History of Visual and Artistic Education

Language of instruction: Hungarian
Method of assessing coursework: Verbal supervision and consultation during lecture
Marking method: Exam, evaluation of essay, oral report
Exam requirements: attending lectures, familiarity with lecture material and assigned reading, submitting individual work.
Teaching methods:
lecture with use of slide and film projection, educational aids
Recommended study methods:
Taking notes, reading assigned bibliography, independent material collection
Role of the course within the specialist training scheme:
The course discusses the history of visual and art education and aims at an overview of a new interdisciplinary study area which is located on the borderlines of the history of education, art history, history of culture and aesthetics. The course, in this way, touches on the elements of the history of education in every chapter through the introduction of the educational structure of each given period. Furthermore, it refers to the relevant (fine) art elements of the history of aesthetics, it introduces the prominent figures of the given period and offers examples (quotes) in the interest of providing a more complete picture.
Educational objectives:
The primary educational aim of the course is to introduce students to the forms, systems and methods of (fine) art and (visual) education throughout history in parallel with the introduction of the principles of aesthetic education. On the other hand, students are familiarised with the educational forms and methods, which formed the framework for, and helped in ?training.? It is equally important for students to learn about the relevant and special sources and relics of art history, which provide information about art education and training.
Course description, major areas of study (per semester):
Main topics of the course:
l) Notions and conceptions about the ?artistic? and ?art educational? situation in primitive society. Presentation of the relevant relics. Differences in the Palaeolithic and the Neolithic.
2) Old-world river valley cultures, forms of Egyptian art education are discussed in greater detail, with special regard to presenting some written but mostly visual relics.
3) Aesthetic education, artistic and art education in Greek cultures. Introduction to the aesthetical principles of the greatest Greek thinkers (Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Apelles, Plutarkos, Plotinos)
4) Aesthetical and visual education in Ancient Rome. Family education, the so-called institutional period and the realisation of the imperial school system. The position and function of visual culture in Roman society. Introducing the views of prominent thinkers.
5) The middle ages. Icon painting schools and sample books, monasteries as artistic centres. Forms of medieval art education and artist training.
6) Forms of visual education in the age of the renaissance. The first art academies of the renaissance: Florence, Rome, Bologna, etc. The acknowledgement of fine art as ?free art.? Introduction of prominent personalities of the renaissance.
7) Artistic thinking of the reformation and counterreformation. Schools and workshops in the painting of the German lowlands. Paths and personalities in aesthetic and art education.
8) Paths and perspectives in the age of enlightenment, classicism and romanticism. (Locke, Rousseau, Pestalozzi) Opinions on aesthetic and art education.
9) The academic school of drawing education. (Munich, Vienna, Paris, London). Positive and negative elements of academic teaching.
10) The artistic workshop of the twentieth century with the greatest impact ? the Bauhaus. The educational system of the Bauhaus and its multi-genre character. Introduction of the most prominent artists and the centres of Bauhaus: (Weimar, Dessau, USA).
11) Art education and artist training in Hungary
The middle ages. King Mátyás and the renaissance culture. The art education of the reformation and the counterreformation. Johannes Amos Comenius, Sámuel. Tessedik
12) The story of the Schools of Applied Drawing in Buda and Pest, and the Hungarian Secondary School of Fine Arts.
13) The antecedents of fine arts higher education in Hungary. Private academies in the 19th century.
14) Academy and teacher training on Sugár út and in Epresekert (Mulberry gardens). The Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts between the two World Wars. Artist colonies and workshops of the Academy: Szolnok, Gödöllő, Nagybánya, Szentendre. The Academy after World War II.