British Painting course syllabus
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WEEK |
TOPIC |
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1 |
Introduction |
| Changing status of painting in art. British visual art and the legacy of the Reformation | |
| 2 | Influential foreigners I: Hans Hobein |
| The Ambassadors (1533), Lady with a Squirrel (1526 - 1528), Portrait of Henry VIII | |
| 3 | Art in the Service of State Propaganda: Portraits of Elizabeth I |
| G. Gower: Queen Elizabeth I , The Armada Potrait (1588 - 89), I. Olivier: The Rainbow Portrait of Elizabeth I (1660) | |
| 4 | Influential Foreigners II: Anthony Van Dyck |
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Equestrian portraits of Charles I. Charles in Three Positions (1635 - 1636), Portrait of a Girl as Erminia Accompanied by Cupid (1638) |
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| 5 |
Satirical Painting: William Hogarth |
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A Harlot's Progress (1732), The Shrimp Girl (1740), Marriage a-la-Mode (1743) |
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| 6 |
Eighteen Century Painting: Thomas Gainsborough |
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Mr and Mrs Andrews (1750), Girl with a Book Seated in a Park (c. 1750), The Morning Walk (1785 - 86) |
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| 7 |
Science in Painting: Joseph Wright of Derby |
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An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump (1768), A Philosopher Giving That Lecture on the Orrery (1766) |
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| 8 | Landscape Painting: J. Constable |
| The Flatford Mill (1817), The Hey-Wain (1824), The Leaping Horse (1825), The White Horse (1819), Boat building Near Flatford Mill (1815) | |
| 9 |
British avantguard: J. M. W. Turner |
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Rain, Steam and Speed (1841), The Fighting Teméraire (1840) |
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| 10 | Victorian Painting II: Telling a Story |
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W. P. Frith: The Railway Station (1862), Augustus Egg: Past and Present (1858), The Travelling Companions (1862) |
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| 11 | British painting in the 1st half of the 20th century |
| Stanley Spencer: The Ressurection (1924 - 26), The Dustman (1934) | |
| 12 |
British painting in the 2nd half of the 20th century |
| David Hockney: Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy (1970), David Inshaw: The Badminton Game (1972 - 73) | |
| 13 | Final test |