Introduction to Modern Art: syllabus
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Seiji Marukawa, Waseda University
Week 1
Introduction and overview / Manet and the birth of Modern Art
Week 2
Monet and Impressionism’s aesthetic / Degas/ Japonism
Week 3-4
Post-Impressionists (Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gaughin) /
Week 5
Expressionism (from Munch to “Brücke”) / Klimt/ Matisse and Fauvism
Week 6
Cubism : Braque and Picasso
Week 7
Picasso : between destruction and unity
Week 8
Birth of Abstract painting (Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevitch)
Week 9
Duchamp and Dadaism : the end of Art
Week 10
Italian futurist and “Metaphysical painting”
Week 11
Surrealist poetics and some painters / Some Japanese painters worked or travelled in Europe
Week 12
Painters separated from surrealism : Miró and Giacometti / The man’s image in 1930’s paintings
Introduction and overview / Manet and the birth of Modern Art
Week 2
Monet and Impressionism’s aesthetic / Degas/ Japonism
Week 3-4
Post-Impressionists (Seurat, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Gaughin) /
Week 5
Expressionism (from Munch to “Brücke”) / Klimt/ Matisse and Fauvism
Week 6
Cubism : Braque and Picasso
Week 7
Picasso : between destruction and unity
Week 8
Birth of Abstract painting (Kandinsky, Mondrian, Malevitch)
Week 9
Duchamp and Dadaism : the end of Art
Week 10
Italian futurist and “Metaphysical painting”
Week 11
Surrealist poetics and some painters / Some Japanese painters worked or travelled in Europe
Week 12
Painters separated from surrealism : Miró and Giacometti / The man’s image in 1930’s paintings
