18^th and 19^th Century Art (20022)

Degree/study: Degree in Humanities
Year: 2nd
Term: 3rd
Number of ECTS credits: 6 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 150 hours
Teaching language or languages: Spanish
Teaching Staff: Carlos Reyero

1. Presentation of the subject

This subject is included in the Degree of Humanities. It uses contents and methods related to history of art to reflect on historical and cultural information.

The course is about the development of modernity in art from the mid-18^th century to 1900. It presents and analyses key aspects of the artistic movements and the main artists of this period. It provides the chance to reflect on aesthetic, ideological and social values in connection with art.

Works of art will be studied along with works belonging to other cultural fields of knowledge.

2. Competences to be attained

General Competences	Specific Competences
Instrumental competences  1. Basic knowledge on the field.  2. Analysis and synthesis skills.  3. Capacity to correctly elaborate and express intellectual arguments.      Interpersonal competences  4. Debate and exchange of opinions.   Systemic competences  5. Image interpretation.  6. Interpretation of other cultural sources.    Other competences  7. Analytical mind.	1. Knowing the key episodes in artistic evolution of the period studied. 2. Analysing and interpreting works of art. 3. Knowing and re-evaluating their meaning and the artistic sequence that they create. 4. Analysing theoretical sources in connection with plastic art works. 5. Using abstract and general approaches to reflect on particular works of art.

3. Contents

 1- Art system in the 18^th century. Rococo paintings.

 2- Antiquity's lesson. Art, revolution and propaganda.    

 3-   Goya and the origins of modern art.

 4- Nordic Romanticism. Visionaries and landscape painters.

 5- Romanticism and Historicism.

 6- Realism, ethics and rhetoric.

 7- Impressionism.

 8- Aestheticism and Symbolism in the modernisation of art.

 9- Postimpressionism. 

 

*The full version with the sections 4. Assessment, 5. Bibliography and teaching resources, 6. Methodology and 7. Planning of activities is available in the original version.

4. Assessment

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5. Bibliography and teaching resources

5.1. Basic bibliography

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5.2. Complementary bibliography

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5.3. Teaching resources

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6. Metodology

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7. Planning of activities

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