Art History Courses in London
Our art history programme includes western art, Islamic art, Japanese art and the art of the Near East.
There are courses on curation for aspiring practitioners and a host of other art history courses on subjects as diverse as the history of fashion, comic books, urban art and artists' books that can be taken alone, or to complement surveys of periods. You can also study the history of photography, design, video and sound art. Any questions? Contact our visual arts team on 020 7492 2700 Monday - Friday between 10am - 5pm.
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Art in the 1920s and 1930s: Western art between the wars
Course Date: Wed 22 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover how art in Europe and America between the wars reacted to the culture of the times. Explore the experimental world of Surrealism, political art and abstract art.Full fee: £129.00Senior fee: £103.00Concession: £79.00 -
The power and influence of German Art: From Early Medieval to Early Modern
Course Date: Wed 22 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetDiscover the art of Germany from medieval to modern and the variety of artists came be a major influence not just on Northern art but also the Italian Renaissance and ultimately all of European art.Full fee: £249.00Senior fee: £199.00Concession: £152.00 -
The history and meaning of portraiture
Course Date: Thu 23 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExamine the changing face of the portrait in art history from the early Renaissance to the present. Look at how and why its meaning and function have changed over the years and why artists are still drawn to it despite photography.Full fee: £249.00Senior fee: £199.00Concession: £152.00 -
In depth: late Renaissance
Course Date: Thu 23 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore the incredible progress of High and Late Renaissance art and ideas in Northern Italy and Western Europe. We look at key artists and their patrons; painting, sculpture and decorative arts. Includes gallery visits.Full fee: £329.00Senior fee: £263.00Concession: £201.00 -
German art from the 1960s
Course Date: Thu 23 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore German art from the 1960s to present, from movements such as Conceptualism, Fluxus, Capitalist Realism and Neo-Expressionism to the most recent multi-media art.Full fee: £129.00Senior fee: £129.00Concession: £79.00 -
What makes a masterpiece
Course Date: Fri 24 Apr 2020 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteLook at works in the Western canon and ask why we consider them to be masterpieces. What formal qualities do they all share, if any, or is our interpretation of a masterpiece largely subjective?Full fee: £249.00Senior fee: £199.00Concession: £152.00 -
Fakes and forgeries
Course Date: Fri 24 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetInvestigate the boundaries between fact, fakes and fictions in art, looking at different interpretations of authenticity, through classroom lessons and visits to the National Gallery and the British Museum.Full fee: £99.00Senior fee: £79.00Concession: £60.00 -
Friday Lates: at the Tate and National Gallery - part 1
Course Date: Fri 24 Apr 2020
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteStart your weekend with an enjoyable and stimulating introduction to famous and lesser-known artworks in a Friday Late at the Tate Modern, and at the National Gallery.Full fee: £129.00Senior fee: £129.00Concession: £79.00 -
A day of: modern design
Course Date: Sat 25 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetStudy the dominant design aesthetic of the twentieth century, considering its development, successes and failures. Movements will include Russian Constructivism, the Bauhaus and Purism. Design practices will include graphics, furniture and architecture.Full fee: £69.00Senior fee: £55.00Concession: £42.00 -
Focus on: Degas
Course Date: Sun 26 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore Degas’s extraordinary legacy as ‘one of the founders of Impressionism’. His dynamic paintings and sketches of everyday life and activities, and his bold colour experiments will be examined throughout this informative one-day course.Full fee: £69.00Senior fee: £55.00Concession: £42.00 -
Art evolutions: Pop to post-internet art
Course Date: Tue 28 Apr 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore art and culture in the late 20th century, focusing on the major developments and movements in art including Neo-Dada and Pop art, conceptual and performance, installation and Postmodernism, and their relationship to wider cultural contexts.Full fee: £249.00Senior fee: £199.00Concession: £152.00 -
Contemporary art in London
Course Date: Thu 30 Apr 2020 (and 1 other date)
Location on this date: OS - Off SiteExamine and discuss art on show in London. Each week we’ll visit a commercial gallery or public institution and examine specific exhibitions or paintings, works on paper, photography and sculpture.Full fee: £249.00Senior fee: £199.00Concession: £152.00 -
Focus on: James McNeill Whistler
Course Date: Sun 3 May 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetWhistler’s art moved painting towards abstraction, sparked a renaissance in printmaking and gave us the Peacock Room, a masterpiece of interior design. He also mastered the gentle art of making enemies.Full fee: £69.00Senior fee: £55.00Concession: £42.00 -
A day of: 19th-century fashion
Course Date: Sat 9 May 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetExplore the relationship between nineteenth-century society, from the Napoleonic era to the suffrage movement, and men’s and women’s fashions which witnessed constant change, restrictions, extremes and the start of the dress reform movement.Full fee: £69.00Senior fee: £55.00Concession: £42.00 -
Focus on: Peggy Guggenheim and Jackson Pollock
Course Date: Sun 10 May 2020
Location on this date: KS - Keeley StreetThis course explores the life and work of Jackson Pollock – whose career Peggy Guggenheim would launch with an exhibition in 1943, and whom she would later consider her greatest discovery.Full fee: £69.00Senior fee: £55.00Concession: £42.00
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