Welcome to Art 10000!
Course Description
This course offers a dynamic introduction to the visual arts of the world and the discipline of art history by taking up an object-based approach organized around thematic questions. Arranged across three broad categories—space, shape, and surface—this course will consider,
Space: How have humans across time and cultures conceptualized space? How have they marked and organized it?
Shape: What kinds of 3-dimensional shapes have been explored by artists, and through which materials?
Surface: What are the different kinds of things that have been done on 2-dimensional surfaces and how do they relate to their times, places, and makers?
Students will become familiar with art objects across each of these categories while developing art historical skills like close looking, visual analysis, and critical thinking. Students will also learn to become independent learners and how to follow their own curiosity. Students will learn new habits of looking and seeing not only in this class, but in their everyday lives.
Learning Objectives
- Close looking and visual analysis
- Develop an art historical vocabulary
- An introduction to museum pedagogy
- Articulating your skills and knowledge for a job application
- Developing an initial research plan
- Critical thinking
- Learning what it means to think with an object or a text rather than about it
- Thematic thinking and an introduction to various methodologies
- Exposure to disciplinary ideas
- Empowering curiosity
Learn more about this object on the MET’s website by clicking on the image.
