Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 15 : Post-Impressionism | Spring 2015

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Post-Impressionism is a predominantly French art movement that developed roughly between 1886 and 1905; from the last Impressionist exhibition to the birth of Fauvism. Post-Impressionism emerged as a reaction against Impressionists’ concern for the naturalistic depiction of light and color. Due to its broad emphasis on abstract qualities or symbolic content, Post-Impressionism encompasses Neo-Impressionism, Symbolism, […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 14 : Neo-Impressionism | Spring 2015

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Neo-Impressionism (or Pointillism or Divisionism) is an art movement founded by Georges Seurat. Followers of Neo-Impressionism, in particular, were drawn to modern urban scenes as well as landscapes and seashores. Science-based interpretation of lines and colors influenced Neo-Impressionists’ characterization of their own contemporary art. The Pointillist technique is often mentioned in this context, because it […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 13 : Impressionism | Spring 2015

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Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists. It was the first movement of modern art. Their independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s, in spite of harsh opposition from the conventional art community in France. The name of the style derives from the title […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 12 : Romanticism & Realism | Spring 2015

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Romanticism was a movement that was at its peak in the second half of the eighteenth century. It went against all logical and rational approaches and ventured into worlds unknown, that were perfect, surreal, and beautiful. There was hardly any room for imperfection, and these characteristics became a part of the romantic movement only in […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 11 : Rococo & Neo-Classicism | SP ’15

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Rococo (1700-1760), or “Late Baroque”, is a 18th-century artistic movement and style, affecting many aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, furniture design, decoration, literature, music, and theater. It developed in the early 18th century in Paris, France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry, and strict regulations of the Baroque, especially […]

Payment Schedule About Summer Study Abroad Trip to China – 2015

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Dear students: The third payment of study abroad fee is due by March 10th. You can make your payment online through your Truview account in the Student Account Suite, with the “Future Due” option for May Interim 2015, mail a check, or make payment at the cashier window. Below is the list of payments and […]

CHN-310 : Study Abroad – China 2015 / Additional Information

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Photo credit: Gangfeng Wang Dear students: Truman Study Abroad Office and Center for International Education offer students a study abroad opportunity, plus an internship for Viscomm students, in summer of 2015 in China. It is a six-week summer study program in Beijing, Xian, and Shanghai, China. Professor Julie Minn and I will lead the team […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 10 : The Art of Baroque | Spring 2015

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Source Text: Wikipedia & Metropolitan Museum of Art Source Image: Internet The Baroque is often thought of as a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail to produce drama, tension, exuberance, and grandeur in sculpture, painting, architecture, literature, dance, and music. The style began around 1600 in Rome, Italy and […]

Art-203 Demo : How to prepare an effective PowerPoint presentation?

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QwC1cl0Wa4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqI149PD4v4 For presenting a PowerPoint slideshow, you need make sure to work your every image on a right format and a right size. Save your PowerPoint Slide images as jpg, gif, or png. Save every slideshow image to 150 dpi. Insert images that fill the slide, the image size (in pixels) should be equal […]

Art-203 / Intro to the Visual Arts – 9 : The Art of Johannes Vermeer

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Source image, text, and video: Wiki and Youtube Johannes Vermeer (1632 – 1675) was a Dutch painter who specialized in domestic interior scenes of middle-class life. Vermeer was a moderately successful provincial genre painter in his lifetime. He seems never to have been particularly wealthy, leaving his wife and children in debt at his death, […]