I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Art Appreciation

2. Course Prefix & Number:
ARTS 1470

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 3

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

This course is an introduction to the history and appreciation of art through a survey of aspirations and art forms as expressed in painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, crafts and cinematography. It is a study of individual artists, techniques, and art movements in specific context relative to the historical, political and economic circumstances. Other class components include course projects, discussions, research, and some writing requirements. MnTC Goal 6

5. Placement Tests Required:

Accuplacer (specify test):

Reading College Level CLC or Reading College Level

Score:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

III. Course Purpose

2. MN Transfer Curriculum (General Education) Courses - This course fulfills the following goal area(s) of the MN Transfer Curriculum:
Goal 6 – Humanities and Fine Arts

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate written communication skills	Students complete several written essays during the semester.
Demonstrate reading and listening skills	Students complete weekly/biweekly quizzes, tests, or study worksheets on information studied in the course.
Discuss/compare characteristics of diverse cultures and environments	Students complete discussions or compare/contrast assignments in which diverse cultures are studied.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Explain the characteristics of various artistic mediums such as painting, sculpture, and architecture (Goal 6);
• Explain the basic visual elements and principles of design present in all works of art, and explain works of art in terms of these elements and principles (Goal 6);
• Analyze major movements, periods of art, and the stylistic characteristics, which differentiate them, and identify examples of those styles (Goal 6);
• Analyze, contrast, and compare genres of art as used in diverse cultures (Goal 6);
• Analyze the work of artists as expressions of human values within a historical, social, and cultural context (Goal 6);
• Describe the lives and work of individual artists, influences upon them, and their stylistic development (Goal 6);
• Write critical and analytical essays using academic research, rigor, and scholarship with citations (Goal 6);
  
• Express informed personal responses in discussion to works of art (Goal 6); and
  
• Demonstrate a general awareness and appreciation of the variety of works and uses found in the arts and humanities (Goal 6).
   

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. The Language of Visual Experience
• Abstract art
• Aesthetics
• Analogous colors
• Atmospheric perspective
• Color schemes
• Complementary colors
• Content
• Cool colors
• Figure-ground reversal (flip)
• Form
• Geometric shape
• Hue
• Iconography
• Idealism
• Linear perspective
• Mass
• Media
• Nonrepresentational art
• Organic shape
• Picture plane
• Primary colors
• Representational art
• Saturation (intensity)
• Secondary colors
• Value
• Warm colors
• Work of art
2. The Media of Art
• Art criticism
• Asymmetrical balance
• Cartoon
• Conte’ crayon
• Contextual theory
• Directional forces
• Encaustic
• Expressive theory
• Fresco
• Focal point
• Formal theory
• Format
• Gesso
• Glaze
• Gouache
• Hatching
• Impasto
• Intaglio
• Matrix
• Offset lithography
• Pattern
• Registration
• Relief printmaking
• Scale
• Screen-printing
• Sizing
• Substrate (or ground)
• Symmetrical balance
• Tempera
• Wash
• Additive sculpture
• Animation
• Assemblage
• Camera Obscura
• Cantilever
• Casting
• Cinema
• Cinematography
• Colonnade
• Daguerreotype
• Film editing
• Film noir
• Font
• Free standing
• Glaze
• Graphic design
• Installation
• International style architecture
• Kinetic sculpture
• Logo
• Masonry
• Montage
• Persistence of vision
• Photography
• Post-and-beam system
• Relief (as it applies to sculpture)
• Serif… and Sans Serif
• Shot
• Site-specific (as it applies to sculpture)
• Slip
• Storyboards
• Subtractive sculpture
• Title sequence
• Truss
• Typography
• Vault
• Warp
• Weft
3. Art as Cultural Heritage
• Baroque
• Basilica
• Catacomb
• Classical art
• Genre painting
• Gothic
• Hierarchic scale
• Humanism
• Iconoclast
• Kouros
• Krator
• Romanesque
• Paleolithic art
• Petroglyph
• Renaissance
• Rococo
• Still life
• Ziggurat
• Bodhisattva
• Garba griha
• Iwan
• Literati painting
• Kachina
• Madrasa
• Mana
• Mihrab
• Minaret
• Picturesque
• Stupa
• Taotie mask
• Terra cotta
• Totem
• Ukiyo-e
4. The Pre-Modern World
• Po
• Academic art
• Art Nouveau
• Avant-garde
• Collage
• Cubism
• Expressionism
• Fauvism
• Frame
• Futurism
• Impressionism
• Neoclassicism
• Optical color mixture
• Painterly
• Realism
• Romanticism
• Salon
5. The Modern World
• Abstract Expressionism
• Action painting
• Art in consumerism
• Assemblage
• Automatism
• Color field painting
• Conceptual art
• Constructivism
• Dada
• Earthwork
• Frottage
• Happening
• Installation art
• Minimalism
• Performance art
• Photomontage
• Pop art
• Postmodern
• Readymade
• Social realism
• Surrealism
6. The Post Modern World
• Architecture
• Painting
• Photography
• Sculpture
• Digital imaging
• Cinema
• Public Art
• Socially conscience art
• Post-internet art
• Global presence