Classes per Block during 2023-2024
On this page you will find an overview of the actual classes scheduled for the academic year 2023-24, from Block 1 to 5.
Metàfora designs its course contents on a 2-year plan to ensure no students will experience repetition in course content. This is why this page can serve as an example of what will also be taught in the following year, as it gives a thorough idea of the course structure.
We will normally publish the program for the following year as summer approaches.
Note: Metàfora works with practicing artists and curators from different contexts in Barcelona’s art scene. This is a great privilege and brings our students close to the art world. But sometimes it also means that they have to leave abruptly to participate in an exhibition, a residence or other art events. For this reason, the program presented here may be subject to minor changes.
Jump straight to the Block you are interested in:
Click on the sections below to see a typical week during each block.
You will find information about the classes for each level (Foundation Program and Certificate/Diploma) as well as the Tools & Techniques classes, which are open to all levels.
Block 1: 12th of September to 18th of October, 2023
Block 2: 23rd of October to 30th of November, 2023
Block 3: 15th of January to 21st of February, 2024
BLOCK 1:
12th of September to 18th of October, 2023
Foundation Training (Year 1)
Compulsory classes
Theme: Scale
Scale is a Dynamic Concept (Recent Art History, Oriol Texidor)
This theme is a transversal examination of scale in recent Western art practice. It accompanies students in the joyful freedom of having the chance to dive into full time art practice for the first time.Experimenting with scale and reflecting over the ideas associated with it is the ideal companion for testing one’s limits and discovering new ways of working.
“Scale is a Dynamic Concept” offers a playful re visitation of different moments in the 20thcentury (Abstract Expressionism, Minimalism, Land Art, Pop and contemporary installations). At the end of the block students are asked to complete small test to demonstrate their knowledge on the material exposed.
Thinking and Making Workshop: Nothingness
Nothingness (Oriol Texidor)
Theoretical workshop of sculptural practice on concepts related to opposed characteristics to sculpture such as lightness and immateriality.
Through four linked themes, one for each session, the workshop proposes four exercises to introduce students to volumetric practice from its intellectual side, regardless of the technique or material with which they work.
Each session is accompanied by the reading of fragments of a specific text and examples of contemporary sculptors such as Anish Kapoor, Rachel Whiteread, Olafur Eliasson, Tony Cragg, Louise Bourgeois, Ignasi Aballí or Ruth Asawa.
Certificate / Diploma (Years 2-3)
Compulsory classes
Critical Theory: Mark Fisher’s Acid Communism
This class introduces students to the theory, philosophers and thinkers that have been, and are still, the most influential on contemporary art, aesthetics and visual culture.
Mark Fisher’s Acid Communism (Lucia Piedra)
For these 4 sessions we will address Fisher’s vision of desire as a political affect and cultural hedonism.
To do this we will rely on the text acid communism and other references from his work. We will begin with a review and small genealogy about the importance of returning to the 60s as a moment that tried to unite the individual and the collective. Then we will go through several points of interest in Ficher’s work such as the concepts of: Popism, Meme culture, Reality Shows and to close an analysis of the musical panorama of the 2000s.
À-Lab: Visiting Artists
Visiting Artists
Once a week we have a class which is dedicated to getting to know the local art scene, while at the same time helping students to develop and refine their artistic discourse: talking about art and getting to know local and no-so-local artists.
WRKSHP: What The Fluxus (WTF)
What The Fluxus (Arash Fayez)
How to be playful and serious at the same time.
If we consider TikTok as a platform where numerous performances are being created, performed, and re-performed daily, we might be able to argue that the avant-garde art movement Fluxus is still around, possibly more than ever. 60 years after the emergence of this art movement, this course will focus on the way in which Fluxus went beyond an art movement to become a way of living, in which
every gesture or action could be seen as art. Topics such as performativity, poetry, participation, humor, happenings, mail art, etc will be discussed during this course.
A number of Fluxus scores will be activated by the participants, using this methodology to explore and interpret these works nowadays. Theoretical texts and essays by art critics and influential figures of the movement [e.g. Allan Kaprow, George Brecht, John Cage, Hal Foster, Julia Bryan-Wilson and others] will be read and talked over collectively. Note some sessions may occur in the street, at the beach, or in the mountain.
