Modern Art

6 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 2 with catalog number 1020907BER for all students in the 2nd semester at a (B) Bachelor - advanced level.

Semester

2nd semester

Enrollment based on exam contract

Possible

Grading method

Grading (scale from 0 to 20)

Can retake in second session

Yes

Enrollment Requirements

Om dit vak te kunnen registreren moet je minstens 30 stp. behaald hebben in de bachelor. Als je een verkort programma volgt, kan je dit vak zo opnemen.

Taught in

Dutch

Faculty

Faculty of Languages & Humanities

Department

History, Archaeology, Arts, Philosophy and Ethics

Educational team

Hans De Wolf (course titular)
Joris D'Hooghe

Activities and contact hours

26 contact hours Lecture
130 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study

Course Content

The course’s goal is to offer an overview of the art of painting and sculpting in the 19th and 20th centuries. The students are expected to be able to place art historic phenomena within a historic context and see the causal links between them. At the same time, attention will be devoted to intrinsic aesthetic characteristics which can be distinguished in the individual art works.

The course begins with a generic timeline which starts with the French revolution and ends at the First World War, the key dates will then be shown on this timeline: cultural-historic events which had a lasting influence on the cultural production at the time. Thereafter, the most important stylistic and art historic directions will be discussed as they were during their time period. We will start with Neoclassicism, will then continue with Romanticism, Academicism, the emergence of non-Western influences, paintings in Britain during the first half of the 19th century (the Sublime and the Picturesque), Naturalism and Realism. A special zoom will be placed on the painter Eduard Manet, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism and the Avant-Gardes from the beginning of the 20th century. It is important that the students are able to place all of these artistic movements in a broader historic context.

Because this is an overview-course, it is also the intention that its contents can be considered common knowledge and it is therefore also expected that the students can not only recognize the discussed art works and place them within the art movements, but they should also be able to name the artist and art work and give an approximate date for it.

The students are also expected to have a limited personal input. As there is an immense wealth of artistic movements which took place during this time, it is obviously impossible to strive for completeness and therefore the students get the possibility to add an aspect of this period to the course that we do not tackle during the semester. They will do this though a small preparation and the presentation they consider best fit. It is not the intention that this exercise becomes the subject of a written paper and the focus is fully on the interest and shrewdness of the student.

Course material

Digital course material (Required) : Sinds het academiejaar 2017-18 is de volledige lijst van kunstwerken die tijdens de hoorcolleges worden besproken ter beschikking gesteld op het leerplatform Canvas., Canvas
Handbook (Required) : Das irdische Paradies, Motive und Ideen des 19. Jahr-hunderts, Werner Hoffmann, BIB, 9783791300849, 1991
Handbook (Required) : Nineteenth Century Art, A Critical History, Stef Eisenman, 4de, London, Thames & Hudson, 9780500294895, 2020

Additional info

The course takes the form of lectures, as this is an introductory overview subject, processing information will happen in a cumulative manner that leaves little room for discussions or debates.

Learning Outcomes

General competencies

The students will gain an insight into the historic context of the 19th and the early 20th century
The students can indicate important historic shifts within the historic time period
The students will acquire an overview of the dominant art waves of this time. The students will thereby also be able to pinpoint and illustrate a term like ‘avant-garde’. The students will recognize the most important art works within all of these movements and can both name the piece and the author
The students can link the different periods in time
The students will give a personal input into the course

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Oral Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Oral Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

examen mondeling with a relative weight of 1 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

Note: - Oral (written preparation upon request)
- Main question and secondary questions
- Recognise and analyse relevant works of art from the syllabus

Additional info regarding evaluation

The evaluation consists of the following categories:

Oral exam is 100% of the final grade

Before the oral exam students get the time to prepare a written answer of the main question asked during the exam.

The exam will be conducted as an oral exam. At the start of the exam, the students will get a main question, which relates to a voluminous part of the course, and which can be prepared on paper. This is followed by a series of smaller and detailed questions. Finally the students will get the possibility to contribute to the course personally.

Part 1: MAIN QUESTION (50%)

knowledge of the subject matter (50%)
knowledge of the historic context in which the subject matter has to be placed (20%)
insight of historic links (15%)
independent expansion to the subject matter (15%)

Part 2: SUBQUESTION (20%)

Part 3: RECOGNITION OF THE ART WORKS(15%)

recognizing, naming of the art work and author and historic placement of between 6 and 8 selected art works

Part 4: PERSONAL INPUT (15%)

presentation of own addition to the material of the course

Allowed unsatisfactory mark

The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context