Online Art Course. From Invisibility to the Spotlight: Women Artists from the 20th and 21st Centuries You Need to Know

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is now offering accessible online art courses where you can learn about key concepts and ideas in the history of modern and contemporary art from an up-to-date perspective.

Taught by renowned experts in a variety of fields and drawing on the Museum Collection and its dynamic, variegated art program, art courses are designed to offer an overview of each subject while kindling interest and the desire for further knowledge.

Workload: 6 hours (at your own pace)
Target audience: People over 18 who are interested in contemporary art
Language: Spanish
Structure: 4 modules, 16 video lessons, additional resources
Certification: Upon completion of the course, you will get a certificate
Duration of the Course: Three months from date of purchase

WHAT WILL YOU LEARN IN THIS COURSE?

With a few rare exceptions, women artists remained in the shadows for many centuries, until impressionist artists drew attention to their creative work in the late 19th century.

The first online course to be offered by the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, taught by Lourdes Cirlot, Professor Emeritus of History of Art at the University of Barcelona, will deal with the role played by women artists in the 20th and 21st centuries. Among others, the course’s learning goals are:

• To understand the virtually invisible role played by women in the history of art by focusing on individual female modern and contemporary artists.
• To discuss the real contributions made by women, placing them in the history of 20th- and 21st-century art.
• To analyze the important role played by women artists in disciplines like weaving, performance, and, more recently, video-creation.

Introduction, Structure and Course Syllabus [+info]

Taught by
Lourdes Cirlot, Emeritus Professor of Art History at Universitat de Barcelona