Elective Tools & Techniques workshops
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Stop Motion Animation
Stop Motion Animation (Marc Larré)
In this eye-opening workshop students learn how to use Stop Motion to produce artistic projects. We look into early cinema, the uses of stop motion in contemporary art and also, why not, advertisement. With basic equipment, like mobile phones, we discover apps and software available to make our lives easier. By the end of the class, students work with Premiere or iMovie to produce projects more professionally.
Light in Painting
Light in Painting (Piotr Perski)
How to paint light, what is the color of light? Transparencies, layers and different background coloured paper to create special light expression within the painting. Work with still life, or life model and photography (watercolors and white acrylic on paper).
Printmaking
Printmaking (Oriol Texidor)
Printmaking is the process of reproducing professional copies of the same image by following artisanal printing techniques. Prints are created by transferring ink from a matrix to a sheet of paper with the help of a paper press. The resulting prints are usually part of a limited edition, numbered and signed.
In this workshop we will learn four techniques: Linocut, Woodcut, Drypoint etching and Monotypes.
Rembrand, Emil Nolde, Maarit Hänninen, Ellen Von Wiegand, Paula Rego, Katsushika Hokusai, Ana DMatos…
À-LAB: Art, fabulation and narratives
for worlds to come
Art, fabulation and narratives for worlds to come
(Helen Torres)
The course is an invitation to think about the role of creativity and imagination in world-making. Artworks do not represent the world, but help to make worlds. Which worlds are we building with our art projects? Which is the matter of the stories we tell? How can we inhabit the permeable boundaries between science and fiction?
We will read Ursula K. Le Guin’s essay “The carrier bag theory of fiction” to talk about tales of heroes and tales of ongoing, we will explore Frankenstein‘s creature and the Bestiary of the Anthropocene to think about the promises of monsters, and we will make a short trip to some “ecologies from the future” through some of the work of artists Ursula Biemann and Pinar Yoldas.
Elective drawing workshops:
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Drawing and Space
Drawing and Space (Piotr Perski)
Students are invited to draw in various spaces within the school’s premises. The main proposal of this workshop is to show how simple architectural or structural elements of the room can suggest interesting and creative forms to appear. During this class, students will work with the transformation of any objects such as chairs, tables and cables giving them new meanings in graphic language. Artists: Saul Steinberg, Javier Arce, Patrick Evoke ( street art), William Kentridge, Serge Spitzer: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/13005 www.montanagallerybarcelona.com
Life Drawing
Life Drawing (Piotr Perski)
These classes form “the basics” for understanding model drawing: construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body expression. Over the academic year this class is a weekly ongoing event, and Piotr makes the most of this different dynamics to help students to develop their own expression and language in drawing.
BLOCK 2:
23rd of October to 30th of November, 2023
Foundation Training (Year 1)
Compulsory classes
Theme: Decolonial reflections
Decolonial reflections (Recent Art History, Lucía Piedra)
Thinking and Making Workshop: Reflections on decolonial thoughts
Reflections on decolonial thoughts (Lucía Piedra)
Certificate / Diploma (Years 2-3)
Compulsory classes
Critical Theory: Feminist Theory & Politics
Feminist Theory & Politics (Helen Torres)
This class introduces students to the theory, philosophers and thinkers that have been, and are still, the most influential on contemporary art, aesthetics and visual culture.
À-Lab: Make MACBA Yours
Make MACBA Yours (Arash Fayez)
One of the most important missions of an art school like Metàfora is to show its students not only to make art, to talk about art and to reflect on it. It is central that, as promoters of contemporary art, we sometimes pull the students out of the studios and present them with the contemporary context, the art scene. As part of our studio arts program, we organize periodical visits to the temporary art exhibitions and the permanent collection, but also a more direct activity which we have baptized “Make MACBA Yours”.
WRKSHP: On Falsity
On Falsity (Rubén Verdú)
Art, sometimes, is seen immune and unresponsive to the avalanche of troubles that surround us. In this stressed scenario, should it just act succinctly in such a strictly self-centered way? If that is not deemed appropriate, should it respond with tools other than those that have long lost their rhetorical sharpness? Can we find ways to address these shortcomings? If the stand thinkers take in relation to prescient issues of contemporary relevance centers mostly around an impending political crisis (failing democracy), the spread of falsity (fake news) and a deeply troubled perspective focused solely in advancing humanity (anthropocentrism), are we ready to advance an alternative cultural practice?
