SYLLABUS

 

ARH 100 ART APPRECIATION

Instructor: Barbara Starr

Office: 380-3856 Home: 342-5478 (9am-9pm)

TEXT: Living With Art, Gilbert and McCarter. McGraw-Hill, 5th Ed.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is designed to give the student a abroad overview of the visual arts.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

  1. To explore the nature of the visual arts & the creative process
  2. To understand the elements and principles of design
  3. To become familiar with various media used by visual artists
  4. To develop an appreciation for and understanding of the work of a wide variety of visual artists

COURSE OUTLINE

Date     Assignments

 
  Introduction Why man Creates
 Read Ch 1-2
  What is Art Degenerate Artists
Art of the Sixties
 Read Ch 3-4
  The Language of Art Georgia O'Keeffe
Color Lecture - Monet
 Read Ch 5
  The Principles of Design Space lecture
Cubism
Lauer lecture
 Review for Test
  Test Chapters 1-5 Matisse
Handpainted Silk
 Read Ch 6
  Research Bauhaus
Library Research
 Read Ch 8
  Printmaking Lecture on Silk Screen Read Ch 9
    Van Gogh  
    Lecture on Printmaking
  
  Photography The Photographers
 Read Ch 7, 12
  Research Paper Due Ansel Adams  
    Digital Images
  
  Drawing, Painting, Printmaking New Orleans
 Read Ch 10
  Printmaking Gallery Visits
 Review for Test
  Test Chapters 6-10 Visit graphic design studio
 Read Ch 13, 14
  Architecture Guest Speaker Read Ch 11
    Falling Water  
    Olmstead at Central Park
  
  Sculpture Guest Sculptor Review Ch 7, 12
    Isamu Noguchi  
       
  Painting, Fine Craft Visit Mobile museums Review for Test
    and galleries  
       
  Test Chapters 11-14    

 

GENERAL COURSE REQUIRMENTS

CLASS ATTENDANCE

Your attendance is important, especially in this class in which so much is experiential. Each meeting of this class represents one weeks’ work. Therefore, you may be removed from class after 2 absences unless there are extraordinary circumstances. (Cutting class and then later missing class for illness or athletics does not count as an extraordinary circumstance.) Students who come to class after roll has been called, or who come unprepared for class may be considered absent. Excessive absence or tardiness may also result in downward adjustment of the grade. Should a student have an excused absence for a test, it is his / her responsibility to make arrangements within a week of return to class to make it up.

GRADING

TESTS: There will be three (3) announced tests covering the textbook material assigned and also material covered in lectures. Unless otherwise stated, the following grading scale will be used:

90-100=A 80-90=B 70-80=C 60-70=D

FINAL GRADES will be determined:

25% Test I
25% Test II
25% Test III
25 % Paper, Class participation (May include attendance, pop quizzes, oral question and answer sessions, etc.)

PAPER: A paper is due on October 14th. It should be cogent, well organized and carefully written. Papers are to be typed and roughly 5-7 pages in length. Late papers will not be accepted without a good reason and papers will lose a grade for each day late.

YOU HAVE A CHOICE. YOU MAY DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING:

Using the format outlined below, write a research paper on one of the following topics:

  1. What was Dada?
  2. Who were the artists of the Bauhaus and what was their philosophy?
  3. What was Surrealism?
  4. What was Abstract Expressionism?
  5. What was Pop Art?
  6. Who were (are) the Minimalists? What were they trying to do with their art?
  7. Who were the Colorfield or Hard-Edge Painters?
  8. What was Op Art?
  9. What is Conceptual Art?
  10. Research one of the following:
 
Judy Chicago Cindy Sherman Miriam Shapiro Susan Rothenberg
Jackson Pollock Hans Hofmann Robert Rouschenberg Franz Kline
Willem de Kooning Salvedor Dali Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein
John Marin Giacometti Mark Tobey Joan Miro
Paul Klee Marcel Duchamp Chagall Marisol
Mark Rothko Frank Stella Josef Albers Helen Frankenthaler
Christo Alice Neel Frida Kahlo Lee Krasner
  1. An alternate of your choosing (clear with instructor.)

APPROACH

What themes or purposes in art did your artist/movement explore? Discuss such questions as the idea or philosophy of the artist or group, the source of their imagery, how they reflect the times in which they worked .

While you may include your personal reactions (did they change as you studied the work? ) rely primarily on your research. Include a bibliography of your sources (at least 4.) If you start research a question for which you find little or no information, choose another question.