Note: A placement exam will be required when you arrive on site.

Intermediate

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

Advanced

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

Superior

This course is designed for students who have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level French courses. However, students must take a placement exam to determine the course level into which they will be able to enroll.

Please use the following only as a guideline to determine what each student's language level may be. Each semester/quarter is of COLLEGE-LEVEL French or the equivalent of:

0 Semesters/0 Quarters = Low Beginning
1-2 Semesters/1-3 Quarters = High Beginning
3-4 Semesters/4-6 Quarters = Intermediate
5-6 Semesters/7-9 Quarters = Advanced
Fluent/Native Speaker = Superior

Syllabus

Lectures 1 to 7 a link with the modern art will be mentioned, 1850-1920's period particularly; some references of the exceptional series of exhibitions below will also be included:

-Marmottan-Monet museum, From De Van Dogen to Otto Dix, Von der Heydt de Wuppertal Master Pieces, German wildcats and expressionists
-Opera de Paris, Palais Garnier, Russian Ballets
-Orsay Museum :
1. Exhibiton at the Grand Palais, Renoir during the XXth century
2. New Art Revival

1st class: Cézanne (1839- 1906): "The Louvre is the book into which we learn to read".
-Introduction: the importance of the Louvre, 1793, 1855, modern art paths/ways
-Mentioning of the Middle Ages, roman period, introduction, gothic period, introduction

2nd class:
-Roman art: Notre-Dame-la-Grande, Poitiers, Fontevraud abbeys...
-Gothic period : Notre- Dame de Paris, the Sainte-Chapelle, radiant gothic, Marmottan museum, Wildenstein collection, illuminations, 13th – 14th century, Chartres.
-Introduction to the Renaissance period.

3rd class:
-Jean & François Clouet, portraits of the Renaissance
-Fontainebleau school (middle of the XVIth century)
-Introduction to the French art

4th class:
-17th century, following: Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée aka the Lorrain, Georges de la Tour and the light, Charles le Brun
-Pierre Puget, the sculpture...
-Introduction to the 18th French art

5th class:
-18th century, following: Watteau, theatre, music, dancing... Chardin, introduction to his still-life paintings. Chardin et Cézanne
-Greuze, moral paintings, lachrymose style (cf Diderot), Fragonard, Hubert Robert (Petit Trianon parc, Versailles)
-Introduction to the David period, then beginning of romanticism

6th class:
-Toward romanticism
-David. Ingres
-Gericault, Delacroix, Daumier
-Camille Corot; Introduction to French landscapes

7th class:
-Camille Corot; Introduction to French landscapes
-Theodore Rousseau, Millet, Millet and Van Gogh
-Introduction to realism and to great movements and artistic waves, 1850- 1914
-Courbet
-Beginnings of Impressionism, Edouard Manet (1832- 1883)

8th class:
-Realism and to great movements and artistic waves, 1850- 1914 …, following.
-Impressionism, following, group members
-From realism to symbolism, the color, introduction
-The "Belle Epoque"
-Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, symbolisl, Gauguin, Pont-Aven school, Marquises Islands

9th class:
-Auguste Rodin (1840- 1917), Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
-Introduction to the following movements: New Art (Nancy school, lotus, waterlilies, orchids, dragonflies...); Nabis (Serusier, Vuillard, Bonnard...), beyond impressionism, neo-impressionism (Seurat, Signac...)
-The importance of Cézanne
-Van Gogh, beyond impressionism
-Toulouse- Lautrec and post-impressionism
-Introduction to Douanier-Rousseau's work

10th class:
-Introduction to fauvism (Derain, Vlaminck...)
-Henry Matisse (1869- 1954), first part
Matisse, beyond war, 1920-30s, dancing, Henry Matisse's the "second life"
-From Fauvism to cubism / toward cubism, Braque, Picasso...
-Beginning of surrealism. Chirico, Duchamp, Picabia...
-Toward abstraction: Robert and Sonia Delaunay...

11th class: Exam, continuous assessment