This course covers the important painting movements in 19th- century Europe. Among the more known artists emphasized are David, Ingres, Geracault, Delacroix, Goya, Daumier and the landscapists Constable, Turner and Friedrich. Also cited are the Pre-Raphaelites from England. Among the more noted painters here are Manet, Monet, Renoir, Degas, Lautrec, Seurat, C zanne, Van Gogh, Gauguin, Redon, Bonnard and Vuillard. Here we take the time to survey in some detail the variety of modernities in European painting from the overthrow of academic naturalism in the later 19th century onwards.
Readings are mainly in the writings of artists, contemporary critics and critical historians.
This course emphasizes American architecture, sculpture and painting in the context of American culture. This course analyzes the development of design in clothing and personal decoration from Antiquity to the present. Chronologically presented, stylistic changes and fashions are examined within cultural contexts. The Age of Rembrandt is ultimately the age of Baroque art. In this course, 17th-century artists are discussed and analyzed stylistically in relation to the work of Rembrandt.