Free art courses from New York MoMA

Luiza Poreda, 18 April 2020

You probably have a lot of quarantine engagements, and there are plenty of online courses on every topic. However, if you are looking for something interesting related to art, the American Museum of Modern Art MoMA invites you to participate in free online educational courses. Thanks to them, through art you will be able to see the world with new eyes, listen to artists and look at the works from the New York MoMA collection.

 

Online art courses can be joined at any time and they are free. Fees will be paid only by people who would like to obtain the final certificate. MoMA has made available nine different art courses on the Coursera platform. We will learn from them what contemporary art is or current fashion and design. We will listen to what vision and true understanding of photography are. We will look at the latest art from the perspective of topics such as: Places and Spaces, Art and Identity, Transforming Everyday Objects and Art and Society.

An interesting course is abstract post-war painting. Find out here how some of the most famous artists of the 20th century created their abstract painted paintings. The course offers an in-depth, practical view of the materials, techniques and thinking of seven artists (painted image authors) from the New York school, including Willem de Kooning, Yayoi Kusama, Agnes Martin, Barnett Newman, Jackson Pollock, Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko. Thanks to demonstrations in the studio and gallery guides, there will be an opportunity to deeply understand what studio practice means and how ideas develop closely and gain knowledge about paint properties. The course provides a broader cultural, intellectual and historical context about decades after World War II, when these artists were the most active.

Thanks to conversations in the discussion forum and tasks assigned by reviewers, it will also be possible to get in touch with other students.

We recommend people who would like to deepen their knowledge or learn about how to transfer knowledge about online art to others.