This is a two-year career with a non-formal education program that offers the most relevant tendencies in visual arts from the Ancient World -Prehistoric Art to Roman Art- to the first half of the 20th century.

During the first year (Initial Level), the contents will be analyzed chronologically: from the Ancient Art (3,000 B.C.) up to the Baroque in the 17th century.
The second year (Initial Level), the students will continue with the historical and cultural development of the arts till the end of the first quarter of the 20th century.
According to the Resolution No.5/97 issued by the Secretariat of Culture of the Argentine Republic, and to the Resolution No. 573/02 issued by the Secretariat of Culture of the Government of the capital city of Buenos Aires, the courses of this career have been declared as of cultural  interest.

The Friends’ Association offers an interesting variety of workshops. Attendance is non-restrictive. There's a multiple range of possibilities: there are workshops in which the formal teaching of drawing prevails, while there are others in which students learn how to use the color techniques by going through the experience of color itself. These workshops give the learners a wide selection of elementary resources that will help them to initiate their knowledge of the arts through the several techniques they learn in the classroom. On the other hand, these workshops are meant to develop the learner's creativity by going though a personal voyage of self-discovery.

Our workshops have high quality since they are in charge of artists who are nationally and internationally renowned.

Previous experience is not required to attend these workshops and the students' learning will be followed personally by their teachers.

If you are interested in taking up any of these workshops, you may do so at any time of the year as long as there are vacancies. Maximum number of students: 20 for each workshop. If there are less than 8 students in a workshop, then the Association has the right to close it.

When students begin their workshops, they get a free kit with the basic materials to be used in the first class.

Workshops start in March and end in November. There's no break in winter holidays.

A workshop's fee is $250.- per month.

DRAWING WORKSHOP with LIVE MODEL.
The Perception of Space, Shapes and Light
Teacher: Ernesto Pesce.
Timetable: Mondays from 10:00 to 12:00 hrs./ 19:00 to 21:00 hrs.// Tuesdays  from 10:30 to 12:30 hrs./14:00 to 16:00 hrs.// Wednesdays from14:00 to 16:00 hrs.
Through different techniques and a variety of materials (pencil, charcoal, ink, pastels) students will learn how to represent the human figure in a composition, interlocking shapes and tonal values. The students' productions will be analyzed at the end of every class to develop their knowledge and observation.

WATERCOLOR WORKSHOP
Teacher: Ernesto Pesce
Timetable: Fridays from 10:00 to 12:00 hrs./ 14:00 to 16:00 hrs.
The aim of this workshop is to give the student the necessary knowledge to handle this medium -watercolor- in order to capture transparency and quality through the materials and other elements used for this.

PAINTING WORKSHOP with LIVE MODEL
Teacher: Ariel Mlynarzewicz
Timetable:  Mondays from 14:00 to 16:00 hrs./16:30 to 18:30 hrs.// Tuesdays from 08:10 to 10:10 hrs./19:00 to 21:00 hrs.
The purpose of this workshop is to teach the student how to use the materials, elements and concepts, from the simplest to the most complex steps, required in the process of the production of a work of art.

PAINTING WORKSHOP: How to Maximize the Painting Techniques
Teacher: Mariano Sapia
Timetable: Saturdays from 11:30 to 13:30 hrs.
This workshop will teach the student how to improve the various techniques used in Painting. Special emphasis will be made on how to work with Color. There will be a constant follow-up of every student's process of learning.

PAINTING WORKSHOP: Painting with Oil - Techniques
Teacher: Juan Astica
Timetable:  Thursdays from 10:00 to 12:00 hrs./14:00 to 16:00/ 16:30 to 18:30 hrs.
The purpose of this workshop is to teach the student how to use the techniques related to oil, its characteristics (consistency, drying time, textures) and methods to develop its expressive and visual possibilities in art.

DRAWING WORKSHOP: Learning how to Draw for Beginners
Teacher: Mariano Sapia
Timetable: Saturdays from 09:00 to 11:00 hrs.
Drawing starts with dots that make lines that make shapes. Adding light and shade, we gradually start to compose - making shapes fit together in space. This is the aim of this workshop to be shared with the attenders.

