Batch 1 - Semester 1
Course Content : Colonialism and the shift in the art practice, Emergence of nationalist discourse of an Illusionism and realism, Invention of Tradition, Nationalism and the conflicts between the illusions and art Market.
Course Outcome: At the completion of the course students will be able to identify the nationalism in the shaping of new Indian of Pakistani Art. familiar with the key Art movement Artist individuals and their approaches - engaged with the idea of invented tradition in the field of visual art.
- Teacher: Kirupalini Stephan
Course content: Development of architecture, paining, printing, photography and sculpture under Portuguese, Dutch and English , rule, Colonial port culture and the Colombo as art world. Change in materials, methods and meaning. Hybrid and pastiche. Art as a tool of governance and the representation of difference. Colonial art education and the production of new taste. Colonial present and art of the past.
Course outcome: At the end of the course students will be able to identify the hybrid nature of colonial Sri Lankan art. understand the ways of colonial exchanges that produced art. able to identify the shifting notion of art – judge the importance of colonial art in the making of a Sri Lankan Art history.
- Teacher: Kirupalini Stephan