Course: History of Art 2

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Course title History of Art 2
Course code KTD/DUM2
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Sloupová Andrea, PhDr. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: The Transformation of Modern Perception from Optical Experiments to the Autonomy of the Language of Painting. 2. Historicism and 19th-Century Art in Bohemia: The so-called National Theater Generation. 3. Symbolism and Art Nouveau: Centers, Movements, and Key Figures. 4. Individualistic Modernism in architecture: personal style as an alternative to Historicism and early Modernism. 5. Fauvism and Expressionism: the radicalization of color and expression as a means of subjective vision. 6. Cubism and Futurism as an analysis of form and the dynamics of the modern world. 7. The beginnings of abstraction: the path from the reduction of form to the autonomy of pictorial space. 8. The Avant-Garde and World War I. Dadaism. 9. De Stijl, Suprematism, and Constructivism: Geometric Utopia and the Institutional Framework of the Bauhaus. 10. Functionalism and the International Style. 11. Neue Sachlichkeit and Czech Civilism: objectivity, everyday life, and the poetics of modern reality. 12. Surrealism: between psychic automatism and the poetics of magical realism. 13. Modernism and ideology. Wartime groups in Czechoslovakia.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Interactive lecture, E-learning, Multimedia supported teaching, One-to-One tutorial, Self-study of literature
  • Contact hours - 52 hours per semester
  • Preparation for an examination (30-60) - 60 hours per semester
  • Undergraduate study programme term essay (20-40) - 20 hours per semester
prerequisite
Knowledge
in terms of the course curriculum KVU / DUM1: to describe and briefly define the gradual evolution of art to characterize historical artistic canons to classify a work of art, according to the origin and style to enumerate major centers of development of particular styles, name principal representatives of various art branches to explain the role of artist or artisan, their position in the process of art piece development to know the scheme of structural model of art to use information about a magical, mythical, realistic, reflexive, modernist and postmodernistic semiological model of art
Skills
in terms of the course curriculum KVU / DUM1: to identify and classify the elements used in various periods and styles to classify a work of art, according to the origin and style to evaluate the historical development of the relationship between the contracting authority, the artist and the social impact of the work to assess the impact of technological progress on the development of art roughly assess the relation between art and semiology to apply historical knowledge to the current situation and to her/his own creation
Competences
N/A
learning outcomes
Knowledge
declared in relation to the subject matter is able to: to describe and briefly define the gradual evolution of art to characterize historical artistic canons to classify a work of art, according to the origin and style to enumerate major centers of development of particular styles, name principal representatives of various art branches to explain the role of artist or artisan, their position in the process of art piece development to know the scheme of structural model of art to use information about a magical, mythical, realistic, reflexive, modernist and postmodernistic semiological model of art
Skills
declared in relation to the subject matter is able to: to identify and classify the elements used in various periods and styles to classify a work of art, according to the origin and style to evaluate the historical development of the relationship between the contracting authority, the artist and the social impact of the work to assess the impact of technological progress on the development of art roughly assess the relation between art and semiology to apply historical knowledge to the current situation and to her/his own creation
Competences
N/A
teaching methods
Knowledge
Multimedia supported teaching
Lecture
Lecture with visual aids
E-learning
Skills
Self-study of literature
Discussion
Seminar
Competences
Self-study of literature
Lecture with visual aids
assessment methods
Knowledge
Test
Individual presentation at a seminar
Combined exam
Skills
Seminar work
Competences
Oral exam
Individual presentation at a seminar
Recommended literature
  • Monografie umělců, výstavní katalogy.
  • On-line katalogy knihoven.
  • Dempsey, Amy. Umělecké styly, školy a hnutí : encyklopedický průvodce moderním uměním. [Praha]: Slovart, 2002. ISBN 80-7209-402-5.
  • Gombrich, E. H. Příběh umění. Praha: Mladá fronta, 2001. ISBN 80-7203-143-0.
  • Herout, Jaroslav. Staletí kolem nás : Přehled stavebních slohů. 4. dopl. vyd. Praha: Panorama, 1981.
  • MRÁZ, Bohumír. Dějiny výtvarné kultury 3-4. .
  • Syrový, Bohuslav. Architektura - svědectví dob : Přehled vývoje stavitelství a architektury. Praha: SNTL - nakladatelství technické literatury, 1974.
  • ŠVÁCHA, Rostislav et al. Dějiny umění v českých zemích 800-2000. 2017.
  • Wittlich, Petr. Umění a život : doba secese. Praha: Artia, 1987.


Study plans that include the course
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