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Art Appreciation
Fall 2010Chapters 1, 2 & 3
Brancusi studio
Brancusi, Endless Column
Brancusi, Bird in Space
Cave Paintings from Chauvet cave, Francec. 25,000 – 17,000 BCE
Cave Paintings from Lascaux, FranceDated 16,000 yrs old
Female Figure (“Venus of Willendorf’)c. 23,000 BCE found near Austria
Limestone, height 4 ⅜”
Stonehenge c. 2000-1500 BCESalisbury Plain, England
Height of stones 13’6”, weight up to 50 tons each
Carhenge, Jim Reinders, 1987
vintage American cars near Alliance, Nebraska
Eggshell pottery, c. 2000 BCELongshan culture, China
The Origins of Art
• To construct meaningful images and forms– Magic, Spirituality, Ceremony, Ritual– Record history
• To create order and structure– A desire to make sense of the world– The urge to paint and pile rocks
• To explore aesthetic possibilities– The desire to make something beautiful
Maya Lin, Wave field
Frank GehryGuggenheim Museum in Bilbao, Spain
Gehry Tower in Hanover, germany
THE ROLE OF THE ARTIST• The artist records and commemorates: historical reference,
captures a moment• The artist creates places for some human purpose: ritual,
remembrance, bringing the community together• The artist gives tangible form to the unknown: things we
don’t see… to the unknown, to the unseen, to the future• The artist gives feelings and ideas tangible form: using their
own perspective and the viewer’s response• The artist offers an innovative way of seeing: a visual way to
compare and contrast differing perspectives• The artist creates extraordinary versions of ordinary objects:
exploring aesthetics of the material, makes a functional item into a nonfunctional artwork
Records and commemorates
Creates places for some human purpose
Gives tangible form to the unknown
Offers an innovative way of seeing
Creates extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
Dieter's Spoon
by Sarah Doremus
Van Gogh
Monet
Monet, Water Lilies close-up
Vanitas
Terms to know:
• Aesthetics – branch of philosophy concerned with feelings aroused in us by sensory experiences such as seeing and hearing (your particular taste, what appeals to you)
• Artist Intent – the decision to use certain artistic devices to create a specific look, feeling or content
• Perception - The process of becoming aware through sight, sound, taste, smell, or touch; detection
The romantic definition of art:
• Art is created in search of an ultimate truth, an ultimate perfection, an ultimate confrontation with the self and the art.
• True fine art has the primary motive of artist expression & the secondary motive of money.
• Art has 2 intentions:– Satisfying the artist– Satisfying the patron
My personal definition of ART:
• The “art world” tells us what art is.
– In other words: if a piece is displayed in a gallery or an image of it is published in a magazine or if it is critiqued by professionals, it is art.
Verrocchio
Patronage
• Popes• The Medici family
• Dorothy and Herbert Vogel
The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest,
Willem van Haecht, 1628.
A private picture gallery as an early precursor of the modern museum.
Rodin studio
Camille
The Thinker, Auguste Rodin, 1902
Tales of Hamza
Dale Chihuly
James Hampton
Gayleen Aiken
Blurring the lines between high brow and low brow art:
• High art– Painting– Sculpture– Fine photography
• Low art– Pottery– Comic books– Advertisements
Dada movement – peak 1916-22an avante-garde art movement
avant-garde
• Artists and their work which stand in the forefront of a movement or of new ideas, often in opposition to established ideas and traditions; art that's ahead of its time, innovative, experimental.
Marcel Duchamp
The Fountain, 1917
He is considered part of the Dada movement.
Duchamp changed art for the 20th century.
From Prinzhorn’s book: Artistry of the Mentally Ill
Salvador Dali
Russian Surrealism
Degenerate Art Exhibition
Worhol
Lichtenstein
David Huang
Georgia O’Keefe
La Pietà, Michelangelo, 1499
Universal qualities of beauty
• Symmetry• Simple geometrical shapes• Pure color• Repetition of line or shape• Fine craftsmanship
Francisco de Goya
Chronos Devouring One of His Children1820
Pablo Picasso
First Communion, 1895
15 yrs old
Pablo Picasso
Seated Woman Holding a Fan
1908
The Birth of Venus, Sandro Botticelli, 1486
William Harnett
The Old Violin 1886
Pablo Picasso
Seated Woman Holding a Fan
1908
Lavender Mist, Jackson Pollock, 1950
Alfred Stieglitz - photography
Three Major Styles of Art:• Representational– Naturalistic– Trompe L’oeil
• Abstract– Cubism– Stylized
• Nonrepresentational– Patterns– Shapes– Colors
Édouard Manet Luncheon on the Grass , 1863
Pere Borrell del Caso
Escaping Criticism
1874
Still life, Pompeii, c. 70 AD
Man on a Bench, Duane Hanson, 1997vinyl, polychromed in oil, with accessories
Marilyn Levine
Ceramic Leather Jacket
Life Size
David Furman
David Furman
The Actor
Pablo Picasso
1905
Rose Period
Paul Cézanne
Pablo Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avignon
1907
Georges Braque
Violin and Candlestick
1910
Wassily Kandinsky
On White 2
1923
Kazimir Malevich, Black Square, c. 1915
Cataract 3, Bridget Riley, 1967
Where, Morris Louis, 1960
Pablo Picasso
Seated Woman Holding a Fan
1908
STYLE
• Characteristics that we recognize as constant, recurring or coherent to an individual artist’s work.
