ART 204 - Art History II
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2021
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
This is an introductory course to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of the Western World from the Dawn of Individualism in the 14th century to the Contemporary period. Students will study the development of regional and personal styles, and the social contexts in which art objects have been created. This course provides a greater understanding of visual communication in the Western World, increases visual literacy, and promotes critical thinking, which can help the student reach professional goals in a variety of career fields.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: Face-to-face and/or virtual
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
1. Develop a structure for the critical analysis and comparison of artworks that includes interpretations of form, content, style, and context.
2. Identify key artworks by artist (if known), title, approximate date, and culture, period, or style.
3. Analyze and locate works of art within the historical contexts of power structure, social and political conditions, and aesthetic trends.
4. Interpret works based on the iconographical standards that existed at the time the work was made (the term “iconographical” is used in its broadest sense).
5. Compare and contrast the forms, conventions, symbols, and stylistic tendencies between and among art periods or cultures.
Course Objectives
1. Learn important artistic concepts and terminology.
2. Learn about the form, content, and context of Pre-Renaissance art.
3. Learn about the form, content, and context of Early Renaissance art.
4. Learn about the form, content, and context of art during the High Renaissance in Italy.
5. Learn about the form, content, and context of Mannerist art.
6. Learn about the form, content, and context of Century Northern European art.
7. Learn about the form, content, and context of Baroque art.
8. Learn about the form, content, and context of Rococo art.
9. Learn about the form, content, and context of Neoclassicism.
10. Learn about the form, content, and context of 19th Century Realism
11. Learn about the form, content, and context of Impressionism.
12. Learn about the form, content, and context Post-Impressionism and Late 19th Century art.
13. Learn about the form, content, and context of Early 20th Century art, including (ch. Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, other 20th Century Styles.
14. Learn about the form, content, and context of Dada, Surrealism, Social Realism, Regionalism, and Abstraction.
15. Learn about the form, content, and context of Mid-Century American Abstraction, including abstract expressionism, action painting, Pop Art, Op Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism.
16. Learn about the form, content, context, and trends of current art.
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