This course focuses on the most important movements, artistic expressions and its representatives of the art history of Latin America and Spain. From the Pre-Columbian art of the Mayas, Aztecs and Incas, to the
syncretism of Post-colonial Latin American art, the Mexican Muralism and
the self-reconstruction portraits of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo to the
Chicano Art in the U.S.A. From the Medieval paintings of religious Spain,
to the criticism of the Spanish nobility by Diego Velazquez, the Spanish
Civil War of "Guernica" by Pablo Picasso, to the Surrealism of Salvador
Dalí and Antonio Gaudi. The students will visit the St. Louis and the
Kemper Art Museums. Prereq: Span 303 or 308E. In Spanish.
Course Attributes: EN H; BU IS; AS HUM; AS LCD; FA HUM; AR HUM
