Course Title: Western Art      

Course Code: WEA-216

Credit Hours: 03

1. Identify the connection between the cultural movements of the Renaissance and the emergence of a naturalistic, idealized and humanized artistic style.
2. Identify works of art, their artistic style and their cultural context in the periods addressed. 
 3. Recognize iconographic themes and discuss them in their cultural contexts. 
 4. Utilize proper artistic vocabulary to describe and analyze works of art. 
5. Analyze and synthesize the basic goals of Modern art and explain how it differs in content and style from artistic styles that preceded it.
6. Analyze art in terms of knowledge acquired through class lecture and discussion, readings and comparison with other works of art. 

7. Summarize and evaluate the strength of various hypotheses presented in scholarly writings on Western art.
8. Synthesize ideas and knowledge into a written format, striving for clarity of expression, organization and relevance of arguments.

9. Observe the style, colour and design of fabrics painted by artists in different art movements.

READINGS

• Gardner's Art through the Ages.
• Murray, Chris, 2002, Key Writers on Art: From Antiquity to 19th Century, Rout ledge.
• Adams, Lausie Schneider (1994). A History of Western Art. Brown & Bench mask Publisher