Resource Learning Outcomes
Unit 1: Defining Art
page Unit 1 Learning Outcomes
1.1: Introduction and Definitions
page Defining Art
forum Discussion Topic 1: Your Definition of Art
1.2: Form and Content
page Form and Content
1.3: Aesthetics
page Aesthetics
page What is Art?
forum Discussion Topic 2: Expose Yourself to Art!
1.4: Subjective and Objective Perspectives
page Subjective and Objective Perspectives
1.5: Artistic Roles
page Artistic Roles
1.6: Artistic Categories
page Artistic Categories
1.7: Artistic Styles
page Artistic Styles
1.8: Cultural Styles
page Cultural Styles
page Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
1.9: Perception and Visual Awareness
page Perception and Visual Awareness
Unit 1 Assessment
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Unit 2: Who Makes Art – Process and Training
page Unit 2 Learning Outcomes
2.1: The Artistic Process
page The Artistic Process
forum Discussion Topic 3: Who Makes Art?
2.2: The Individual Artist
page The Individual Artist
forum Discussion Topic 4: Art21
2.3: Artistic Training Methods
page Artistic Training Methods
2.4: Art as a Social Activity
page Art as a Social Activity
Unit 2 Assessment
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Unit 3: How Art Speaks – Finding Meaning
page Unit 3 Learning Outcomes
3.1: Objective vs. Subjective Meaning
page How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
forum Discussion Topic 5: Form and Content
page The Fog Warning (Halibut Fishing)
3.2: The Four Levels of Meaning: Formal, Subject, Context, and Iconography
page First Level of Meaning: Formal
page Second Level of Meaning: Subject
page Third Level of Meaning: Context
page More on Context
page Fourth Level of Meaning: Iconography
3.3: Critical Perspectives
page Critical Perspectives
Unit 3 Assessment
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Unit 4: How Art Works – The Principles of Visual Language
page Unit 4 Learning Outcomes
4.1: The Basic Elements
page The Point
page The Line
page Shapes and the Figure-Ground Relationship
page Mass
4.2: Space, Value, Color, and Texture
page The Element of Space
page The Element of Value
page The Element of Color
page The Element of Texture
forum Discussion Topic 6: Objective Description and Subjective Analysis
page External Art Links
4.3: The Principles of Design
page Artistic as Visual Input
page Visual Balance
page Repetition
page Scale and Proportion
page Emphasis
page Time and Motion
page Unity and Variety
forum Discussion Topic 7: Objective Description of Artistic Principles
Unit 4 Assessment
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Unit 5: Artistic Media
page Unit 5 Learning Outcomes
5.1: Two-Dimensional Media
page Drawing
page Painting
page Printmaking
page Collage
forum Discussion Topic 8: The Medium is the Message
5.2: The Camera
page Early Development
page Impact on Other Media
page Form and Content
page Darkroom Processes
page The Human Element
page Color Images
page Photojournalism
page Modern Developments
page Time-Based Media: Film, Video, and Digital
forum Discussion Topic 9: Here a Photo, There a Photo, Everywhere a Photo!
forum Discussion Topic 10: Film Study
5.3: Three-Dimensional Media
page Definitions, Processes, and Sculptures
page Types of Sculpture and Three-Dimensional Media
page Methods
page Modern Variations of Three-Dimensional Media
page Decorative Arts
forum Discussion Topic 11: Form and Content
Unit 5 Assessment
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Unit 6: Architecture
page Unit 6 Learning Outcomes
6.1: What is Architecture?
