Survey of Western Art - Dr. SWAPNA SATHISH
While looking at the art of the past we often have questions... Did the ancient Greeks really look as good as their sculptures? What makes the Renaissance special? Why is the Mona Lisa so famous? How can I understand Modern Art? What happened to portrait artists when photography was invented? What am I looking at in Abstract Art?
This lecture series seeks to answer these and other pertinent questions. It will survey Western Art from Classical Greece and Rome through medieval Europe, discuss the masters of the Renaissance and Baroque, move through the Age of Enlightenment and the birth of Modernism and Postmodernism.
Dr Swapna Sathish is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Stella Maris College, Chennai, teaching art history and design for the past 20 years. A freelance art critic, she has authored catalogues, exhibition reviews and contributed chapters to books. She has also presented papers at international conferences and delivered lectures in India and abroad. Swapna has a postgraduate research degree from the UK having researched Renaissance murals in Florence, Italy. Swapna received her doctorate from The University of Madras for her thesis on contemporary temple murals in Tamil Nadu. She received a Charles Wallace India Trust research grant to undertake post-doctoral research in the United Kingdom.
Day 1: Classical and Medieval art
Greece, Rome, Christian and Byzantine, Romanesque and Gothic
Day 2: Renaissance
Giotto, Botticelli, Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Titian
Day 3: Baroque
Caravaggio, Bernini, El Greco, Velazquez, Rembrandt van Rijn, Jan Vermeer
Day 4: 18th and 19th centuries
Neo-Classical, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Post Impressionism
Day 5: Early 20th century – Modernism
Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism, Surrealism, Abstraction
Day 6: Late 20th century
Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Postmodernism
Dr Swapna Sathish is Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at Stella Maris College, Chennai, teaching art history and design for the past 20 years. A freelance art critic, she has authored catalogues, exhibition reviews and contributed chapters to books. She has also presented papers at international conferences and delivered lectures in India and abroad. Swapna has a postgraduate research degree from the UK having researched Renaissance murals in Florence, Italy. Swapna received her doctorate from The University of Madras for her thesis on contemporary temple murals in Tamil Nadu. She received a Charles Wallace India Trust research grant to undertake post-doctoral research in the United Kingdom.
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