Art and Civilisation : Visual Arts from Modern Times to the Contemporary Period [ LARKE1456 ]

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The course introduces students to the major trends and key personalities in European painting and sculpture from the XVth to the XXIth century. It deals with general issues relating to the emergence of art and the artist in society, in theoretical discourse and examines how their work came into being, how it spread and how it was understood. These issues are used to structure analyses of works from the concerned periods. From this broad perspective, the course focuses in on particular aspects of artistic activity: painting and sculpture from the Renaissance to the Baroque period and the "golden century" of Flemish and Dutch painters, from French classicism to international rococo; the main movements and media of modern and contemporary art.

During this course, students will learn a range of different methodologies intended to enable them to analyse a selection of key works of Western Art since the Renaissance, encompassing painting and sculpture and other media as drawing, engraving and photography.

They will also learn how to sythesise these analyses and develop a chronological and typological framework for the history of forms and themes in Art.

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