In this class, as students tour such places as Florence, Rome, Paris, London, and New York, they will visit with the likes of Michelangelo, Rembrandt, Monet, Picasso, and Warhol. These artists will help students understand the larger cultural context of the societies in which they lived and worked.
UW Colleges Catalog Course Description for ART 183: Survey: Renaissance - Modern Art - 3 credits. Architecture, sculpture, painting and decorative arts from the late Middle Ages to the Modern Era. Independent field trip (per instructor). Lecture. This course fulfills the UWC requirement for Fine Arts (FA).
This course presents a survey of the major works of sculpture, architecture, and painting made in Europe and North America from the 14th century to the present day. In studying these monuments, we will place equal emphasis on formal analysis and on contextual history. Students will be asked to identify particular works, to describe their basic elements, to distinguish those elements that characterize different styles, and to begin to explain the formal and historical reasons for these differences.
Successful completion of this course will enhance students' ability to
By successfully completing this course, students will be able to
Microsoft Word and Adobe Acrobat Reader.
All your work must be submitted as Microsoft Word documents. Work submitted in other formats, such as Word Perfect or Microsoft Works, will not be accepted. The most current edition of MS Office (containing MS Word and other valuable programs) is available to University of Wisconsin students at discounted prices through the Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalog.
Acrobat Reader is freely distributed software that lets you view and print Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed, please download it by visiting: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep.html.
