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Liberal Arts & Social Sciences
2008 Spring Semester - Course Description
Architecture and Painting in Contemporary Barcelona: Gaudí, Picasso, Dalí and Miró
CEA Partner Institution: CEA GlobalCampus: Barcelona
Location: Barcelona, SpainPrimary Subject Area: Art History
Other Subject Area(s): Architecture
Level(s): 400
UNH Course Code: ARH460
Instruction in: English
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
Description
This course will focus on some of the most influential and important artists of all the times who also had a strong relationship with Barcelona, because they were Catalans or spend time in the city. The Modernist examples of Architecture produced by Gaudí have given a special personality to the city of Barcelona. Students will study and analyze these architectural representations of Gaudi's artistic understanding with the context of the city of Barcelona and also within the broader context of Modernism in Europe and the world. The pictorial expressions in the works of Picasso, Dalí and Miró will be studied in detail for students to grasp their artistic understanding of the world during the different pictorial periods covered such us surrealism, cubism and the different personal interpretations that these three international known painters made of them. Students will pay visits to architectural works of Gaudí and the Picasso and Miró museums in Bacelona. Critical thinking is essential for this course.
Field Trips
- Sagrada Familia: a visit to one of Barcelona's top landmarks and one of Gaudí's most important works.
- Casa Milà (La Pedrera): a visit to one of Gaudí's secular masterpieces, completed in 1912, with its eccentric roof terrace and views over Barcelona.
- Modernist Route 1: a visit to some of the city's most outstanding modernist buildings, including "Mansana" de la Discòrdia -Batlló House, Amatller House, Lleó Morera House-, Editorial Muntaner y Simón and Palau de la Música Catalana.
- Modernist Route 2: a visit to some of the city's most outstanding modernist buildings, including Hospital de Sant Pau, Palau Baró de Quadras, Casa de les Punxes, Casa Comalat.
- Park Güell: a visit to one of Gaudí's best loved contributions to the city, contrasting natural forms with his trademark tile work.
- Picasso Museum: a visit to a collection that traces the development of one of the 20th century's great artists.
- Fundació Miró: a visit to one of the best gallery spaces in the world, with a collection of more than 11,000 pieces, including 200 paintings by this prolific Catalan artist.
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