Introduction into Art history WT-DTK-WHS
1/ What is an art?
Defining an art in antiquity and now.
2/ Understanding art works. Plastic arts classification. Visual art. Fine arts and applied arts. Basic issues in esthetics.
3/ Art aims. Art and society. Opinion about art works.
4/ Form and essence in art works. Theory of art and art critic.
5/ Space in two-dimensional art. Mass media and two-dimensional techniques.
6/ Three-dimensional media: sculpture, performance.
7/ Architecture and designing: techniques, materials, town planning, design of interiors.
8/ Question of perspective. Chiaroscuro . Colour, hue, asset, intensity. Texture.
9/ Motion and time. Composition rules.
10/ What is a style? Conceptions, trends and methods in history of art.
11/ History of art outline: ancient art, Byzantine art.
12/ Medieval art, symbolism and Christian icons.
13/ Modern art; Leonardo da Vinci: Question of perspective and chiaroscuro .
14/ Modern art; sacrum-profanum; limits in art's provocation.
End mark contains of:
1/ active participation in classes;
2/ written tests on pointed books.
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Learning outcomes
After this course student has to: know basic theories and practical aspects of art creativity and art's history outline; to be competent answering what is an art, and what types and division it has (historical and modern); relations between artist – work – recipient; basic techniques of art and composition rules; should know and recognize most important trends, currents and styles in art and know works of most important artists from antiquity to the middle of 20th century; reading and understand art works skills; know and understand art works’ symbolism and allegories.
Bibliography
- Albers J., Interaction of Color, New Haven, 1971
- Arnheim R., Art and Visual Perception, Berkeley 1974
- Berger J., Ways of Seeing, New York 1977
- Birren F., Color Form and Space, New York 1961
- Eliade M., Images et symboles, Paris 1988
- Irving D. J., Sculpture: Material and Process, New York 1970
- Panofsky E., Comments on Art and Reformation, [w:] Symbols in transormation. Iconographic Themes at the Time o the Reformation, Princeton 1969
- Pevsner N., A History of Buildings Types, London 1987
- Stierlin H., Encyclopedia of World Architecture, New York 1983
- Stratton A. The Orders of Architecture: Greek, Roman, and Renaissance, London 1986
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