HISTORY OF ART

The teaching of History of Modern Art aims to provide students with the basic elements to know the History of Modern Art, and its protagonists, with the ultimate goal of providing a contribution of knowledge useful for their general cultural education. The course aims at the knowledge and recognition of the language of a movement or of an artist, characterizing the exclusive and recurrent characteristics, with the intent to understand how the artistic activity has developed in relation to the problems of the time, with profound aesthetic modifications and cultural.

Frontal lessons supported by images and other multimedia materials related to the artists and artistic currents examined.

Furthermore, some in-depth studies on the problems of artistic language will be conducted with the active participation of attending students.

An informative and formative survey of the main artistic currents of the 20th century.

Impressionism will be important as a departure for new developments in the artistic language of the Avant-gardes. It will also be considered in the dialectic relationship that painting establishes with photography, which takes its own path of which a synthesis will be traced. It will then go on to the patrolling of the main currents of the twentieth century, such as Cubism, Orphism, Expressionist currents, Fauvism, Futurism, Abstraction (organic and geometric), Dadaism, Surrealism and the Informal. A general premise will be the explanation of what it is, how it forms and develops the artistic language of research or deviant. A formative principle that will be continually reflected in the examination of the various artistic currents treated. Focus will focus on the international art of the artistic avant-gardes of the 20th century with specific reference to the movements and artists who have distorted the artistic language of the period.

Loredana Parmesani, The art of the twentieth century and beyond, Edizioni Skira, Milan 2012

M. Vita, Primitive and Art in the historical avant-gardes, Edizioni Nuove Scritture, Milan, 2012; (a copy is available in pdf on the course page)

M. Vita, The dawns of photography. From birth to digital, 2011 Editions Rose is a Rose 2010 (a copy is available in pdf format on the course page)

M. Vita, The language of gesture in contemporary art (a copy is available in pdf format on the course page)

In addition to educational material on monographs, digital images will be provided for download from the Studium platform