I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Art History/Modern

2. Course Prefix & Number:
ARTS 2487

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 3

Lecture Hours: 3

Lab Hours: 0

Internship Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

This course is a survey of art from the Middle Period through modern art. It continues from where the Art History/Ancient course stopped, but it is not necessary to take the two courses in sequence. It examines human creativity presented through a variety of media and art forms. This course offers an excellent basis for cultural diversity, critical analysis, and aesthetic appreciation. 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 the major movements, periods of art, and the stylistic characteristics, which differentiate them, and identify examples of those styles (Goal 6);
• Analyze the historical, religious, and social circumstances that have shaped the history of art (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); and
• Write critical and analytical essays using academic research, rigor, and scholarship with citations (Goal 6); and
• Express informed personal responses in discussion to works of art (Goal 6).
• Write critical and analytical essays or visual analysis using academic research and scholarship.

V. Topical Outline

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

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Defining Art History/Late Medieval and Early Renaissance
• Tempera
• Panel painting
• Alterpiece
• Gothic
• Portraits… and donor portraits
• Humanism
• Oil paints
• Fresco Painting
• Chartreuse
• Triptych
• Finial
• Religious art
• Frames and the functions of them
• Manuscript painting
• Illusionistic capabilities of illumination
• Sculpture
• A print
• Edition
• Relief method
• Woodcuts
• Engraving and etching
• Intaglio technique
• Printing press
2. The Renaissance, High and Late Renaissance, Mannerism
• Quattrocento Italy
• Medici Patronage of Florence
• The Renaissance (what was it about?)
• Renaissance style
• Humanism
• Relief Sculpture
• Equestrian portraits
• Late antiquity
• Late classical style
• Liner perspective
• Imitation
• Emulation
• The visual experience called “distance”
• Cathedrals
• Chapels
• Princely Courts
• Rome, the Pope, and Papal States
• Mannerism
• Cinquecento Italy
• High Renaissance style
• Late Renaissance style
• Counter-Reformation
• Saint Peters
• Venetian art
• Mannerism
• Artifice
• Introspection
• Reformation
• Catholicism
• Protestants
• Plateresque style
• Byzantine style
3. The Baroque era 
• Baroque
• The “classical style”
• Describe characteristics of Baroque architecture
• The Treaty of Westphalia
• Baldacchino
• Tenebrism
• Still Life
• Camera Obscura
• Middle-Class Patronage
• The Louvre
• Versailles
• Rembrandt’s gradients of light
• 17^th century Architecture… an important art form in France & England? (Jones and Wren)
4. Rococo to Neoclassicism:
• Rococo
• The Enlightenment
• Neoclassicism
• Naturalism or “natural” art
• The abbreviation BCE
• Fete galante
• The Industrial Revolution in Europe
• Ecclesiastical architecture
• Grand Manner Portraits
• Philosophes
5. Romanticism, Realism, Photography:
• Realism
• Photography
• Landscape paintings
• Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
• Caricature
• Lithography
• Daguerreotypes
• Calotypes
• Wet-plate photography
• Zoopraxiscope
• Matthew Brady
6. Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism in Europe and America
• The Folies-Bergere
• Modernism
• Impressionism
• Marxism
• Darwinism
• Art Nouveau
• Post-Impressionism
• Divisionism or pointillism
• Color theory (primary colors and secondary colors), also complementary colors
• Symbolism
• Sculpture
• The arts and crafts movement
• Japonisme
7. Modernism in Europe and America
• Cubism
• Avant-Garde
• Fauvism
• Collage
• Futurism
• Abstract/abstraction in art
• Bauhaus (and what is meant by “Total Architecture”)
• Straight photography
• Dada
• Surrealism
• German expressionism
• Precisionism
• The “Harlem Renaissance”
• Documentary photography
• “Mobiles”
• “Rayographs”
• Art Deco
• Fine art
• Regionalists
• Degenerate art (Entartete Kunst)
• De Stijl
• Neoplasticism
• The “International Style”
•  “Organic Architecture”
• “Prairie Homes”
8. Modernism and Post Modernism in Europe and America
• Abstract cxpressionism
• Minimalism
• Existentialism
• Crude art
• Abstractionist
• Op art
• Color-field painter
• Neo-Expressionism
• Performance art
• Pop art
• Formalism
• Environmental artists
• Post-Painterly abstractionism
• Superrealism
• Modernism
• Postmodern architecture
• Conceptual art
• Fluxus
• Computer graphics
• Contemporary art
• Installation art