Art History Classes
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 ...
Definitions of Art
Art History Class Definitions of Art Date: Thursdays, January 10 - May 16, 2019 Time: 11:00 am - 12:30 pm Location: 474 7th Avenue, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10018 The goal is for students to become active and responsible participants in their own learning along their journeys as lifelong learners. Definitions of art are various because many artists express, explore, and question ideas about their identities and perspectives. It is helpful to look at artists’ ...
From Ancient to Contemporary Art
The stories of artistic and historical contexts will help us better understand our culture and society as active life long-learners in 21st century. Art is an important glimpse into history because it is often one of the few things to survive. It can tell us stories, relate moods and beliefs of the era, and allow us to relate to the people who came before us. Let's explore art, from Ancient to Contemporary, and see how ...
Public Art and Contemporary Art
Art History Class Public Art and Contemporary Art 19 Thursdays, January 11th through May 24th, 2018 11:00 am – 12:30 pm Place: 474 7th Avenue, 5th Fl., New York, NY 10018 “Public art is art in any media that has been planned and executed with the intention of being staged in the physical public domain, usually outside and accessible to all.” This course examines how Modern Artists and Contemporary Artists create their Public Art projects in order ...
