School of the Art Institute of Chicago Courses

Charting the Avant Garde: From Romanticism to Utopic Abstraction

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Trace art's rebellions from Romanticism, Realism, and Impressionism through Fauvism, Cubism, and German Expressionism to the pure abstraction of Kandinsky, Mondrian, and Malevich.

• Kadenze
• 50 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Pop, Minimalism, and Postmodernism

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Trace art from Pop and Minimalism through conceptual, performance, body and Land art to Postmodernism, examining mass media, the phenomenology of Minimalism, and critiques of art institutions.

• Kadenze
• 50 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Surrealism and Its Legacy

Explore Dada and Surrealism through Duchamp, Dalí and Magritte, then the American New York School with de Kooning, Pollock, Rothko and Krasner.

• Kadenze
• 50 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Making Meaning: An Introduction to Designing Objects, Part I

Explore how designed objects generate meaning through signs, style and utility, and learn design methodologies, visualization and prototyping tools used by working object designers.

• Kadenze
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Making Meaning: An Introduction to Designing Objects, Part II

Explore object design's avant-garde, the aesthetics of technological progress, the ethical dilemmas designers face, and how designers work — employed, on commission, or speculatively.

• Kadenze
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Career Certificate

Touring Modernism: From the French Avant-Garde to American Pop and Beyond

Trace modern art from Romanticism, Impressionism, and Cubism through Dada, Surrealism, Pop, Minimalism, and Postmodernism, learning key artists, styles, and their cultural and political contexts.

• Kadenze
• 144 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Career Certificate

Making Meaning: An Introduction to Designing Objects

Explore how designed objects carry meaning: examine semiotics, style and utility, power relations, the design process, radical futuristic aesthetics, and models of professional design practice.

• Kadenze
• 64 hours
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Touring Modernism: From the French avant-garde to American Pop and Beyond

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Trace modern and postmodern art from Romanticism and Impressionism through Dada, Surrealism, the New York School, Pop, and conceptual art within their socio-political contexts.

• Kadenze
• 8 weeks
• Not Currently Offered
• Free Online Course