Mount Saint Mary
College
Enjoying
Modern Art Course Syllabus
Course Number: ART4017 Credits: 3
Course Title: Enjoying
Modern Art
Professor: Gary
Jacketti
Office Hours: Monday,
Wednesday before or after class
blog: http://modernart2011.blogspot.com
Class Times: Monday/Wednesday, 5:15 to 6:40
Required Text: Sam Hunter, John Jacobus and Daniel
Wheeler. Modern Art, New
York,
The Vendome Press
ISBN: 0-13-189565-6
Course Outcomes: The objective
of this course is to introduce and understand the concepts, theories and
movements associated with modern art.
They will develop an understanding of the reasoning and time in the
context of art history. This will occur
with slide presentations, documentaries and movies associated with the period
and artists. The students will be
introduced to the various techniques and mediums and explore projects related
to the various Modern Art movements. They
will also be able to recognize the difference between modern and contemporary
art through readings, discussions, blogs, presentations and field trips.
Grading and
Evaluation Students will need to complete 8 projects, post weekly to the
class blog, and take a mid term and final examination covering the materials
and history in the text. Attendance is
mandatory. Three unexcused missed
classes will result in the dropping of the letter grade by 1, 5 absences the
grade will be lowered by 2. I will
evaluate the content as follows:
Midterm Exam 25%
Blog Posts 15%
Projects 25%
Final Exam 35%
Division of Arts and
Letters Grading Policy
|
Points
|
Grade Equivalent
|
Quality Points
|
Meaning
|
|
100-95
|
A
|
4.0
|
Superior
|
|
94-90
|
A-
|
3.67
|
Outstanding
|
|
89-87
|
B+
|
3.33
|
Excellent
|
|
86-83
|
B
|
3.0
|
Very Good
|
|
82-80
|
B-
|
2.67
|
Good
|
|
79-77
|
C+
|
2.33
|
Above Average
|
|
76-73
|
C
|
2.0
|
Average
|
|
72-70
|
C-
|
1.67
|
Below Average
|
|
69-65
|
D+
|
1.33
|
Poor
|
|
64-60
|
D
|
1.0
|
Passing
|
|
59-0
|
F
|
0.0
|
Failing
|
Blog
This is a group experiment, and this will be a work in
progress. The idea is to be actively
involved in the reporting of the arts in the media, i.e. newspapers, magazines
and the web. We will then post these
ideas to create a body of research and ideas directly published on the web.
Projects
The students will be introduced to projects using a variety
of mediums designed to synthesize, understand and interpret the movements
associated with the movements of Modern Art.
Exams
There will be two exams in this course which will cover
materials from the text and the lectures.
Course Schedule and Readings
Week 1 Introduction,
Review of Syllabus, Q & A
Overview
of Western Art
Chapter 1:
Modernism and Its Origins in the 19th Century
Media: Vincent and Theo
Week 2 Chapter
2; Seurat, Cezanne and the Language of Structure
Week 3 Chapter
3: Gauguin and Van Gogh, and the Language of Vision
Week 4 Chapter
7: Expressionism in France,
Matisse
and The Fauves
Media: Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo
Week 5 Chapter
8: Expressionism in Germany, The Bridge and the Blue Rider
Week 6 Chapter
9: The Cubist Revolution: Braque and Picasso
Week 7 Studio Week
Mid-Term
Review
Week 8 Mid-Term
Critiques and Exam
Week 9 Chapter
11: Dada and Fantastic Art
Media: Jackson Pollock
Week 10 Chapter
12: Surrealism: The Resolution of Dream and
Reality
Week 11 Chapter 16: American Art in the Wake of the Armory Show
Week 12 Chapter
17: The New York School: Abstract Expressionism
Week 13 Chapter
19: American Art of the Sixties: Pop Art
and
Minimalism
Media: Basquait
Week 14 Studio
Week
Final
Review
Week 15 Final
Critiques and Exam
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