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Imagine you’re in room, reading an essay about Marie Antoinette’s portraitist, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun or you’re painting your 23rd self-portrait while perfecting the art of decoupage. Now imagine you’re doing that as an AUP student, living in Paris. Curious about the Mona Lisa? Head over to the Louvre, then consult with your Renaissance professor. Intrigued by Tanner’s mastery of light? Ask a librarian for book recommendations, then get lost in The Resurrection of Lazarus at the Musée d’Orsay. Itching to explore your own blue period? Grab coffee with working artist professors, find inspiration in private viewings and gallery openings, then dive into our state-of-the-art studios and photography labs.

No matter your passion, your background, or your goals, there’s nothing quite like studying art in a city that encourages and breathes creativity and with a university that provides classes, study trips, and field experts, which will guide you to unique, first-hand experiences as well as one-of-a-kind opportunities for growth, learning, and discovery.

Majors
Your journey starts here

We want you to have the best of the theoretical and the practical. AUP’s tools, resources, and networks will help you develop your critical thinking and innovative problem-solving skills, so that you can follow your passions and create positive change in an increasingly globalized and international world. Our undergraduate degree programs are based on the American model, where you can explore and choose from a multitude of academic disciplines in small classrooms of peers from around the world.

Art History

Art History classes offer you in-depth and intimate access to the many movements and masterpieces in and around Paris that have indelibly marked Western art.

Fine Arts

Creation is a discipline that can be learned only through practice, with mastery implying fluidity of expression and understanding of the world in relation to the self.

Alumni & Faculty
Get to know the Community

There is literally nothing like the undergraduate experience at AUP. You’ll learn from professors whose passion for their subjects is matched only by their enthusiasm for teaching: they will act as your mentors as you collaborate on projects both in and out of the classroom. Your classmates will come from every corner of the globe and bring with them a diverse—and sometimes challenging—array of experience and perspective. Paris, Europe and beyond will be your classroom, your laboratory, your source of (endless) entertainment, and your home.

Anna Schroeder

Alumna of Art History '15

"I recently accepted a position at the Brooklyn Museum in development research and operations"

Professor Vanel

Art History & Fine Arts

Professor Vanel specializes in mid-twentieth century art and has worked on a diverse range of artists and topics.

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