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ART 320 Picasso, Matisse, and the Mediterranean
Liberal Arts & Business Program
Aix-en-Provence, France
Dates: late Aug 2025 - mid Dec 2025
ART 320 Picasso, Matisse, and the Mediterranean
OVERVIEW
CEA CAPA Partner Institution: IAU
Location: Aix-en-Provence, France
Primary Subject Area: Art History
Instruction in: English
Course Code: ART 320
Transcript Source: TBD
Course Details: Level 300
Recommended Semester Credits: 3
Contact Hours: 45
DESCRIPTION
Cézanne, van Gogh, Matisse, and Picasso, the ?greats? of modern art, all produced important work in the South of France. This course seeks to understand the development of modern art by exploring its relationship with the Mediterranean region. It looks at the ways Mediterranean myth, history and culture as well as geography and climate, shaped artistic production of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Emphasis is given to modern treatments of the landscape, the figure, and the themes of nature and civilization they evoke as responses to a world newly transformed by industrialization, nationalism, colonialism, and tourism. The intersection of modern art with Mediterranean models of classicism, orientalism, and primitivism is also addressed.