ART 381 Modern Art II: The Early-Twentieth Century from Post-Impressionism to Pop Art
The focus of this class is on a variety of different themes and methodologies, and attempts to provide a broad introduction to the period and the discipline for new students and continuing majors. Interwoven throughout the course are connections with sculpture and graphic arts and design and architecture, as well as new media in more contemporary works, although the main focus is on the art of painting and its immediate adjuncts. The aim is to acquaint the students with major international movements such as Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Abstraction, Futurism, Suprematism, DeStijl, Dada, Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism. In particular, we will interrogate not only the forms of art in the period, but also the construction of art history in the age of Modernism and the development of institutions that have largely shaped our experience of art since.