History of Western Art (Theory)

Paper Code: 
VAS 601
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  1. Learn Western Art Movements.
  2. Examine and able to differentiate, analyze and identify art works on the basis of its cultural and contextual qualities.
  3. Analyze and interpret about various western artists.
  4. Read and analyze works of 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th century western art.
  5. Develop knowledge to critically visualize a work of art and will also be able to write efficiently on the works of the western artist.

               

 

COURSE OUTCOMES:

 

 

Course

 

 

Course Outcomes

 

Learning and teaching strategies

 

Assessment Strategies

 

Paper Code

 

Paper Title

VAS 601

History of Western Art

(Theory)

 

The students will be able to-

CO 107: Develop an understanding of various art movements and its artists.

 

CO 108: To look for further education in Western world by getting deeper knowledge of the history of western art.

 

CO 109: Get accustoms with western art jargon which will help them to be an art historian, art curator and art critic.

 

CO 110: Get an understanding of various mediums, techniques and skills while reading the art works of various artists and can utilize the knowledge gained in their respective art works.

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration.

Learning activities for the students:

Self-learning assignments, Effective questions, presentation, Giving tasks.

 

Semester end examinations, Continuous Assessment Test, Class test, Quiz, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, regular submission.

 

 

6.00
Unit I: 

Mannerism (16Th Cent.): Antonio da Correggio (Jupiter and Io, Abducted by the Eagle, The Mystic Marriage of St. Catherine),Tintoretto (Madonna with Child and Donor, Finding of the body of St Mark , The Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple, and the Last Judgment , St Mark's Body Brought to Venice) El Greco (The Burial of the Count of Orgaz, View of Toledo, Opening of the Fifth Seal, El Espolio, The Disrobing of Christ, The Holy Trinity)

6.00
Unit II: 

Baroque (17th Cent.): Caravaggio (The Calling of St. Matthew), Frans Hals (The Jolly Toper, The Women regent of the old man’s home at Harlem), Rembrandt (The Blinding of Samson, The Night Watch, Christ Preaching, Self Portrait), Johannes Vermeer (The Letter), Peter Paul Rubens (The Raising of the Cross, Marie De Medici, The Garden of Love), Nicolas Poussin (Cephalous and Aurora, The Rape of the Sabine Women), Gian Lorenzo Bernini (David, Throne of St. Peter)

Rococo (18th Cent.): The Art movement and Artists- Jean-Antoine Watteau (Pilgrimage to Cythera, The Embarkation for Cythera), Francois Boucher (The Toilet of Venus, The Breakfast)

 

6.00
Unit III: 

Neo Classicism: Jacques-Louis David, Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and others

Romanticism: Theodore Gericault, Francisco Goya, Eugene Delacroix, John Constable and William Turner

 

6.00
Unit IV: 
  1. Realism: Honore Daumier and Gustave Courbet
  2. Barbizon Artists: Theodore Rousseau, CharlesFrancois Daubigny, Jean Francois Millet, Camille Corot

 

6.00
Unit V: 

Impressionism: EdouardManet, Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Camille Pissaro, Alfred Sisley

References: 

 

  1. Janson's History of Art : The Penelope J.E. Davies, Walter B. Denny Western Tradition.
  2. Art: A World History : Elke Linda Buchholz, Susanne Kaeppele
  3. Impressionism: The HassoPlattner Collection :  OrtrudWestheider
  4. Impressionism : John Russell Taylor
  5. Neo-Classicism (Style and Civilization) : Hugh Honour 
  6. David and Neo-Classicism :  Sophie Monneret
  7. The Story of Art :Gombrich,E.H.
Academic Year: 
2020-2021
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