ENS227 Nature and Landscape in Art

Faculty of Social Studies
Autumn 2011
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 6 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
Teacher(s)
doc. Mgr. Karel Stibral, Ph.D. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
doc. Mgr. Bohuslav Binka, Ph.D.
Department of Environmental Studies – Faculty of Social Studies
Contact Person: Dana Pantůčková
Timetable
Wed 16:00–17:40 U35
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
The capacity limit for the course is 20 student(s).
Current registration and enrolment status: enrolled: 0/20, only registered: 0/20, only registered with preference (fields directly associated with the programme): 0/20
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 24 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
Main objectives can be summarized: Natural objects (animals, plants) and landscape as objects of visual art in European culture since upper paleolithic era until 20th century art. Student will learn the history of development of figure of natural objects in the European culture and should be able to explain haw can use natural objects in art as a document of changing attitude towards nature. Student should be able to understand and analyse the basic facts of history of art and perception of nature with the accent on the environmental aspects of human attitude towards nature.
Syllabus
  • 1. Introduction. Basics questions and concepts. Natural objects in paleolithic era. 2. Animal, plant and attitude toward landscape in old Egypt and Mesopotamia. Religion, early agriculture and natural objects. 3. Nature and art of Minoan and Mycenaean civilizations, Classical and Hellenistic Greece, Roman empire. Landcape as a new object of art. 4. Middle Ages - nature as a book of signes. Medieval symbolicism. 5. Renaissance and new attitude towards nature. First landscape paintings (Lorenzetti, Dürer, Leonardo) and early aesthetic appreciation of landscape. Visual art as a science (Leonardo, Dürer) and science as basis of the new perception of nature in art. The concept of landscape and its roots in Renaissance art. 6. 17th century painting - lanscape painting as a specific genre. Baroque (Rubens) and classical art (Claude Lorrain, Poussin) and landscape in the 17th century. The Dutch art and landscape. The still life as document of a new attitude towards individual natural objects. Czech landcsape and baroque painting, architecture and gardens. 7. Painting and garden architecture in the 18th century (mainly in France and Brtitain). Garden design and symbolic attitude towards nature. 8. Romanticism - landscape as a human soul. Romantisism and new approach towards landscape and nature. 9. Nature in the art of the second half of the 19th century - Realism, Barbizon school, Impressionism, "Stimmungslandschaft", Art noveau. Czech landscape painting of the 19th century as a visual pattern of the Czech landscape. 10. 20th century art – Nature and natural objects in the Avant-garde art. Nature in photography. 11. Natural objects in the art of the second half of the 20th century: Land art (Earth art), body art, conceptual art etc. Bio art, biotech art. Environmental aspects in art - ecoart and land art. 12. Natural objects and landscape in the Far east art: China, Korea, Japan.
Literature
  • Clark, Kenneth. Landscape into Art. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books 1961,1966 etc.
  • ANDREWS, Malcolm. Landscape and Western art. 1st pub. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999, vii, 248. ISBN 9780192842336. info
  • GOMBRICH, E. H. Příběh umění. 1. vyd. Praha: Argo, 1995, 683 s. ISBN 80-204-0685-9. info
  • STIBRAL, Karel. Proč je příroda krásná? Estetické vnímání přírody v novověku (Why is Nature Beautiful? The Aesthetic Perception of Nature in the Modern Era). Praha: Dokořán, 2005, 202 pp. Bod. ISBN 80-7363-008-7. info
  • STIBRAL, Karel. Příroda jako památka (Nature as monument). EkoList. Praha: BEZK, 2006, vol. 11, No 12, p. 14-17. ISSN 1211-5436. info
Assessment methods
Standard lectures with addition of excursion and reading. The final exam has two parts: written test and written homework based on individual choice of artist (group of artists, era) connected with nature, 5-7 pages. E.g.: Claude Monet and nature, Czech landscape painting of the 19th century and Vysočina region. This text must be finished till 10. 12. 2011
Language of instruction
Czech
Follow-Up Courses
Further Comments
Study Materials
The course is taught once in two years.
The course is also listed under the following terms Autumn 2008.
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