Elective Tools & Techniques workshops
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Lo-Fi Video Editing
The creative side of Lo-Fi media (Agustín Ortiz Herrera)
Not only do we live in the era of mass media consumption, but we have already entered that of mass media self-production. In this context, as artists, we are presented with the possibility of using the means that we have at our disposal in a creative manner, but also in a conscientious and intentional way.
In this course we are going to experiment with the production of audiovisual projects that have some connection with your creative process. The idea is to use the most basic means that we have at our disposal: smart-phones with camera, video and sound recorder and a simple editing software. Artworks by some artists such as Maya Deren, Chris Marker, Jonas Mekas and Bruce Conner will serve as inspiration while some basic recording and editing exercises are proposed that include, among others, using online found footage, distorted sounds and superimposition of still photos.
This project oriented course can be focused on any of the particular interests from each student and meanwhile the creation is developed we will work on the awareness of the artistic investigation process driven through the moving image and emphasizing as well processes of conceptualization, experimentation and production. At the end of the course the projects will be presented online.
Painting the Model
Painting the Model (Piotr Perski)
Work with a live model –one long pose. Study of the structure proportions, composition, color, light and shadow in the human body. Learn about (´a la prima) – technique in acrylic and oil painting, over paper or canvas.
Paper and Wood
Paper and Wood (Oriol Texidor)
Technical workshop to discover paper and tiny wood board and rods as a sculpting material. Geometry, structure and balance.
Making sculptures working with plans and sticks, cutting sheets, building volumes through folding and adding different parts. Joining systems such as gluing or taping. Finishing methods, polishing, varnishing or painting.
Marisol Escobar, Charles and Ray Eames, Martha Shade, Monica Fuster, Thomas Barger, Arne Quinze…
À-LAB: Make MACBA Yours
Make MACBA Yours (Anna Irina Russell)
One of the most important missions of an art school like Metàfora is to show its students not only to make art, to talk about art and to reflect on it. It is central that, as promoters of contemporary art, we sometimes pull the students out of the studios and present them with the contemporary context, the art scene. As part of our studio arts program, we organize periodical visits to the temporary art exhibitions and the permanent collection, but also a more direct activity which we have baptized “Make MACBA Yours”.
Elective drawing workshops:
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Mark Making
Mark Making (Piotr Perski)
Mark making is an essential tool, without which no work can be created. Creating an exercise around this means that students will make marks on a paper, using their chosen materials, not to create an image but with the intention of limbering up hand, eye and brain as they make contact with the tools, materials and sensations.
Life Drawing
Life Drawing (Piotr Perski)
These classes form “the basics” for understanding model drawing: construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body expression. Over the academic year this class is a weekly ongoing event, and Piotr makes the most of this different dynamics to help students to develop their own expression and language in drawing.
BLOCK 3:
15th of January to 21st of February, 2024
Foundation Training (Year 1)
Compulsory classes
Theme: The Ground on Which We Stand
The Ground on Which We Stand (Recent Art History, Michael Lawton)
Soft Sculpture and Installation
Soft Sculpture and Installation (Irina Russell)
This class will be a theoretical and practical workshop to get in contact with installation art and to experiment, think and discuss their art practice within a site-specific installation perspective. During the four-week workshop we will look through a lot of references, but specifically actual artists that work with installation. We will discuss the ‘before-during-and after’ of the process of working with installation, at the same time that we bring those questions into practice. Some of the references that we’ll look at are; Eva Fábregas, Lolo y Sosaku, Doris Salcedo, Fishli and Weiss, Gordon Matta-Clark, Willem de Haan, Allan Kaprow, Karina Smigla, Antoni Hervás, William Forsythe, Christo and Jean Claude, Melanie Bonajo, among others.
Certificate / Diploma (Years 2-3)
Compulsory classes
Critical Theory: Psychoanalysis & the Subject
Psychoanalysis & the Subject: Freud & Lacan (Rubén Verdú)
This class introduces students to the theory, philosophers and thinkers that have been, and are still, the most influential on contemporary art, aesthetics and visual culture.
The class of Critical Theory of Block 2 covers the relationship between art and psychoanalysis, taking it’s starting point in the Uncanny.
