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About the MOOC

The course started on the 26th of May 2016, promoted by the School of Art of the Institute of Chicago, in platform Kadenze.

https://www.kadenze.com/courses/touring-modernism-from-the-french-avant-garde-to-american-pop-and-beyond-i

Syllabus:

Session 1: The Rallying Cry of the Avant-Garde (May 26, 2016) - Romanticism and Realism

Session 2: The Power of Form and Emotion of Color (June 10, 2016) - Impressionism and Post Impressionism

Session 3: The 20th Century Explodes (June 28, 2016) - Fauvism and Cubism

 

Session 4: Painted Blueprints Of Utopia (July 13, 2016) - Kandinsky, Mondrian, And Malevich

 

Session 5: Pranksters, Tricksters, Revolutionaries (July 27, 2016) - Dada Breaks the Mold

 

Session 6: Surrealist Dreams (August 10, 2016) - Courting the Unconcious

 

Session 7: The Last Gasp Of Modernism (August 24, 2016) - The heroics of the New York School

 

Session 8: The Romantic Sublime/ American Style (September 7, 2016)  - The New York school and Abstract Expressionism

 

Session 9: Pop And Its Legacy (September 21, 2016) - Pop art

 

Session 10: Minimalism And The Phenomenology Of Being (October 5, 2016) - Minimalism

 

Session 11: Critiquing The Institutions Of Art (October 18, 2016) - Earthworks, Body, and Conceptual Art

 

Session 12: The Cacophony Of Postmodernism In The Information Age (November 2, 2016) - Postmodernism and beyond

Resources:

Why have there been no great women artists?, by Linda Nochlin

http://faculty.winthrop.edu/stockk/contemporary%20art/Nochlin%20great%20women%20artists.pdf

 

Art News Linda Nochlin on Feminism then and Now, by Maura Reilly

http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/26/linda-nochlin-on-feminism-then-and-now/

 

Picasso, Primitivism, and Anticolonialism, by Patricia Leighten

http://www.csus.edu/indiv/o/obriene/art116/Readings/Leighton%20Primitivism%20and%20Anticolonialism.pdf

My collection in Pinterest on painting techniques - https://pt.pinterest.com/idabrandao/pintura-gravura-enc%C3%A1ustica-collage/

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