1. Introduction to Learning Look at Modern Art and Picasso
- First thoughts
- Picasso
- Cézanne and African sculpture
- New science and thought
2. Modernism
- Cubism
- Picasso and photography
- A comparison between Picasso’s Cubist painting and the more traditional drawing of Ambroise Vollard
- Modernism and continuity
- Manet’s modernism
- Expressionism
- El Greco and modernism
- Picasso and Spanish Romanesque mural painting
- Picasso’s early painting and its Expressionist qualities
3. The Dynamic View
- Futurism
- Impressionism and Symbolism
- Music
- Sculpture
- Vorticism
4. Duchamp and conceptual art
- Duchamp
- The search for new meanings
- The ideas of Dada
- Duchamp and the readymade
- Duchamp’s legacy in conceptual art. Conceptual Art and the classical tradition
- Conceptual Art: Recent resonances
- Conceptual Art and the Old Masters
- Fantasy Art, Symbolism and dreams
5. Expressionism and Self Expression
- Reaching the spectator’s feelings
- Klee’s ideas about Expressionism and Modern Art
- Expressionism: A shift in emphasis before and after the First World War
- Confronting reality
- Abstract Expressionism
- Confronting memories
- Confronting oneself: Feminism
- Confronting oneself: Continued
- Sensation and shock
6. New Concepts of Composition
- Types of collage: papier collé, assemblage and combine
- Surrealist composition
- Peinture informelle
- Pop Art
- Minimalism
- Environmental composition
- Postmodernism in architecture
7. Space and Form
- Seeing form in terms of space
- More new interpretations of space and form
- The unity of art and design: The Utopian ideal
- Design for living
- Transparent space
- Modernism continued
- Postmodern space and form
- Free-flowing space and form
8. Light and Colour
- Expressing light in terms of colour
- Colour and movement
- Painting architecture
- Three-dimensional light design
- Experiencing real light. Sculpture and colour
- Light in architecture
9. Traditional subjects
- The human figure
- Religious subjects
- History painting
- Landscape
- Still life and portrait
- Genre subjects
- Reinterpreting architecture
10. Epilogue and conclusion
- Surrealism and film
- Film set design
- Fine art, film and advertising
- Photography and fine art
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