Two cycles of art history courses are proposed for this year 2019-2020.To start the year, this inaugural lesson dedicated to the irruption of Arab creation is open access and will take place at Sciences Po Lille.

These courses are intended for an audience as passionate as curious. No prerequisites in art history are necessary to address these teachings

THE TEACHER

Mario Choueiry
Mario Choueiry is a graduate of the Ecole du Louvre and the IEP in Paris. He teaches modern art history at the Sorbonne Abu Dhabi and the Ecole du Louvre.

PICASSO AND THE ARAB WORLD

4 lessons from 18:30 to 20:00
15 Oct 2019 - 5 Nov 2019 - 26 Nov 2019, 10 Dec 2019
Registration fee: 40€ / 22 €
The Arab avant-gardes never cease to refer to his sense of tragedy and his derision; almost all of them, moreover, had at one time or another a «cubist» period: Picasso certainly did not travel in the Arab world like Matisse or Klee, but the knowledge of his work is essential to anyone who wants to understand anything about modern Arab painting as its influence is colossal.

POPULAR ARTS IN THE ARAB WORLD

5 lessons from 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Jan 14, 2020, Feb 11, 2020, March 3, 2020, March 24, 2020, Apr 7, 2020
Registration fee: 50€ / 27,5 €
The concept of «popular art» has blurred contours and exists in negative of scholarly art which, in the Arab world, is understood as the arts of Islam and fine arts as imported from the West. The links between these two worlds are however not so tight. Are popular arts (fire arts, textile arts, body expressions, etc.) “the art of the people” or “the art of a people”?

Registration for the Picasso cycle is entitled to a reduced rate on the Popular Arts cycle
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