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WESTERN MODERN ART-I (Theory)
COURSE OBJECTIVES:
This paper will enable the students to-
- Read and analyze the art works Western Modern artists.
- Understand a range of artistic techniques such as use of color, composition and medium.
- Learn how to do visual analysis.
- Study timeline to understand the historical development of Western art.
COURSE OUTCOMES:
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Western Modern Art-I (Theory)
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The students will be able to- CO58: Acquire an in-depth knowledge of Western art history by remembering various artists and their art works. CO59: Develop skills to appreciate Western art considering its subject, mediums, style and techniques. CO60: Understand major movements, artists, methods and theories and to assess the qualities of work of art in their historical and cultural settings. CO61: Develop an understanding of cultural and political factors that affect the visual language of art. CO62: Understand the different facets of art and their significance. |
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, Sketching, layouts, Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects, regular ,display and submission of artworks. |
The early renaissance in Italy, Florence, Central Italy and northern Italy The high Renaissance in Italy, France, Germany and Netherland
Mannerism (16th century) and its artists: Correggio, Tintoretto, El Greco
Baroque (17th century) and its artists: Caravaggio, Franzs Hals, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Ruben, Poussin, and Bernini.
Rococo art
Neo Classicism and its artists: David, Ingres and others
Realism and artists: Daumier and Courbet
Barbizon artists: Theodore Rousseau, Daubigny, Millet, and Corot
Romanticism and its artists: Gericault, Goya, Delacroix, Constable and Turner
Impressionism and its artists: Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Pissarro, Sisley and Toulouse Lautrec.
Neo Impressionism and its artists: George Seurat and Signac
Fauvism and its artists: Henri Matisse, Derain, Maurice Vlaminck
Expressionism: The bridge school. Its artists: Kirchner, Heckle, Schmidt, Rottluff, Muller
The Blue Reiter: Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Auguste Macke, Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka, Rouault, Mark Chagall
BOOKS RECOMMENDED:
- Herbert Read, A concise history of modern painting, Thames & Hudson, 1967 reprint
- H.H. Arnason, A History of Modern Art, Thames & Hudson, 2001 Revised reprint
- David Britt, Modern Art, Thames & Hudson, 1989 reprint
- Douglas Cooper, The Cubist Epoch, Phaidon& Los Angeles County Museum, 1971
- John Golding, Cubism — a history and analysis (1907 – 1914), Faber & Faber, 1968 reprint
- John Elderfield, The “Wild Beasts”: Fauvism and its affinities, MOMA, 1976
- Pontus Hulton, Futurism & Futurisms, Thames & Hudson, 1987
- Renata Negri, Matisse & the Fauves, Lamplight Publishing Inc., 1975
- Pierre Schneider, Matisse, Thames & Hudson, 1984
- William S. Rubin, Dada, Surrealism & their heritage, MOMA, 1968
- GaetonPicon, Surrealism 1919-1939, Skira, 1977
- Pierre Daix (text), Picasso – the Cubist years 1907-1916, Thames & Hudson, 1979
- John Elderfield, The cut-outs of Henri Matisse, Thames & Hudson, 1978
- Norbert Lynton, Klee, Hamlyn, 1975
- Frank Whitford, Kandinsky, Paul Hamlyn, 1987
- Piet Mondrian 1872-1944, (Centennial exhibition catalogue), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1971
- L.J.F. Wijsenbeck, Piet Mondrian, Studio Vista Ltd., 1969
- Albert E. Elsen, Origins of Modern Sculpture: Pioneers and Premises, Phaidon Press, 1974/78
- Mary L. Leukoff, Rodin in his time, Thames & Hudson & Los Angeles County Museum, 1994
- Franco Russoli (intro), Henry Moore: Sculpture, EditionesPoligrafa, 1981
