Paris, France - Course Descriptions - History of Art in France

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Lectures 1 to 7: A link with the modern art will be mentioned, 1850-1920's period particularly; some references of the exceptional series of exhibitions below will also be included:

• Marmottan-Monet museum, From De Van Dogen to Otto Dix, Von der Heydt de Wuppertal Master Pieces, German wildcats and expressionists
• Opera de Paris, Palais Garnier, Russian Ballets
• Orsay Museum :

1. Exhibiton at the Grand Palais, Renoir during the XXth century
2. New Art Revival

1st class

• Cézanne (1839- 1906): "The Louvre is the book into which we learn to read".
• Introduction: the importance of the Louvre, 1793, 1855, modern art paths/ways
• Mentioning of the Middle Ages, roman period, introduction, gothic period, introduction

2nd class

• Roman art: Notre-Dame-la-Grande, Poitiers, Fontevraud abbeys
• Gothic period : Notre- Dame de Paris, the Sainte-Chapelle, radiant gothic, Marmottan museum, Wildenstein collection, illuminations, 13th – 14th century, Chartres
• Introduction to the Renaissance period

3rd class

• Jean & François Clouet, portraits of the Renaissance
• Fontainebleau school (middle of the XVIth century)
• Introduction to the French art

• 17th century, following: Nicolas Poussin, Claude Gellée aka the Lorrain, Georges de la Tour and the light, Charles le Brun
• Pierre Puget, the sculpture
• Introduction to the 18th French art

5th class

• 18th century, following: Watteau, theatre, music, dancing... Chardin, introduction to his still-life paintings. Chardin et Cézanne
• Greuze, moral paintings, lachrymose style (cf Diderot), Fragonard, Hubert Robert (Petit Trianon parc, Versailles)
• Introduction to the David period, then beginning of romanticism

6th class

7th class

• Camille Corot; Introduction to French landscapes
• Theodore Rousseau, Millet, Millet and Van Gogh
• Introduction to realism and to great movements and artistic waves, 1850- 1914
• Courbet
• Beginnings of Impressionism, Edouard Manet (1832- 1883)

8th class

• Realism and to great movements and artistic waves, 1850- 1914, following
• Impressionism, following, group members
• From realism to symbolism, the color, introduction
• The "Belle Epoque"
• Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, symbolisl, Gauguin, Pont-Aven school, Marquises Islands

9th class

• Auguste Rodin (1840- 1917), Camille Claudel (1864-1943)
• Introduction to the following movements: New Art (Nancy school, lotus, waterlilies, orchids, dragonflies...); Nabis (Serusier, Vuillard, Bonnard...), beyond impressionism, neo-impressionism (Seurat, Signac...)
• The importance of Cézanne
• Van Gogh, beyond impressionism
• Toulouse- Lautrec and post-impressionism
• Introduction to Douanier-Rousseau's work

10th class

• Introduction to fauvism (Derain, Vlaminck...)
• Henry Matisse (1869- 1954), first part
• Matisse, beyond war, 1920-30s, dancing, Henry Matisse's the "second life"
• From Fauvism to cubism / toward cubism, Braque, Picasso
• Beginning of surrealism. Chirico, Duchamp, Picabia
• Toward abstraction: Robert and Sonia Delaunay

11th class 

• Exam, continuous assessment

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