SPANISH PAINTING from EL GRECO to PICASSO (45 Class Hours) Lecturer: Dr
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Course GA-11 SPANISH PAINTING FROM EL GRECO TO PICASSO (45 class hours) Lecturer: Dr. Alberto Fernández González ([email protected]) Substitute Lecturer: Dr. Joaquín Álvarez Cruz ([email protected] ) OBJECTIVES The aim of this Course is to allow students from abroad to become familiar with the art scene in Spain between circa 1550 and 1973, especially with regard to Painting. Divided into syllabus blocks, class sessions will explore areas of interest such as Renaissance Painting, Baroque Art, Painting and Neoclassicism, the Pictorial Art of the Romantic Period, of the remaining Nineteenth Century, and of the Twentieth. Special attention will be paid to the insertion of Painting within the environment of other art forms (Architecture, Sculpture, and the Applied Arts), while also debating the cultural and social phenomena which contribute to the characterization of each of the periods concerned and which exert an influence upon the genesis and evolution of art forms. METHODOLOGY Class sessions will be carried out in such a way as to cater for students from abroad who may not be sufficiently familiar with the art forms of the Hispanic world. The inconveniences derived from language use will be kept in mind, therefore, as well as the kind of cultural background and training students would already have experienced. Practical classes will also be held at Sevilla's Museum of Fine Arts, so that the learning process in which students are involved can develop in direct contact with the paintings on display, while possible exhibitions related to Course content will also be visited. SYLLABUS 1. General Considerations concerning Painting in the Final Third of the Sixteenth Century and in the Twentieth Century. 2. El Greco (1541-1614). 3. SPANISH BAROQUE PAINTING. - A. The First Third of the Seventeenth Century. Court Painting: the Carducho Brothers and Other Painters. The Provincial Schools: Sánchez Cotán in Toledo; Francisco Ribalta in Valencia; Pacheco, Roelas, and Herrera in Sevilla. - B. The Outstanding Generation in the Reign of Philip IV: Ribera, Zurbarán, and Cano. - C. Velázquez. - D. The Reign of Charles II: Murillo and Valdés Leal. - E. Seventeenth-Century Painting: Foreign and Spanish Masters. 4. Goya: A Genius Spanning Two Centuries. 5. SPANISH PAINTING IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY. - A. The Enlightenment, Academicism, and the Neoclassical Masters: from the Influence of Antonio R. Meng to Vicente López and José Madrazo. - B. Isabeline Romantic Painting. The First Landscape Artists: Pérez Villamil. Landscape Painters in Andalucía: D. Roberts and Manuel Barrón. The Painting of Local Color and Customs in Andalucía: the Bécquers, Father and Son, the Cabral Bejaranos, Father and Son, Andrés Cortés and His Followers. The Traditionalism of Madrid: Alenza, Lameyer,, and Lucas. Andalusian Portrait Painters in Madrid: Esquivel and Gutiérrez de la Vega. - C. The Court Purist Style: Eduardo Cano, Casado del Alisal, and Gisbert. - D. The Neo-Romanticism of M. Fortuny and the School of the Sublime: Jiménez Aranda, Villegas, Gallegos, and Sánchez-Barbudo. - E. Between Eclecticism and Realism in Painting. Landscape Art. Carlos de Haes. Toward the Turn of the Century: Modernism, the Catalonian A. Gaudí, and Regional Focal Points. Artistic 81 Regionalism. 6. The Twentieth Century. 7. Picasso. BIBLIOGRAPHY SEVERAL AUTHORS. Spanish Paintings from the 15th to 18th Centuries. Vukobar: Municipal Museum, 2018. ARS Hispaniae. Tomos dedicados a la pintura desde el Renacimiento al siglo XX. Historia del Arte Hispánico. Colección de seis volúmenes por épocas. Volumes dedicated to painting from the Renaissance to the Twentieth Century. History of Hispanic Art. Six-volume collection, according to periods. Madrid: Alhambra, 1979. AYALA MALLORY, N. Del Greco a Murillo. Madrid: Alianza, 1991. BALLESTEROS ARRANZ, E. La pintura del siglo XIX. Nineteenth-Century Painting. Madrid: Hiares, 2015. BROWN, J. Imágenes e ideas en la pintura española del siglo XVII. Images and Ideas in Seventeenth- Century Spanish Painting. Madrid: Alianza, 1985; Painting in Spain 1500-1700. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. MARANGONI, M. Cómo se mira un cuadro. How to Look at a Painting. Barcelona: Destino, 1962. MARTIN GONZÁLEZ, J.J. Historia del Arte. History of Art. Madrid: Gredos, 2 v. STOICHITA, V. I. El Ojo Místico. The Mystic Eye. Madrid: Alianza, 1996. TOMLINSON, J. From El Greco to Goya: Painting in Spain, 1561-1828. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. PÉREZ REYES, C. Pintura española del siglo XX. Twentieth-Century Spanish Painting. Barcelona: Vicens- Vives, 1990. Web Resources: https://www.guggenheim.org/arts-curriculum/resource-unit/spanish-painting-from-el- greco-to-picasso-time-truth-and-history ASSESSMENT CRITERIA In order to obtain a positive final grade in keeping with regulations, students will be expected to sit two exams. Likewise, they will be expected to undertake an assignment, an essay, or a critical review, in terms of a series of characteristics, as well as a length factor, which will be explained by the lecturer during class sessions. Assessment will be distributed as follows: active class participation (10% of the final grade), practical assignments (30% of the final grade), exams (60% of the final grade). 82 .