Architecture-Design-and-Built-Environment - Course - HISTORY OF ARTS II

PREREQUISITE: ARTD205 This course is an introduction to Western art before the Neoclassical to the present day, and covers Neo-Classicism, Realism, Impressionism and Modernist movements from Fauvism through Abstract Expressionism to Contemporary. Concepts such as artists’ influence, artistic motifs, stylistic evolution, cultural context, patronage, function, reception, and censorship as well as the incorporation of non-European art forms into the Western Tradition will be covered in this class.