À-LAB: Link Seminar
Link Seminar (Michael Lawton)
During this class, students are expected to give a short (ten minute) presentation showing examples of their own art practice within a wider art context. They will need to relate their own work to the work of two artists who interest them and/or who they feel have influenced them. All examples of artists should be from the second half of the 20th century onwards. The presentation should last about 10 minutes and there will be a short discussion at the end.
WRKSHP: Curatorial project
Curatorial project (David Armengol)
Elective Tools & Techniques workshops
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Digital Photography
Digital Photography (Marc Larré)
This course will introduce participants to photography in the context of contemporary visual culture. Each class is divided into two parts. The first one is informative and the second one is a practical exercise. The classes will be open to specific suggestions from one week to the next. For example, composition, lighting, staged photography, etc… could be considered if enough students are interested. The aim is to make students curious about the medium, and if possible, start specific projects related to some of the themes.
Academic Drawing & Painting
Academic Drawing & Painting (Piotr Perski)
Join this workshop focusing on still life and portraiture in drawing and acrylic painting where Piotr Perski will group personal objects into still life arrangements, creating the subject matter for blocks of classes.
Piotr will demonstrate his and other artists’ methods of painting, their ideas on composition, how to approach the subject, lighting and shadows, color mixing and paint application. The class will work on their own still life, with the opportunity throughout the workshop for one-to-one discussions and assistance.
Class objectives: understanding and work with fundamental form in drawing (still life), outline and techniques for demonstrating form, proportions and perspective, structure and volume, shadow and intensity, greyscale, rhythm, energy, poetry of the line and illusion of the texture and colour and gesture in realistic representation of the nature, model and portrait.
Metal work
Metal work (Oriol Texidor)
This class teaches students the exciting melting and joining process of the ARC welding. Get familiar with electrode rods, the power station and its three wires, and with grinding and polishing machines. Students practice of the starting spark, running a weld bead, cleaning and polishing the joint. Naturally, the class includes security systems and personal health protection while welding by making a small metal sculpture.
À-LAB: Theory Sessions
Theory Sessions
These theoretical workshops are new to the course and are programmed by direct request from the students on the 1st Year of the Metàfora Studio Arts Program.
Elective drawing workshops:
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Drawing and Performance
Drawing and Performance (Piotr Perski)
During this workshop, students work with the limits of the human body. They will learn how to design the performance with the body movement and body radius in the form of group and personal interventions. Explanation of the idea of performance with different artists: Ana Mendieta, Marina Abramovich, Joseph Beuys, Heather Hansen, Doigo Pimentao. Work with: charcoal, dry pigments, paint, and masking tape on large paper.
Life Drawing
Life Drawing (Piotr Perski)
These classes form “the basics” for understanding model drawing: construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body expression. Over the academic year this class is a weekly ongoing event, and Piotr makes the most of this different dynamics to help students to develop their own expression and language in drawing.
BLOCK 4:
26th of February to 3rd of April, 2024
Foundation Training (Year 1)
Compulsory classes
Theme: The Trivial and the Meaningful
The Trivial and the Meaningful (Recent Art History, Michael Lawton)
Thinking and Making Workshop: Contemporary rhopographical painting
Contemporary rhopographical painting (Michael Lawton)
‘When people were presented in a critique with painting, half of them would revert to, “Well, I don’t know anything about painting, so I can’t say anything here.” I still find people like that, who assume there is some sort of historicity about painting that forbids them access to it, or who end up being slightly feeble in attempting to say something because they have a preconceived idea that other people are more authoritative about painting.’ (Laura Owens https://bordercrossingsmag.com/article/painting-in-an-expanded-field) For me as an artist who works with painting, painting is anything that is not a text.
Certificate / Diploma (Years 2-3)
Compulsory classes
Critical Theory: Zany, Cute & Interesting
Zany, Cute & Interesting (Michael Lawton)
Based on the book by Sianne Ngai, this class looks at the minor aesthetic catergories: The zany, the cute, and the interesting, which saturate postmodern culture. They dominate the look of its art and commodities as well as our discourse about the ambivalent feelings these objects often inspire.
À-Lab: Career and Presentation
Career and Presentation
In this class we will learn the real process of how to submit to art calls through a real example, one of the most important national call-prizes “Premi Miquel Casablancas”. We will see how to make an artists statement, a bio, a portfolio, a project and how to have prepared material on our computer to make these processes “fast” so that when we have to make other calls.
