Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: FIVE MODERN PAINTERS,1860-1914:MANET, CEZANNE, PICASSO, MATISSE, DELAUNAY

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: This class will look closely at five key episodes in early modernist painting: the distinct contributions of Edouard Manet, Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Robert Delaunay. Examining a range of methodological approaches and primary source material, the class will pay particular attention to the ways in which altered notions of visual experience impacted advanced painting. Over the course of the semester we will attempt to understand how each of these five artists responded, each in their own way, to the changes wrought by modernity and modernism.