ART 115: Art of The Western World: Ancient Through Medieval

This course is a survey of visual art from the ancient era to the medieval with a focus on western traditions. We will study developments in art from the Paleolithic era to the Gothic era with attention devoted to the significant works of art made within this time frame. Students will learn the expressive and communicative language of aesthetic form (i.e. line, shape, color) and its integral relationship to content within a work of art. The cultural use of artistic materials and how artists responded to their world creating visual art will be explored. The course includes lecture, text, and digital materials applications. The course will be sequenced with Art of the Western World: Renaissance through the Twentieth Century.