Visual Arts
Drawing, colour, composition and art history
Learn the language of visual art — line, shape, form, space, texture, value and colour — and master drawing in perspective and building a strong composition. Follow art history from cave paintings to modern art and from the Azerbaijani carpet and Tabriz miniatures to Sattar Bahlulzade, and discover the basics of design and digital art. Finally, learn to analyse any artwork like a professional and write about it.
Course content
The alphabet of art: elements and colour
BeginnerLine, shape, form, space, texture, value, the colour wheel, warm and cool colours and colour harmony.
- 1The elements of artEvery picture is built from the same “alphabet”: line, shape, form, space, texture, value and colour. Learn to recognise these elements and use them in your own drawings.Grades 5–614 min
- 2Colour theory: the colour wheel and harmonyLearn primary, secondary and tertiary colours, warm and cool colours, complementary pairs and colour-harmony schemes, and how to write a colour as a hex code.Grades 5–715 min
Drawing, perspective and composition
IntermediateOne- and two-point perspective, proportions of the face and figure, the rule of thirds, balance, rhythm and the focal point.
- 3Drawing basics: perspective and proportionLearn to draw in one- and two-point perspective using the horizon line and vanishing points, and learn the basic proportions of the human face and figure.Grades 6–816 min
- 4Composition: rule of thirds, balance, rhythm and focal pointHow should you arrange the parts of a picture so that the eye finds the main thing at once? Learn the rule of thirds, the kinds of balance, rhythm and the focal point.Grades 6–815 min
Art history, national heritage and design
AdvancedFrom rock art to modern art, the Azerbaijani carpet, miniatures, shebeke and painters, graphic design, typography and digital tools.
- 5Art history: from caves to modern artGet to know the main periods of art and its great artists — from prehistoric rock art to Ancient Egypt and Greece, from the Renaissance to Impressionism, and from Cubism to Pop Art.Grades 7–917 min
- 6Azerbaijani fine and applied artDiscover Azerbaijani carpet weaving, which is on the UNESCO list, the Tabriz school of miniature painting, the shebeke of Shaki, and 20th-century painters such as Sattar Bahlulzade and Tahir Salahov.Grades 7–916 min
- 7Basics of design and digital artLearn the four principles of graphic design, the basics of typography, the difference between raster and vector graphics and the main digital art tools — then build a poster step by step.Grades 8–916 min
Art studies: analysis and criticism
UniversityFormal analysis, iconography and iconology, context, and academic writing about an artwork.