Ar 202 - Survey of Art II

Course Syllabus

Professor Barbara Saromines-Ganne
email: [email protected]
Office Hours: email, or by appointment

Course Title:
Art in the West from the Renaissance to Contemporary times and later periods of Eastern Art. This course fulfills the fine arts general education requirement. It is offered annually.

Textbook: Art Across Time, Third Edition, Vol II, by Laurie Schneider Adams

Student Learning Outcomes:

1. Distinguish how art expresses world views and reflects societies' organization and interaction with other cultures.
2. Analyze the religious, political, and economic factors that have shaped culture in different parts of the globe at different times.
3. Trace aesthetic frameworks that societies have devised to give form and function to artworks.
4. Express an understanding of how art reveals the beliefs and practices that contribute to the lives of the world's diverse communities.
5. Develop the skill of analyzing a work of art through the recognition of elements of style

Course Content:
Week 1:
Introduction: Why Do We Study the History of Art?
Chapter 12: Precursors of the Renaissance
Week 2:
Chapter 13 The Early Renaissance
Window on the World: Perspective in Asian Painting
Chapter 14 The High Renaissance in Italy
Week 3:
Chapter 15 Mannerism and the Later Sixteenth Century in Italy
Chapter 16 Sixteenth-Century Painting in Northern Europe
Week 4:
Chapter 17 The Baroque Style in Western Europe
Window on the World: Mughal Art and the Baroque
Exam I
Week 5:
Chapter 18 Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
Chapter 19 Neoclassicism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Chapter 20 Romanticism: The Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries
Week 6:
Chapter 21 Nineteenth-Century Realism
Window on the World: Japanese Woodblock Prints
Chapter 22 Nineteenth-Century Impressionism
Week 7:
Chapter 23 Post-Impressionism and the Late Nineteenth Century
Window on the World: Gauguin and Oceania
Exam II
Week 8
Window on the World: African Art and the European Avant-Garde
Chapter 24 Turn of the Century: Early Picasso, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Matisse
Chapter 25 Cubism, Futurism, and Related Twentieth-Century Styles
Week 9:
Chapter 26 Dada, Surrealism, Fantasy, and the United States Between the Wars
Window on the World: Hopi Kachinas
Chapter 27 Abstract Expressionism
Chapter 28 Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism
Week 10:
Chapter 29 Innovation and Continuity
Exam III

Course Requirements:

1. There will be three (3) exams. One exam will follow each of the above units. The format for each exam will be given in greater detail and explained more thoroughly beforehand. Generally, the format will consist of essays and comparisons (100 pts each)
2. Art Activities
   You will have 7 Art Activities to complete. The first 6 are each worth 15 points for a total of 90 points. The last one is worth 5 points. An additional 5 points can be earned by participating on various bulletin boards posted throughout the semester.
   

Grading Policy:
3 Exams = 300 pts
7 Art Activities = 100 points
Total points for the final letter grade is: 400 400-360 = A, 359-320 = B, 319-280=C, 279-240 = D
Below 240 = F