ARTH 1200: Survey of Art from the Renaissance to Contemporary

• Evaluate the ways visual objects' aesthetics, subject matters and functions were informed by their historical, philosophical, religious and cultural contexts.
• Demonstrate knowledge of representative works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Recognize the change in art styles and techniques in representative works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Evaluate forms, functions, and the interrelationship of representative works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Compare and be able to recognize historic and national styles as well as individual art styles of representative works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Distinguish and recognize major art monuments representative of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Comprehend terms, techniques, and processes of representative works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.
• Appreciate and assess the media, and art forms in the representative works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the contemporary period.

Common Core Language:

This course critically examines the art and architecture of the following periods with an integration of history, theory, aesthetics, and cross-cultural connections:

1. Italian Renaissance and Mannerism
2. Northern Renaissance
3. Baroque and Rococo
4. Neoclassicism, Romanticism, and Realism
5. Major movements of the late 19th Century including Impressionism and Post-Impressionism
6. Introduction to major Modernist movements of the 20th-century
7. A look towards the future: contemporary global considerations

Citrus College Language:

1. Development of Art History as a Discipline
2. Problematizing the Art Historical 'Canon"
3. Proto-Renaissance