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Updated May 16:

January 2012


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Spring 2012 Semester instruction begins

 

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Syllabus
Introduction Florence
Classical Greece


 

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Classical  Rome
Catholicism
Italian Gothic and Early Renaissance
 

 

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Sunday, January 29, 2012 Star Struck Theatre: TBD 2:00pm Lori Stokes Musical Theatre  Jackson

GALLERY RESERVED FOR STARSTRUCK THEATRE

JANUARY 8th to JANUARY 29th
 

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Starter Kit

February 2012


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NO CLASS TODAY
Renovated Reputations 
RECEPTION AT SANTA CLARA 5-7PM

You are welcome to attend but it is not required

The art bldg at Santa Clara University does not have a physical street address.  It is located on the Alameda, at the intersection of Bellomy St, Park Ave, and the Alameda.  If you look on google maps, the building name is visible there.

 

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Thomas Aquinas
Giotto and the Arena Chapel
Cimabue, Giotto at Assisi
Iconography Martini, Duccio & Lorenzetti 		8

 

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Perspectives: Linear
Early Renaissance Painting in the The North
Perspective in the North and South: Masaccio and Van Eyck
Mantegna's Camera degli Sposi 		10
Friday, February 10, 2012 Barry 8:00pm  Drama/Lecture  Jackson		 11
Saturday, February 11, 2012 Paul Posniack 8:00pm Lisa Sapenkopf Piano  Jackson
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Alberti and Michelozzo
Gothic to Renaissance Architecture
Painting and City Planning 		15

 

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Catch up or get ahead day

 

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PRESIDENT'S DAY
NO CLASSES		 18

 
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PRESIDENT'S DAY
NO CLASSES		 21
TEST #1
Study Guide Test #1
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Sculpture: Ghiberti
Sculpture: Donatello
Leonardo 		24

 

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Saturday, February 25, 2012 Fremont Symphony 8:00pm Sue Rose Music  Jackson

REQUIRED
RECEPTION RENOVATED REPUTATIONS at Ohlone in the Smith Center's Art Gallery at Ohlone 6PM-8PM
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Lecture topic: (Please be prepared to compare and contrast Christine de Pizan's writings with Castiliogne's)

Women in the Renaissance
The Vatican
Sistine Chapel
School of Athens
Last Judgment

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March 2012


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Mannerism, Painting
San Lorenzo
Mannerism, Architecture
Printmaking
Bosch 		2
NEA Grant 8:00pm Walt B Dance  Jackson		 3
NEA Grant 8:00pm Walt B Dance  Jackson
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NEA Grant 8:00pm Walt B Dance  Jackson		 5

 

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Baroque Vatican
Baroque & Bernini 		7
Wednesday, March 07, 2012 Student Rep Bill I 8:00pm Tom Blank Drama  NUMMI		 8
Carracci
Caravaggio
Gentileschi
Cotan
Velasquez
Rembrandt and Rubens
Vermeer
STUDY GUIDE #2 ENDS HERE.  YOU WILL BE TESTED ON THE NEXT EXAM TO HERE. 		9
Student Rep Bill I 8:00pm Tom Blank Drama  NUMMI

Friday, March 09, 2012 Mission Peak Brass Band 8:00pm Tony Clements Music  Jackson 		 10

 
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Theatre Department has Gallery this week 

Sunday, March 11, 2012 Ohlone Wind Orchestra 2:00pm 
5:00pm
Tony Clements Music  Jackson		 12

 

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Versailles
Rococo
Chardin & Greuze
Hogarth
Hogarth:  "Rake's Progress"
Hogarth:  "Harlot's Progress" 		14

 

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Chinoiserie
Chinese Art 1300-1800
  • Chinoiserie
  • Chinese Art 1300-1800
  • Read Stokstad Later Asian Art
  • Read Mencher, Liaisons 147-156  The Treatise and Didactic Text in Chinese Culture
  • Read Mencher, Liaisons 265-276 Excerpts from Weird Science and Romantic Notions
  • "Imaginary Orient" by Linda Nochlin on Reserve in the Library
  • "Imaginary Orient" by Linda Nochlin (also available on Reserve in the Library)
  • Read Mencher, Liaisons 279-288The Imaginary and not so Imaginary Orients
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High School Theatre Festival
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High School Theatre Festival		 19
SPRING BREAK  BEGINS

 High School Theatre Festival Ends

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SPRING BREAK  ENDS		 26
Install Student Show This Week		 27
TEST #2

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The Social Contract
History & Neoclassic Painting
Female Painters
Neoclassic Holdouts and the Romantics
Romanticism


 

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April 2012


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Daumier, Courbet, Manet
Paris
Photography
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Printmaking and Japonism 		4
Please attend if you can!
Art Gallery

Student Show
Awards 6pm
Reception 7pm

 

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Degas and Renior
Cassatt and Degas
Monet
Sculpture Rodin
Architecture
19th C America 		6

 

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Cezanne and Seurat
Van Gogh and Gaugin


 

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Expressionism and Symbolism 
Les Fauves
Der Blaue Reiter
Picasso 		13

 

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NOT REQUIRED BUT WILL BE COUNTED AS EXTRA CREDIT

Field Trip to Stanford's Art Museum Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
Please be on the front steps at 11:00am sharp
 
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Africa Nok and Ife  		 18

 

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Suprematism
Brancusi
Ashcan School
Hopper 		20
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Bauhaus
De Stijl
Le Corbusier
Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water 		25 26
TEST #3
 

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Annual Dance Recital 8:00pm Janel T-B Dance  Jackson		 27
Annual Dance Recital 8:00pm Janel T-B Dance  Jackson		 28
REQUIRED
Santa Clara Show Reception
6-8 PM
Smith Center Art Gallery on Ohlone Campus

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Optional
Annual Dance Recital 8:00pm Janel T-B Dance  Jackson
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May 2012


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Dada
Surrealism 		2

 

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Abstract Expressionism
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Performance Art
Pop Art
Photorealism
http://www.aliciastrose.com/f-process.html
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Earth Works
Bay Area
Female Artists of the 70's-80's		 11
FINALS

Commencement (Graduation) Ceremony
 

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FINALS

 

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FINAL EXAM is 2:30
 
  • STUDY GUIDE TEST#4 (Remember the final is cumulative and you are responsible for ALL STUDY GUIDES)
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