Course title Art 160: Dutch Art and Architecture (3 credits) Course description Introduction to the history of Dutch Art and Architecture, from the Middle Ages to the Present day. The program contains a lot of excursions to view the various artworks ’live’. The program will bring insight in how to look at art and how the Dutch identity is reflected in artworks and the importance of the works in culture and history. This will be achieved by presentations of classmates, lectures, reading and fieldtrips. Instructor: Ludie Gootjes-Klamer Artist and Master Education in Arts. Textbooks Reader: Introduction to Dutch Art and Architecture by Ludie Gootjes- Klamer Students learning Goals and Objectives Goals 1. Insight in Dutch Art and Architecture 2. Learning in small groups 3. Use the ‘Looking at art’ method. 4. Practise in giving an interesting, informing and appealing presentation to classmates. 5. Essay writing. 6. Reflect on artworks and fieldtrips Objectives - Dutch Old masters (such as Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Vermeer.) - Building styles (Roman, Gothic, Nieuwe Bouwen, Berlage.) - Cobra movement (Appel, Corneille, Lucebert) - De Stijl ( Rietveld, Mondriaan) - Temporary Artists Methods 1. Lectures 2. Excursions 3. Reading 4. Presentations by the students for their classmates. 5. Essay writing Class Attendance an Participation Minimal 90% Attendance. Participation in excursions and presentation in small groups are mandatory. Written reflections on excursion and presentations are mandatory. Examination First and Final impression(A) 0,5 Essay (B) 0,5 Presentation (C) 0,5 Reflection on Fieldtrips (D) 0,5 Final Exam (E) 1 -------------------------------------- 3 ECTS Tentative Course Outline Week 4 20 jan. Lecture and excursion Zwolle Week 5 30 jan. Excursion Amsterdam (Rijksmuseum) Week 6 3 febr. Lecture Week 7 10 febr. Excursion Groningen Week 8 17 febr. Lecture Week 9 Break Week 10 Week 11 10 maart Lecture Week 11 12 maart Excursion Utrecht Week 12 17 maart Excursion Rotterdam Week 13 24 maart Lecture Week 14 31 maart Lecture Week 15 9 april Excursion den Haag Week 16 Week 17 21 april Excursion Kroller-Muller Week 18 29 april Test Enjoyment This program will give you knowledge and insight to Dutch Art and Architecture. You will learn about the importance of Art in Culture and History. The different fieldtrips will show a lot of the rich Dutch culture in heritage in different places. It will take you from very Old works to present day works. You visit a lot of places and those will show the variation of ages, backgrounds and styles in the Netherlands. You might not have a lot of knowledge about Arts in general but by presenting art and artists to your classmates and enjoy their presentations you might enrich your life by exploring this new world. Assignments: A .Art port folio: 1.Write one page about you coming to the Netherlands. What are your expectations, especially concerning the arts in the Netherlands? What do you know about our country and the Dutch identity? What means Art to you? 2. You are now at the end of the SPICE program. Write one page about your opinion concerning the Dutch identity. Look again at the choices you made during the field trips, at you stay in the Netherlands, at your expectations and what came true and what not, etc. B Choose a work of an artist who is from your native country; also choose a work of a Dutch Artist. Write about both works and explain why, if and how they reflect the culture of their heritage. C You will be given an artist whose work we are going to see on one of the field trips. Give a presentation about this artist and one of his/her works to your class before the field trip. Do this in pairs. Prepare a handout for your classmates about your presentation with 3 reflective questions about the work and/or artist. Include this handout and the ones your receive from your classmates and your response to the questions in your A & A portfolio. D Choose two works each field trip; your most favourite and one that you think represents the Dutch identity. Find a picture of them and explain your choices. Use the ‘ looking at art scheme’ questions and the reflective elements to help you describe the artworks. Each art-reflection will be about 3 pages. E Make a nice portfolio in which you present your reflection on the chosen artworks (D), the presentations (C) and your essays (assignment A1 and A2) Show your engagement, your thoughts about art etc.. Understanding that essay writing and portfolio learning is new to you, you may hand in your Portfolio on……. to check if you meet the requirements for a good grade. F