Short online courses in Studio Arts

A taste of Metàfora

Metàfora’s online courses are
an affordable way of trying out our
classes before deciding to travel
to Barcelona to join us for
a course on-campus.

Working, but dreaming . . .

Many of our students want to be artists,
but are stuck with jobs
that make it impossible to travel.
Fly to Barcelona a couple of nights
a week and join us online!

The Metàfora experience

Our online courses are real time streaming
with trained, professional artists
who give you individual support
and advice for your artistic process.

Online courses October 2020

Courses offered from the 26th of October to the 19th of November 2020.

All teaching schedules are in Central European Time. Check the time difference here.

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Only the Necessary

Recent Art History

Three lectures on how artists have worked on reducing their expression to only include that which is necessary for getting their message across….

For whom:
This course requires no previous experience experience.

Short Course:
100% online streaming (real time sessions and individual tutorials)

Upcoming available date:
26th of October to and and 9th of November 2020 – 3 Weeks – Monday

Overview of the weekly classes

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Art & Nature – Artistic Practice and Ecology

Practical art class

This four weeks practical and theoretical course offers an in depth introduction to art and its relation to nature. We will explore artists and writers who work in this field and debate their works collectively. The environment surrounds us and influences our artistic practice in direct and indirect ways. Understanding the complexity of nature and how such an enormous subject can be tackled with our artistic practices will be the objectives of this program.

Participants will develop a project that explores these issues and we will discuss and share our experiences both collectively and individually.

The course includes individual tutorials with the teacher.

For whom:
This course is for aspiring artists who works with any kind of materials or media.

Short Course:
100% online streaming (real time sessions and individual tutorials)

Upcoming available date:
27th of October to 17th of November 2020 – 4 Weeks – Tuesday

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Contemporary Painting and its Discourse

Practical art class

SECOND EDITION

This contemporary painting course is for enthusiastic painters who want to make more of their work and challenge themselves to situate their painting in a contemporary context. It helps with both practical questions such as how to work using imagination, abstraction, and combine colours but also theoretical questions such as what does it mean to make painting today, and what makes a painting look contemporary.

The course includes individual tutorials with the teacher.

For whom:
This course requires some experience with painting, although a professional background is far from necessary.

Short Course:
100% online streaming (real time sessions and individual tutorials)

Upcoming available date:
29th of October to 19th of November 2020 – 4 Weeks – Thursday

Overview of the weekly classes

Online courses, May 2020

Courses offered from the 18th of May to the 12th of June 2020. Soon to come is the program for the following months.

All teaching schedules are in Central European Time. Check the time difference here.

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Body & Limits

Recent Art History

This short and focused course will explore how artists, from the late 1960s to nowadays, have used performance art and participatory art practices as tools to disrupt the established identity and political conditions and how their use of the body has been as a vessel for communication, research and critique of our wider social world.

For whom:
This course requires no previous experience experience.

Short Course:
100% online streaming (real time sessions and individual tutorials)

Upcoming available date:
18th of May to 8th of June 2020 – 4 Weeks – Monday

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Contemporary Painting and its Discourse

Practical art class

CLASS FULL

For whom:
This course requires some experience with painting, although a professional background is far from necessary.

Short Course:
100% online streaming (real time sessions and individual tutorials)

Upcoming available date:
19th of May to 9th of June 2020 – 4 Weeks – Tuesday

Overview of the weekly classes

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Drawing: language and visual representation

Practical art class

CLASS FULL

In this course we will explore the limits and boundaries of contemporary drawing. Drawing is the baseline of almost all creative processes; it can be a medium in itself or a stepping stone into other formats. Understanding our personal process and expanding our language is key in order to elaborate a message, idea, emotion or thought. We will be using the simplest of tools in order to synthesize our difficulties, potentials and ambitions. With just a pen and a paper we can create the most complex works of art.

This will be the starting point of this course and from here we will reach out to the limits of language and visual representation.

For whom:
This course requires no previous experience.

Short Course:
100% online streaming (real time sessions and individual tutorials)

Upcoming available date:
20th of May to 11th of June 2020 – 4 Weeks – Wednesday

Overview of the weekly classes

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Performance Art, events that – put simply – happen

Practical art class

In this course we will learn and discuss the history of performance and our body as the main element of this artistic practice with a special interest in the documentation of these pieces.
The workshop is distributed in four sessions with a theoretical and practical part in which each session is understood as an individual thematic block to talk about the body in relation to concepts such as: time, space, object, sound or digital media.

For whom:
All levels

Short Course:
100% online streaming (real time sessions and individual tutorials)

Upcoming available date:
21st of May to 12th of June 2020 – 4 Weeks – Thursday

Overview of the weekly classes