Maricopa Community Colleges  ARH112   19956-99999 
Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 06/27/95
ARH112 19956-99999 LEC 3 Credit(s) 3 Period(s)
History of Modern Art
Development and significant aspects of modern art, including comparisons of relationships in expressionism, abstractions, fantasy, and art since mid-century. Prerequisites: None.
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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:
 
ARH112   19956-99999 History of Modern Art
1. Identify and describe common methods of historical research in art. (I)
2. Identify, define, and use critical and historical terms to identify, compare, and contrast significant qualities of the visual arts. (I)
3. Identify major artists associated with each historical period and identify their significant works. (II-XI)
4. Identify and describe the stylistic characteristics of the visual arts within each of the historical periods studied. (II-XI)
5. Compare and contrast the visual arts found within a specific historical period. (II-XI)
6. Compare and contrast the visual arts of different stylistic/historical periods. (II-XI)
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ARH112   19956-99999 History of Modern Art
    I. Art History
        A. Methods of Historical Research
          1. Formal
          2. Iconographic
          3. Contextual
        B. Visual Arts
          1. Elements of Art
          2. Concepts in Architecture
          3. Concepts in Sculpture
          4. Concepts in Painting
      II. Background and Catch-up
          A. Post Impressionism
            1. Cezanne
            2. Gauguin
            3. Van Gogh
          B. Symbolism and Art Nouveau
            1. Beardsley
            2. Klimt
          C. The Nabis
            1. E. Vuillard
            2. P. Bonnard
        III. Late 19th Century Sculpture
            A. Rodin
            B. Rosso
            C. Maillol
          IV. Expressionism
              A. Les Fauves
                1. Matisse
                2. Vlaminck
              B. Pre-German Expressionism
              C. German Expressionism
                1. Kollwitz
                2. P. Modersohn-Becker
                3. E. Nolde
              D. Die Brucke
                1. E. Kirchner
                2. K. Schmidt-Rutluff
                3. E. Heckel
              E. Abstraction
                1. W. Kandinsky
                2. P. Klee
            V. The Cubist Revolution
                A. Picasso
                  1. Early Academic Work
                  2. Blue and Rose Periods
                  3. "Les Demoiselle d'Avignon"
                B. Analytical Cubism
                C. Synthetic Cubism
                D. Followers of Cubism
                  1. J. Gris
                  2. F. Leger
              VI. From Cubism to Abstract Art
                  A. Orphism
                  B. Blaue Reiter
                  C. Futurism
                  D. De Stijl
                VII. Dada/Pioneers of Fantasy
                    A. H. Rousseau
                    B. M. Chagall
                    C. G. de Chirico
                    D. M. Duchamp
                  VIII. Surrealism
                      A. Academic Illusionistic
                        1. Y. Tanguy
                        2. S. Dali
                        3. R. Magritte
                      B. Automatic Abstract
                        1. J. Miro
                        2. M. Ernst
                    IX. Between the Wars
                        A. American Regionalism and Social Commentary
                          1. T. H. Benton
                          2. G. Wood
                          3. B. Shahn
                        B. European Pre-Abstraction
                          1. H. Hofmann
                          2. A. Gottlieb
                        C. Abstract Expressionism
                          1. J. Pollock
                          2. A. Gorky
                          3. Wm. de Kooning
                        D. Color Field Painting
                          1. B. Newman
                          2. M. Rothko
                        E. Postwar Sculpture
                          1. D. Smith
                          2. A. Calder
                          3. J. Cornell
                      X. New Realism
                          A. Pop Art
                            1. R. Lichtenstein
                            2. A. Warhol
                          B. Assemblages
                            1. J. Johns
                            2. R. Rauschenberg
                        XI. New Abstraction
                            A. Op Art
                            B. Minimal Art
                            C. Post-Painterly Abstraction
                            D. Super Realism
                            E. Photorealism
                            F. Realist Sculpture
                            G. Environmental Art
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