Aesthetics of Sex and Sensuality in the Art of the 20th Century
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Vincent van Gogh: a difficult person to deal with
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Gustav Klimt: Sex, Gold, and Symbolism
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Salvador Dalí: Honesty Behind Eccentricity
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René Magritte. The modest charm of intelligence
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How to understand modern art?
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Amedeo Modigliani: The mystery of nudes
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Mysteries and secrets of artistic masterpieces
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Sandro Botticelli. The Light Breathing of Art
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Manet and Monet – Between Friendship and Art
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The Tragedy of Vrubel's Demons
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Michelangelo. Beauty and perfection in form
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Russian avant-garde: art at the turn of the century
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Hieronymus Bosch. Hidden Meanings
What Northern Renaissance is about and why most of Bosch's characters are not horrible but funny;
Major symbols in Hieronymus Bosch's paintings and how ordinary things change in the fantastic world of Bosch;
Why Bosch is a predecessor of surrealist painting;
Why a frog is a symbol of a witch, and an owl is a symbol of heresy and evil forces;
Apocalyptic visions in Bosch's triptychs and how people were preparing for the End of the World in 1500.
Frida Kahlo. Dances with Death
Discover the peculiarities of Mexican art;
Follow Frida Kahlo’s personal tragedy through her artworks;
Understand the unique symbolism of the artist;
Learn about Frida Kahlo’s affairs with famous personalities, including Leon Trotsky.
Aesthetics of Sex and Sensuality in the Art of the 20th Century: Modigliani, Schiele, Man Ray, Warhol, Abramović
Find out why nudity is the essence of art and how the approach to a body image helps us understand ourselves;
Analyze the relevance of the ancient сanon in the 20th century on the examples of Schiele's and Modigliani's oeuvre;
Meet with pure sensuality without intermediaries in performances of Marina Abramović and Yves Klein;
Explore why Marilyn Monroe is just a sexualized image in Warhol's works;
Learn how social norms affect art and its development.
Vincent van Gogh: Life and Art of the Mad Genius
Learn how Vincent van Gogh invented a new painting technique and what method allowed him to bring the art of the 20th century to a new level;
Try to find out whether the artist was crazy – or if this is a myth to promote his art?
Look at the world through Van Gogh's eyes;
Learn about the most scandalous friendship of the turn of the century – that of Van Gogh and Gauguin – and all versions of their conflict which almost cost one of them his life;
Discover what place women held in artist's life and what connects him to Salvador Dalí.
Gustav Klimt: Sex, Gold, and Symbolism
Find out why the academic artist suddenly turned into the main brawler of Vienna;
Plunge into the world of gold and Eros, into the world of psychoanalysis and pre-war Europe;
Learn about the relationship between Klimt and Adele, why there is no kiss in The Kiss and what was going on in his Studio.
Salvador Dalí: Honesty Behind Eccentricity
Figure out how Salvador Dalí is connected with Bosch, despite the 500 years between them.
Find out what surrealism is and what its aesthetics is about.
Decipher the main image of Dalí's film AnAndalusian Dog.
Find out what psychological tricks Salvador Dalí used in the paintings The Persistence of Memory and The Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee.
Understand what meaning Dalí put into his "paranoid-critical method."
René Magritte: The Treachery of Images
Find out how Magritte is related to surrealists;
Find out why he called his art "magical realism" and hated psychoanalysis;
Figure out what meaning Magritte put into the paintings The Treachery of Images, The Lovers and The Son of Man;
Understand why his art inspired intellectuals all over the world and why the French philosopher Michel Foucault wrote a whole book about the artist's work.
How to Understand Modern Art?
Learn about the main features of contemporary art;
Talk about the main artists of modern art: Manet, Rothko, Kossuth, Abramovich, etc.
Trace the life of a piece of art from its conception to multi-million sales and find out why these seemingly ordinary items are so expensive;
Understand why contemporary art is so weird – and why originality becomes more important than skills.
Amedeo Modigliani: The Mystery of Nudity
Learn about the Paris School, the art at the turn of the century and the avant-garde trends: Post-Impressionism, Fauvism and Cubism;
Study the painting and sculpture of Modigliani and see why his painting can be called "sculptural" and his sculpture "picturesque";
Find out how Modigliani frightened the French bohemia, what rumours circulated about him and why he was nicknamed "The Damned";
Learn about the shortest exhibition in history that took place in 1917;
Understand why Modigliani was not inspired by his contemporaries Matisse and Picasso;
Discover how to pay your rent without using money at all if you are an artist.
Mysteries and Secrets of Artistic Masterpieces
We will see one of the most mysterious paintings of the Early Renaissance, Sacred Allegory by Giovanni Bellini.
We will find out what is hidden behind the smile of Mona Lisa.
We will fall under the spell of Vroubel's demons.
We will figure out the meaning of the Black Square.
We will discover one of the most prominent artists of postmodernism and once again make sure that should rumours are not to be trusted.
Sandro Botticelli. The Light Breathing of Art
Immerse yourself into the culture of Florence in the second half of the 15th century;
Peer into the life at the court of Lorenzo the Magnificent;
Decipher one of Botticelli's most mysterious paintings;
Find musical parallels in the artworks of the Florentine master;
See how Botticelli's art influenced one of the most famous artists of the 20th century.
Manet and Monet: Between Friendship and Art
Learn to distinguish between Monet and Manet, find differences in their paintings;
Understand why their art was rejected by society;
See how their friendship did not end even after their death, and which of Édouard Manet's paintings Claude Monet fought for and why.
The Tragedy of Vrubel's Demons
How did the love for a woman help him create his artworks and almost cost him his life?
What was so complex in the character of Vrubel that made him so difficult to work and be friends with?
Why did the painter have a fight with Chaliapin?
How did the artist search for the image of the demon?
Why did he choose to become an artist and not a lawyer?
Michelangelo. Beauty and Perfection in Form
We will find out how Michelangelo got in touch with the most influential family of Italy, the house of Medici, because of the absence of one tooth on his first sculpture;
We will expose Michelangelo as a virtuoso master of forgery;
We will marvel at the scale of his work in the Sistine Chapel;
We will immerse ourselves into the depth of his heroes' souls;
We will learn about how the sculpture of David was created from a piece of marble wrecked by another sculptor and how it later came to represent the entire era.
Russian Avant-Garde: Art at the Turn of the Century
We will learn about the dispute about literature and science and their roles for the Soviet person in the world of avant-garde, and also how Tatlin laughed at Malevich;
We will read the fence inscriptions in Larionov's paintings;
We will see the world's first abstractions;
We will discover the philosophical background of Black Square and understand why we would not be able to paint something like this;
We will discuss the sound and taste of Kandinsky's colors;
And we will find out why it would be good for weightlifters to play the violin.