| Lecturer: Eloy Fernández |
| email: eloi.fernandez-porta@upf.edu |
| Office: 20.275 Jaume I Building (Ciutadella Campus) |
COURSE DESCRIPTION
The objective of this course is to offer a survey approach to the history of artistic developments in Spain from Goya to our days.
A background on this specific field is not required. For this reason not only the main artistic events will be covered, but also some political, historical and cultural issues that might be relevant.
Although this course is mainly based on lectures; some visits to museums and exhibitions will be also part of the course requirements. These visits will be made during the class time, and are equivalent to an usual in-class lecture.
COURSE CONTENT
1. Goya and Iluminism: light and darkness.
The work of Goya in the context of Illuminism in Napoleonic wars in Spain.
2. History: National past and its artistic image in XIX century Spanish painting.
The Historic Painting as a genre, as well as a medium to construct a deliberate image of the past.
3. 1898: Rediscovering Spanish landscape and its consequences.
The influence of the literary generation of 1898 and its morale on the landscape painting at different times of the XX century, from "luminismo" to the avant-gardes.
4. "Modernisme" and Catalunya.
The "modernista" style as a reflection of the economic, political and social progress of Catalonia at the turn of the century.
5. Avantgarde: París as a Mecca.
Spain, as a province of the Parisian metropoli and the presence of Spanish artists in the international avant-gardes.
7. Art and Comittment during the Civil War.
Guernica. Art as a political issue: The works in the Spanish Republic Pavilion at the International fair of 1937.
8. The Franco era. Art in Spain from 1939 to 1975.
Main problems and events in the artistic development during Franco's dictatorship: cultural isolation; abstraction vs. figurative art; artistic institutions and political issues.
9. Art in Democratic Spain. The last decades.
An analysis of some of the most outstanding Spanish current artists trough exhibitions in Barcelona.
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