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Dec 03, 2024
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AHT 2001 - Western Art History3 lecture hours 0 lab hours 3 credits
Course Description
This course provides a general overview of art history in the Western world from the age of Classical Greece to the present. The course will cover the technical terminology used to evaluate art and will examine the major periods of art history including Classical, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-Classical, Romantic, Modern, and Post-Modern and significant stylistic schools such as Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Fauvism, Expressionism, and Abstract Expressionism the Western world. This course meets the following Raider Core CLO requirement: Exhibit Curiosity. (prereq: none)
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate an understanding of the periods within the history of Western art from the Classical Age to the twentieth century
- Demonstrate an understanding of the basic vocabulary of technical terms used to describe art including formal elements (e.g., line, value, color, and texture), compositional elements (e.g., balance, proportion, rhythm, and scale), space (e.g., perspective and foreshortening), and content (e.g., representational art, abstract art, nonrepresentational art, context, and iconography)
- Apply the knowledge the history of Western art and the knowledge of technical terms used to describe art to an analysis of works of art in the Grohmann Museum
Prerequisites by Topic
Course Topics
- Purpose of art
- Form and formal elements in art
- Composition and space in art
- Content, context, and iconography in art
- Art of Classical Greece
- Art of Rome
- Early Middle Ages: Byzantine
- Early Middle Ages: Romanesque
- High and Late Middle Ages: Gothic
Coordinator
Dr. Patrick Jung
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