WESTERN CONTEMPORARY ART (Theory)

Paper Code: 
24VAP221
Credits: 
2
Contact Hours: 
30.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to Examine and evaluate the modern Indian artists' creations. Learn about many artistic methods, such as composition, color, and medium usage. Develop your visual analysis skills. Look at chronologies to understand the evolution of Indian art over time.

Course Outcomes: 

Course

Learning Outcome

(at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies

Course Code

Course Title

24VAP   221

Western Contemporary Art

(Theory)

 

CO24: Improve the idea of Abstraction through assessing the artist's artworks. That enhances their confidence to evaluate abstract works in the contemporary world.

CO25:  Compare the characteristics of art movements to clarify their origin, style and reasons.

CO26:  Investigate the importance and idea of motion and figuration in art and understand artists use of these elements.

CO27: Facilitate the concept of minimalism to Understand its significance in contemporary times.

CO28:  Appraise the new kinds of art that construct the various viewpoints towards performance art.

CO29: Contribute effectively in course-specific interaction.

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Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

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

Continuous Assessment Test, Semester end examination, Quiz, Solving Problems in Tutorials,

Assignments, Presentation, Individual And Group Projects
 
6.00
Unit I: 
Abstract Expressionism and Artists

Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Barnett Newman, Clyfford Still, de Kooning, Gorky, Rothko and Newman.

6.00
Unit II: 
Pop Art, Op Art and Artists

Op Art: Bridget Louise Riley, Francis Picabia, Jesús Rafael Soto and Victor Vasarely      Pop Art: Richard Hamilton, James Rosenquist, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.

6.00
Unit III: 
Kinetic Art and Figuration

Kinetic Art: George Rickey, Alexander Rodchenko, Alexander Calder and David C. Roy Figuration: Antonin Artaud, Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.

6.00
Unit IV: 
Minimalism

Donald Judd, Robert Morris, Frank Stella and Ad Reinhardt, Carl Andre, Anne Truitt and Dan Flavin.

6.00
Unit V: 
Performance Art

Body and Performance Art: Yves Klein, Joseph Beuys, Fluxus, Bruce Nauman, Chris Burden, Gilbert & George and Cindy Sherman

Essential Readings: 
  1. Janson's basic history of western art by Janson, H. W. (Horst Woldemar), 1913-1982
  2. Frank Whitford, Kandinsky, Paul Hamlyn, 1987
  3. H.H. Arnason, A History of Modern Art, Thames & Hudson, 2001 Revised reprint.
References: 

Suggested Readings:

  1. JSTOR
  2. JOA - Journal of Arts
  3. SHS Web of Conferences
  4. Arts and Learning Research Journal

E-Resources:

  1. https://www.academia.edu/31909915/History_of_Western_Art_Renaissance_to_Contemporary_
  2. https://www.britannica.com/art/Western-painting/Minimalism
  3. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROP45rjvOHg
  4. https://go.distance.ncsu.edu/gd203/?p=54399
  5. https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/alexander-calder-848/who-is-alexander-calder
  6. https://www.britannica.com/art/Op-art
  7. https://www.theartstory.org/movement/op-art/
  8. https://magazine.artland.com/art-movement-op-art/
  9. https://www.tate.org.uk/kids/explore/what-is/op-art
  10. https://www.theminimalists.com/minimalism/
  11. https://www.theartstory.org/artist/truitt-anne/
  12. https://archive.org/details/jansonsbasichist0000jans/page/n5/mode/2up
Academic Year: 
2024-2025
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