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  • 1. Week 1Lecture 1Introduction

2. Important Points:Course centers on artistic developmentand progression over timeClosely linked with socio-political climate 3. Eduard ManetOlympia1863 4. Georges-Pierre SeuratLe Cirque1891 5. Pablo PicassoLes Demoiselles dAvignon1907 6. Pablo PicassoStill Life with Chair Caning1912 7. Hugo Ballperforming Karawane1916 8. Marcel DuchampFountain1917 9. Otto DixSkat Players1920 10. Piet MondrianComposition II in Red, Blue, and Yellow1930 11. Eduardo PaolozziI was a Rich Mans PlayThing1947 12. Willem de KooningExcavation1950 13. Jasper JohnsFlag1954-55 14. James RosenquistWhite Cigarette1962 15. Yoko OnoCut Piece1964 16. Joseph Beuys,How to Explain Pictures to a DeadHare1965Galerie Schmela, Dsseldorf 17. Robert Morris, Mirrored Cubes, 1965 18. Walker Evans Sherry LevineAllie Mae Burrough After Walker Evans1936 1979 19. Dana Schutz, Gravity Fanatic, 2005 20. Online Journal & Participation: The amount of time you spend reviewing the coursematerial online. This is monitored and necessary for successful completion of the course.Mid-Term and Final Examinations: These will be made up of slide identification andcomparison, short-answer, and essay questions.Quizzes: These two assignments will be made up of term and slide identification.Visual Analysis Paper: This assignment asks you to see a work of art IN-PERSON and writea complete essay about the work.Reading Response Paper: The course schedule lists three additional readings in weeks 7, 8and 9. Your paper will be a thoughtful response to what the author is saying and how itrelates to other course material. 21. Weekly Lectures:Case StudyFocus on specific artist, exhibition, ideaImportant Terms Words and ideas specific to period Linear presentation of works of art to illustrateChronology the progression and disemination of artistic ideas 22. Standardized ideas/terms:Art:Contemporary definitions are of two main sorts. One distinctively modern,conventionalist, sort of definition focuses on arts institutional features, emphasizing theway art changes over time, modern works that appear to break radically with alltraditional art, and the relational properties of artworks that depend on works relationsto art history, art genres, etc. The less conventionalist sort of contemporary definitionmakes use of a broader, more traditional concept of aesthetic properties that includesmore than art-relational ones, and focuses on arts pan-cultural and trans-historicalcharacteristics.Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosphyWe will be examining art through the first definition! 23. Standardized ideas/terms:Scientific Method: This course will follow artistic development that is dealt with following this method. The works of art in this course are all examples of the process of observation, questioning, experimentation and presentation of findings. 24. Unusable Terminologychildishbad Art is in the eye of beholdergoodsubjective 25. Course Objective:This course is designed to give you andunderstanding of the last 150 years ofartistic development as well as theterminology and framework to talk aboutart in general. At the end of this courseyou should be able to tour the PortlandMuseum of Art and identify the variouschapters of artistic development. Also,you should be able to discuss the workson view while referencing the appropriateterms and ideas. 26. Ellsoworth Kelly Colors for a Large WallWho I am:Chris StieglerBA Art History, University of Delaware, 2004BA Art, University of Delaware, 2004MA Art History, Christies Education, New York City, 2007Adjunct Faculty Art History, Southern Maine Community College, since 2011