Online Workshops

Reference in history of art

Magnólia Costa is a renowned instructor of history of art. She brings her 25-year teaching experience to the online environment, offering access to contents she has explored in universities and museums, as well as content especially developed for distance learning.

She offers workshops for novice and experienced learners, depending on their interests, through an encompassing approach to the history of Western art or covering specific artists and themes.

These workshops are available through live sessions, videoconferences, or on demand on a dedicated platform. It is possible to arrange individual live sessions.

Education is the raw material of human development. In her commitment as an educator, Magnólia Costa offers 50% discount to teachers and students registered on her website.

Participants in workshops will receive a certificate.

Paul Cézanne. Large Bathers. Oil on canvas, 210.5 × 250.8 cm. Purchased with the W. P. Wilstach Fund, 1937. Courtesy: Philadelphia Museum of Art

Live Workshops

In this modality, classes are taught on pre-scheduled dates and times. It is necessary to be available to watch the sessions live, at the moment they are taught, so you can ask questions and interact with other participants online. Classes are recorded and can be exclusively accessed for a specific period of time.

Art of Love [New]

Art is the fruit of love, of a desire to enjoy beauty in many different ways. This workshop is inspired by Ovid’s poetry and Roland Barthes’ thought, analyzing works of art and literature in the light of this celebrated feeling of affection. Philosophical reflections on love support the analysis of works created at different times in history, referring to the joy of loving—not only love for a being, but love itself.

Art in the Western World—20th Century

A conceptual approach to the main artistic movements of the 20th Century in Europe, the United States, and Brazil. This workshop examines interrelationships between these movements, providing essential elements for understanding various trends in today’s art.

Georges Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884. Oil on canvas, 207.5 × 308.1 cm. Helen Birch Bartlett Memorial Collection. Courtesy: Chicago Art Institute

On-Demand Workshops

In this option, all sessions in a workshop are available through a dedicated platform and are accompanied by support materials. Because the sessions are recorded, there is no live interaction with the instructor or other paricipants. You can watch the sessions at your own convenience. When you subscribe to an on-demand workshop, you will have one year to watch the sessions, as many times as you wish.

In 2021, on-demand workshops will be available in English, in subtitled version.

Art & Nature

The first human interventions in nature were artistic. Some still exist—such as Egyptian mastabas and the Nazca lines in Peru—and continue to generate speculation about the meaning of life and our experience of the world. From ancient monuments to land art, from representation of idealized landscapes to the invention of gardens, this workshop looks at nature as raw material for art. Works produced in different times and locations, with different purposes, are the starting point for philosophical investigations on relationships between human beings and the whole of which they are part.

Image & Identity

Philosophical investigations of images and their role in consolidating the culture of appearances. Reflections on image influence on our world perceptions, lifestyle choices, and self-identity construction.

To Come in 2020

Art in France—20th Century

This workshop examines the creations of iconic artists who worked in France in the 20th Century, pointing to the paths of French art in the 21st Century. Eight sessions, eight different artists: Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Alberto Giacometti, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Yves Klein, Georges Rousse, and Orlan.

Philosophy and Contemporary Art

Based on philosophical concepts, this workshop examines the work of several of today's artists—each session covers one different artist. Fourteen sessions, fourteen different artists: Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Louise Bourgeois, Farnese de Andrade, Nan Goldin, William Kentridge, Anselm Kiefer, Pierre Huyghe, James Turrell, Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor, Francis Alÿs, Janet Cardiff & George Bures Miller, and Bill Viola.

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