What You Will Learn

Learn to understand and identify artistic styles

Explain your opinion about artworks to others

Become the most interesting person in the room and have exciting conversations about art

Stop being afraid of museums and galleries

Get invited to the best art events in your city

Testimonials

About Your Teacher

Natalia Doroshenko Murray, MFA



Natalia is an art educator, curator, collector and art gallery owner. She has a master degree in Contemporary Art History and Curating of Contemporary Art.



In 2020 Natalia launched an education program "How to Stop Being Afraid of Contemporary Art" at the cultural foundation in Barcelona and she is currently teaching an extended art course "Contemporary Art. From Impressionists to a 2 Million Dollar Dead Shark”.



Natalia is a founder of the Kontrapunkt art gallery and is an author of a popular art blog @art_unlocked. She is also a founder of a cultural agencies “Art Circle” in Spain and Indonesia and of an online academy “Make Art Make Money” that helps artists succeed in the art market.



Natalia is currently working on a book about contemporary art for beginners.

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What you will get as a part of the course

Recorded session

All the sessions will be recorded and you can study at your own pace. Every chapter will end with a personal assignment

Home assignments

You will be offered to do entertaining assignments that will help you internalise received information and receive feedback from your teacher

Certificate of graduation

You will get an official Art Unlocked certificate upon graduation (after you watch all the videos and complete assignment)

Become the most interesting person in the room!

Become fluent in art, culture and more.

Course Curriculum

This course starts on June 15th. Here is the detailed curriculum. This curriculum is equal to the Master Degree contemporary art history course.

WHAT IS CONTEMPORARY? What is considered Contemporary Art and when it all started.

2.1. Impressionism and Claude Monet

2.2. Post-Impressionism: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Cézanne, Georges Seurat , Paul Gauguin

2.3. Expressionism and Vassily Kandinsky

2.4. Fauvism and Henri Matisse

3.1. Pablo Picasso and Cubism

3.2. Futurism

3.3. Dada

4.1. Nude Descending a Staircase

4.2. Readymade

4.3. The Large Glass: "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even"

5.1. Roots of Surrealism. Andre Breton

5.2. Inventing Art. Max ernst

5.3. Salvador Dali

5.4. Man Ray

5.5. René Magritte

5.6. Surrealist Objects and Biomorphic Abstraction

6.1. Who Made the First Abstraction?

6.2. Lyrical Abstraction. Vassily Kandinsky

6.3. Geometric Abstraction. Piet Mondrian and Kazimir Malevich

6.4. Abstraction in the Post-War Europe. Arte Informel

7.1. Beginnings. Arshile Gorky.

7.2. The Rise of Abstract Expressionism. "The irascible 18"

7.3. Action Painting. Jackson Pollock

7.4. Colour Field Painting. Mark Rothko

8.1. Post-War Europe. Political and Social Background

8.2. "New Realism" in France

8.3. Yves Klein. The Art of Nothing

8.4. Arman. The Art of Everything

9.1. Post-War Italy. Social and Political Background

9.2. Lucio Fontana. Cutting Through

9.3. Piero Manzoni. Sh*t in a Can

9.4. "Poor" Art: Mario Merz, Yannis Kounellis, Michelangelo Pistoletto

10.1. Post-War Society in the USA. The Birth of Consumerism

10.2. Pop-Art in the UK

10.3. Neo-Dada in the USA. Robert Rauschenberg

10.4. Neo-Dada in the USA. Jasper Johns

10.5. The Art of Pop. Andy Warhol

10.6. The Art of Shop. Claes Oldenburg

10.7. The Art of Comics. Roy Lichtenstein

11.1. What is Minimal Art? Ed Reinhard

11.2. Frank Stella, the "Killer of Art".

11.3. Land Art

12.1. Sol LeWill. "Idea is a Machine that Makes the Art"

12.2. Joseph Kosuth. Idea as an Idea as an Idea

12.3. Death of the Author. Art as Instruction

12.4. Institutional Critique

12.5. Social Sculpture. Joseph Beuys

12.6. Conceptual Art and Politics

13.1. The Roots of Performance. Evolution of Theatre and Music

13.2. Black Mountain College. John Cage and Merce Cunningham

13.3. Antonion Artaud and the Theatre of Cruelty. Demolition of the "Fourth Wall"

13.4. Allan Kaprow. Happenings

13.5. Fluxus Festivals

13.6. Joseph Beuys. Personal Myth-making

13.7. Marina Abramovic. Art of Endurance

13.8. Vienna Actionism

13.9. Dangerous Art

13.10. Personal and Political. Performance Art and Feminism

13.11. Art and Politics. Santiago Sierra

14.1. Street Art VS Graffiti

14.2. New York. History of Graffiti

14.3. Mural Art

14.4. Jean-Michele Basquiat

14.5. Keith Haring

14.6. Banksy

15.1. Social and Political Background in England in the 1980s

15.2. "Freeze" Exhibition

15.3. Charles Saatchi, Godfather of YBA

15.4. The Sensation of the "Sensation" Exhibition

15.5. Chapman Brothers

15.6. Tracy Emin

15.7. Damien Hirst

16.1. Recap of the Course Material

16.2. Modern Art VS Contemporary Art. Getting Clear with Terminology

16.3. Contemporary Art Today. Selected Artists

16.4. Art Trends Today. Art Review POWER 100

The course starts on June 20th!

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