HISTORY OF CONTEMPORARY ART

The premise of the History of Contemporary Art is a knowledge already gained in the History of Art of the Twentieth Century. We will deepen the fundamental issues with the aim of understanding how artistic activity has developed in relation to the problems of time, with profound aesthetic and cultural changes.

Informative and educational characterization of the main artistic currents of the 20th century.
The course is supported by image and video support.

Impressionism is an important premise as a departure for new developments in contemporary artistic language. It will also be considered in the dialectical relationship that painting establishes with photography which takes its full course, which will be synthesized.

About photography, students who are interested will be able to participate in sporadic "laboratory" moments dedicated to photography applied to architecture and landscape. Students will receive technical explanations and stimuli on how to best document city breaks and details of buildings (in this respect, it should be noted that as a non-compulsory formative moment it will not affect the student's assessment during the examinations).

It will then pass on the pertustration of the main currents of the twentieth century, as

Orphism, Cubism, Expressionistic Currents, Fauvism, Futurism, Abstraction (Organic and Geometric), Dadaism, Surrealism.

So: the Bauhaus, the return to the Order (20-30), the Informal (before and after World War II). From the 1950s a synthetic excursus of neo-avant-garde (minimalism, conceptualism, new realism, poor art, etc.) will be made.

2) The general outline will be the explanation of what it is, how the research language or the devious language develops and develops. A training principle that will continually be found in examining the various currents listed above.

3) The focus will be on the international art of the avant-garde art of the 900 'with specific reference to the movements and the artists who through the gesture and interact with the public have distorted the artistic language of the peri

1) Loredana Parmesani "The Art of the Twentieth Century and beyond" Edizioni Skira, Milan, 2012

2) M. Vita, Primitive and Art in Historical avant-garde, New Scripture Editions, Milan, 2012; (one copy is available at the SDS Library).

3) M. Vita, The Dawn of Photography. From birth to digital, 2011 Rose Editions is in Rose 2010 (a copy is available at the SDS Library).

4) C. Strano, The Sign of Deviance, Editions Mursia, Milan, 2015 (one copy is available at the SDS Library).

5) Fluxus: The History of an Attitude, Owen F. Smith, 1998