page Architecture
6.2: Traditional Methods and Materials
page Methods and Materials
6.3: Architecture in China and East Asia
page Architecture in China and East Asia
6.4: Cross-Cultural Influences
page Cross-Cultural Influences on Architecture
6.5: Architecture and the Industrial Revolution
page Architecture and the Industrial Revolution
6.6: Modern Architecture: A New Language
page Modern Architecture: A New Language
6.7: Post-Modern and Contemporary Architecture
page Post-Modern and Contemporary Architecture
6.8: Green Architecture
page Green Architecture
forum Discussion Topic 12: Gone Green
Unit 6 Assessment
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Unit 7: Our World
page Unit 7 Learning Outcomes
7.1: Identity
page Identity
book Art and Identity
7.2: Self-Portraits
page Self-Portraits
7.3: The Natural World
page The Natural World
7.4: Social, Collaborative, and Political Art
page Social and Collaborative Art
page Politics, Conflict, and War
page Memorials
page Peace
Unit 7 Assessment
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Unit 8: Other Worlds
page Unit 8 Learning Outcomes
8.1: Myths
page Myths
book Meaning in Art
8.2: Dreams
page Dreams
8.3: Spirituality
page Spirituality
book Art and Ritual Life
forum Discussion Topic 13: Art and the Spirit
Unit 8 Assessment
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Unit 9: Art in Time and Place – The Western and Near Eastern World
page Unit 9 Learning Outcomes
9.1: The Earliest Art
page Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
9.2: Art of the Ancient Near East and Egypt
page Cuneiform and the Invention of Writing
page Sumerian Art
page Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
page Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi
page The History of Ancient Egypt
page Egyptian Art
page Materials and Techniques
9.3: Art in Ancient Greece and Rome
page Ancient Greece and Rome
page Geometric Greek Krater
page The Kouros
page Polykleitos' <em>Doryphoros</em>
page Nike of Samothrace
page Augustus of Primaporta
9.4: Art During the Middle Ages
page Early Christian Art
page Early Christian Art and Architecture After Constantine
page Byzantine Art: Justinian and His Attendants
page Barbarian Art
page Fibulae
page Ottonian Art
page Romanesque Architecture
page Gothic Art
page English Gothic Architecture
9.5: European Art During the Renaissance
page Cimabue's <em>Trinita Madonna</em> and Giotto's <em>Ognissanti Madonna</em>
page Florence in the Early Renaissance
page Masaccio's <em>Holy Trinity</em>
page Flanders
page Campin's <em>Merode Altarpiece</em>
page High Renaissance
page Raphael's <em>School of Athens</em>
page Leonardo Da Vinci's <em>The Last Supper</em>
page Michaelangelo's <em>David</em>
9.6: Baroque and Rococo Art
page Baroque Art: Holland vs. Flanders
page Baroque Art in Italy
page Poussin's <em>Landscape with Saint John</em> and <em>Rape of the Sabines</em>
9.7: 18th and 19th Century European Art
page Rococo
page Neoclassicism
page Romanticism
page The Industrial Revolution 1848–1907
page Becoming Modern
9.8: Modern Art: Realism vs. Academic Art
page Realism
page Gustave Courbet
page The Stonebreakers
page Édouard Manet
page Édouard Manet's <em>Olympia</em>
9.9: Impressionism
page Impressionism
page Berthe Morisot
page Mary Cassatt
page Claude Monet
page Pierre-Auguste Renoir
9.10: Post-Impressionism
page Georges Seurat
page Vincent Van Gogh
page Paul Cézanne
page Paul Gauguin
9.11: The Early 20th Century
page Fauvism
page Italian Futurism
book Inventing Cubism
page Surrealism
page Dali, The Persistence of Memory
page Latin American Art
page Mexican Muralism
page Geometric Abstraction in South America
page American Realism
page Thomas Eakins
page Winslow Homer
page Henry Ossawa Tanner
page The Ashcan School
page George Benjamin Luks
page George Bellows
page 291 – Little Galleries of the Photo Secession
page Alfred Stieglitz
page Dorothea Lange
page Georgia O'Keeffe
page Franklin Carmichael
page Robert Henri
page Jacob Lawrence
9.12: World War II and Beyond
page Art in Nazi Germany
page Abstract Expressionism and the New York School
page Robert Rauschenberg
page Jackson Pollock
page The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
page Robert Motherwell
page Dorothea Rockburne
page Thelma Johnson Streat
page Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
page Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye
page Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater
page Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
page Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
page Venturi, House in New Castle County, Delaware
page Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao
page Zaha Hadid, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
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