The cultural section of Banco de la República, with the purpose of "presenting art in a simple, everyday way to users of social networks" and taking advantage of the tools featured in the new online art collection it recently launched, is offering a course on Colombian art via its museum's and collection's official Twitter account: @MuseosBanRep.
Using the hashtag #CursoArteCOL, in 140 characters, and with the support of artworks in the Bank's collection, the course will explore key concepts in Colombian art since the Fifteenth Century to the present.
How will the course work?
-It will be online through August 31, 2015.
-Every day (Monday through Friday) at 9:00 a.m., the @MuseosBanRep will tweet with the hashtag #CursoArteCOL; the tweets will be numbered so that "students" can move back and forth in them with ease.
-The course will be divided into four thematic modules, each with a duration of one month.
-The modules respond to the five curatorships shaping the Banco de la República Art Collection's permanent exhibit: Fifteenth-Seventeenth Centuries: the Early Modern Era; Nineteenth Century: Ruptures and Continuities; 1910-1940: The Avant Garde Renewal; 1940-1980: Classicists, Experimentalists, Radicals; and 1980 to the Present: Three Decades of Expansion in the Arts.
-Followers of #CursoArteCOL will be able to review every artwork mentioned in the online art collection's web page, where they can also access other resources, such as texts and videos, to expand on the ideas presented in each tweet.