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Salamanca

Individualized Studies With Spaniards - Year 3 2008/09
Symbolism and Art Nouveau

Language Level: Superior
Symbolism and Art Nouveau
Language of Instruction: Spanish
Course taken with: Primarily Local Students
University of Salamanca (Salamanca, Spain)

Course Description

Area of Study

Art History

Prerequisites and Language Level

Superior
Prior to enrolling in courses at this language level, students must have completed or tested out of a minimum of 2 upper-division college-level Spanish courses at their home university in the U.S.

Overview

This course is divided along the following topics which include: the phenomenon of symbolism and the formulation of the symbolist ideal, the poetics of symbolism the artist and his relation to society, Puvis de Chavannes, G Moreau, and O. Redon, the Rosecroix Salon, Brussels as a cultural center, Belgium painters, the search for expression, painting: a reality in itself , Modernism in France, England, and the Spanish counterpoint, stylistic elements of the Enlightenment, cosmopolitanism, primitive expressionism.