Course description
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 coming from the “Movida Madrileña” (we will study Almodóvar as filmmaker), and of the technology in architecture (Calatrava) and on the need of reshape old urban models, like in the case of Bilbao.
The student will be introduced in concepts of Contemporary Art, to be able to deal with two short oral presentations. The first presentation will be one, or few related painting of Picasso or Dalí using the terms and method learned in class. In the second presentation the student will introduce a modern artistic work of Taiwan, preferable a representative building or a urban sculpture, applying everything learned in the course.