Other Programs

Evening School

Description of a course

An additional evening class on Painting, Drawing and other disciplines.

Daily evening course is held from Monday to Friday.

The program includes 3 academic hours of practice a day.

Minimum enrollment requirement for all studio workshops is 5. Students will be notified if this number is not reached 60 days before the first day of class. At that time, they will be given the choice of either enrolling in another workshop, availability permitting, or having their payment refunded. Students may continue to apply to workshops even after the deadline and through the first day of the course.

The didactic educational programme targets different age groups, but since each student receives individual approach, the difficulty level of tasks is given according to the student’s age.

Maximum enrollment 10 students.

All the courses are conducted in English.

Duration of a course

1 year

Certification

Official Certificate is awarded to students after successful completion of a program of study.

Enrollment deadline

Enrollment is open during the overall academic year

Short-time courses

Description of a course

In order to guarantee the students the maximum satisfaction from Academy’s educational programs, we give the opportunity to join the course on the short-term basis, in order to evaluate the methodology and the quality of teaching. Students are absolutely free to choose the duration of study, starting from 1 week, and the time to begin. The following options of study are available:

Full-time study includes 6 academic hours a day.

Part-time study includes 6 academic hours a day.

The didactic educational programme targets different age groups, but since each student receives individual approach, the difficulty level of tasks is given according to the student’s age.

Maximum enrollment 10 students.

All the courses are conducted in English.

Duration of a course

 starting from 1 week

Certification

Official Certificate is awarded to students after successful completion of a program of study.

Enrollment deadline

Enrollment is open during the overall academic year

Summer courses

Description of a course

The intensive training course includes the deep immersion in the cultural historical environment of the Renaissance era with the academic program that teaches the fundamentals of drawing, painting, architecture, art history and philosophy. The didactic educational programme targets different age groups, but since each student receives individual approach, the difficulty level of tasks is given according to the student’s age.

The uniqueness of this developmental course is reached by the full immersion of the students in the historical surrounding, in this case, a medieval – Renaissance city. The connection of the method of academic education in the area of visual arts – achieved through centuries – with lectures, excursions and discussions, allows to reach wonderful results in the individual educational process. Practical classes of drawing and painting are conducted by professors who graduated from the most prestigious Art Academies in Russia. Art history lectures and excursions are lead by art historians who have 15 years of work experience in Italy. Such connection of practical learning of fundamentals of Russian classical art with benchmark standards of the Renaissance in the city of Florence constitutes the first cultural project in the history of educational programmes.

What will You study during the course?

Drawing class:

gives theoretical knowledge of a subject;

teaches how to apply the received knowledge and skill in practice;

teaches the linear-constructive drawing of shapes;

teaches how to illustrate a three-dimensional form on paper;

teaches to express the texture and materiality of the objects with different materials;

teaches the stages of work in drawing;

develops spacial perception, artistic and relative thinking;

educates the need of continuous self-development as an artistic individual;

encourages involvement in the heritage of national and worldwide art.

The classes are arranged in a methodical order from simple to complex, slowly becoming more difficult with higher requirements to the quality of work. Important part of study is a continuous accumulation of knowledge and skills, including technical skills. Educative program starts with an introductory conversation, acquaintance of the student with the subject with its goals and tasks, demonstration of materials required for the class (paper, eraser, graphite and other pencils, charcoal, sanguine, sepia, etc.).

Painting class:

develops the culture of visual perception of objects and surrounding phenomena;

teaches the aesthetical nature of painting, theoretical foundations of colour science, perspective, different painting techniques;

teaches how to perceive colour and how to transmit the volume of objects and the linear and aerial perspective with colour;

teaches to use painting tools, modeling the form with the consideration of its colour characteristics in relation to the space and lighting;

helps to acquire the spiritual, ciltural and cultural values, motivating the need to education, self-development and growth of personal qualities;

forms aesthetical perception of art.

Art History class:

gives the knowledge in fundamental stages of Art History development ;

teaches to recognize, analyse and compare the characteristic features of different art eras and correlate them with personal experience;

guarantees the primary knowledge of the role and meaning of Art in culture;

motivates both spiritual and ethical development of a person;

gives knowledge of fundamental concepts of Art;

gives knowledge of the main artistic schools of both Western European and Russian Art;

teaches to distinguish the main characteristics of each artistic style;

teaches to detect the expressive means used by the artists;

teaches to express the thought about the artistic creations of an artist in written and spoken language.

Plein Air:

gives the knowledge about the rules of construction of an art form and the characteristics of its perception and realization;

contributes to the ability of transmitting the mood, the state of the colour solution in landscape, to combine different types of studies, sketches used for the composition works;

forms the skills of working in different techniques while executing genre drafts with a focus on details.

 This subject requires skills of all art disciplines (drawing, painting, composition). Plein air constitutes a good school for further development of these skills. During the study students master technical tricks of work with different materials.

One week activity plan:

1-st day: Arrival and housing location

2-nd day: 9.00 – 9.45 Introductory orientation talk in Palazzo Cosimo-Ridolfi

                             9.45 – 18.00 Guided city tour, museum visit, art history lecture

3-rd day: 9.30 – 16.30 Painting and Drawing classes (Total 6 hours)

4-th day: 9.30 – 16.30 Painting and Drawing classes (Total 6 hours)

5-th day: 8.00 – 19.00 Visit to Siena with art history lecture

6-th day: 9.30 – 16.30 Painting and Drawing classes (Total 6 hours)

7-th day: 9.30 – 12.30 Lecture-conversation about the role and the meaning of Art: “Application of acquired knowledge in life as a stage of artistic self-realization”.

For the programs of ten days, two weeks and more, the classes are held in the same order: 18 hours of practical art classes per week. Art history lectures with museum visits and educational tours in other cities. No specific artistic skills or background are required.

Duration of a course

one week, ten days, two weeks, three weeks and one month.

Certification

Official Certificate is awarded to students after successful completion of a program of study.

Enrollment deadline

Enrollment is open during the overall academic year.

Workshops and Masterclasses

Description of a course

The Academy organizes multiple workshops and masterclasses during the academic year, conducted by the leading instructors from the top artistic universities of Russia as well as the world-famous artists.

For the upcoming events program, please contact: info@florusart.com

The didactic educational programme targets different age groups, but since each student receives individual approach, the difficulty level of tasks is given according to the student’s age.

Maximum enrollment 10 students.

All the courses are conducted in English.

Duration of a course

starting from 1 week

Certification

Official Certificate is awarded to students after successful completion of a program of study.

Enrollment deadline

Enrollment is open during the overall academic year