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This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of four semesters (or six quarters) of college-level Spanish. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

I. Description

a. It is a one-semester course that has the purpose to sensitize through an esthetic culture centered in the visual arts. Through such a method, the student will be able to value the creation of contemporary works of art and understand that art is an outlet of the collective unconscious.

II. Objectives

a. To understand, through art history, the contemporary world, assuming the complexity of what is not explainable exclusively by rational logic, but rather also through the artistic, that acts in another manner in the explanation of the world.
b. To value contemporary history with elements of reason that come from the visual arts and that as proofs, make themselves evident in works of art.
c. The student should be able to identify the artistic movements, works and authors of the visual arts.
d. To arrive at an interpretation of the works at the founded opinion level, which permits the discernment of the transcendence of the work from the immediate past.
e. To compare the different interpretive texts done about the work and artist in question.
f. To value through brief essays the transcendence of a determined number of works.

III. Contents

a. Renaissance and Barroque art history
b. Neoclassic and Romantic art history
c. Art history: from iron arquitecture and Realism to the revolution of the new conceptions of space and the new materials like the concept of light of Impressionism, and the artistic movements at the end of the 19th century (Art Nouveau, Simbolism, Arts and Crafts)
d. Artistic vanguards of the 20th century. Fovismo, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Metaphysical painting, Dadaismo, lyrical and geometric Abstraction, Surrealism, Expressionism from the school of Paris
e. Contemporary arquitecture (Rationalism and organicity) Le Corbusier, F. LL. Wright, Bauhaus and antecedents, as the appearance of design concepts
f. Informalism, Pop Art, conceptual art, Transvanguardia, latest tendencies and comparison with the study of the position of art in Chile (from the 60’s to present)

IV. Methodology

a. Exhibition of the subject through images on slides and videos.
b. List of comparisons of observations done by students comparing and discussing the observations.
c. Brief group investigations from class to class, which permit reporting observations and exchange of ideas, thus reaching a dynamic for the acquisition of movement, comprehension, and valuation.
d. Report of interpretations and of analysis of images of works, as much of architecture, painting, sculpture or installations of design
e. Completion of illustrations by hand as a form of learning
f. Investigation of specific periods and movements

V. Evaluation

a. Written reports. Evaluated based on comparative guidelines given for one of the class-to-class reports and from the interpretations
b. Evaluations of summary of illustrative works
c. Complete evaluation. By thematic units, based on classes and bibliography (70%)
d. Accompanying projects. 1 and 2 (30%)