• Pieces will have traits in common– Drawing style– Brush stroke– color
General styles
• Constructed after the fact as scholars discern broad trends– Cultural – Atzec, Egyptian– Period – Gothic, Victorian– School styles – Impressionism, cubism
A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, 1882Edouard Manet
The textbook’s definition of art:
• “embodied meaning”• Art is always about something
The romantic definition of art:
• Art is created in search of an ultimate truth, an ultimate perfection, an ultimate confrontation with the self and the art.
• True fine art has the primary motive of artist expression & the secondary motive of money.
• Art has 2 intentions:– Satisfying the artist– Satisfying the patron
My personal definition of ART:
• The “art world” tells us what art is.
– In other words: if a piece is displayed in a gallery or an image of it is published in a magazine or if it is critiqued by professionals, it is art.
4 key terms related to meaning:
• Form
• Content
• Iconography
• Context
Art & Meaning
• FORM – the way art looks; size, shape, materials, color, composition
• CONTENT – what the art is about; subject matter
• The interaction between form and content help us determine meaning
Music lesson, Matisse, 1917Piano Lesson, Mattise, 1916
iconography
• The identification, description & interpretation of subject matter in art
• Relates to the culture of the time
• To understand iconography of the past, we often have to do research
Shiva Statue
in Bangalore, India
Arnolfini Double Portrait
Jan van Eyck, 1434
CONTEXT
• Web of connections to the larger world of human culture– Relates to time & place– Personal and/or social circumstances– Why was the work made?– Who sees the work?– ALSO, the physical setting that the work is meant
to be seen in
Pablo Picasso
Seated Woman Holding a Fan
1908
4 key terms related to meaning:
• Form
• Content
• Iconography
• Context
The Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest,
Willem van Haecht, 1628.
A private picture gallery as an early precursor of the modern museum.
Jenny Holzer, "Truisms“ 1977–79
Barbara Kruger
Richard Serra, Tilted Arc
Born in the Streets exhibition, Paris
• http://gprime.net/images/sidewalkchalkguy/
Non-object Art
• Installation art
• Conceptual art
• Performance Art
Rachel Whitread
Embankment
at Tate Modern
Jenny Holzer
jenny holzer
Jenny Holzer
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, 1995
Themes of Art• Craft / Decor• Sacred Realm / Religion• Politics / Propaganda• Social Order• Storytelling / History• Genre Art – images of daily life• Human Experience / Self-Expression• Invention & Fantasy• Art & Nature / Landscape• Art about Art
Beaded Pomo Basket Bowl
Mata Ortiz pottery jar,Jorge Quintana, 2002
Dale Chihuly
30-foot blown-glass chandelier in the Victoria and Albert Museum in 2000.
Women of Gee's Bend, Alabama, quilting, 2005
Roman Stripes by Deborah Pettway Young, circa 1963.
Drunkard´s Path -- Variation (Snowball) by Lucy T. Pettway, circa 1950
Ru Ware Bowl Stand, Chinese, Early 12th Century
iconoclasm• Iconoclasm means “image breaking”• Began in the Byzantium Empire– Early Christians debated the use of images• Idol worship
• Arose again after Henry VIII broke from Rome– The protestants claimed the Catholics practiced
idolatry, they destroyed many Catholic churches and art across Britain
• Taliban – Islamic fundamentalism
Byzantine Iconoclasm, Chludov Psalter, 9th century.
The Sons of Liberty pulling down the statue of King George III on Bowling Green (New York City), 1776.
The April 2003 toppling of Saddam Hussein’s statue
Buddhas of Bamyan6th century, Afghanistan
2001
Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People, 1830
Guernica, Picasso, 1937
Propaganda• Propaganda is a form of communication aimed at
influencing the attitude of a community toward some cause or position. As opposed to impartially providing information, propaganda in its most basic sense, presents information primarily to influence an audience.
• Propaganda often presents facts selectively (thus possibly lying by omission) to encourage a particular synthesis, or uses loaded messages to produce an emotional rather than rational response to the information presented.
• The desired result is a change of the attitude toward the subject in the target audience to further a political agenda.
1876
1947 comic book
1917
1914
John Brown going to his Hanging, Horace Pippen, 1942 (the actual event happened in 1859)
1941
Dorothea Lang, Migrant Mother, 1936
Mary Cassatt, The Child’s Bath, 1893
Kathe Kollwitz, Woman with Dead Child, 1903 etching
The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope, Rousseau, 1905
The Snake Charmer, 1907
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights
Revenge of the goldfish, 1981, sandy skoglund
Germs are everywhere, 1984
The Tetons and the Snake River, Ansel Adams, 1942
Evening, McDonald Lake, Glacier National Park (1942)
Great Wave off KanagawaHokusai
Red Fuji from Hokusai's series, Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji.
Mattise, L'Atelier Rouge, (The Red Studio), 1911
Themes of Art
• Sacred Realm / Religion• Politics / Propaganda• Social Order• Storytelling / History• Human Experience / Self-Expression• Invention & Fantasy• Art & Nature / Landscape• Art about Art
End of Ch 1-3
Grading Criteria - Presentations• Proper length = 5 minutes• Full bio/history– Pic of artist– Where did they go to school– Influences/legacy
• Anecdotal info• Plenty of images• Presenters interest in the subject• Seems informed/able to answer questions• Proper sources cited
Arnolfini Double Portrait
Jan van Eyck, 1434
Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Maya Lin, 1981-84