0505-507 - Landscape Transformed

Institution:

Rochester Institute of Technology

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Description:

This course is an introduction to the landscape tradition and to the critical discourses which engaged with it. The contours of the landscape as genre and its relation to other pictorial modes are defined, beginning with the establishment of a landscape tradition in the 17th century. The landscape is traced from the French painter in Rome, Claude Lorrain, pursued through the Dutch Golden Age, followed through the English school established by Thomas Gainsborough and Sir Joshua Reynolds, turning to German and English romanticism succeeded by 19th century France and North American schools, and finally examining modernity in the paintings of Cezanne. The landscape figures prominently in the work of post-war artists and finds expression in different media. Part of the art history concentration and minor and the American artistic experience concentration. It may be taken as an elective. Class 4, Credit 4 (offered annually)

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.rit.edu/

Phone Number:

(585) 475-2411

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Quarter

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