Art History

Course Code

VADA 105

Academic Year

2016-2017

This course examines some of the major technical and formal aspects of the visual arts developed within global art history. Students will explore how diverse art forms have been utilized to visually express the social and cultural concerns of various peoples throughout the ages. A concetrated analysis on techniques and media pivotal to various fine and applied arts will take place. Drawing from a loose-chronological structure, students will observe how drawings, paintings, sculpture, printmaking, photography, and architecture have evolved alongside human civilization. Key developments in spatial systems, representations of the body, interpretations of nature, and various forms of abstraction will be analyzed in some detail. Students will develop a fluency in those concepts central to both a historical and contemporary practice in the visual arts through addressing issues pertinent to life in an ever-changing, globalized world.