Contemporary Art (20024)
Degree/study:Degree in Humanities
Year: 3rd
Term: 2nd
Number of ECTS credits: 5 credits
Hours of studi dedication: 125 hours
Teaching language or languages: catalana (group 1 and 3), spanish (group 2)
Teaching Staff:Marta Antón, group 1, María de los Santos García Felguera, group 2, and Alex Mitrani, group 3
1. Presentation of the subject
This subject is presented as an introduction to art during the first half of the 20th Century, from the main movements developed between the late years of the 19th Century - which is generically known as Post-Impressionism and "Fin de siècle" - to the previous years of the Second World War; i.e. "Early Avant-gardes" or "Historical Avant-gardes", paying attention to the main artistic movements: Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Russian Avant-garde and Constructivism, Neo-Plasticism, Bauhaus, Dada in Europe and the United States and Surrealism.
The subject is supposed to offer students an overview which will allow them to acquire the basic knowledge needed to understand the period and deal with resources of the works of art, offering both the possibility to develop an ability for analysis which will help in understanding these works of art and the possibility to have an open mind which is necessary to approach other artistic manifestations from other areas and periods.
2. Competences to be attained
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General competences |
Specific competences |
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•1. Ability to analyse a work of art, with no previous precise knowledge required like author, year, title, artistic movement... •2. Ability to link plastic arts to other artistic, historical, philosophical and scientific manifestations. •3. Ability to look at artistic manifestations with no prejudices. •4. Ability to handle different sources: manifestos and declarations from artists, letters and memoirs, novels... |
•1. Ability to develop a critical sense and a personal opinion with no clichés. •2. Ability to handle press releases and audiovisual resources. •3. Ability to develop professional applications like conservation, disclosure and commission. •4. Ability to start research projects in contemporary art history.
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3. Contents
Syllabus
1. Road to the vanguard: options of the end of the century. Post-Impressionism and Symbolism.
2. The freedom of the artist and the work:
1905. "Donatello among the wild beasts": the Fauvists.
Matisse, the painter of luxury, calm and voluptuousness.
1905. Without rules or skills. Die Brücke, Kirchner and German Expressionism between Dresden and Berlin.
Der Blaue Reiter. Kandinsky, from Murnau to Munich. Klee.
3. A new pictorial language: Cubism.
1907. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. Picasso and Braque in Paris.
Analytical Cubism and Synthetic Cubism.
1912. The collage. Sculpture and new materials.
The role of Juan Gris.
The international diffusion of the Cubist movement: Apollinaire, Gleizes, Metzingen, Léger, Sonia and Robert Delaunay.
4. The cult of the modern: futurism.
1909. Marinetti, the Futurist manifests and evenings. The music sounds.
The footprint of the cubist language: Carr, Balla, Severini, Russolo.
Concern for the dynamics: the movement picture, the Bragaglia brothers and Boccioni's sculpture.
The spread of Cubism and Futurism.
5. Change the art to change the world:
The Russian vanguard. From the beginning of the century to the thirties. Supremacist, Constructivist and intermediate options: Malevich, Tatlin, Rodchenko and Stepanova, Pevsner brothers.
The spread of revolutionary ideas in the Netherlands and Germany.
The magazine De Stijl and the step "towards a plastic architecture." Mondrian and abstraction.
A building school, the Bauhaus: new daily objects and new architecture.
The migration of artists and diffusion in the United States.
6. Against art. The Dadaist revolution.
1916. Zurich and the Cabaret Voltaire of Hugo Ball.
Germany and the political commitment: the dada fairs, the photomontage, Merz.
New York and Paris. Duchamp, Man Ray and ready-made.
Picabia, 391, Cravan, the Delaunay and modern Barcelona.
Photography without a camera: rayogrames and schadografies.
The return to order and the New Objectivity.
7. The surrealism.
1924. The unconsciousness and automatic. Breton and the First Surrealist Manifest.
The paths of Surrealism: Joan Miró, "discover the world."
Dalí and the colourful painted dreams.
Surrealist objects.
The Surrealism between the old and the new world. From Europe to America.
4. Assessment
Grade:
- The exam counts for 60% in the final evaluation.
- The Course Essay is 20%.
- Participation in classes, seminars, forums and activities of the course is 20%.
Exam:
The exam consist in the analysis and yze and discussion of several books and / or developing a theme.
The image analysis includesd: artistic movement, approximate date (justifying each of these aspects), author and title (if known), and comment on the relationships established with other works by the same author with other contemporary works (other artists) before and after specifying the reasons why the work is of interest.
The subject of examination may respond to a section of the program or may be a cross-cutting issue that is necessary to refer to various sections of the program.
For evaluation we judge the knowledge, but also the clarity of ideas, accuracy and ability to express them properly.
