This curricular unit aims to provide students with a broad, deep and critical knowledge about the evolution of artistic creation in the second half of the nineteenth and early 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.

b) Identify the main historical movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

c) Master, conceptually, the following movements: Cubism, expressionism, futurism, constructivism, dada, surrealism.

d) Develop a historical and visual reasoning about the visual arts.