AR3019 Art Appreciation Syllabus:

AR3019 Art Appreciation Syllabus – Anna University Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES

 To introduce art as a fundamental human activity, its characteristics and ways in which it can be understood. To introduce the vocabulary of art and to enable the appreciation of art.
 To understand different productions of art as manifestations within particular contexts.

UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO ART

Definition of art, need for art, role of art. Art, reality, perception, representation. Appreciating art in terms of form (means, types, tools and techniques, vocabulary of art – principles and elements), content (story conveyed, meaning) and context ( the situation and time of production of art).

UNIT II CHARACTERISTICS AND APPRECIATION OF ART – PREHISTORY TO MODERN

Important characteristics of historic art and their appreciation. Prehistoric Art across the world. including Indian art. Egyptian and Mesopotamian art. Greek and Roman art. Hindu, Buddhist and Jain art. Medieval art. , Mughal and Rajput miniature art. Renaissance and Baroque art. Neoclassicism. Romanticism. Realism. Art in India during colonial period. Impressionism. Post Impressionism. Fauvism. Expressionism. Birth of modern art. Abstract/ Non-Objective art. Cubism. Dadaism. Surrealism. Futurism. Constructivism. Suprematism. De Stijl. Abstract Expressionism. Collage Art. Modern Indian art.

UNIT III CHARACTERISTICS AND APPRECIATION OF ART – POSTMODERN

Postmodernism in Art. Pop art. Op art. Outline of new forms and media in art from mid 20th century.

UNIT IV CHARACTERISTICS AND APPRECIATION OF ART – CONTEMPORARY

Installation art. Environmental Art. Virtual Reality and Art. Performance Art.

OUTCOME

 An understanding and appreciation of art as basic and varied human creation related to cognition and experience.
 Awareness of important art productions in the West and India.
 Sensitivity towards collective and individual cultural productions as unique expressions of historical and geographic context.

TEXTBOOKS

1. Fred, S. Kleiner, ‘Gardener’s Art through Ages’, Wadsworth Publishing, 2012.
2. Bernard S. Myers, ‘Understanding the Arts’, Holt Rinehart and Winston Inc, 1964.
3. H.H. Arnason, ‘History of Modern Art’, Thames and Hudson, 1977.
4. Partha Mitter, ‘Indian Art’, Oxford University Press, 2001.
5. Edith Tomory, ‘A History of Fine Arts in India and the West’, Orient Blackswan, 1989.

REFERENCES

1. Peter and Linda Murray, ‘The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists’, Penguin, 1989.
2. E.H. Gombrich, ‘The Story of Art’, Phaidon, 2002.
3. E.H. Gombrich, ‘Art and Illusion’, Phaidon, 2002.
4. ‘Indian Art since the early 1940s- A Search for Identity’, Artists Handicrafts Association of Cholamandal Artists Village, Madras,1974.
5. A.K.Coomaraswamy, Fundamentals of Indian Art, Historical Research Documentation Programme, Jaipur, 1985.