Fine Art - Eesti Kunstiakadeemia / Estonian Academy of Arts

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ealism - up to the end of 19. century. Overview of principles of art and architecture of mentioned periods and their realisation: teaching of composition and form peculiarities of styles, coloristics and ornaments. Method: lecture, seminar (1) Assessment: examination (knowledge test) WORLD ART HISTORY III Study load: 1CP / 1.5 ECTS Location in curriculum: I half of III semester Objective: To give overview of more essential stages of development, trends and problems of modern art from the moment of birth of modernism in the middle of 19. century to World War II. Content: The course provides introduction paradigmatic change in art processes in the middle of 19. century, analyse of art and social background of these changes. Example of the creation of E. Manet’ opens the essence of pre-impressionist transition period and content of radical changes. Observation of alternation of art trends, mechanism of this alternation, form characteristics and their mutual relations from impressionism to surrealism. Treatment of the problems of avant-garde, with more thorough concentration on life and creation of the most original creators in the history of modern art. Method: Lecture, independent work with literature, seminars. Assessment: Grade will be formed in result of following activities: 1.Participation in seminar. 2.Examination including three parts: 1) Recognition of authors or style of paintings presented on 25 slides; 2) test in order to control acquisition of more essential concepts and facts; 3) essay on one of following topics: Birth of modernism. Role of Edouard Manet in pre-impressionist art. Impressionism: method, events, problems. Different faces of postimpressionism. Jugendstil as idea of synthesis. Fauvism and expressionism. Similarities and differences. Surrealism, successor of dada? Searches of abstract art in pre-war Europe. WORLD ART HISTORY IV Study load: 1CP / 1.5 ECTS Objective: For art students of II year, to give broad overview of development and problems of art after World War II in Europe and USA, in order to orient in complicated art processes and be able to take intelligent standpoint. Content: As this is primary course of art history, the treatment proceeds from linear time axis - sequence of art styles, their logical similarities or contradictions, relations with earlier art history, influences, deadlocks. Among general tendencies attention is focused on some key persons - Jackson Pollock, Clement Greenberg, Andy Warhol, Joseph Beuys and his student Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Dennis Oppenheimer, historically Marcel Duchamp. Constant observation of alteration of assessments of art phenomena and their reasons, in order to realise facts from one side and from the other side assessment, which should not be taken as final. Political background of important major exhibitions: Venice Biennial, Kassel documenta, Manifesta. Finnish ARS exhibitions. Between Western art history, Estonian art is constantly referred to. Method: Lectures with slides, pushing of students to independent work (elaboration of Estonian literature + writing of more profound paper on the basis of foreign literature). Assessment: a)Paper on freely chosen theme, using unconditionally foreign literature. b)Written examination: slide test (10 works) and more profound answer to 2 questions, using lecture material and Estonian literature:
1. Abstract expressionism and its reflections in later art. 2. Clement Greenberg’s formalist art concept. 3. “Red”, “blue” and “green” revolution. Yves Klein. 4. Joseph Beuys and social sculpture. 5. Pop art in America, Andy Warhol. Pop in France and Germany. 6. Performance and happening. From action painting to John Cage and Allan Kaprow. 7. Art and nature: from land art to eco- and bio-art. 8. Postmodernist turn (when, how, main terms). 9. Art and business, art and feminism, art and memory (1980-90s). 10. International large exhibitions and political background of their formation (Venice biennial, Kassel documenta, Manifesta). History of Estonian art I Study load: 1 CP / 1.5 ECTS Location in curriculum: I half of IV semester Objective: to give overview of the history of Estonian art from its very beginning to classicism in 19.century. To bring out identity of local art, visual symbols, main sources of inspiration, foreign loans, traditions and innovation. To determine the location of Estonian art in Baltic and the Baltic Sea art context. Content: The lecture course treats following themes: Sources of Estonian art history: Beginning of stone architecture and figurative art; Medieval sacral architecture: Churches and abbeys; Tallinn: From Danish stronghold to Hanseatic town; Hanseatic art. Bernt Notke and Michel Sittow; Renaissance and mannerism: Michel Sittow and Arent Passer; Swedish time: from baroque to classicism; Baltic villa rustica: manor architecture; Classicism. Johann Wilhelm Krause and Carl Ludwig Engel. Method: Lectures in lecture room and museums (studying of more important art examples in situ), seminars. Examination: Includes three parts. 1) Written essay on the basis of seminar materials. 2) Written analysis of two focal issues of the history of Estonian art in examination room. 3) Test for the control of main facts. History of Estonian art II Study load: 1 CP / 1.5 ECTS Location in curriculum: II half of IV semester Objective: to give overview of the history of Estonian art from the formation of national art. Content: material is presented in time context, pointing out greater problems and breaking points in art. Method: lecture with slides Assessment: examination PHILOSOPHY Study load: 2CP / 3 ECTS Location in curriculum: III and IV semester Objectives: to develop student’s skill of theoretical discussion and analysing ability, to develop the skill to see the world from different standpoints and discuss proceeding from them, to give necessary information for the formation of personal world view. Content: 1. What is philosophy? 2. Sophists 3. Socrates 4. Plato 5. Aristotle 6. Epicuros
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