This curricular unit aims to provide students with a broad, deep and critical knowledge about the evolution ofartistic creation fromthe second half of the nineteenth to the first half ofthetwentieth century, a defining moment of rupture withthe 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 fromthe late nineteenth to the first half of thetwentieth 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.