Art 302 20th
Century Art
Mon, Wed, Fri 2:30 – 3:20 pm
Spring 2001
Ron
Medina
AA
108
Office
hours will be by appointment on M,W after 3:20 pm.
Office
phone 885-4758 (messages also)
e-mail:
[email protected]
Course
Description:
Historical
introduction to the Art of the 20th
Century, emphasizing production in Europe and the Americas.
Required
Text:
Modern
Art, Third Revised Edition, by Hunter/Jacobus/Wheeler
Course
Goals:
1.
To Recognize works of art from major movements and their impact on following
movements
2. To appreciate the social, cultural, historical, political, religious and economic factors which
impact artists' choices
in subject, symbolism, and style across time and geography.
3.
To investigate issues of gender, race, patronage, etc. as they relate to the
role of the artist.
4. To develop skills for evaluating and analyzing works of art, both in terms of visual analysis
(line, color,
composition, etc.) and in their expressive content, their subject matter...
Course
Requirements:
Points ea. Total Points
2
Midterm exams (multiple choice, slide ID)
100
200
Final
exam (multiple choice, slide ID)
100
100
In-class
writing (compare contrast)
100
100
Total
400
Make
up exams will only be allowed for serious emergency situations; i.e.. illness
or family emergencies. (Dr.'s note may be necessary)They need to be made up
immediately and by appointment only.
The
exams and the in-class writing are require to complete the class requirements.
Failure to complete any two will result in and automatic F, and failure of the
class. Cheating is considered a grave offense, and will result in
Departmental/University review for punishment. Take this seriously. You earn
your grade, there is no curve, no extra credit and there are no retakes. Finals are scheduled for Finals
Week and will be given accordingly.
Scale:
Final
Grade In-class writing and Exams
Points:
400
100 ea.
A
4.0
360-400
90-100
B 3.0 359-320 80-89
C+ 2.0 280-319 70-79
D 1.0 260-279 65-69
F
0.0
0-259
0-64
Lecture
schedule is subject to adjustment. Topics of discussion may flow into each
other. You are responsible to have reading assignments done on required dates.
Test dates will be confirmed one week ahead of time.
Course Outline
Topics:
Readings in Modern Art:
1/17
Personal introduction to class
Cover
syllabus, office hours, etc.
1/19
Introduction, Origins of Modern Art
Chap. 1
1/22
Seurat
Chap. 2
1/24
Cezanne
Chap. 2
1/26
Gaugin
Chap. 3
1/29
Van Gogh
Chap. 3
1/31
Art Nouveau
Chap. 4
2/2
Rodin to Brancusi
Chap. 5
2/5
Rodin to Brancusi
Chap. 5
2/7
Architecture: 1800-1914
Chap. 6
2/9
Expressionism
Chap. 7
& 8
2/12
Expressionism
Chap. 7 & 8
2/14
Expressionism
Chap. 7 & 8
2/16
EXAM # 1
Bring Scantron Sheet
2/19
Presidents
Day
U of I closed
2/21
The Cubist Revolution
Chap. 9
2/23
The Cubist Revolution
Chap. 9
2/26
Futurism
Chap. 10
2/28
Supremetism
Chap. 10
3/2
De Stijl
Chap. 10
3/5
Dada and Fantastic Art
Chap. 11
3/7
Duchamp
Chap. 11
3/9
Discuss In-Class Writing
3/12
Surrealism
Chap. 12
3/14
Surrealism
Chap. 12
3/16
In-Class Writing
Bring black or blue ink pen
3/17-25
Spring Break
Rest your brains
3/26
Shaping Architecture: 1918-40
Chap. 13
3/28
School of Pairs
Chap.14
3/30
International Abstraction
Chap 15
4/2
EXAM # 2
Bring Scantron Sheet
4/4
American Art after Amory Show
Chap 16
4/6
Abstract Expressionism
Chap. 17
4/9
Abstract Expressionism
Chap. 17
4/11
Post War Europe
Chap. 18
4/13
Pop Art and Minimalism
Chap. 19
4/16
Pop Art and Minimalism
Chap. 19
4/18
Pop Art and Minimalism
Chap. 19
4/20
Europe; Pop, Realism, and Abstraction
Chap. 20
4/23
Europe; Pop, Realism, and Abstraction
Chap. 20
4/25
New Architecture: 1954-75
Chap. 21
4/27
Post Minimal Seventies
Chap. 22
4/30
Post -Modern Seventies
Chap. 22
5/2
Post -Modern Eighties
Chap.
23
5/4
Post -Modern Eighties
Chap.
23
5/7
Post -Modern Eighties
Chap. 23
5/9
The Nineties
Chap. 24
5/11
Post and Neo Modernism Architecture
Chap. 25
Wednesday 5/16 3:30 to 5:30 pm FINAL EXAM bring scantron