The course will consist in four lessons given by the teacher helped with audiovisual aid. In the first two lessons the student will be introduced in the “-isms”: Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Dadaism, etc. Also, a special study will be made on one of the most representative paintings of the 20th century: the Guernica of Picasso. The second part of the semester will focus on the irruption of the new images (i.e., Almodóvar), and of the technology in architecture (Calatrava) and the reshaping of old urban models, like the case of Bilbao.
The student will make two presentations. The first one will be related to paintings of Picasso or Dalí using the terms and method learned in class. In the second one the student will introduce a modern artistic work of Taiwan, preferable a representative building or an urban sculpture, applying everything learned in the course.