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Throughout human history, art has served as a window into current events, traditions, societies and culture. And, Chinese and Western civilizations have produced some of the most famous artworks by world-renowned artists. This course will examine Western and Chinese art, artists and history. Through exploring immortal works of art, learners gain from our shared history and better understand culture, both past and present.
Assessment
This course does not involve any written exams. Students need to answer 5 assignment questions to complete the course, the answers will be in the form of written work in pdf or word. Students can write the answers in their own time. Each answer needs to be 200 words (1 Page). Once the answers are submitted, the tutor will check and assess the work.
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Course Curriculum
| A survey of Art: Subjects and Methodology | |||
| Factual impairment between image and message | 00:09:00 | ||
| Relationship between Fact and Truth | 00:06:00 | ||
| The image revelry in the information age | 00:05:00 | ||
| Nature, animal and human body art | 00:04:00 | ||
| Art: from concrete bodies to metaphorical constructions | 00:05:00 | ||
| On defining art | 00:12:00 | ||
| Globalization and Consumerism | 00:05:00 | ||
| Art and Anti-art | 00:06:00 | ||
| The value classics hold to the modern time | 00:04:00 | ||
| The Dawn of Icon: Masterpieces by Unknown Artists | |||
| The occurrence of prehistoric art | 00:05:00 | ||
| Mysterious cave mural paintings | 00:05:00 | ||
| Symbolism of rock engravings | 00:03:00 | ||
| Expressive functions about prehistoric painting | 00:06:00 | ||
| Aesthetic characters of prehistoric art | 00:10:00 | ||
| The tribal art of bodily operation | 00:16:00 | ||
| The construction to reach the heaven | 00:19:00 | ||
| Immortal art in ancient Egyptian | 00:11:00 | ||
| Mythological creation of beauty: From Homer to Phidias | |||
| The relationship between mythology and Greek culture | 00:08:00 | ||
| The marks of the epics written by Homer | 00:08:00 | ||
| Three greatest tragedy drammatists in Greece | 00:08:00 | ||
| The aesthetics woven into ancient Greek architecture | 00:13:00 | ||
| The ancient Greek sculpture | 00:05:00 | ||
| The Greek sculpture of the classic age | 00:10:00 | ||
| Works of Phidias | 00:07:00 | ||
| The essence and verve of ancient Greek classical art | 00:14:00 | ||
| Majesty and Divinity: From Bronze Ware to Han Stone Rrelief | |||
| The beginning of Chinese painting and Calligraphy | 00:06:00 | ||
| Majesty and divinity from bronze ware | 00:09:00 | ||
| The Duke Mao Tripod and eternal characters | 00:06:00 | ||
| The Philosophy of Chuang Tzu | 00:08:00 | ||
| Qin Shi Huang’s Terracotta Warriors | 00:05:00 | ||
| The painting in the Han Dynasty | 00:09:00 | ||
| The sculpture in the Han Dynasty | 00:05:00 | ||
| Grief and Transcendence: Wang Xizhi and Gu Kaizhi | |||
| Master Chuang Tzu’s impact on the Wei and Jin Dynasties | 00:09:00 | ||
| 单元 | 00:05:00 | ||
| The general spirit of the Wei and Jin Dynasties | 00:11:00 | ||
| Wang Xizhi and his unrivalled attainment in calligraphy | 00:08:00 | ||
| A Preface to the Orchid Pavilion | 00:15:00 | ||
| The penmanship of two famous calligraphers surnamed Wang | 00:05:00 | ||
| Gu Kaizhi and his painting | 00:10:00 | ||
| Great poet Tao Yuanming | 00:05:00 | ||
| Unrestrained-ness and unconventional-ness: Zhang Xu and Wu Daozi | |||
| The Chan School in the Tang dynasty | 00:15:00 | ||
| “Cursive King”: Zhang Xu | 00:07:00 | ||
| 《Four Calligraphy Works of Ancient Poems》 | 00:06:00 | ||
| 单元 | 00:06:00 | ||
| 单元 | 00:13:00 | ||
| Wang Wei and Chinese landscape painting | 00:10:00 | ||
| The relation of painting and poetry | 00:05:00 | ||
