New Trends in Visual Arts

New Trends in Visual Arts 2+1

Teacher: Kukla Krisztián

Aims:

The course introduces students to the reoccurring themes and practices in the interdisciplinary practice of contemporary visual arts. Moving beyond medium-based categories, the course is organized around key topics in contemporary art, the visual art of the present. It surveys a diverse range of issues that motivate artists and create content, keeping the focus on the creative practice of the artists and the process of the art world system.

Topics:

1. Introduction

2. Theories: Psychoanalysis; Social Contextualism, Formalism and structuralism; Post-structuralism and deconstruction

3. Impressionism & Post-Impressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Futurism, Expressionism

4. Social Realism & Regionalism, the Bauhaus & de Stijl,

5. Dada & Surrealism

6. American Modernism

7. Minimalism, Pop Art

8. Conceptual Art

9. Environmental Art

10. Feminist Art

11. Photography

12. Modern & Postmodern Architecture

13. Video, and Computer Art & New Media