This curricular unit aims to provide students with a broad, deep and critical knowledge about the evolution of artistic creation from the second half of the nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth century, a defining moment of rupture with the dominant models of art. At the end of the curricular unit, students should be able to:

a) Understand the transition, in the history of the visual arts, to modern art, and be able to contextualize it social and politically.
b) Identify the main historical movements from the late nineteenth to the first half of the twentieth centuries.
c) Master the concepts of modernism, modernity and avant-garde.
d) Mastering, conceptually, the following movements: realism, impressionism, cubism, expressionism, futurism, constructivism, dada, surrealism and abstract expressionism.
e) Identify some formal and aesthetic characteristics of the artistic practices produced in this period;
f) Develop a historical and visual reasoning about the visual arts of this period.