A free, interactive art history course: artistic languages and iconography.
An art history course in two units: artistic languages — whether art is a language, the classification of the arts, reading architecture, sculpture and painting, design, photography and new media; and iconography — themes and genres, the iconographic method and its critics, attributes, Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian sources, and images of death, the body and the gaze.
2 Einheiten · 20 Lektionen · 271 Übungsfragen · 7 Sprachen · kostenlos im Web und auf Android
Diesen Kurs kostenlos startenArt History I teaches you to read works of art — what each medium can do and what an image means. Lessons are short and followed by practice questions with instant feedback, many of them asking you to identify, compare or interpret a work.
The first unit treats the arts as languages: architecture as structure and as something to read, sculpture, painting as a medium and a surface, design, photography and mass media, and new artistic languages. The second unit is iconography: themes, genres and hierarchy, the iconographic method and its critiques, attributes and identification, Greco-Roman and Judeo-Christian sources and their survival, and images of death, transcendence, the body and the gaze.
Jede Lektionserklärung in Art History I ist im Web kostenlos zu lesen. Übungsfragen und interaktive Szenen gibt es in der App.
Yes. Art History I is free on Tryals, on the web and on Android.
2 units, 20 lessons and 271 practice questions. It is self-paced: each lesson is short, followed by questions with instant feedback, and your progress is saved across devices.
English, Catalan, German, Spanish, French, Italian and Portuguese. You can switch language inside the app.
No. The course starts from how the arts are classified and what each medium does.
The study of what images depict and mean — identifying figures by their attributes and tracing themes back to their literary and religious sources. It has its own unit here.