- Provide the recognition and understanding of the main cores of European artistic production, since their origins until today;
- Analyze historically the different artistic expressions, taking into account the relationship between the ideas and forms, the integration of the artistic element in its context of production and in their divulgation circuits;
- Understand the language codes of visual arts as means of achieving what we want to express and communicate.

1 – Introduction: the Art Before and After Art
1.1 – Approximations to the Concept of Art
1.2 – The Historical Roots of Art
2 – Erwin Panofsky: A Proposal for Analysis of Images
2.1 – Renaissance Art: New Visions of the Human and the World
3 – 19th Century: Ruptures and Innovations
3.1 – Historical, Social Context and Artistic Backgrounds
3.2 – Impressionism: The Movement of Rejected
3.3 – Neo-Impressionism and Post-Impressionism: New Aesthetic Orientations
4 – 20th Century: The Artistic Vanguard
4.1 – Cubism
4.2 – Fauvism
4.3 – Futurism
4.4 – Dadaism

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