experience france 2008

jeanne moore

bio

Jeanne Moore is an adjunct assistant professor of art history in the Art Department at Madonna University where she teaches art history, visual culture and humanities. She is also the Gallery Director for the Madonna Exhibition Gallery. Prior to her teaching career, she spent many years in the advertising business where she worked as an art director and art producer. After a dry spell in the ad business, she decided it was time to pursue her real passion, which was the study of the history of art. She received her masters degree in art history from Wayne State University where she concentrated her studies in late 19th and early 20th century art. Her area of specialty is early 20th century German art, but she has extensive study in late 19th century Modernism as well. Although she had a major career switch, her advertising background has been tremendously important to her study of visual culture, a more recent area of academic study in art history.


course description: 19th century art and the rise of modernism

This course offers a broad overview of the art of the 19th century through three important artistic movements: Romanticism, Realism and Modernism.During the 19th
century the social, political and economic conditions characteristic of the modern period in the west developed. The city of Paris became a center for art and the massive renovation of the city under Baron Haussmann provided new subject matter for artists. Our course will focus on the above artistic developments as they pertain to the modernization of Paris,as well as how they set the tone for the art of the 20th century.Through an intense course of study, trips to artists’ studios, such as that of Monet and Cezanne, as well as excursions to the city of Paris
and its surroundings, students will be able to gain insight as to the social, economic and political conditions that fostered artistic production and gave rise to a new way of looking at the world.

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