| Earthliness and Holiness: Giotto and Jan Van Eyck | |||
| The beginning of Renaissance: Giotto | 00:16:00 | ||
| Giotto’s naturalism | 00:10:00 | ||
| The frescoes in the Arenal Chapel | 00:12:00 | ||
| The Renaissance artist in north Europe: Robert Campin | 00:10:00 | ||
| The Ghent Altarpiece | 00:14:00 | ||
| Jan Van Eyck’s secular paintings | 00:08:00 | ||
| The Blossoming of Holiness: From Da Vinci to Titian | |||
| The beauty of dawn during Renaissance | 00:10:00 | ||
| The reproducer of nature: Da Vinci | 00:09:00 | ||
| The immortal work Mona Lisa | 00:13:00 | ||
| The classicism of Raphael | 00:10:00 | ||
| The Sistine Chapel ceiling | 00:07:00 | ||
| The mythology and sculpture of Moses | 00:05:00 | ||
| Michelangelo’s struggle between life and death | 00:08:00 | ||
| The perceptual Titian and Venice | 00:08:00 | ||
| Nature and Human Nature: Rubens, Poussin and Rembrandt | |||
| Rubens and the Baroque Art | 00:09:00 | ||
| Poussin and his classical spirit | 00:06:00 | ||
| Rembrandt and his aptitude of wielding light and shadow | 00:05:00 | ||
| Rembrandt in his self-portrait | 00:06:00 | ||
| Vermeer and his painting | 00:04:00 | ||
| Verve and Character: From Wang Wei to Ni Zan | |||
| Landscape painting from the Five Dynasties period to the Northern Song Dynasty | 00:12:00 | ||
| Creating painting out of poetry by Emperor Huizong of Song | 00:04:00 | ||
| Viewing the small through the large | 00:07:00 | ||
| Combining the tangible with the intangible | 00:06:00 | ||
| The atmosphere of freedom, detachedness and ease of landscape painting | 00:05:00 | ||
| Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains | 00:11:00 | ||
| Friendliness in Ni Zan’s painting | 00:07:00 | ||
| A pristine and boundless world in Ni Zan’s painting | 00:02:00 | ||
| Personality and Love for Ridicule: Xu Wei the Lunatic | |||
| The origin and expression of the madman culture | 00:13:00 | ||
| The madman Li Zhi | 00:15:00 | ||
| Xu Wei: from gifted scholar to mad man | 00:09:00 | ||
| The aesthetic ideology of Xu Wei | 00:12:00 | ||
| Xu Wei’s notions and theories on painting practise | 00:07:00 | ||
| Miscellaneous Plants and Flowers | 00:08:00 | ||
| Drunkenness in Xu Wei’s art | 00:08:00 | ||
| The Transition of Classicism: From David to Courbet | |||
| Winckelmann | 00:14:00 | ||
| Neoclassical master: David | 00:06:00 | ||
| The Death of Marat | 00:04:00 | ||
| The Intervention of the Sabine Women | 00:07:00 | ||
| The aestheticism works by Ingres | 00:11:00 | ||
| The contrast between photography and paintings | 00:11:00 | ||
| Courbet and realism | 00:06:00 | ||
| The Philosophy and Painting of Romanticism | |||
| Rousseau and emotionalism | 00:07:00 | ||
| Kant’s view about the beautiful and the sublime | 00:06:00 | ||
| Goethe, from Werther to Faust | 00:08:00 | ||
| Byron, romantic hero | 00:05:00 | ||
| The painting laws of Romanticism | 00:04:00 | ||
| John Constable | 00:06:00 | ||
| The world of Turner | 00:05:00 | ||
| Experience and Contemplation: Van Gogh and Cézanne | |||
| Western modernism and Rodin | 00:06:00 | ||
| 单元 | 00:05:00 | ||
| Painting conception of Manet | 00:04:00 | ||
| Impressionism of Monet | 00:05:00 | ||
| Cezanne：the Father of the art of modernism | 00:12:00 | ||
| Van Gogh：painting and life | 00:10:00 | ||
| The art value of Van Gogh | 00:05:00 | ||
| Boundless Art: From Marcel Duchamp to Andy Warhol | |||
| art modernism | 00:06:00 | ||
| porcelain urinal of Marcel Duchamp | 00:04:00 | ||
| This is not a pipe | 00:05:00 | ||
| The great innovation artist: Picasso | 00:07:00 | ||
| the infinity of art | 00:06:00 | ||
| the art after Andy Warhol | 00:05:00 | ||
| Assessment | |||
| Submit Your Assignment | 00:00:00 | ||
| Certification | 00:00:00 | ||
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