Spanish Art (From the Baroque to the Present Day)

Centro de Lenguas Modernas – Universidad de Granada - Syllabus Hispanic Studies Course

SPANISH ART (FROM THE BAROQUE TO THE PRESENT DAY)

General description The course is a synthesis to consider only the essential aspects of Spanish art from the Baroque to the present-day. The classes will feature the necessary means of audiovisual aids, slides, videos, etc so that the student will identify the works of art and their environment. Granada, a city of great artistic wealth, enables the students also to visit monuments for first-hand knowledge of works of art which are fundamental to the evolution of Spanish art. The artistic preparation of the students can be enriched and completed with trips to nearby Andalusian cities: Seville, Córdoba, which are also outstanding in the wealth of their artistic heritage. Furthermore, students are recommended to visit other cities –farther away – however, especially significant because of their artistic value or the importance of their museums; Madrid, Barcelona, Toledo, Ávila, Salamanca or Santiago de Compostela, amongst others.

Syllabus content 1.- Concept and meaning of Baroque. 2.- Fundamental aspects of Baroque architecture: 2.1. From the origins to the affirmation of the style. 2.2. Ornamental Baroque architecture. 2.3. Borbonic Baroque architecture. 3.- Great masters of Spanish Baroque sculpture: 3.1. Castillian school: Gregorio Fernández. 3.2. Andalusian school: Sevilla: Juan Martínez Montañés, Juan Mesa, Pedro Roldán. Granada: Alonso Cano, Pedro de Mena, José de Mora. 3.3. Levantine school: Francisco Salcillo. 4.- Spanish Baroque painting: 4.1. The great master: Velásquez. Juventud en Sevilla y triunfo en la corte de Felipe IV. 4.2. Valencian school: Ribalta, Ribera. 4.3. Andalusian school: Sevilla: Zurbarán, Murillo. Granada: Alonso Cano. 4.4. Court painters: (Besides Velásquez), Martínez del Mazo, Carreño, Coello.

NEO-CLASSICAL ART 1.- Concept and meaning of neo-classicism. 2.- Principal works of Spanish Neo-classicism. 3.- Francisco de Goya.

ARTE ROMÁNTICO 1.- Concept and meaning of Romanticism. 2.- Great works of Spanish Romanticism.

ARTE DEL SIGLO XX 1.- Innovation of art in the XXth century. 2.- Great Spanish masters of the XXth century: 2.1. Picasso. 2.2. Miró. 2.3. Dalí.

Activities

The classes will feature the necessary means of audiovisual aids, slides, videos, etc so that the student will identify the works of art and their environment. Granada, a city of great artistic wealth, enables the students also to visit monuments for first-hand knowledge of works of art which are fundamental to the evolution of Spanish art.

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Assessment

There will be two exams throughout this course, the date and content of which the teacher will discuss with the students, within the norms of the CLM. The final mark will be the mathematical average of the two exam results, along with class attendance, participation, interest and evolution.

Bibliography - BOZAL, Valeriano. Historia del Arte en España. Madrid: Ediciones Istmo, 1972. - CALVO CASTELLÓN, Antonio. Historia del Arte Español. Madrid: Edelsa, 1992. - FATÁS. Guillermo; BORRÁS, Gonzalo. Diccionario de términos de Arte y elementos de Arqueología Heráldica y Numismática. Madrid: Alianza, 1988. - GALLEGO BURÍN, Antonio. Guía de Granada. Granada: Editorial Don Quijote, 1982. - PANIAGUA, José Ramón. Vocabulario básico de arquitectura. Madrid: Cátedra, 1993.

THE HISTORY OF SPANISH CINEMA

General description

The cinema constitutes the most popular artistic expression of the XXth century. Is expressive strength and narrative capacity have converted it into the most important means of moving the sensitivity of the modern spectator. In the case of the Spanish cinema, film production provides us with a splendid opportunity to fully understand the reality of our country in our century, from two of the most interesting view points, as historical documentary and also as aesthetic expression. In this way, objective reality, critical attitude, ideological postulations and artistic creativity, etc. are elements to be discussed and studied in the realms of this course, all dealt with from a temporal evolution which begins with the origins of the complexity of Spanish cinematographic creation to the present-day.

Syllabus content 1.- Introduction 2.- The beginnings. Silent cinema and talking movies. 3.- Cinema during the Civil War and Franco’s dictatorship. 4.- The 40’s 5.- The 50’s 6.- The 60’s 7.- The 70’s: End of the dictatorship, transition and democracy. 8.- The 80’s: The democracy. 9.- The 90’s 10.- Present-day cinema

There will be a theoretical part which will not be too ample. Viewing of scenes from interesting and/or emblematic films from each period. Special attention will be paid to certain films and students will be given a dossier on each of them. We will also study some of the great Spanish directors: Buñuel, Bardem, Berlanga, Iciar Bollain, Carlos Saura, Almodóvar and Amenábar. Students will be given specific information on certain periods.

Activities

The classes will be in the timetable established by the Centre. The course is of a theoretical and practical nature, and the class lectures are supplemented with viewing of and commentary on the most important films in the Spanish cinema. For this reason it is important for the students to be familiar with the film section of the video library in the CLM, and also to be involved in the organisation of and participation in film cycles and seminars related to this topic. A visit to film libraries or exhibitions related to Spanish cinema would also be of interest.

