Each course features a series of Zoom classes led by our experts. In order to make it easy for our students to share images of their work in progress during the sessions, a Padlet page is organised for each course, perfect for sharing images and references.
Please note, our courses are only suitable and available for students 18 years old and above. We have a variety of courses specifically designed for under 18’s as part of our Young Artists program.
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Art History – British Art of the 20th Century (From the Edwardian Era to the YBAS)£105.00Course CodeOC2201AH07TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 3rd October - 31st October 2022Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineA new century brought with it aspects of the traditionalism of the previous era, with some artists continuing the themes of the Pre-Raphaelites. However, key factors, including the significant number of women artists studying at the Slade and Roger Fry’s organisation of a Post-Impressionist exhibition in London, contributed to the development of modernism. Two World Wars devastated a generation of young men and artists both at home and at the Front responded with both horror and sympathy to what they witnessed. Pop Art celebrated the optimism of post-War Britain in the Swinging Sixties. This confident attitude continued during the ‘Cool Britannia’ of the 1990s with the Young British Artists (YBAS). The artists who dominated this latter movement became household names, their work and attitude scandalised and fascinated in equal measure.
Art History – European Modernism part 2 (Italian Futurism to Surrealism and later)£105.00Course CodeOC2202AH10TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 27th February - 27th March 2023Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineThis era was marked by political upheavals including two World Wars. Course 2 will look at how artists responded to such catastrophes. Subjects not visible to the naked eye, such as the human psyche were explored in very different ways in both Abstraction and Surrealism. Dadaism, a protest against society and the futilities of war, gave us some of the most radical works in the history of art. Artists such as Picasso, who had spent the first decade of the Twentieth Century upending the conventions of art, would abandon such aims and instead call for a ‘return to order’, celebrating classical art. We will look in-depth at the key figures and styles which dominated European art in the first half of the 20th Century and consider how their efforts would ultimately transform art on a global level.
Art History – French Art of the 19th Century (Romanticism to Symbolism)£105.00Course CodeOC2201AH08TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 14th November - 5th December 2022Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineFrance, by the 1800s was seen by many as the main centre for developments in the avant-garde art of the time. Walter Benjamin described Paris as 'the capital of the 19th Century', home to some of the most progressive artistic minds in history and a city determined to be at the forefront of artistic expression. As the Capital evolved politically, socially and culturally, its artists responded either enthusiastically or with reservation to these new changes. From the Napoleonic era to the Haussmanisation of Paris during the Second Empire and the rise of the bourgeoisie; artists including Édouard Manet were confronted with new sights and attitudes which became subjects for their work. Set against this progression was the Paris Salon, a bastion of academic traditions and at odds with radical artists. This course looks at key movements from Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
Art History – Renaissance to Romanticism Part 1£105.00Course CodeOC2203AH11TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 17th April - 22nd May 2023Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineThis course traces the developments and trends, which dominated European art, from the dawn of the Renaissance in the early 15th Century, through to the first decades of the 19th Century when Romanticism came to the fore in both art and literature. We will explore the social, cultural and political factors, which contributed to the practices of painters and sculptors from a range of European locations. We will discover how many of these styles were often a reaction against those preceding them. Part 1 traces painting, sculpture and architecture from the Early Italian Renaissance to the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th Century.
Art History – Renaissance to Romanticism Part 2£105.00Course CodeOC2203AH12TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 5th June - 3rd July 2023Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineIn Part 2 we will examine the French Rococo of the 1700s and its spread across other European centres. British artists at this time had a very different approach to the subjects they depicted, influenced by the dramatically changing world around them. Neoclassicism, an antidote to the frivolity of Rococo, coincided with the excavation of major ancient sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. The course finishes with an exploration of Romanticism, a European-wide movement unlike any style which had gone before it and one which celebrated the natural world but also visionary scenes of imagination, heroism and tragedy.
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- Art History – British Art of the 20th Century (From the Edwardian Era to the YBAS)£105.00Course CodeOC2201AH07TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 3rd October - 31st October 2022Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineA new century brought with it aspects of the traditionalism of the previous era, with some artists continuing the themes of the Pre-Raphaelites. However, key factors, including the significant number of women artists studying at the Slade and Roger Fry’s organisation of a Post-Impressionist exhibition in London, contributed to the development of modernism. Two World Wars devastated a generation of young men and artists both at home and at the Front responded with both horror and sympathy to what they witnessed. Pop Art celebrated the optimism of post-War Britain in the Swinging Sixties. This confident attitude continued during the ‘Cool Britannia’ of the 1990s with the Young British Artists (YBAS). The artists who dominated this latter movement became household names, their work and attitude scandalised and fascinated in equal measure.
