The top 12 Art History courses you need to take

1. Art History Renaissance to 20th Century

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The history of art from 1300 to the 20th CenturyThis is part two of a year-long college-level survey course in art history. This course covers art history from the European Renaissance around 1300 A. D. until the Mid 20th CenturyThis course is designed as a basic college-level survey of art history. I provide an online textbook as well as study guides and worksheets.  This course covers the language used to discuss art.  A complete overview of art, culture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the 1950s.  Each work is covered in depth, the works physical or formal properties are discussed such as technology used to create the work, color, medium, materials, composition, and shading. The symbolism of each work is discussed and how to interpret the interrelationship of symbols in a work of art.  This course is the actual content of a course I teach at an accredited college in California called Ohlone college. I designed this course as a series of clear, non-jargon laden video lectures and texts designed to help any student who wants to pass AP art history and or any beginning level art history survey course. This course now has professionally created captions in English on 98% of all the videos...

2. Art History Prehistory to the Renaissance

4.4

(735)

The history of art from Prehistory to the Early RenaissanceThis is part one of a year-long college-level survey course in art history. This course covers art history from the Prehistoric Era to the beginning of the European Renaissance. This course also covers ancient non western art in the Americas, Asia, and Africa. This course is designed as a basic college-level survey of art history. I provide an online textbook as well as study guides and worksheets.  This course covers the language used to discuss art.  A complete overview of art, culture, and architecture. Each work is covered in depth, the works physical or formal properties are discussed such as technology used to create the work, color, medium, materials, composition, and shading. The symbolism of each work is discussed and how to interpret the interrelationship of symbols in a work of art.  This course is the actual content of a course I taught at an accredited college in California called Ohlone college. I designed this course as a series of clear, non-jargon laden video lectures and texts designed to help any student who wants to pass AP art history and or any beginning level art history survey course. STUDENT PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES: To assimilate a working knowledge of the periods traditionally known as Ancient, Classical, Medieval, African, Asian (India, China, Japan, or Southeast Asia), MesoAmerica, etc. To develop an awareness of the monuments, techniques and media used during these periods. To discover the stylistic differences and modes of of expression peculiar to different cultures. To introduce to the student, significant examples of the visual arts pertinent to gaining a working knowledge of Ancient Art and Architecture. To prepare students for ensuing courses of Art History. To increase a student's sensitivity to the art of both the European and non-western cultures...

3. Ancient Egypt: Art, History, and Mystery

4.3

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This course explores the arc of Egyptian Art History from a fresh perspective that integrates traditional art history with some of the most controversial theories proposed by recent historians. Be prepared to learn about aspects of Egyptian art, religion, astronomy, and civilization which you won't find in any other survey!...

4. Art School Boot Camp: Expanding Your Style with Art History

Welcome to the next session of Art School Boot Camp! I’m Christine Fleming illustrator at Might Could Studios. In this installment of boot camp we’re focusing on all the artists who came before us and diving into Art History...

5. Ancient Aegean Art History: Roots of Civilization

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This course covers the art history of four ancient Aegean civilizations: Neolithic Helladic, Cycladic, Minoan, and Mycenaean. Already lost civilizations by the time that Homer wrote down the oldest Greek epics, the art and culture which we look at in this course are the distant ancestors of Greek civilization. If you want to learn more about the Minoan Snake Goddess, the Treasury of Atreus, or the Mask of Agamemnon, this is the course for you!...

6. From Caves to Cities: Prehistoric Art History

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Out of Africa and through Arabia to Europe is the trajectory which this  course follows in its survey of Prehistoric artwork. We will integrate very recent discoveries into a broad discussion of the development of images and, indeed, the earliest examples of what we label art. We'll be looking at iconic artworks like the Venus of Willdendorf as well as delving into less-explored corners of Art History and even Magical Philosophy in this original lecture...

7. Art History for Designers: Learn & Make a Collage

By combining theory and practice this class will teach you what all creators should know about art history...

8. The Etruscans in the Art History of Ancient Italy

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Before the Roman Empire, there was the Etruscan civilization on the Italian Peninsula which produced masterpieces of bronze, terra-cotta, sculpture, gold tablets, amazing rock-cut tombs, and long-gone wooden temples. "Etruria" is a region which today occupies parts of several regions of modern-day Italy: Lazio, Umbria, Tuscany, Emilia-Romagna and stretching as far north as the Veneto. We recall that in antiquity, Archaic Greek civilization had established colonial outposts in southern Italy and Sicily, while another ancient power, the Carthaginians, controlled Sardinia and the coast of north Africa. Like the Minoans and the Mycenaeans, the Etruscans didn't call themselves Etruscans. Ancient Greek writers called them versions of Tryrrhenoi, the same root word for the Tyrrhenian Sea on Italy's west coast. There are scattered Prehistoric sites around Italy, so the question of whether the Etruscan culture evolved from these indigenous people or whether it was imported from afar (a Near-Eastern origin) still remains a topic of debate. One tenacious theory which has survived from antiquity is that the Etruscans' point of origin was a Lydian kingdom of Asia Minor. The Etruscan language, for instance, has a completely different structure from Indo-European languages (and it has baffled historians from antiquity through the present). Nevertheless, there was considerable migration and mixing going-on throughout antiquity, and the most probable model is that the indigenous Italian peoples mixed with groups which landed and settled their own communities, keeping some original elements (like the language) while introducing customs and artistic conventions from the wider world of antiquity from the late Bronze Age through the Classical period. This lecture is an overview of the distinct Etruscan civilization's works in the larger context of the Mediterranean Basin and Near Eastern civilizations...

9. The History of Graphic Design - Influential Style & Art Movements

We are very lucky to be in our position and to be able to draw on such a wonderful rich design history. To understand the future of design we must understand the past. This class will review long-lasting design and art movements of the 20th and 21st century that helped to shape the graphic design industry today. Style and art movements happen rarely; sometimes just once in a generation and they depend heavily on events occurring in global politics culture and history. They are broad sweeping changes in how artists and designers view and interact with the world around them...

10. Gods and Kings: The Art History of Mesopotamia and Arabia

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In most Art History surveys, the earliest advanced civilizations which appeared in the region called Mesopotamia (between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in modern-day Iraq) produced significant artwork which would set the tone for the history of art, literature, legal theory, and many aspects still-relevent in modern society. However, while these powerful kingdoms are well-studied by every student in an Art History 101 class, at the same time in Arabia, an analogous history was unfolding which is almost totally unknown. This course presents original research which illustrates how the epic kingdoms of ancient Arabia possessed clear ties to the model of divine kingship we see in Akkadian, Neo-Sumerian, Babylonian, and Assyrian civilizations across the Persian Gulf. This course is a must for anyone who wants to learn about the art, architecture, and glories of the vanished, highly organized kingdoms of a much broader area of the Middle East than traditional art histories cover...

11. Art History: How to Use the Concepts of Impressionism in Your Designs

Discover the concepts and techniques of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism and apply them to your next illustrations or designs...