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Assessment

The CLM norms are minimum attendance of 80%. The final mark will be: 35% class work 30% participation, homework and compulsory reading. 35% group presentations(1 per group)

Bibliography

- AGUILAR, C y GENOVER, J., El cine español en sus intérpretes, Madrid, Verdoux, 1992 - ALONSO BARAHONA, F., Biografía del cine español, Barcelona, CILEH, 1992 - GALÁN, D., Memorias del cine español, Madrid, Tele Radio, 1981 - GARCÍA ESCUDERO, J.M., Cine español, Madrid, Rialp, 1962 - GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ, E.C., Historia ilustrada del cine español, Barcelona, Planeta, 1985 - GARCÍA FERNÁNDEZ, E.C., El cine español contemporáneo, Barcelona, CILEH, 1993 - GÓMEZ BERMÚDEZ DE CASTRO, R. La producción cinematográfica española. De la transición a la democracia (1976-1986), Bilbao, Mensajero, 1989 - GUBERN, R. y otros, Historia del cine español, Madrid, Cátedra, 1995 - GUBERN, R., FONT, D., Un cine para el cadalso, Cuarenta años de censura cinematográfica en España, Barcelona, Euros, 1975 - HERNÁNDEZ, M., El aparato cinematográfico español., Madrid, Akal, 1976 - HOPEWELL, J., El cine español después de Franco (1973-1988), Madrid, El Arquero, 1989 - MARTÍNEZ TORRES, A., Cine español, 1896-1983, Madrid, Ministerio de Cultura, 1984 - MARTÍNEZ TORRES,A., Diccionario de cine español, Madrid, Espasa-Calpe, 1994 - MÉNDEZ LEITE, F., Historia del cine español, Madrid, Rialp, 1965 - MERINO, A., Diccionario de directores de cine español, Madrid, JC, 1994 - MONTERDE, J.F., Veinte años de cine español. Un cine bajo la paradoja (1973-1992), Barcelona, Paidós, 1993 - SEGUIN, J.C., Historia del cine español, Madrid, Acento, 1995

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF LITERATURE AND THE VISUAL ARTS(ONLY SPRING)

General description

This course offers the students a comparative vision of the most outstanding expressions of the arts in Spain, without forgetting its connections with those expressions of other countries.

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Syllabus content Introduction: 0. Poetics and Expression. The problem of parallelism between arts and literature.

Modern Baroque Age:

1. Mysticism and Plastic Arts in Spanish Art in the Golden Age. 2. Theatre and theatrality in XVIIth century art. 3. Baroque literature and image. Vision and symbols in Golden Age painting. 4. Velázquez and the spirit of modernity in XVIIth century thought, literature and art. 5. Ephemeral art and literature. Sermons, triumphs, commemorations and processional art. 6. Late Baroque style in XVIIth century culture.

XVIIth century:

7. Artistic and literary rococo. 8. Characteristics of the Spanish Enlightenment period. 9. The Enlightenment period and renovation in art and literature. 10. Neo-classicism and its values in artistic creation. 11. Goya and Enlightenment thought. 12. Ideological, literary and poetical afterlife in the works of Goya. 13. Goya, the engraver, the first modern artist.

XIXth century:

14. The romantic revolution: the politically exiled and liberal Spain. 15. The romantic image of Spain in the travellers. 16. The discovery of the East: literary and artistic exoticism. 17. Novel and painting of history. 18. The literary genre of local customs and manner as a national bourgeoisie expression of romantic peculiarity. 19. The political, social and artistic revolutions between 1848 and 1868: late realism and romanticism in literature and art. 20. The poetics of symbolism and modernism. 21. The generation of ’98 in art and literature.

XXth century:

22. Modernity and avant-garde in art and literature (1923-1936). 23. Avant-garde and the Exhibition of Iberian artists of 1925. 24. The generation of ‘27 and the plastic arts. 25. Surrealism in art and literature. 26. The Civil War: the artistic and literary commitment. 27. The exiled artists. 28. Post-war art and literature between tradition and modernity. 29. Abstract and avant-garde art at the end of the fifties. The model of abstract American expressionism and the Spanish artistic movements. 30. The realist commitment in art and literature. 31. The return to figuration in art and the literary renovation.

Activities

Lectures.

Assessment Attendance and class participation will be assessed. There will be a mid-term and a final exam.

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Bibliography

- ARACIL, A./RODRÍGUEZ, A., El siglo XX. Entre la muerte del arte moderno, Madrid, Istmo, 1982. - BOZAL, V., Historia del arte en España, Madrid, Istmo, 1972. - BOZAL, V., Pintura y escultura españolas del siglo XX (1939-1990), Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1992. - CALVO SERRALLER, F., Del futuro al pasado. Vanguardia y tradición en el arte español contemporáneo, Madrid, Alianza, 1988. - GALLEGO, J., Visión y símbolos en la pintura española del Siglo de Oro, Madrid, Cátedra, 1987. - HELLMAN, E., El trasmundo de Goya, Madrid, Alianza Forma, 1990. - HERNANDO, J., El pensamiento romántico y el arte en España, Madrid, Cátedra, 1995. - LAFUENTE FERRARI, E., Breve historia de la pintura española, Madrid, Akal, 1987. - OROZCO DÍAZ, E., Introducción al Barroco, Granada, Universidad, 1989. - OROZCO DÍAZ, E., Temas del Barroco. De poesía y Pintura, Granada, Universidad, 1989. - REYERO, L., Imagen histórica de España (1850-1900), Madrid, Espasa Calpe, 1987.