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What is the Barcelona Academy of Art?

The Barcelona Academy of Art is a high-performance specialised centre dedicated to the
professional teaching of drawing, painting and sculpture.

With a comprehensive curriculum derived from the classical tradition, the BAA offers Full-time, Part-time Programs and other courses based on the methods of the great academic studios of the 19th century. The painters Jean-León Gérôme, León Bonnat and Carolus-Duran, whose revised philosophy and teaching methods are integrated into the BAA, are figures of reference, emphasising the importance of the direct study of nature and the analysis of historical masters.

The BAA system has a very clear and effective teaching style. The basis of all disciplines and courses focuses on the importance of drawing and educating the eye. Students will advance through planned exercises that will give them the skills necessary to represent what they see through figurative language.

Through this method, students will acquire skills to express their own sensibility, ideas, and concerns more effectively.

Who’s it for?

The BAA trains students who want to become professionals in the arts of drawing, painting and sculpture: it trains artists who, after understanding the traditional methods and techniques, will be able to work in any creative atmosphere with first-class artistic skills.

The BAA offers a solid foundation for all types of artists, committing to discipline and rigour, guaranteeing maximum use of the expressive potential and effort of its students. The knowledge offered by the BAA is useful for more than just visual artists, since it offers valuable tools for the disciplines of design, digital illustration, the film industry or video game development.

Aims

To provide students with a solid technical base rooted in traditional methodologies, guaranteeing knowledge and mastery of resources, skills and materials suitable to maximize the development of an artistic identity..

To promote rigour, discipline and perseverance . To forge a spirit of improvement in the pursuit of excellence through the BAA method.

To provide students with communication skills and practical resources to deal with the challenges of today’s Art world in the best way, encouraging critical thinking and an attitude of active exploration of tradition and contemporary artistic production and its dynamics.

Programmes offered

All regular courses are available for both full-time and part-time enrollment.

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See all Programmes

The Barcelona Academy of Art has a wide range of educational possibilities. Each term, throughout the year, are held the Drawing – Painting Programme and the Drawing – Sculpture Programme, complemented by seminars on Fridays, Evening Classes and Weekend Classes and also short courses during Easter Break and the Summer to help students to deepen and perfect specific aspects of the processes, approaches and techniques, hand in hand with the best professionals.

The Barcelona Academy of Art also offers the BAA Junior programme, in which young people can explore new ideas and concepts, at the same time receiving specialised quality training and acquiring graphic and fine arts skills.

Our professors

All the professors of the Barcelona Academy of Art are recognised international artists with a traditional background.

The faculty comprises painters and sculptors who actively work in their respective professional fields alongside their involvement in the contemporary art industry.

Calendar

The academic calendar for the regular Programs and Courses consists of four terms of 11 weeks each.
Students will have two or three non-teaching weeks between one term and the next.

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7 October 2024
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21 December 2024