PRES 501 Pma Featured Exhibition - Teacher Resources for the Classroom

Division of Continuing Studies Professional Institute for Educators

3 credits 45.0 hours
600 level graduate course

Fernand Leger played a leading role in redefining the practice of painting by bringing it into engagement with the urban environment and modern mass media. In this course, participants study the significance of Leger and his work in the context of art history and culture, with the latest exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art as the focus. Leger: Modern Art and the Metropolis features Leger’s monumental painting The City (1919), a landmark in the history of modern art. Leger is known both for creating forceful and diverse modernist offerings of the 20th century and as a Cubist painter who incorporated industrial and mechanical images into his work. Leger’s form of Cubism was radically different from that of Braque, Picasso and Juan Gris, as he was often fascinated with mechanization and the working man. Participants use the Philadelphia Museum of Art as well as the Barnes Foundation to study from primary sources. The course also explores methods to engage students with object study and brings cross-disciplinary projects to a range of subject areas.

Open to graduate students from the Division of Continuing Studies.
This course is not repeatable for credit.
This course may not be audited.
This course cannot be taken pass/fail.