AH 101  Introduction to Art         Syllabus  Summer '09   

Text: "The World of Art "    by Henry Sayer    revised 5th ed.

DATE  

TOPIC  

ASSIGNMENTS

May  24

Introduction / Abstraction, form/content   Picasso

Representation / non-representational / abstraction   -Mondrian     

Assignment: Read and Outline Chapters 1, 2, 3 & 14 

May 26

Continue Introduction Material

Intro. to  Crafts / Fine Arts  &  Discuss Primary and Secondary Markets

 Review terms

  Chapters 15 (crafts)  Assign:  view and write Based on Anderson Gallery visit  Due: June 7

ICA assignment  Due: June 14th
Read & Outline Chapter's 4, 5, 6, 7 & 8    (line & design  principles)  
(Read chapter 12)   
assignment:  Gallery Visit    Due date: June 14 

June 2

  O'Keeffe & Stieglitz 

 Visual elements - Line, Shape, Repetition, Variety, Rhythm 

   (light, color, formal elements )  

  Begin reading chapters 17 - 21 Arts in Historical Context

 assignment - Collage   Due date:  June 7   

June 7

 

Focal Point, Texture,  formal composition          Vincent Van Gogh     

     Assignment: Art History - extra  credit   Due by June 23

June 9

class cancelled

Color, Impressionism, Pointillism   

             

Self Portrait Collage   Due date: June 14

Review all assigned readings Assignment:   Museum Assignment: Due date: June 23      Link to Museum Assignment  

June 14

   Introduction to Sculpture - terms & concepts -begin historical  review    

Read and Outline Chapters: 14 (sculpture), begin reviewing chapters 18 - 22 (art history) assignment: Public Sculpture Research   Due date: June 23

June 16

Sculpture 20th c.    

 

June 21

      Sculpture continued,    Space/ Perspective (video "Masters of Illusion)

    Review chapters  " History of world art"     chapters  18 - 22        

June 23

2D media/Surrealism / finish sculpture 

Review chapters 10 - 13

June 28

 Final Exam

 

 

 

        

 

 

 

 

 

Links to course study guides
    Artists 
    Terms: Mid term
    Terms:  Final
    Historical periods and "isms"

 

 

 

Grading: 
5 Assignments                     (20 pts. each)
ICA Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art assignment                                      50 pts.  
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Paper                                                50 pts   
Mid-term:                                       100 pts. 
Final                                               100pts.
Extra credit                              5 pts.   each 

             
 TOTAL POINTS   ............. 400

 

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