WRKSHP: Reflections on decolonial thoughts
Reflections on decolonial thoughts (Lucia Piedra)
Elective Tools & Techniques workshops
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Nature-outside-human-inside
Nature-outside-human-inside (Agustín Ortiz Herrera)
In an anthropocentric approach to our environment the nature/culture dichotomy prevails. Some dividing lines are drawn at a conceptual level. But for practical purposes, how real are those divisions? Are we nature? What impact does our lifestyle have on our immediate environment, are urban spaces also environmental? Does nature really exist out of reach of human influence? In this course we will reflect on these issues while we will activate our artistic practices in spaces outside the typically artistic ones. The methodology can be driven through questions like: how can we interact through artistic methodologies with spaces as diverse as, a highway, an urban forest or a cemetery?
Painting Miniatures – from reality to abstraction
Painting Miniatures – from reality to abstraction (Piotr Perski)
In this class Piotr introduces watercolors and explores the format of miniature painting parting from close up images of famous miniature art pictures and photos from newspapers. Working with color mixing, secondary and tertiary colors. Exploring brush marks and the factors that come into play, such as the amount of paint on the brush, the speed of the stroke, the angle of the brush and the type of the brush being used. The nature of the paper will also play a part. Learning how to stretch and tone paper. Introduction to the works of contemporary artists related to the theme and the way how the repetitive miniature pattern paintings can creates and form side specific installations.
Modelling and Materials
Modelling and Materials (Oriol Texidor)
Sculptural modeling is associated with clay, but this is not the only material that has the malleability characteristics necessary for this practice.
We will learn about other sculptural modeling materials and their particularities.
Niki de Saint Phalle, Rebecca Stevenson, Henry Moore, Erwin Wurm, Wilfrid Wood, Hamra Abbas, Cynthia Consentino…
À-LAB: XL Sculpture
XL Sculpture (Oriol Texidor)
Theoretical workshop to introduce the students into the big scale sculptural practice. The project as a planning strategy. Organization of the different phases and collaborators. Sketches, plans, prototypes, models, digital simulations, photomontages and other visualizations as a presentation documents. Estimation of the materials, costs, timing and developing of the proposal. Understanding of working through a commission in a specific site.
Reference artists: Frederic Amat, Niki de Saint Phalle, Ron Mueck, Anish Kapoor, Richard Serra, Joana Vasconcelos, Antoni Llena, and Jaume Plensa, amongst others.
Elective drawing workshops:
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Drawing Patterns and Geometric Forms
Drawing Patterns and Geometric Forms (Piotr Perski)
Working on the series of geometric patterns with ruler and handmade compass , overlap ( transparent and opaque forms), rhythm, movement and direction, order and balance, scale, composition. Reference artists: Sol Le Witte, Juan Hernandez Pjuan, Antoni Saura, Roman Opalka, Sol LeWitt, Jackson Pollock, Carsten Nicolai and Merce Cunningham.
Life Drawing
Life Drawing (Piotr Perski)
These classes form “the basics” for understanding model drawing: construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body expression. Over the academic year this class is a weekly ongoing event, and Piotr makes the most of this different dynamics to help students to develop their own expression and language in drawing.
BLOCK 5:
16th of April to 31st of May, 2024
Foundation Training (Year 1)
Compulsory classes
Theme: Body and Limits
Body and Limits (Recent Art History, Laura Llaneli)
In this course we will talk about the beginnings of performance before the term even appeared in art. We will work in groups and individually on performances to, from reenactments, understand them through the body. At the end each student will create their own performance. Artists: Hugo Ball, Marinetti, Joseph Beuys, Pollock, Chris Burden, Anna Mendieta, Gina Pane, Orlan, Marina Abramovic, Bas Jan Ader…
Thinking and Making Workshop: Performance
Performance (Laura Llaneli)
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. Artists: Martha Rosler, Erwin Wurm, Vito Acconci, Laia Estruch, Anne Imhof Bobby Baker, Franz Erhart Walter, Joan Morey, La Ribot, Ariadna Guiteras, Dan Graham, Cyprien Gaillard, Esther Ferrer, Pia Sommer, Fermín Jiménez Landa…
Certificate / Diploma (Years 2-3)
Compulsory classes
Critical Theory: The Future: Utopia, Dystopia
The Future: Utopia, Dystopia (Rubén Verdú)
To frame is to take responsibility, that is, to decide what to include or to exclude, to point towards something or to cut it off. As artists we are constantly confronted with a conquenation of choices which require a political stance. Contemporary photography and moving images are mediums that explore matters of framing and rhythm, but also hybrid proposals which also include installation, performance and sculpture face similar choices. Artists and thinkers such as Hito Steyerl or Boris Groys will be a starting point to think towards our responsibility in our making-processes.
