Course detail

A Survey of 19th Century Art (second half of 19th C) - summer

FaVU-1DU19-LAcad. year: 2010/2011

The course gives the overview of trends, movements, developmental connections and personalities in the area of sculpture and painting from pre-romanticism and symbolism in Europe and in the historical lands of the Czech Crown. Transformations of art followed in the basic lines: pre-romanticism and classicism in painting and sculpture. Pleinairism, realism, naturalism, impressionism, 19th century landscape painting. Romanticism, nazarenism and its influence in the Czech lands, pre-raphaelitism. Specific situation of painting and sculpture in the Czech lands. Symbolism as the plurality of individual and local styles, its centres. Connections, links and contrasts between studio expressions and pleinairism, progressive tendencies and academism, romanticism and symbolism. Basic tendencies and personalities of European and Czech historic and academic painting.

Language of instruction

Czech, English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Orientaion in the essential and subsidiary trends of the 19th century art with respect to inspirational art movements of the beginning of the 21th century.

Prerequisites

Basic overview of the cultural and political history of the 19th century.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Examination: essential terminology, personalities, art movements, connections. For grade A, B: the ability to orientate in visual materials, to analyse and characterize.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the course is to help students get rid of one-sided conceptions and create their own plastic idea of the fine art in the 19th century in basic and interconnecting lines from romanticism to symbolism, from plain air painting to realism and impressionism, from classicism to historicism. Students are supposed to carry on the self-study of the topics on which there is literature easily available and the view of which has not changed in the last decades.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lecures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Basic literature

Dějiny českého výtvarného umění III. (1780 - 1890), Praha, Academia 2001
H.W. Janson, 19th Century Sculpture, New York 1990
Robert Rosenblum, H.W. Janson, 19th Century Art, New York 1984
R.Rosenblum, H.W.Janson, 19th Century Art

Recommended reading

René Huyghe a kol., Umění nové doby, Praha Odeon 1974 (LAROUSSE - Umění a lidstvo)
R.Huyghe, Encyklopedie umění nové doby

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch APE , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AMU , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AEN , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AVI , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch APD , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch APK , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AS1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AIN , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AGD , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AM1 , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AGR , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AS2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AM3 , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch AM2 , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
    branch ATD , 3 year of study, summer semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Syllabus

1) Realism, impressionism, naturalism
2) Post-impressionism
3) Sculpure of the second half of the 19th century in Europe including the Czech lands
4) Tendencies of his historical painting in the second half of the 19th century
5) Czech painting and sculpture in the second half of the 19th century