Learning Outcomes
Students will have acquired the knowledge of
1. Differences between international Metropolitan Modern and Contemporary art and its reception by Greek artists
2. 2. How these differences build up the specific profile of Greek art which is formed in alliance with the trends of literary, scholarly and artistic output within the pale of the Greek Paradigm
3. Will have acquired the skill to select and approach the object of their study through a valid scholarly process
4. Will have acquired the skill of drawing up a short text that meets the requirements of a scholarly approach and style
Course Content (Syllabus)
Each session consists of a narrative and a practical part. The former covers art movements of the 19th and 20th centuries locally and internationally. The criterion of their choice is their reception by Greek artists and the formation of a Greek paradigm of Modern and Contyemporary art which is in keeping with the overall social, aesthetic and literary identity .
The latter focuses on the composition, through guided stages, of a short text that meets the requirements of a scholarly approach and style:
research, classification, programming and compositional issues (structure, language, style etc)
Weeks 1-2 a. Reception of Romanticism and Realism by Greek artists (reception)
b. Training in drawing up a short text along scholarly lines (practice), Selection of subject
Weeks 3-4 a. Impressionism-Symbolism (reception)
b. Defining the subject (practice)
Weeks 5-6 a. Avant-garde movements I (reception)
b. Collecting material (practice)
Weeks 7-8 a. Avant-garde movements II (reception)
b. Research (libraries, archives) (practice)
Weeks 9-10 a. Post war movements (reception)
b. Photographic and bibliographic documentation and presentation (practice)
Weeks 11-12 a. Contemporary movements (reception)
b. Presentation and discussion of texts (practice)
Week 13 Presentation and discussion of texts (practice)