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.

This course traces Impressionism from the second half of the nineteenth century in France to the idealism, tradition, and imagination of art in the twentieth century. Topics to be covered include: Institutions: the Academy, the school of Fine Arts, Salons and expositions, Romanticism and eclecticism, the reforms of 1863, the birth of the modern painting, Impressionism: an aesthetics and ideology of liberation, abandonment of the conventional, failure and success, Postimpressionism: concepts and divergence of opinions, scientific vision, from Impressionism to the twentieth century: idealism, tradition, and imagination.