Course detail

A Survey of 19th Century Art (first half of 19th C)

FaVU-1DU19-ZAcad. year: 2010/2011

The course gives the overview of trends, movements, developmental connections and personalities in the area of sculpture and painting from pre-romanticism and symbolism in Europe and in the historical lands of the Czech Crown. Transformations of art followed in the basic lines: pre-romanticism and classicism in painting and sculpture. Pleinairism, realism, naturalism, impressionism, 19th century landscape painting. Romanticism, nazarenism and its influence in the Czech lands, pre-raphaelitism. Specific situation of painting and sculpture in the Czech lands. Symbolism as the plurality of individual and local styles, its centres. Connections, links and contrasts between studio expressions and pleinairism, progressive tendencies and academism, romanticism and symbolism. Basic tendencies and personalities of European and Czech historic and academic painting.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

3

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Department

Department of Art History and Theory (KTDU)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Orientaion in the essential and subsidiary trends of the 19th century art with respect to inspirational art movements of the beginning of the 21th century.

Prerequisites

Basic overview of the cultural and political history of the 19th century.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations..

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Credit based on the attendance of lectures.

Course curriculum

1) Art of pre-romanticism, classicism, romanticism, nazarenism.
2) Sculpture of classicism and romanticism in Europe and the Czech lands.
3) Czech classicist and romantic painting. The Mánes brothers. Landscape painting.
4) Tendencies of historical painting in the first part of the 19th century.
5) Pleinairism. Barbizone school. Pre-raphaelism.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The objective of the course is to help students get rid of one-sided conceptions and create their own plastic idea of the fine art in the 19th century in basic and interconnecting lines from romanticism to symbolism, from plain air painting to realism and impressionism, from classicism to historicism. Students are supposed to carry on the self-study of the topics on which there is literature easily available and the view of which has not changed in the last decades.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

Lecures are optional.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

R.Rosenblum,H.W.Janson: 19th-Century Art, 1984
Dějiny českého výtvarného umění III. (1780 - 1890), Praha, Academia 2001Kapitoly: Čechy 1780 - 1840,Čechy 1840-1860 , Doporučené kapitoly: Figurální malba klasicismu a raného romantismu, Sochařství klasicismu, Sochařství romantického historismu, Figurální malba a "národní klasika", Historická malba, Žánrová malba, Romantická krajinomalba Haushoferovy školy

Recommended reading

kol. aut. - Biedermeier, Umění a kultura v českých zemích 1814 - 1848, Gallery 2008

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme Bachelor's

    branch AEN , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AIN , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APK , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGD , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AGR , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM2 , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM3 , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AM1 , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS2 , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AS1 , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AMU , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APE , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch AVI , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch ATD , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory
    branch APD , 3. year of study, winter semester, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

52 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

PhDr. Pavel Ondračka

Syllabus

1) Art of pre-romanticism, classicism, romanticism, nazarenism.
2) Sculpture of classicism and romanticism in Europe and the Czech lands.
3) Czech classicist and romantic painting. The Mánes brothers. Landscape painting.
4) Tendencies of historical painting in the first part of the 19th century.
5) Pleinairism. Barbizone school. Pre-raphaelism.