Fine Arts 100
Course Outline
History of Art: An Introduction
Prerequisites: A secondary-level social science course and C+ or higher in English 098, 099 LWA placement or equivalent external score
Required texts: History of Art, H.W. Jansen
Transferability:
Simon Fraser University: FPA (3 units) VSAR HIST
University of British Columbia Fine Arts ( 3 credits)
University of Victoria HA 100 level (1.5 units)
Course Outline: A history of the visual arts, including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, and graphic design, from prehistory to the present. The course will examine the effects of factors such as social structure, technology, war, and religion on artistic expression
Course Format: Four one-hour classes per week for 13 weeks. Classes include lectures, discussions, film/video presentations, and bi-weekly quizzes. Regular attendance is mandatory.
Course Schedule
| Week 1 | Introduction; Prehistoric/cave art, aboriginal art |
| Week 2 |
Hellenistic architecture/sculpture/painting
Roman -architecture/sculpture/painting |
| Week 3 | Early Christian/Byzantine Early Medieval-illuminated manuscript Romanesque-architecture/sculpture Chinese Ink Painting |
| Week 4 | Gothic- architecture/sculpture The Early Renaissance |
| Week 5 | The High Renaissance Late Gothic-mannerism/painting/graphic art and printmaking |
| Week 6 | Baroque Roccoco |
| Week 7 | Neoclassicism/Romanticism Beginnings of photography/photojournalism Japanese Woodcut |
| Week 8 | Realism/ beginnings of modernism Japonism/Canadian aboriginal art |
| Week 9 | Impressionism Symbolism |
| Week 10 | Post Impressionism Art Nouveau |
| Week 11 | 20th century sculpture/architecture Bauhaus Art deco/photography |
| Week 12 | 20th century painting Expressionism/Mexican mural painting Abstractionism/Cubism/Surrealism |
| Week 13 | Op Art/Pop Art |
Instructor:
April Liu, M.F.A. (Michigan), PhD candidate, (British Columbia)