Retake:
Students who have failed in the ordinary assessment will be offered the possibility of a retake recover in the middle of next quarter. Ordinary grades notes of partial evaluation will be saved and included in the final evaluation with the same percentage they had in it. You can only retakecover the activities that you have failed. are not being exceeded.
All failed notes can be retrieved, except for continuous assessment activities requiring the student's presence in class.
Thus, the retakescoveries of this subject will be:
Failed test (60% of the total grade) → Retake examination (60% of the total grade)
Failed essay (20% of the total grade) → Retaeke essay (20% of the total grade)
Seminars non-atended suspended (20% of the total grade) → NOT RECOVER (20% of the total grade)
5. Bibliography and teaching resources
5.1. Basic bibliography
Argan, Giulio Carlo, El arte moderno. Del iluminismo a los movimientos contemporáneos. Madrid, Akal, 1991.
Bozal, Valeriano, Los diez primeros años, 1900-1910. Los orígenes del arte contemporáneo, Madrid, Visor, 1993.
Cirlot, Lourdes (ed.), Primeras vanguardias artísticas: textos y documentos, Barcelona, Labor, 1999
Calinescu, M., Cinco caras de la modernidad, Madrdi, Tecnos, 1991
De Diego, Estrella, Arte Contemporáneo II, Madrid, Información e Historia, 1996
García Felguera, Mª de los Santos, Las vanguardias históricas (2), Madrid, Historia 16, 1993
González García, Ángel, Calvo Serraller, Francisco, Marchán Fiz, Simón, Escritos de arte de vanguardia 1900/1945, Madrid, Turner, 1979.
Marchán Fiz, Simón, Fin de siglo y los primeros "ismos" del siglo XX (1890-1917). Espasa Calpe, Madrid 1994; Las Vanguardias en las artes y la arquitectura: 1900-1930, Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 2000
De Micheli, Mario, Las vanguardias artísticas del siglo XX, Madrid, Alianza, 1979
Ramírez, Juan Antonio (dir.), El mundo contemporáneo, Historia del arte, Madrid, Alianza, 1997
5.2. Complementary bibliography
The bibliography is extended along the course with specific recommendations for each topic, including art history books, writtings by artists and critics, and other literary texts (novels, poems, letters, diaries, etc.).
The main texts are available in the "Aula Global", in full, complete, or at least some representative fragments.
5.3. Teaching resources
Museum webs with information, images, databases and learning ressources:
Centre Pompidou (París) www.centrepompidou.fr
MoMA (Nueva York) www.moma.org
Tate Online (Londres) www.tate.org.uk
Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid) www.museoreinasofia.es
MNAC (Barcelona) www.mnac.cat
MACBA (Barcelona) www.macba.cat
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza (Madrid) www.museothyssen.org
Museo Guggenheim (Bilbao) www.guggenheim-bilbao.es
SFMOMA (San Francisco) www.sfmoma.org
Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam) www.vangoghmuseum.nl
Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam) www.stedelijkindestad.nl
Museo Picasso (Barcelona) www.museupicasso.bcn.es
Fundación Miró (Barcelona) fundaciomiro-bcn.org
6. Metodology
7. Planning of activities
ART CONTEMPORANI (20024, grups 1)
Tuesday Thursday
10/01 - 12/01 LECTURE LECTURE
17/01 - 189/01 LECTURE LECTURE
24/01 - 26/01 LECTURE LECTURE
31/01 - 02/02 Seminar Seminar
07/02 - 09/02 Seminar LECTURE
14/02 - 16/02 LECTURE LECTURE
21/02 - 23/02 LECTURE Seminar
28/02 - 01/02 LECTURE Seminar
06/03 - 08/03 LECTURE Seminar
13/03 - 15/03 LECTURE LECTURE
ART CONTEMPORANI (20024, grup 2)
Monday Wednesday
09/01 - 11/01 LECTURE LECTURE
16/01 - 18/01 LECTURE Seminar
23/01 - 25/01 LECTURE Seminar
30/01 - 01/02 LECTURE LECTURE
06/02 - 08/02 LECTURE Seminar
13/02 - 15/02 LECTURE Seminar
20/02 - 22/02 LECTURE LECTURE
27/02 - 29/02 LECTURE Seminar
05/03 - 07/03 LECTURE Seminar
12/03 - 14/03 LECTURE LECTURE
ART CONTEMPORANI (20024, grup 3)
Monday Wednesday
09/01 - 11/01 LECTURE LECTURE
16/01 - 18/01 LECTURE Seminar
23/01 - 25/01 Seminar LECTURE
30/01 - 01/02 LECTURE LECTURE
06/02 - 08/02 LECTURE LECTURE
13/02 - 15/02 Seminar Seminar
20/02 - 22/02 LECTURE LECTURE
27/02 - 29/02 Seminar Seminar
05/03 - 07/03 LECTURE LECTURE
12/03 - 14/03 LECTURE LECTURE