Type | Units | Inside of Class Hours | Outside of Class Hours | Total Student Learning Hours |
---|---|---|---|---|
Lecture | 3.00 | 54.00 | 108.00 | 162.00 |
Total | 3.00 | 54.00 | 108.00 | 162.00 |
1. Introduction: Setting the 14th Century Stage
A. the philosophy of Humanism
B. pandemic!
C. rise of city-states
2. Renaissance 1: Early
A. key ideas
a. Humanism and the human image in art
b. aesthetic and philosophical precepts of representationalism and abstraction
B. key artists
a. Cimabue
b. Giotto
c. Duccio
3. Renaissance II: High
A. key ideas
a. humanism bridges faith and realism
b. illusionism and linear perspective
B. key artists and architects
a. Leon Battista Alberti
b. Filippo Brunelleshi
c. Leonardo da Vinci
d. Michelangelo
4. Renaissance: Northern
A. key ideas
a. Humanism beyond Italy
b. Protestant Reformation
B. key artists
a. Jan van Eyck
b. Albrecht Durer
c. Pieter Brueghel the Elder
5. Baroque I: Italy
A. key ideas
a. Counter-Reformation
b. dramatics of chiaroscuro and tenebrism
c. Church and State
B. key artists and architects
a. Caravaggio
b. Artemisia Gentileschi (breaking the gender barrier)
c. Gianlorenzo Bernini
6. Baroque II: Northern
A. key ideas
a. Protestant Reformation
b. art and society in the Dutch Golden Age
B. key artists
a. Rembrandt
b. Johannes Vermeer
c. Judith Leyster
7. Rococo
A. key ideas
a. Monarchy and Absolutism
b. French court culture and Versailles
B. key artists
a. François Boucher
b. Jean Antoine Watteau
c. Jean-Honoré Fragonard
8. Neoclassicism
A. key ideas
a. Enlightenment
b. French Revolution
B. key artists and architects
a. Jacques Louis David
b. Antonio Canova
c. Thomas Jefferson
9. Romanticism
A. key ideas
a. Romanticism in philosophical and literary thought
b. rise of the anti-hero
B. key artists
a. Francisco Goya
b. Theodore Gericault
c. Eugene Delacroix
10. Realism
A. key ideas
a. industrialization
b. the writings of Baudelaire
c. invention of photography
B. key artists
a. Gustave Courbet
b. Edouard Manet
c. Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre
11. Impressionism
A. key ideas
a. art and science
b. Franco-Prussian war
c. Japonisme
B. key artists
a. Claude Monet
b. Edgar Degas
c. Mary Cassatt
12. Post-Impressionism
A. key ideas
a. fin de siècle European culture
b. rise of artistic individualism
B. key artists
a. Paul Cezanne
b. Paul Gauguin
c. Vincent van Gogh
d. Henry Ossawa Tanner (breaking the race barrier)
13. Expressionism
A. key ideas
a. World War I
b. Scientism and Existentialism
c. Theosophy
d. rise of Nazism (and Social Realism) and “Degenerate Art” iconoclasm
B. key artists
a. Hilma af Klint (pioneering non-representationalism)
b. Wassily Kandinsky
c. Franz Marc
d. Egon Shiele
14. Cubism
A. key ideas
a. Cezanne’s example
b. Analytic and Synthetic Cubism
B. key artists
a. Pablo Picasso
b. George Braque
15. Dada
A. key ideas
a. World War I
b. Dada as political and cultural protest
B. key artists
a. Marcel Duchamp
b. Hannah Hoch
16. Surrealism
A. key ideas
a. Sigmund Freud and the unconscious
b. Surrealist methods
i. automatism
ii. dreams
iii. juxtaposition
B. key artists
a. Salvador Dali
b. Meret Oppenheim
c. René Magritte
17. New Modern Voices
A. key ideas
a. Harlem Renaissance
b. Mexican Muralism
B. key artists
a. Aaron Douglas
b. Carl van Vechten
c. “Los Tres Grandes” (Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, David Siqueiros)
18. Abstract Expressionism
A. key ideas
a. Post-war freedom and Existentialism
b. Action and Color Field Painting
c. Pollock and Krasner: a mid-century gender dynamic
B. key artists
a. Jackson Pollock
b. Lee Krasner
c. Mark Rothko
19. Minimalism
A. key ideas
a. Essentialism
b. Japanese Zen philosophy
B. key artists and architects
a. Donald Judd
b. Agnes Martin
c. Ellsworth Kelly
d. Landscape architecture and Isamu Noguchi
20. Pop Art
A. key ideas
a. post-war consumerism
b. commodity culture
B. key artists
a. Andy Warhol
b. Roy Lichtenstein
c. Marisol
21. Post-Modernism
A. key ideas
a. late capitalism
b. critical theory: race, gender, and queer orientation
B. key artists
a. Cindy Sherman
b. Barbara Kruger
c. Richard Prince
22. Contemporary art
A. topics could include:
a. the margins define the mainstream
b. art and the climate crisis
c. art and Black Lives Matter
d. art and #MeToo
B. artists could include:
a. Sadie Barnette
b. Damian Hirst
c. David Hammons