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ARTH101: Art Appreciation
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Course Introduction
Unit 1: Defining Art
Unit 2: Who Makes Art – Process and Training
Unit 3: How Art Speaks – Finding Meaning
Unit 4: How Art Works – The Principles of Visual Language
Unit 5: Artistic Media
Unit 6: Architecture
Unit 7: Our World – Nature, the Body, Identity, Sexuality, Politics, and Power
Unit 8: Other Worlds – Mortality, the Spirit, and Fantasy
Course Cumulative Essay
Unit 9: Art in Time and Place – The Western World
Study Guide
Course Feedback Survey
Certificate Final Exam
Saylor Direct Credit
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Course Syllabus
External Art Resources
Discussion Topic 1: Exposure to Art
Defining Art
Discussion Topic 2: Defining Art
Form and Content
Aesthetics
What is Art?
Subjective and Objective Perspectives
Artistic Roles
Artistic Categories
Artistic Styles
Cultural Styles
Representational, Abstract, and Nonrepresentational Art
Perception and Visual Awareness
Activity 1: Briefly Describe a Work of Art
Activity 2: Style, Form, and Content
Unit 1 Assessment
Discussion Topic 3: The Artistic Process
The Artistic Process
The Individual Artist
Discussion Topic 4: Art21
Artistic Training Methods
Art as a Social Activity
Activity 3: Art as a Social Activity versus Singular Creative Act
Unit 2 Assessment
Activity 4: Form and Content
How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
The First Level of Meaning: Formal
The Second Level of Meaning: Subject
The Third Level of Meaning: Context
More on Context
The Fourth Level of Meaning: Iconography
Critical Perspectives
Activity 5: Everyone's a Critic
Activity 6: Style, Form, and Content
Unit 3 Assessment
The Point
The Line
Shapes and the Figure-Ground Relationship
Mass
The Element of Space
The Element of Value
The Element of Color
The Element of Texture
Discussion Topic 5: Objective Description and Subjective Analysis
Activity 7: Translating an Image
The Elements of Art Quiz
The Artistic Principles
Balance
Repetition
Scale and Proportion
Emphasis
Time and Motion
Unity and Variety
Activity 8: Balance, Unity, and Variety
Discussion Topic 6: Objective Description of Artistic Principles
Activity 9: Compare and Contrast
Artistic Principles Quiz
Unit 4 Assessment
Drawing
Painting
Printmaking
Collage
Discussion Topic 7: The Medium is the Message
Two-Dimensional Media Quiz
Discussion Topic 8: Here a Photo, There a Photo, Everywhere a Photo!
Early Development
Effects on Other Media
Form and Content
Darkroom Processes
The Human Element
Color Images
Photojournalism
Modern Developments
Time-based Media: Film, Video, and Digital
Discussion Topic 9: Film Study
Activity 11: Four Photos, Four Meanings
The Camera Quiz
Definitions, Processes, and Sculptures
Types of Sculpture and Three-dimensional Media
Methods
Modern Variations of Three-Dimensional Media
Activity 12: The Expansion of Time and Space
Decorative Arts
Discussion Topic 10: Form and Content
Three-Dimensional Media Quiz
Unit 5 Assessment
Introduction
Methods and Materials
Activity 13: Personal Response to Buildings
Architecture in China and East Asia
Cross-Cultural Influences on Architecture
Architecture and the Industrial Revolution
Modern Architecture: A New Language
Post-Modern and Contemporary Architecture
Activity 14: The Visual Environment: Urban Design
Green Architecture
Discussion Topic 11: Gone Green
Architecture Quiz
Unit 6 Assessment
Identity
Art and Identity
Self-Portraits
Nature
Activity 15: Nature and Technology
Social and Collaborative Art
Politics, Conflict, and War
Memorials
Peace
Unit 7 Assessment
Myths
Meaning in Art
Dreams
Spirituality
Art and Ritual Life
Discussion Topic 12: Art and the Spirit
Unit 8 Assessment
Course Cumulative Essay
Prehistoric Art: Paleolithic Origins
Cuneiform and the Invention of Writing
Sumerian Art
Victory Stele of Naram-Sin
Law Code Stele of King Hammurabi
The History of Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Art
Materials and Techniques
Ancient Greece and Rome
Geometric Greek Krater
The Kouros
Polykleitos'
Doryphoros
Nike of Samothrace
Augustus of Primaporta
Early Christian Art: An Introduction
Early Christian Art and Architecture After Constantine
Byzantine Art: Justinian and His Attendants
'Barbarian' Art
Fibulae
Ottonian Art: St. Michael's Church, Hildesheim (1001–1031)
Romanesque
Gothic Art: Jamb Figures, Chartres
English Gothic Architecture
Cimabue's
Trinita Madonna
and Giotto's
Ognissanti Madonna
Florence in the Early Renaissance
Masaccio's
Holy Trinity
Flanders
Campin's
Merode Altarpiece
High Renaissance
Raphael's
School of Athens
Leonardo Da Vinci's
The Last Supper
Michaelangelo's
David
1600–1700: The Baroque
Baroque Art in Italy
Poussin's
Landscape with Saint John
and
Rape of the Sabines
Fragonard's
The Swing
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
1848–1907: The Industrial Revolution
Becoming Modern
Realism
Courbet's
A Burial at Ornans
The Stonebreakers
Manet's
Le déjeuner sur l'herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
Édouard Manet's
Olympia
Impressionism
Monet's
Rouen Cathedral
Series
Renoir's
Moulin de la Galette
Post-Impressionism: Seurat's
A Sunday on La Grande Jatte – 1884
Van Gogh's
Portrait of Joseph Roulin
Cézanne's
Still Life with Apples
Gauguin's
Vision after the Sermon (Jacob Wrestling with the Angel)
A Beginner's Guide to Fauvism
Italian Futurism: An Introduction
Art Between the Wars: The Avant-Garde and the Rise of Totalitarianism
Art in Nazi Germany
Abstract Expressionism and the New York School
Architecture
Activity 16: Art in Place and Time: A Guided Observation
Unit 9 Assessment
ARTH101 Study Guide
ARTH101: Certificate Final Exam
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