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ARTH101: Art Appreciation
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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
Unit 9: Art in Time and Place – The Western and Near Eastern World
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Course Syllabus
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
Unit 1 Assessment
The Artistic Process
The Individual Artist
Discussion Topic 3: The Artistic Process
Artistic Training Methods
Art as a Social Activity
Unit 2 Assessment
Discussion Topic 4: Form and Content
How We See: Objective and Subjective Means
First Level of Meaning: Formal
Second Level of Meaning: Subject
Third Level of Meaning: Context
More on Context
Fourth Level of Meaning: Iconography
Critical Perspectives
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
Artistic Principles
Balance
Repetition
Scale and Proportion
Emphasis
Time and Motion
Unity and Variety
Discussion Topic 5: Objective Description of Artistic Principles
Unit 4 Assessment
Drawing
Painting
Printmaking
Collage
Discussion Topic 6: The Medium is the Message
Discussion Topic 7: 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 8: Film Study
Definitions, Processes, and Sculptures
Types of Sculpture and Three-Dimensional Media
Methods
Modern Variations of Three-Dimensional Media
Decorative Arts
Discussion Topic 9: Form and Content
Unit 5 Assessment
Architecture
Methods and Materials
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
Green Architecture
Discussion Topic 10: Gone Green
Unit 6 Assessment
Identity
Art and Identity
Self-Portraits
Nature
Social and Collaborative Art
Politics, Conflict, and War
Memorials
Peace
Unit 7 Assessment
Myths
Mythical Meaning in Art
Dreams
Spirituality
Art and Ritual Life
Discussion Topic 11: Art and the Spirit
Unit 8 Assessment
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
Early Christian Art and Architecture After Constantine
Byzantine Art: Justinian and His Attendants
Barbarian Art
Fibulae
Ottonian Art
Romanesque Architecture
Gothic Art
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
Baroque Art: Holland vs. Flanders
Baroque Art in Italy
Poussin's
Landscape with Saint John
and
Rape of the Sabines
Rococo
Neoclassicism
Romanticism
The Industrial Revolution 1848–1907
Becoming Modern
Realism
Gustave Courbet
The Stonebreakers
Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet's
Olympia
Impressionism
Claude Monet
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Berthe Morisot
Mary Cassatt
Paul Cézanne
Vincent Van Gogh
Paul Gauguin
Georges Seurat
Italian Futurism
Fauvism
Inventing Cubism
Surrealism
Dali, The Persistence of Memory
Latin American Art
Mexican Muralism
Geometric Abstraction in South America
American Realism
Winslow Homer
Thomas Eakins
Henry Ossawa Tanner
The Ashcan School
George Benjamin Luks
George Bellows
291– Little Galleries of the Photo Secession
Alfred Stieglitz
Dorothea Lange
Georgia O'Keeffe
Franklin Carmichael
Robert Henri
Jacob Lawrence
Art in Nazi Germany
Abstract Expressionism and the New York School
Robert Rauschenberg
Jackson Pollock
The Painting Techniques of Jackson Pollock
Robert Motherwell
Dorothea Rockburne
Thelma Johnson Streat
Sullivan, Carson, Pirie, Scott Building
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye
Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater
Mies van der Rohe, Seagram Building
Maya Lin, Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Venturi, House in New Castle County, Delaware
Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao
Zaha Hadid, MAXXI National Museum of XXI Century Arts, Rome
Unit 9 Assessment
ARTH101 Study Guide
ARTH101: Certificate Final Exam
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