Date Created

12-11-2025

Institution Type

Doctorate-granting university

Course Level

Undergraduate

Modality of Lesson

Online

Category

Task Execution with Human Oversight

Primary AI Tool Used

OpenArt.AI

Learning Objectives

  1. To identify the aesthetic features of modernist works.
  2. To identify the formal strategies of composition practiced by modernist writers and artists.
  3. To experiment with modernist methods in our own textual production in order to experience it for ourselves.
  4. To write persuasively about the "how" and "why" of modernist experiments, particularly your own. The act of composition involves developing the "rules of the game," a set of constraints about what is and isn't allowed.
  5. To learn how to use difficult works, including works of modernist literature, theories that account for modernist methods and meanings, and written accounts of complex historical events.
  6. To create a bridge between criticism and practice, as numerous modernist authors and artists like Mallarmé and Breton tried to do. In other words, criticism is not separate from the concerns of artists; it has its own compositional principles and is open to invention. Occupy criticism!
  7. To learn about the modernist movement in context by exploring the transformational ideas and events of the past 180 years, including the triumph of science over religion, the invention of photography, audio recording, and the cinema, the rise of modern cities, the emergence of trains and automobiles, the arrival of mechanized warfare, the theories of Darwin and Freud, the philosophy of Nietzsche, the rise of Taylorist economies, which include liberal democracies and fascist and communist states, and the explosion of liberation movements around anti-imperialism, civil rights, gender equality, LGBTQ+ rights, environmentalism, and many others. This historical context supplied the problems that modernists addressed, provided them with means for addressing those problems, and allowed them access to markets that had not previously been available.

Strategy Description

Use AI to remake either a painting from Manet or a poem from Baudelaire (or both!) in any medium: experimental writing, video, poster, song, etc.; the creativity is in your prompt. In addition, write an essay of 4-5 pages explaining and justifying your remake, describing the process and interpreting the results.

Publisher

University of Central Florida Libraries

Keywords

Openart.AI; Baudelaire; Manet; Modernism; Poetics; Experiment; Interpretation

Subjects

Arts--Experimental methods; Art, Modern--Technique; Arts, Modern--History and criticism; Art, Modern--Study and teaching; Ut pictura poesis (Aesthetics)--Themes, motives

Type

Text; Document

Audience

Faculty; Students

Comments

The project can be accomplished with any number of generative AI platforms.

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License
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