Modern Catalan Art
Code: 100532 ECTS Credits: 6| Degree | Type | Year | Semester |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2500239 Art History | OT | 3 | 2 |
| 2500239 Art History | OT | 4 | 2 |
Contact
- Name:
- Jaime Vidal Oliveras
- Email:
- jaime.vidal@uab.cat
Teaching groups languages
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Teachers
- David Gutierrez Torres
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites beyond the usual third-grade degree.
Objectives and Contextualisation
The objective of the course is to provide an in-depth exploration of contemporary Catalan art.
To accomplish this, we will undertake a two-fold approach. Firstly, we will analyze the primary common characteristics among current artists, investigating their influences, discursive origins, and relationships with other artists within movements such as Dau al Set and the Catalan conceptual movement. Secondly, we will examine the construction of an institutional framework for art in Catalonia, considering the development of museums, artistic institutions, art centers, and exhibitions.
The ultimate aim is for students to develop familiarity with the local artistic production and acquire the ability to recognize and situate it within the broader context of global contemporary art.
Competences
- Art History
- Critically analysing from the acquired knowledge a work of art in its many facets: formal values, iconographic significance, artistic techniques and procedures, elaboration process and reception mechanisms.
- Interpreting a work of art in the context in which it was developed and relating it with other forms of cultural expression.
- Recognising the evolution of the artistic imagery from the antiquity to the contemporary visual culture.
- Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
- Students must develop the necessary learning skills in order to undertake further training with a high degree of autonomy.
Learning Outcomes
- Accurately defining and explaining an artistic object with the specific language of art criticism.
- Analysing ideas about an artistic phenomenon in a given cultural context.
- Analysing the creators of an artistic phenomenon in a specific cultural context.
- Analysing the recipients of an artistic phenomenon in a specific cultural context.
- Applying the iconographic knowledge to the reading of artistic imagery.
- Autonomously searching, selecting and processing information both from structured sources (databases, bibliographies, specialized magazines) and from across the network.
- Connecting an artistic imagery with other cultural phenomena within its period.
- Coordinating working teams, developing conflict resolution and decision making abilities.
- Distinguishing the elaboration techniques and processes of an artistic object.
- Examining an artistic imagery and distinguishing its formal, iconographic and symbolic values.
- Explaining the reception mechanisms of a work of art.
- Identifying the artistic imagery, placing it into its cultural context.
- Reconstructing the artistic outlook of a particular cultural context.
Content
The course will follow an inductive process based on student research. These will focus on the study of current contemporary art and Catalan art institutions. From this investigation in the present, the themes and the historical journey that has marked contemporary Catalan art will be deduced:
- The avant-garde as a problem and the persistence of noucentisme in Catalan culture (the incidents of Plensa, the Catalan conceptual and Picabia in Barcelona)
- Catalan emigrant artistic production (from Picasso or Miró, through conceptual artists, to the present day)
- The change of world capital of art and Serge Guilbaut in relation to Informalism and the opening to globalization in the nineties
- The explosion of the art system in the nineties and the construction of museums and art centers.
- The swing of Catalan art: from conceptual purity to punk traces
- Conceptual art, appropriationism and new media: the seventies reflected in the nineties.
- The Barcelona question: Barcelona and centralism; Barcelona vs. Madrid; Barcelona in the mirror of London.
Methodology
The course will be developed mainly in the form of a seminar and the analysis of case studies that allow for historical insights. To do this, they will be attentive to current exhibitions in the territory and the possibilities they offer to be contextualized within the framework of the subject.
Annotation: Within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.
Activities
| Title | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Type: Directed | |||
| master classes | 40 | 1.6 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 5, 6, 8, 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 7 |
| Type: Supervised | |||
| Completion of a work and comments on works and texts of Catalan Art | 40 | 1.6 | 3, 2, 6 |
| Type: Autonomous | |||
| Preparation of works and comments on works and texts of Catalan Art | 70 | 2.8 |
Assessment
It is essential to attend and collaborate in class dynamics (debates, presentations and possible visits).
The evaluation will take into account this participation and the presentation of several works: one in a research group of an institution, group, magazine or specific initiative; another individual that involves research on an agent (artist, critic, curator, magazine...) of the context; and a final work that must incorporate a real practical realization/presentation part.
On carrying out each evaluation activity, lecturers will inform students (on Moodle) of the procedures to be followed for reviewing all grades awarded, and the date on which such a review will take place.
Simple assessment:
Preparation of three research papers that imply the relationship of current practices of art with its genealogy:
1. From the analysis of an artistic institution, group, magazine or initiative. 30%
2. From the analysis of an agent (critical artist, curator, magazine...) 30%
3. From an ongoing exhibition in the form of an art critic or publishable article. 40%
Recovery
To participate in the recovery process, you must have obtained a final median grade of 3.5 and you must have been previously evaluated in a set of activities, the weight of which is equivalent to a minimum of 2/3 of the total grade. (CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT) or free all scheduled tests (SINGLE ASSESSMENT).
The same recovery system will be applied as for the continuous evaluation.
Assessment Activities
| Title | Weighting | Hours | ECTS | Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Active participation in discussions and research done in class | 20% | 0 | 0 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 1, 10, 11, 13, 7 |
| Group research work | 25% | 0 | 0 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 6, 8, 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 7 |
| Practical proposal elaborated from the research processes in class | 30% | 0 | 0 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 5, 6, 8, 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 7 |
| Presentation of an individual investigation | 25% | 0 | 0 | 3, 4, 2, 12, 5, 6, 1, 9, 10, 11, 13, 7 |
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Software
No aplicable.