À-LAB: Make MACBA Yours
Make MACBA Yours (Lucía Piedra)
One of the most important missions of an art school like Metàfora is to show its students not only to make art, to talk about art and to reflect on it. It is central that, as promoters of contemporary art, we sometimes pull the students out of the studios and present them with the contemporary context, the art scene. As part of our studio arts program, we organize periodical visits to the temporary art exhibitions and the permanent collection, but also a more direct activity which we have baptized “Make MACBA Yours”.
WRKSHP: Fictional Writing
Fictional Writing (Michael Lawton)
“Everyone Should Write Fiction for Artworks”. In this workshop Michael Lawton will share the methodology he developed through his doctoral research so that we all write fictions for artworks (or other objects, things, vibrations, actors, agents, inspirations.) This workshop is designed to give people some tools and techniques for approaching a subject, and the time and space to write.
Elective Tools & Techniques workshops
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Screenprinting
Screenprinting (Oriol Texidor)
Silkscreen or Serigraphy is a printing technique where a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil. A photosensitive emulsion is used to fix the image into the mesh.
Reference artists: Andy Warhol, Mara Piccione, Alvaro P-FF, Ana Ventura, Elisa Talentino, and Jonathan Lawes amongst others.
Texture in Portrait Painting
Texture in Portrait Painting (Piotr Perski)
Piotr Perski, one of Metàfora’s painting teachers, is a specialist in working with texture and different materials. This class, which is based on experimental painting techniques, takes students through the universe and history of portrait painting, both small and large scale.
Working with Resin
Working with Resin (Oriol Texidor)
The industry is constantly discovering new materials that meet the needs required by the market, and resins are a huge source of possibilities, also exploited by artists.
We will learn about the main groups of resins and their specific characteristics, as well as the tools and utensils, the work processes from the beginning to the final finishes and the safety measures.
David Bestué, Dan Lam, Tim Silver, John Chamberlain, Folkert de Jong…
À-LAB: Make MACBA Yours
Make MACBA Yours (Marc Larré)
One of the most important missions of an art school like Metàfora is to show its students not only to make art, to talk about art and to reflect on it. It is central that, as promoters of contemporary art, we sometimes pull the students out of the studios and present them with the contemporary context, the art scene. As part of our studio arts program, we organize periodical visits to the temporary art exhibitions and the permanent collection, but also a more direct activity which we have baptized “Make MACBA Yours”.
Elective drawing workshops:
for all students (years 1, 2-3)
Frottage and Collage for Big Scale Drawings
Frottage and Collage for Big Scale Drawings (Piotr Perski)
Students are invited to paint over newspapers and recycling materials to work with gesture and textures in drawing and painting. The idea is to find relationship between composition and the pictures from a newspaper and the abstract gesture patterns. Students are going to work with different quality of the texture using unusual materials and pigments in painting and as well work with the body prints and frottage. Paint with organic textures and pigments, introduction to swipe technique in acrylic paint. Work with recycling materials, collage, and frottage and mix techniques in large scale painting.
Life Drawing
Life Drawing (Piotr Perski)
These classes form “the basics” for understanding model drawing: construction of the body, anatomy, composition, body expression. Over the academic year this class is a weekly ongoing event, and Piotr makes the most of this different dynamics to help students to develop their own expression and language in drawing.
Obligatory ECTS credits per year
Typically, students planning to pursue further education in Studio Arts need to earn ECTS credits to validate their courses.
The following tables demonstrate the annual ECTS credit requirements for the Metàfora Studio Arts Program.
* Metàfora is an independent institution and does not hold university accreditation. However, we enable credit convalidation by other institutions by aligning our credits with the ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). 1 ECTS credit is equivalent to 25 hours of combined classroom hours and homework.