2021 (Program)  9/9 ...

Religion & Art

  2021 Spring Art History (Click to download) About the Course Classes will be led by Dr. Sohee Koo of Columbia University and will touch upon several topics tailored to the general public.  Like last semester, classes will be held online over Zoom. Anyone can participate after making a suggested donation. The topic for this semester is “Religion & Art”. Over the 18-week course, Dr. Koo will delve into various works of art in the ...

Art and Its Contexts

About the Course:  The Art and Its Contexts online art history course prompts us to explore various forms of art in multiple contexts such as abstraction, mathematics, politics, religion, and pedagogy, ranging from prehistoric to contemporary art. Instructor: Sohee Koo Sohee Koo received a doctorate in Art Education from Columbia University and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She has extensive teaching experience in higher education as well as other professional organizations including Teachers ...

Art Through Multiple Lens

About the Course: This course prompts us to rethink about works of art ranging from prehistory to contemporary context from multiple lenses including topics on gaze and smile in paintings, bodies, texts, the psychology of color, nature, science, various symbolic objects, and creative constraints. Such lenses will provide an opportunity for learners to curate and understand art in a unique way beyond chronological examination. In addition, learners will expand their knowledge of history, geography, politics, ...

History and Medium of Art

This course will be covering an overview of a range of central concepts, materials, artists, and approaches of artmaking in the history of art. The course will explore relevant issues in art through describing, active looking, and interpreting various forms of art. Various ways to analyze, interpret, and evaluate works of art as an aesthetic and cultural phenomenon will be explored. The course particularly focuses on medium and various approaches to art production of diverse ...

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