PAINTING WORKSHOP: Creativity and Color
Teacher: Jorge González Perrin
Timetable: Wednesdays from 10:00 to 12:00 hrs./16:30 to 18:30/ 19:00 to 21:00 hrs.
Two main aspects will be developed in this workshop: expression and technique. By working on the use of color (how colors affect one another when mixed together, how they can be used to recreate perspective, form, mood), the student will be introduced to the language of painting   until finally she/he can find his/her own style to express through painting.

Art and Painting Techniques
Teacher: Roberto Scafidi
Timetable: Thursdays from 19:00 to 21:00 hrs.
This workshop studies the historical development of occidental art since 1945. In the theoretical aspect, concepts of visual perception, philosophical coordinates, sociological context and previous artistic influences are reviewed. Regarding the practical side, the student will experience all the materials and techniques used from then on.

WORKSHOP for YOUNG PEOPLE
Teacher: Susana Saravia
Age of attenders: from 15 to 23 years old.
Timetable:  Fridays from 17:30 to 20:00 hrs.
The goal of this workshop is to draw the students' attention to the process of learning, to see, to break the rules, to discover new forms of expression, to leave aside what is useless and to choose new options, to think in new techniques and to go through their own experiences.

DRAWING AND PAINTING WORKSHOP for Beginners
Teacher: Ricardo Laham
Timetable: Mondays from 10:00 to 12:30 hrs. // Thursdays from 10:00 to 12:30 hrs.
Drawing and painting techniques will be introduced to the students of this level, considering the basic knowledge of the language as fundamental to develop perception through the representational models that we use to talk and to think, and that show the way we can acquire information from the reality that surrounds us. This is a simple approach to learning and any person -with or without artistic aptitude- can learn through it.  Emphasis on the follow-up of the students' process of learning will be made.

WORKSHOP on SMALL FORMAT DRAWING
Teacher: Claudia Contreras
Timetable: Mondays from 18:30 to 21:00 hrs.
Techniques and materials for investigation will be analysed to develop the creativity of both beginners and advanced students.  Supports -50 x 70 cm maximum- will be used in the classroom making it easier to handle the concepts of shape and synthesis.

BASIC CONCEPTS IN DRAWING
Teacher: Liliana Fleurquin
Timetable: Tuesdays from 14:00 to 16:30 hrs // Wednesdays from 10:00 to 12:30 hrs.
This workshop's aim is for the students to acquire the basic concepts in drawing: space, lines, chiaroscuro, tonal values, depth, composition, perspective and rhythms. Students will work on the development of the formal and creative elements of drawing with flexibility respecting their own individualities.

PAINTING WORKSHOP with LIVE MODEL
Teacher: Ariel Mlynarzewicz
Timetable: Tuesdays from 10:30 to 12:30 hrs.
The purpose of this workshop is to teach the student how to use the materials, elements and concepts, from the simplest to the most complex steps, required in the process of the production of a work of art.

PAINTING WORKSHOP: COLOR EXPRESSION
Teacher: Silvia Flichman
Timetable:  Wednesdays from 14:00 to 16:30 hrs.
The purpose of this workshop is to learn how to form an image using chance as an element to begin and develop a work of art. Flexibility will be an essential element in this workshop since students are asked to accept known or unknown forms, whether figurative and/or abstract, produced from the use of different techniques, even stains, that can lead each student to find out a new process in his/her own production.

COLLAGE WORKSHOP
Teacher: Claudia Contreras
Timetable: Wednesdays from 18:30 to 21:00 hrs.
The research work and development of collage productions in small format is encouraged in this workshop. Students will work on the concept of space and on the capacity of different materials for assemblage.

WORKSHOP on the TECHNIQUES IN ART
Teacher: Roberto Scafidi
Timetable: Tuesdays from 18:30 to 21:00 hrs // Thursdays from 14:00 to 16:30hrs.
The objective of this workshop is to provide the students with the necessary knowledge of the materials and how to use them:  the materials and their specific characteristics, the various techniques, supports, formats, the wide range of possible combinations of these for the production of a work of art. Students will also analyse examples in the history in Art that are connected to the topics discussed in class.