Course Snapshot for ART112 - Art History II

Module 1 Learning Outcomes

1. Assess the close connections between works of art and their patrons in fourteenth-century Europe.
2. Compare and contrast the Florentine and Sienese narrative painting traditions as exemplified by Giotto and Duccio.
3. Examine the rich references to everyday life and human emotions that begin to permeate figural art in this period.
4. Research the production of small-scale works, often made of precious materials and highlighting extraordinary technical virtuosity, that continues from the earlier Gothic period.
5. Evaluate the regional manifestations of the fourteenth-century Gothic architectural style.
6. Compare and contrast the differences between the Gothic and International Gothic styles.
7. Research the fundamental elements of the Northern
8. Renaissance style in the fifteenth century.
9. Analyze the importance of texture and detail in Flemish painting.
10. Examine the role of textile production in Flanders.
11. Analyze the role of print production in Northern Europe.
12. Evaluate the effects of humanist thought in the stylistic evolution from the Gothic to the Renaissance.
13. Examine the basic iconography of religious symbolism used in Flemish painting.

Module 2 Learning Outcomes

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1. Explore the development and use of linear perspective in fifteenth-century Florentine painting.
2. Examine how sculptors were instrumental in the early development of the Italian Renaissance by increasing the lifelike qualities of human figures and drawing inspiration from ancient Roman sculpture.
3. Assess the role of wealthy merchants and condottieri in driving the development of Renaissance art and architecture.
4. Recognize how the new focus on artistic competition and individual achievement created a climate for innovative and ambitious works.
   Evaluate the importance of the Classical past to the development of early Renaissance architecture.
5. Trace the shift in the artistic center of Italy from Florence to Rome, and recognize the efforts of Pope Julius II to create a new "golden age."
6. Understand the Vatican as a site for the creative energies of the most important artists of the Italian Renaissance.
7. Explore the intentional subversion of Classical style and decorum in the work of Mannerist artists.
8. Compare and contrast the emphasis on drawing and clearly structured compositions in the work of Roman and Florentine painters with the expressive potential of color that characterizes the work of their Venetian counterparts.
9. Examine the architectural creativity lavished on the design of both grand churches and pleasurable retreats for the wealthy in sixteenth-century Italy.

Module 3 Learning Outcomes

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1. Investigate the broadening of regional interaction in the art of European courts as artists traveled across Europe to work for wealthy patrons and study with acclaimed masters.
2. Evaluate the impact of Italian ideas on the traditions of northern art and architecture, including the developing notion of artists as uniquely gifted individuals.
3. Analyze the developments that led to the creation of an art market in the Netherlands.
4. Assess the relationship between the religious conflicts in northern Europe and the growing interest in new secular subjects in works of art.
5. Recognize the continuing interest among northern European artists and patrons in the virtuosity of works in media such as wood and gold.
6. Assess the impact of the Council of Trent's guidelines for the Counter-Reformation art of the Roman Catholic Church.
7. Explore how the work of Bernini and Caravaggio established a new dramatic intensity, technical virtuosity, and unvarnished naturalism that blossomed into the Baroque.
8. Trace the broad influence of Caravaggio's style on art across Europe during the seventeenth century.
9. Assess the resurgence of Classicism, especially in the work of seventeenth-century French artists and architects.
10. Analyze the way that seventeenth-century artists created works that embodied the power and prestige of the monarchy.
11. Examine the development of portraiture, still life, landscape, and genre scenes as major subjects for painting, especially within the prosperous art market of the Netherlands.

Module 4 Learning Outcomes

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1. Analyze the continued importance of the three ways of thought (Daoism, Confucianism, and Buddhism) in Chinese art of the thirteenth century to the present.
2. Assess the influence of court life and patronage on art in China and Korea.
3. Examine the continuing relationship of calligraphy and painting in Chinese art.
4. Discuss literati values and the scholarly life in art in later China and Korea.
5. Assess the emergence of expression as a value of importance beyond representation in China and Korea, from the thirteenth century to the present.
6. Understand the impact of Islam on the art of India and Southeast Asia.
7. Understand how exogenous influences affect the form of a nation's arts.
8. Recognize how nationalism can be expressed in art.
9. Understand the way global styles can address indigenous themes.
10. Recognize the ways in which art of diverse religions is produced simultaneously in the same nation.

Module 5 Learning Outcomes

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1. Evaluate the importance of Zen Buddhism to Japan's visual arts.
2. Compare art created in Kyoto to art made in the city of Edo during the Edo period.
3. Appraise the role and significance of crafts in Japanese artistic culture.
4. Recognize foreign influences on Japanese art in the Muromachi and Edo periods.
5. Understand the changing role of patronage in the development of Japanese art.
6. Distinguish the styles, symbols, and techniques characteristic of Native American arts and crafts.
7. Explore the cultural developments and achievements of the Aztec and Inca empires.
8. Assess the role of portable and ephemeral media in the arts of the Americas.
9. Examine how indigenous arts have changed in the centuries since contact with Europe.
10. Explore the gender divisions in the production of the arts of the Americas.

1. Recognize how the availability of raw materials affects artistic choices and styles throughout the Pacific.
2. Research ways that ancestor rituals influence the art in different Pacific cultures.
3. Examine the role the human body plays as a subject in Pacific art.
4. Compare the differences between ephemeral and enduring materials in different societies across the Pacific.
5. Assess the impact of Western contact on art in the Pacific.
6. Examine the role of the visual arts in the expression of power and authority by modern African leaders.
7. Summarize the role of the arts in divination to disclose the cause of misfortune in several African cultures.
8. Recognize the role of African arts in its reaction to the colonial experience.
9. Contrast the ways in which African contemporary artists explore their search for an identity through their art.
10. Evaluate the role of masquerade in African rites of passage such as initiation and funeral rituals.

1. Recognize how the ornate style of the Rococo era was a reflection of salon life among the aristocracy in eighteenth-century France.
2. Investigate Neoclassicism as a reflection of Enlightenment values with roots in the study of Classical antiquity in Rome.
3. Research the many subjects of Romanticism, from the sublime in nature to the cruelty of the slave trade with a common interest in emotion and feeling.
4. Examine the Grand Manner in history painting and portraiture and the role of art academies.
5. Interpret the complex political climate of the times through the work of Francisco Goya.

1. Evaluate the role played by academic art and architecture in the art world of the late nineteenth century.
2. Examine the early experiments that led to the emergence of photography as a new art form.
3. Analyze the ways in which the movement toward realism in art reflected the social and political concerns of the nineteenth century.
4. Research the origins of Impressionism and describe its form and content.
5. Compare and contrast the several manifestations of Post-Impressionism.

1. Assess the impact of Cubism on abstract art in the early twentieth century.
2. Examine the different ways that artists in the Modern period responded directly or indirectly to the violence of war.
3. Research how Dada and Surrealism changed the form, content, and concept of art.
4. Analyze the relationship between function, form, and technology in early twentieth-century architecture.
5. Determine the political and economic impact of the Great Depression on interwar European and American art.
6. Assess how and why Abstract Expressionism transformed painting after 1940.

1. Assess the ways in which artists since 1950 have introduced popular culture into their art.
2. Account for the "dematerialization" of the object since 1950 and account for its return after 1980.
3. Compare and contrast the impact of the three "waves" of feminism on art after 1950.
4. Examine how and why artists since 1950 have engaged with social, political, cultural, or religious issues.
5. Evaluate how globalism has created new opportunities, strategies, and subjects for artists today.