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Why I built this course:
"Studying the history of our images is vital to understanding our contemporary visual code. This course approaches the art history in a thematic way, instead of chronologically. This way it is easier to establish connections and differences across time periods and understand the many different treatments of subject matter. I want my students to acquire not just historical knowledge but also a practical knowledge that allow them to quickly identify different mediums, techniques, and styles." |
The Developer: Carolina is an emerging contemporary artist whose most recent exhibitions were at Blow de la Barra in London, UK, and Galeria Comercial in Puerto Rico. Her fine art and photography collections have been written about in The New York Times, Artfacts.net, Artecontexto, The Nation, and Art Dispatches. Carolina has a near encyclopedic knowledge of art, and her passion for art comes through in her teaching.
The Course: Engaging lectures and projects address the history of art from an innovative thematic perspective. Students learn how to identify the mediums, materials, and techniques artists use and discuss the styles of important artists, art movements, and historical periods from antiquity through the mid-20th century. Challenging assignments, videos, and visuals discussions make it a thoroughly engaging course.
Who Should Take It: Everybody! This is a course for any art or design student who realizes he has gaps in his understanding of art history. It's also a course for students who simply love art and want to get to know it better by engaging in the major themes in art.
Cool Factor: Watching Carolina's videos show you things you've never noticed in art before. Getting "turned on" to artists whose work may be unfamiliar to you. Walking around the museum and realizing that you're beginning to piece it all together and understand the relationship between different artists and art movements.
Course Projects: Critiques and discussions on the aesthetic experience, nature, the human figure, society, religion, and politics in art. Online research is coupled with required museum visits. |