Final Tests. Test will be about reader and lectures. Essay questions. Each Lecture will start with a recap and questions about the previous lecture. These can help you prepare for the Final Test. Date: April 29 - 2015 Art port folio: 1. Write one page about your coming to the Netherlands. What are your expectations, especially concerning the arts in the Netherlands? What do you know about our country and the Dutch identity? What means Art to you? Excursion Amsterdam Explore the collection off the Rijksmuseum. Discover the possibilities of 200.000 masterpieces in the rijksstudio . www.rijksmuseum.nl Art port folio: 2. Make your own museum, gather 10 off your own masterpieces and put these 10 masterpieces in your personal Art port folio. Militia Company of District II… of in Dutch De Nachtwacht (the night watch ) van Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn 1642 “ You’re in a crowd of hundreds, and yoy’re looking at a picture of a crowd of people. But ther’s adifference. Your crowd is anonymous and the enemy of good things happening.Ideally, you’dlike tob e alone, while, in the picture, their comradeship is bringing a glow to a dark, rainy day. Imagine you are with them, part of the night watch. You’re going out in dreary weather to deal with the drunks, move on the troublemakers and keep an eye uot for thieves and burglars. It’s going tob e great. It beats being at home, because you’re doing it with your friends. It’s a picture about how nice it is tob e doing something with people yoy like. The Night Watch – which is perhaps the most revered picture in the country – speaks of the appeal of joining in; They are going to do something that is hardly appealling in itself – patrolling the streets on a foul day – but how readily we would join them if we could. Companionship is so much more important than ease and comfort. It is a terribly poignant message: for here we are in this room, in a crowd, yet whithout a collective purpose. They – in the picture – are what we should be, and what, in times of honesty, we wish we could be: a band of brothers, a true team, people who will bring out the best in one another. Strange though it might sound, this picture is about loneliness, for it tellsus what we are missing when we feel lonely. And getting to know what our loneliness is about is the first step to lessening its pangs. ( Art is Therapy. Alain De Botton. Rijksmuseum 2014 ) Sickness Life is elsewhere. I have a misplaced longing for glamour. In the galery of honour you can have a look at “the little street” van Johannes Vermeer 1658 In one of the side galleries of the Rijksmuseum’s Gallery of Honour, probably gehind three rows of people, hangs one of the most famous works of art in the world. Thisis bad news. The extreme fame of a work of art is almost always unhelpful because, to touch us, art has to elicit a personal response – and that is hard when a painting is said to be so distinguished. This painting is quite out of synch wit hits status in any case because, above all else, it wants to show us that the ordinary can be very special. The picture says that looking after a simple but beautiful home, cleaning the yard, watching over the children,darning clothes – and doing these things faithfully and without dispair – is life’s real duty. This is an anti heroic picture, a weapon against falseimages of glamour. It refuses to accept that true glamour depends on amazing feats of courage or on the attainment of status. It argues that doing the modest things that are expected of all of us is enough. The picture asks you to be a little like it is:to take the attitudes it loves and to apply the mto your life. If th Netherlands had a Founding Document, a concentrated repository of its values, it would bet his small picture. It is the Dutch contribution to the world’s understanding of happiness – and its message doesn’t just belong in the gallery. ( Art is Therapy. Alain De Botton. Rijksmuseum 2014 ) Reader 17 th Centrury Art in the Netherlands While monarchs ruled surrounding countries, in the wealthy little republic of the Netherlands it was the citizens who had the power. The curators of the exhibition Rijksmuseum, the Masterpieces let visitors come face to face with this self-assured bourgeoisie as soon as they enter. 'It wasn't a king, it wasn't a pope, it was the people who made the painting of the Golden Age possible, says Taco Dibbits, curator of 17th-century art. The wealth of the Netherlands was to a great extent acquired in the colonies. Gold was initially the most important commodity, but during the 17th century trade in slaves, spices and porcelain grew.