Exploring SPAINtings! HUM 2020 Professor Jennifer Chase MarujaMalloReinaSofia Module/ SPAINting 10

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Videos created in Spain for my Humanities course entitled "Exploring SPAINtings!" that accompany a companion free study guide: https://guides.fscj.edu/ld.php?conten...

The interdisciplinary course focuses on cultural studies to explore the
intersections of Old and New Worlds, at home and abroad. The humanities
“lenses” we examine those intersections through are the eyes and brushes of
renowned painters and their masterpieces in Spain. We focus on one painter
per century from the Spanish Inquisition, beginning in the fifteenth century
with our first painting, Bosch’s The Garden of Earthly Delights, through the
Spanish Civil War with Picasso’s Guernica (Painting #8). We continue
through Spain’s Golden Age in which art and literature flourish, coinciding
with the Spanish Hapsburg rulers.

We examine artists like El Greco and Velázquez, and their complex
relationships with the Catholic Church, the Inquisition and the Hapsburgs.
We examine the charismatic and prolific Goya and his paradoxical reactions
to war, rebellion, his compatriots, the Inquisition and the king for whom he
painted. We continue onward to changes emerging in Spain with the artist
Sorolla, and the decline of the monarchs.
The Spanish Civil War brings with it expatriate artists’ profound response to
war. Picasso’s Guernica is a timely and relevant example. We end our course
with the Spanish Surrealists, such as Dalí, Varo, and Mallo. Finally we are
able to examine women artists in Spain, a group that is underrepresented in
traditional art scholarship.

We hypothesize about the artist’s biography, inner conflicts, and oftencomplicated relationships with his or her subjects and patrons. Finally we
connect the past, the artists in Spain over five centuries and the many
parallels with issues in today’s world. My guiding questions throughout the
course are:
 What story is being told? (or in some cases, What story is not being told?)
 Who’s telling the story?
 Whose story is it?

We uncover societal, cultural, religious, and political contexts, including
issues of race, sexuality, gender, and ideology through these works of art and
study of the artists’ complex lives.

What parallels can we find with today’s world? What are the possible
personal messages and narratives embedded in these paintings? What, if any,
possible personal cathartic elements were threaded through the artists’
works? The course explores culture as a system of meanings allowing groups
and individuals to give significance to the world and mediate their
relationships with each other and their known universe. We examine the
impact art and the artists have had on human history and human society and
ourselves. Students present a 3-5 minute oral presentation at the end of the
course that demonstrates a broader expanded research inspired by one or
more of the paintings.