Modern Art in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, 1880-1907

This course examines artistic production at the turn of the century in France, Belgium, England and Scandinavia. Beginning with a brief overview of impressionism and naturalism in France, we go on to examine Neo-Impressionism (Seurat and Signac) and Symbolism (Moreau, Van Gogh, Gauguin, the Nabis, Rodin, Munch), as well as later careers of Impressionists (Cassatt, Monet, Degas, Renoir, Morisot). Considers cross-national currents of Symbolism in Belgium and Scandinavia; the Aesthetic Movement in Britain; the rise of expressionist painting in French art (particularly with the Fauvism of Matisse and Derain), and the juncture of modernist primitivism and abstraction in early Cubism (Picasso). PREREQ: ART-ARCH 112, ANY 200-LEVEL COURSE IN ART HISTORY, OR PERMISSION OF THE INSTRUCTOR.
Course Attributes: FA AH; BU Hum; AS HUM; FA HUM; EN H; AH MEA

Modern Art in Fin-de-Siecle Europe, 1880-1907

ART HISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY 3838

Section 01