Art History Renaissance to 20th Century (Udemy.com)

A basic level survey of painting, sculpture, and architecture.

Created by: Kenney Mencher

Produced in 2021

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What you will learn

  • Pass any basic level art history class at the college level.
  • Go to museums and art galleries and really understand what you are looking at.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100

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Course Description

This course now has professionally created captions in English on 98% of all the videos. This is part one of a year-long college-level survey course in art history. This course covers art history from the European Renaissance around 1300 A.
D. until the Mid 20th CenturyThis course is designed as a basic college-level survey of art history. I provide an online textbook as well as study guides and worksheets. This course covers the language used to discuss art. A complete overview of art, culture, and architecture from the Renaissance to the 1950s. Each work is covered in depth, the works physical or formal properties are discussed such as technology used to create the work, color, medium, materials, composition, and shading.
The symbolism of each work is discussed and how to interpret the interrelationship of symbols in a work of art. This course is the actual content of a course I teach at an accredited college in California called Ohlone college.
I designed this course as a series of clear, non-jargon laden video lectures and texts designed to help any student who wants to pass AP art history and or any beginning level art history survey course.
Who this course is for:
Students who are having a hard time in art history. AP Art History students should take this and people who are curious about the arts.

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Instructor Details

Kenney Mencher

Hi! I'm Kenney Mencher. I am a semi retired professor of Art and Art History from Ohlone College in Fremont. (Now I'm a full time artist and I teach part time at West Valley College in Saratoga California.) My lecture style is casual and clear. I don't believe in using a lot of jargon or overly complicated language. Here's the rest of the stuff you light like to know about me:
Resume: KENNEY MENCHER
EDUCATION
1993-1995 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH MFA Painting
1991-1994 University of California, Davis, CA MA Art History -Thesis Title: "Vampires, the Audiences they Consume."
1988-1991 City University of New York, Bronx, NY Magna Cum Laude; BA Art History
1985-1986 University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH & Spring 1988
1981-1985 Art Students' League, Manhattan, NY
1978-1982 Art & Design High School, Manhattan, NY
EMPLOYMENT
2019-Present Instructor Art History, West Valley College, Saratoga, California
1999-2016 Professor of Art & Art History, Ohlone College, Fremont, California
1998-1999 Instructor of Art History & Western Civilization, San Francisco University High School
1996-1998 Assistant Professor of Art & Art History, Texas A&M University, Laredo, TX
1995-1996 Curator of Visual Resources, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995-1996 Adju

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Reviews

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By El Tea on 11/22/2020

Lots of interesting stuff, although the U.I. feels a little disorganized

By Ishani on 11/15/2020

Very clear

By Cesare Cardone on 11/15/2020

very clear overview of how renaissance started

By Ross on 10/22/2020

Has been very entertaining educational & good value

By Catalina Martinez on 10/9/2020

si

By Steven P Masters on 10/9/2020

Very well done. Easy to understand and fairly detailed in covering the material.

By Sookyung Choi on 10/4/2020

good

By Philip Pound on 10/1/2020

Great course. I really enjoyed it and would thoroughly recommend it. Thanks, Kenney!

By John Lwin on 9/24/2020

very good

By Hagen Peukert on 9/22/2020

This course is not particularly designed as an online course for Udemy at all and this becomes clear throughout. Although plenty, at times, references are missing (e.g. the lecture on surrealism that is referenced at the modern art section) or the lecture is simply cut-off in the middle of a sentence (like the one on Picasso). It is surely good enough as additional material to the lecture in a university hall to recap and as a reminder, but it seems the author tries to earn some passive income by just uploading it to udemy without really changing the contents to the specific needs of online learning and adjusting the style to a community that is not physically present in a lecture hall.

By Mary Bokath on 9/22/2020

This was such an interesting, in-depth class. Time well spent. I learned so much. Thank you

By Randy Ritzer on 9/21/2020

Yes, I already studied this for my major years ago and it covered it very well. It is a great refresher. I am enjoying it! It is well explained and thorough. The visuals are very good too.