Mahan Mahinrousta
has successfully completed an online offering of
Charting the Avant Garde: From Romanticism to Utopic Abstraction
Taught by
Lisa Wainwright
Course Run Dates: March 30, 2017 —
Issued: November 1, 2022

Learning Outcomes

Cultural and Political Influences

- Ability to understand the cultural and political contexts of specific art movements.

- Understanding gender biases and the absence of women artists in the modern period.

- Understanding racial biases and the issue of primitivism in the modern period.

Vocabulary of Art

- Ability to articulate concepts of style in terms of describing form, color, line, light, materiality, and space.

- Ability to describe different techniques of painting, collage, photography etc.

Identification and Understanding of the Icons of Art History

- Ability to identify key artists and works in their respective time periods, movements and styles

- Ability to understand the chronological succession of art movements and why.

- Understanding the basic biographies of the major figures in the modern and postmodern era.