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Study art history and art appreciation at the Barnes! We’re now offering a full array of online classes, with new ones rolling out every month. Need-based scholarships are available. Online classes make a great gift.
These courses connect works of art to history: What was happening politically, socially, and culturally at the time a piece was made? How did these circumstances shape the artist’s formal choices?
Online Class: Van Gogh
Delve into the life and work of one of the greatest—and most mythologized—painters of the modern era.
Online Class: 20th-Century Architecture
Survey the major architectural monuments of the 20th century—works by Louis Sullivan, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, and more.
Online Class: Decadence Through the Ages
In this team-taught course, we trace the visual representations of excess throughout art history.
Online Class: Seurat: Pointillism or the New Impressionism
See how Seurat's groundbreaking technique had a lasting impact on the course of modern art.
Online Class: The Barbizon Painters: Trailblazers for Impressionism
Discover how these artists’ visions of rural France influenced the impressionist group that followed.
Online Class: The Ancient World
This class takes an in-depth look at the major artistic and architectural moments of ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome.
Online Class: Consumed by Color: Bonnard and Matisse, a Friendship in Paint
Learn about the long and fascinating relationship between these two celebrated painters.
Online Class: Abstract Expressionism: de Kooning to Mitchell
Survey important artists and works from this American art movement ahead of our spring exhibition Soutine / de Kooning.
Online Class: The Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
Explore major monuments of architecture, sculpture, and painting from the predynastic period through the New Kingdom.
Online Class: On the Run: European Artists/Intellectuals Flee WWII
Examine key artists and intellectuals who fled Europe as well as the work of those who stayed behind.
Online Class: The Surrealist Revolution
Trace the surrealist movement from formal inception in 1924 through its international expansion in the 1930s.
Online Class: A Jewish Perspective: Pissarro, Modigliani, Soutine & Pascin
These four painters were central to the avant-garde scene in early 20th-century Paris. How did their faith influence their outlook and their artwork?
Online Class: Introduction to Contemporary Art: Critical Explorations
What makes art “contemporary”? How do we decide what’s “good” in the art of our time? The answers to these questions are complex—much like contemporary art itself.