1. Art Appreciation
SYLLABUS
I. INTRODUCTION: “Nunca pinto sueños o pesadillas. Pinto mi propia realidad.”(Frida Kahlo)
Subject: Art Appreciation Department: Preparatoria Semester: 5th
Teacher: Jaime Hernández E-mail: el.profe.james.rulea@gmail.com
FB: Profe Jaime Hernández
Class days: W:13-14 Course start: August, 13 Course end: November 30
F: 12 – 14
Course objective:
Approach art as an esthetic and historical fact of Mexican society, expression of man and testimony of our
culture; throughout the different activities the students will analyze, identify, compare, value and respect
the different artistic testimonies of our country.
II. What we will see
First Partial: where do come from.
1. Prehispanic art.
- Art as an interpretation of Mexican cosmogony.
- Historical and artistic importance of codex: Borgia, Dresden, Ozuna, etc.
- Lecture of “Sons of la Malinche” by Octavio Paz. Images of Juan Correa.
2. Conquer and Colonial period.
- Renaissance and baroque in Europe.
- Spanish platerism and its Arab influence
- Syncretism and evolution: mixture of symbols in Mexico.
- Retable, ex votes, facades, Missions and other churches.
- Artists: JOSÉ VIVAR Y VALDERRAMA, JOSEFUS DE RIVERA I ARGAOMANIS, JUAN RODRÍGUEZ JUÁREZ,
MIGUEL CABRERA, BALTAZAR DE ECHAVE Y RIOJA
3. Modern Art.
- Independence: a new breakthrough society.
- Academy and neoclassicism in Mexico.
- Europe in Mexico. Impact of the Porfirism
- Revolution
- Artists: Manuel Tolsá, Hermenegildo Bustos, José Maria Velasco, José Guadalupe Posada, Dr. ATL, FÉLIX
PARRA, JOSÉ MARIA JARA, LEANDRO IZAGUIRRE, Saturnino Herrán, Abraham Ángel, Alberto Fuster, Ángel
Zárraga, Julio Ruelas
Second partial: After the revolution.
4. Muralism.
- Vasconcelos and the new Mexican nationalism.
- A very brief look into Russia.
- Orozco: Mexican expressionist,
- Siqueiros: the “Generalazo”
- Rivera: worker of the art.
- The “Taller de Gráfica Popular”
5. Independent artists and the Rupture.
- Against the pictoralism and the nationalism.
- Universalism of the art.
- José Luis Cuevas and his Cactus Curtain
- Artists: RUFINO TAMAYO, CARLOS MÉRIDA, LILIA CARRILLO, JOSÉ LUIS CUEVAS, FRIDA KAHLO, MARIA
IZQUIERDO, REMEDIOS VARO, LEONORA CARRINGTON, WOLFANG PALEEN, MATHIAS GOERITZ, LUIS
MARIO SCHNEIDER

2. 6. Contemporary art: the importance of the meaning.
- Artists: ALVAR CARRILLO GIL, GUNTHER GERZO, JUAN SORIANO, ALBERTO GIRONELLA, VICENTE ROJO,
MANUEL FELGUEREZ.
- Abyectism: ADUARDO ABAROA, FRANCO ACEVES, CARLOS AGUIRRE, ADRIANA CALATAYUD, MÓNICA
CASTILLO, GILBERTO CHEN, OWEENA FOGARTY, LILIAN HAUGEN, ALEJANDRO MONTOYA, ADOLFO PÉREZ
BUTRÓN,
- Instalacionism: GABRIEL OROZCO, TERESA MARGOLLES, XIMENA LABRA
- Art in Cd. Juárez.
Third Partial: the other arts.
7. Architecture.
- Brutalism
- New Urbanism
- Architects: JOSÉ VILLAGRÁN, O ‘GORMAN, BARRAGÁN, TEODORO GONZÁLEZ DE LEÓN.
8. Photo.
- Agustín Casasola
- Manuel Álvarez Bravo
- Importance of Tina Modotti, Edward Weston and Eisenstein in México.
- Gabriel Figueroa
9. Mexican Films.
- The beginnings.
- Golden Times
- Decadence.
- New Mexican Cinema
III. Grading
Activity Grade
Partial works:
Partial Work 5
Weekly reports 1 1st. Partial Sept 13 to 21
Movie Reports 1 2nd. Partial Oct. 18 to 26
Active and valuable class 2
participation 3rd. Partial Nov. 22 to 30
Activities 1 Final Dic 6
Total 10
What will the proyects be?
Partial work is an 8 pages essay (plus bibliography) on any subject Mexican art related.
Schoolar tours:
th
- Nov. 16 we will go to Frida Kahlo’s House (Casa Azul) and to the teather. Payment structure pending.