- Art History – European Modernism part 2 (Italian Futurism to Surrealism and later)£105.00Course CodeOC2202AH10TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 27th February - 27th March 2023Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineThis era was marked by political upheavals including two World Wars. Course 2 will look at how artists responded to such catastrophes. Subjects not visible to the naked eye, such as the human psyche were explored in very different ways in both Abstraction and Surrealism. Dadaism, a protest against society and the futilities of war, gave us some of the most radical works in the history of art. Artists such as Picasso, who had spent the first decade of the Twentieth Century upending the conventions of art, would abandon such aims and instead call for a ‘return to order’, celebrating classical art. We will look in-depth at the key figures and styles which dominated European art in the first half of the 20th Century and consider how their efforts would ultimately transform art on a global level.
- Art History – French Art of the 19th Century (Romanticism to Symbolism)£105.00Course CodeOC2201AH08TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 14th November - 5th December 2022Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineFrance, by the 1800s was seen by many as the main centre for developments in the avant-garde art of the time. Walter Benjamin described Paris as 'the capital of the 19th Century', home to some of the most progressive artistic minds in history and a city determined to be at the forefront of artistic expression. As the Capital evolved politically, socially and culturally, its artists responded either enthusiastically or with reservation to these new changes. From the Napoleonic era to the Haussmanisation of Paris during the Second Empire and the rise of the bourgeoisie; artists including Édouard Manet were confronted with new sights and attitudes which became subjects for their work. Set against this progression was the Paris Salon, a bastion of academic traditions and at odds with radical artists. This course looks at key movements from Romanticism to Impressionism, Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
- Art History – Renaissance to Romanticism Part 1£105.00Course CodeOC2203AH11TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 17th April - 22nd May 2023Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineThis course traces the developments and trends, which dominated European art, from the dawn of the Renaissance in the early 15th Century, through to the first decades of the 19th Century when Romanticism came to the fore in both art and literature. We will explore the social, cultural and political factors, which contributed to the practices of painters and sculptors from a range of European locations. We will discover how many of these styles were often a reaction against those preceding them. Part 1 traces painting, sculpture and architecture from the Early Italian Renaissance to the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th Century.
- Art History – Renaissance to Romanticism Part 2£105.00Course CodeOC2203AH12TutorDaniel GreaneyCourse DatesMondays, 5th June - 3rd July 2023Days5Times6.30pm - 8pmExperience LevelAll LevelsFee£105LocationOnlineIn Part 2 we will examine the French Rococo of the 1700s and its spread across other European centres. British artists at this time had a very different approach to the subjects they depicted, influenced by the dramatically changing world around them. Neoclassicism, an antidote to the frivolity of Rococo, coincided with the excavation of major ancient sites including Pompeii and Herculaneum. The course finishes with an exploration of Romanticism, a European-wide movement unlike any style which had gone before it and one which celebrated the natural world but also visionary scenes of imagination, heroism and tragedy.
Introduction to Oil Painting with Lucy Smallbone – Online Course£40.00TutorLucy SmallboneLocationOnlineFee£40Experience LevelBeginnerFor beginners and those returning to oil painting, this course is divided into six easy-to-follow lessons that you can take at your own pace. Your tutor, Lucy Smallbone, is an experienced teacher of oil and acrylics at Art Academy London who has a passion for gestural landscape painting. She will explain why she enjoys painting with oils, introduce you to the concepts of tone, colour and colour-mixing, show you four different techniques for applying oil paint and explain how you can plan your own projects and develop a style of your own going forward.
Online Tutorials with Annabel MacIver£30.00 – £60.00TutorAnnabel MacIverCourse DatesVarious datesTimes30 minutes slots, 60 minutes slotsFee£30, £60SubjectDrawingAnnabel teaches drawing for those who are beginning their journey in art or picking it up after a long break, and is also an experienced life drawing tutor. She focuses on building confidence in mark making and helping students to develop their drawing skills and style using a range of tools. Annabel works across media including print, mainly collagraph and etching.
