The oldest known images on cave walls and stone fragments are forcing a rewrite of who first made art and how sophisticated ...

As a student of Art History at UAB, you will learn visual literacy and critical thinking skills to analyze a wide variety of artifacts from all geographic regions and historical eras, including our ...

In the 1780s, French painter Pierre Henri de Valenciennes produced a landscape of the Channel coast. To do so, he painted not from memory or from a sketch, but directly from the source—by stepping ...

What can molecular biology majors learn from Manet? Can Cézanne change the way English graduate students and undergraduate engineers approach their fields? While students in both courses examined ...

A young woman stands defiantly as two police officers clad in body armor and riot helmets attempt to arrest her. They reach for her and yet seem to fall away, as though her poise repels them. The ...

What a ruckus! What panic! And why not? Until the appearance of photography, painters had nearly a monopoly on artistic representation. Their craft was regarded as the primary means to concoct images.

The AI image generator DALL-E's response to the prompt “Mondrian painting of a tomato by the sea” (courtesy DALL-E) People get up in arms whenever the hand of the artist is detached from the final ...

Introduction to the histories of art and the practice of art history. You will encounter a range of arts (including painting, sculpture, architecture, photography, prints) and artistic practices from ...

Our Art History program offers courses in a wide variety of topics and subject areas. You can explore modern and contemporary art and urban design around the world, Chinese and Japanese painting, arts ...

These faculty members teach Art History courses. See also: Studio Art Faculty || Complete list of Art & Art History Faculty Braddock, Alan C. Department Chair, Ralph H. Wark Professor of Art History, ...