MASP ESCOLA | Courses with open inscriptions

MASP SCHOOL OPENS REGISTRATIONS FOR 2022 COURSES

Part of the museum's Center for Mediation and Public Programs, MASP Escola offers free courses open to anyone interested in the arts, with or without training in the area.

With teachers specialized in various fields of art and culture, visits to temporary exhibitions and the long term exhibition of the museum's collection, held on glass easels designed by Lina Bo Bardi, the courses present a wide range of the MASP collection. They also include transdisciplinary themes, introduced in each new exhibition cycle.

MASP School aims to bring museum-goers even closer together and to provide a dynamic and critical learning experience in which everyone can build their repertoire from a diverse and plural view of art.

Atualmente, são oferecidos quatro módulos de curso: Histórias da arte, Estudos críticos, Cursos vespertinos e Cursos de férias, com bolsas para professores da rede pública. Para um contato direto, escreva para escola@masp.org.br.

INTRODUCTION TO ART HISTORY THROUGH THE MASP COLLECTION

Many art stories can be told through the MASP collection. In it, it is possible to find works from different periods and styles, ranging from great names of tradition to exponents of contemporary production. Since the museum's collection began to be assembled in the middle of the last century, the MASP collection has undergone transformations that seek to bring art history closer to the public and to think about the directions of current production. In recent years, this movement has intensified in exhibitions such as Afro-Atlantic Hist ories and Women's histories, feminist histories, which brought new artists and new works to the museum's collection. Thus, consecrated paintings, such as Raphael's Resurrection of Christ or Van Gogh's The Schoolboy, are exhibited with works by artists who express the concerns of our time: a dialogue that instigates reflections both on the history of art and on contemporary production.
With this variety in mind, in five lessons, this course aims to discuss the history of art from the MASP collection. The following themes will be covered: Renaissance and Baroque, in the works of masters such as Raphael and Rembrandt; modern art, in the works of names such as Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh; Brazilian modernism, through artists such as Tarsila do Amaral and Anita Malfatti; and the contemporary production of artists such as Rosana Paulino, Aline Motta and Dalton Paula.

IMPORTANT
Classes will be held online via a live teaching platform. The link will be shared with students after registration.
The course is recorded and is available for 5 days.
Certificates will be issued to those who complete 75% attendance.

THE UTOPIAN BODY: FASHION, GENDER AND SEXUALITY

The aim of this course is to expose and critically reflect on the concept of fashion, its social, political, cultural and economic characteristics intertwined with the notion of body, identities and expressions of gender and sexualities - from the 15th century to the contemporary.
Starting from a constellation of theorists and writers, the activity relates such philosophical, sociological and historical perspectives with names from the artistic and literary avant-garde, such as Virginia Woolf, Marcel Proust and Georges Bataille, passing through the cubist movement, French surrealism and the futurists in fashion from the 1960s and 1990s.
In a first moment, it is to conceptualize the emergence of fashion as the social organization of appearance and taste, related to the constitution of the apparent personality of the individual, to from there to think about the relationship between the forms of clothing in the process of subjectivation of bodies, identities and expressions of gender.
In a second moment, these issues will be addressed in topics such as the emancipation of the bourgeoisie and the generification of clothing; the creation of a culture of femininity; the dandism as a movement of aesthetic-political revolt in the 19th century and the modernization of the female wardrobe by modernist fashion designers.
The last step will be to reflect on the influences of queer theory in the resignifications of plural bodies and expressions of gender in fashion today.

IMPORTANT
Classes will be held online via a live teaching platform. The link will be shared with students after registration.
The course is recorded and is available for 5 days.
Certificates will be issued to those who complete 75% attendance.

THE ORIGIN OF THE MUSEUM, CRITICISM AND CURATORSHIP

TIME: 4PM-6PM
MODULE DURATION: ONLINE 2, 4, 9, 11 AND 18.2.2022 | WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS | (6 CLASSES)
INVESTMENT: GENERAL PUBLIC 5X R$ 57,60 | MASP FRIEND 5X R$ 48,96

The course proposes to retrace some of the paths, sometimes complementary, sometimes contradictory, that led to the establishment of the museum, of art criticism and of art curatorship. Such a dive in time, crossing different periods and segments of the visual arts, allows us to raise pressing questions, such as who decides what is or is not worth showing? And for whom? In whose name? In what spaces does this happen? And in what ways is this done? Such questions are intended to deepen reflection on certain gestures - such as exhibition, judgement and selection - that condition, define and shape the work of art beyond the sphere of the "creative act".

IMPORTANT
Classes will be held online via a live teaching platform. The link will be shared with students after registration.
The course is recorded and is available for 5 days.
Certificates will be issued to those who complete 75% attendance.

THE INVENTION OF "PRIMITIVE ART" AND "PRIMITIVISM" IN MODERN ART AND EXHIBITIONS

TIME: 7PM-9PM
MODULE DURATION: ONLINE 1, 3, 8 AND 10.02.2022 | TUESDAYS AND THURSDAYS | (4 CLASSES)
INVESTMENT: GENERAL PUBLIC 5X R$ 48 | MASP FRIEND 5X R$ 40,80

The course is concerned with modernist artistic and exhibition production in dialogue and/or aligned with what Westerners categorize as "primitive art" and "primitivism". To this end, it proposes to juxtapose some achievements, since the 19th century, to Western discourses of elaboration of these categories, as well as to expose the critique of this scenario from a contemporary and post-colonial perspective. It will present works, events and exhibitions that have collaborated in the invention of these categories and their understandings by the Western circuit. A recurrent focus within this territory will be given to ethnographic museums and colonial exhibitions. In this sense, texts by Michel de Montaigne, Franz Boas, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Fred Myers, James Clifford, Sally Price, Walter Mignolo and Eduardo Viveiros de Castro will be indicated and discussed in a panoramic way. Still in this topic, the collaboration of anthropophagy, starting with Oswald de Andrade, will be treated in its contribution to the redefinition of modern art from a local viewpoint and in confrontation with the colonial approach, and may be considered, therefore, as an important element in the contemporary debate on coloniality/decoloniality.

IMPORTANT
Classes will be held online via a live teaching platform. The link will be shared with students after registration.
The course is recorded and is available for 5 days.
Certificates will be issued to those who complete 75% attendance.

INTRODUCTION TO THE BAROQUE: EUROPE, AMERICA AND BRAZIL

TIME: 19H - 21H
MODULE DURATION: ONLINE 31.01, 01, 02, 07, 08 AND 09.02.2022 | MONDAYS, TUESDAYS AND WEDNESDAYS | (6 CLASSES)
INVESTMENT: GENERAL PUBLIC 5X R$ 57,60 | MASP FRIEND 5X R$ 48,96

The very use of the term "Baroque" gives rise to numerous discussions of meaning, chronology and location on which there is rarely unequivocal consensus. Starting from its expression in architecture, painting and sculpture in Rome and the Italian Peninsula, the course also addresses the Iberian Peninsula and two cases from Latin America: Peru and Mexico. The reflection on Brazil will have space in all the meetings and will be protagonist in the last one, which will also include a brief retrospective of the critical perceptions of the Baroque in Brazil. In convergence with the project Brazilian Histories, the classes also intend to show that an incursion through the Baroque can allow access to discussions central to the reflection on art in Brazil, such as those dedicated to the relations of Brazilian art with models in global circulation, or even the possibility of a Brazilian aesthetic singularity.

IMPORTANT
Classes will be held online via a live teaching platform. The link will be shared with students after registration.
The course is recorded and is available for 5 days.
Certificates will be issued to those who complete 75% attendance.

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