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What is beauty? (Aesthetics)
Is beauty an average? read more
ELEMENTS OF ART p54
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PRINCIPLES OF ART p61 Guide
LINEAR PERSPECTIVE
SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE
Ma Yüan (c. 1160–1225)
Dancing and Singing (Peasants Returning from Work)
中文: 踏歌圖
Landscape With Palace Japanese, Edo period Tozaka Bun`yo, 1783–1852
ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVE
River in a Mountain Landscape by John Mix Stanley
CHIAROSCURO
JOHN CHIAPPONE 2010 Shifting Sjapes Chiaroscuro is Italian for light and Shade. It creates a 3d quality.
Shadows of Caravaggio | Renaissance - Official Trailer
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (September 28, 1573 – July 18, 1610) Italian Baroque painter
DYNAMICS
Triangles: Rudolf Bauer (1889 – 1953) German abstract artist Frank Frazetta (1928 – 2010) American fantasy and science fiction
JUXTAPOSITION
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PAINTERLY
A painting is considered painterly when the brushstrokes are visible, and it was painted in a free, and spontaneous manner. Examples:
Marla Olmstead
Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (1853 – 1890)
Starry Night, June 1889
Irises, 1889
Luncheon of Boating Party
LINEAR
A painting is considered linear when the brushstrokes are not visible, and it was painted in a precise, and controlled manner. Examples"
Sandro Botticelli (1445 – 1510)
Crucifixion Juicio Final
PURPOSES OF ART - p21/23 Read
1. Provide a Record
2. To Express Feelings
3. To Reveal Metaphysical Truths
4. To see common things in uncommon ways - different perspectives.
Naturalist Illustrations: Ernst Haeckel (1834 – 1919) was a German naturalist, philosopher, physician, and artist. He discovered and named thousands of species.
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2: To Express Feelings:
Two people not in love by Peter Fuss
Abdi Farah - Home | 3 Bombs | Exhibition
The Last Samurai
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM - p21
JACKSON POLLOCK
work | video | Assignment
Unknown Artist Marco Grassi
SUSO Abstract action drawing.
3. Revealing Metaphysical Truths
POINTILLISM
Georges Seurat
Detail of La Parade
SURREALISM (
From Le Manifeste du Surréalisme, 1924
ANDRÉ BRETON
John Locke – p20 P21 Out of chaos we create form – TED A Stroke of Insight
Tom Forsythe's
DADA or DADAISM (Art is not a mirror; it's a hammer.)
Dada It began in Zürich Switzerland in 1916 as a reaction to World War I. They believed that “Destruction is also creation." Dada can best be defined as art without rules. It focuses on the absurdity of existence, irrationality, is countercultural, controversial, and shocking.
Art is whatever is displayed as art.
Marcel Duchamp
FUNCTIONS OF ART - p21:
SOCIAL CHANGE
Dread Scott Tayler's What is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?
Banksy
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Igor Stravinsky - THE RITE OF SPRING, 1912
Picasso - G U E R N I C A
Guernica p 31- During the Spanish Civil War Nazis bombed the Spanish town.
- 11 feet tall by 25 feet long – you feel dwarfed by it, and like you’re within the image. - The painting is done in black, white, and grays to create contrast (compare to 0.10 p31).
- The horse dominates the center, and represents the people who were victimized by incomprehensible cruelty.
Watch Pan’s Labyrinth: www.panslabyrinth.com - The bull symbolizes senseless suffering, farm animals (Guernica’s a farming community), & God (the mother pleads, & the bull ignores. The problem of evil. - The man holding flowers?
CRITICISM:
PLATO (427-348 BCE) was the first art critic. P27 BCE means before the common era. He believed in different levels of reality, and but art at the bottom because it’s a copy (Art is a Mirror). If art is not viewed as a mirror, what is it then?
Plato believed in censoring art. We don’t know all ends, so we shouldn’t tamper with convention. We shouldn't glorify violence and vice - Collateral Club Scene with music by Paul Oakenfold. Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible." - Frank Zappa
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
ARISTOTLE (384-382 BCE) was Plato’s student. Aristotle's Poetics is the earliest-surviving work of drama and literary theory. It covers poetry, drama, comedy, and tragedy.
DECONSTRUCTION
This theory of art criticism was advanced by the philosopher Jacques Derrida. He believed that an analysis of any artwork would yield conflicting meanings. The meaning of a work arises from the artist and viewer, so there is no absolute meaning, facts, or truths in art. There are only interpretations.
FORMAL CRITICISM
Formal criticism does not consider any external information. The work must stand on it's own. This ignores symbolisms that point to things happening in the world. READ MORE
Criteria: Artisanship Clarity Coherence Interest Is it unique?
Clarity
Coherence
Interest
Is it unique?
CONTEXTUAL CRITICISM
This includes external factors.
Criteria:
Does the artist have something to say?
How well does she say it?
Is it worth saying?
Does it make you think or feel?
STYLE p31 6th edition
Amedeo Clemente Modigliani
POP ART
Jasper Johns 1954-1955 Flag
Andy Warhol, 1962 Campbell's Soup Cans
Tom Wesselmann 1962, Still Life
Claes Oldenburg 1966 Soft Bathtub
David Hockney 1967 A Bigger Splash
Wayne Thiebaud 1963 Three Machines
This style of painting and music started in France during the 1860's. Claude Monet was a founder of the movement in painting. The name comes from the title of his painting Impression Sunrise. Characteristics of Impressionist painting include bold visible brush strokes, emphasis on light, ordinary subject matter, and unusual angles.
Claude Monet (1840–1926) Impression Sunrise
Houses of Parliament, London, c. 1904, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Bridge over a Pond of Water Lilies, 1899, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Haystacks, (sunset), 1890-1891, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Water Lilies, 1906, Art Institute of Chicago
Water Lilies, 1907, Bridgestone Museum of Art, Tokyo
Water Lilies, 1914-1917, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
Nympheas, c. 1916, Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris
Nympheas, 1915, Neue Pinakothek, Munich
Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
Water Lilies, 1917-1919, Honolulu Academy of Arts
Water-Lily Pond, c. 1915-1926, Chichu Art Museum, Naoshima, Kagawa, Japan
Sea-Roses (Yellow Nirwana), 1920, The National Gallery, London
Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of
Modern Art Tokyo
Sold for USD $39,921,750
Vase with five sunflowers
(Arles, August 1888)
Destroyed by fire in World War II
on 6 August 1945
Vase with Twelve Sunflowers (Arles, August 1888) Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Vase with twelve flowers
(Arles, January 1889)
Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia, United States
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vase with three sunflowers (Arles, August 1888) Private collection, United States
Private collection, United States
Van Gogh began painting sunflowers in late summer 1888, and continued into the following year. One went to decorate his friend Paul Gauguin's bedroom. The paintings show sunflowers in all stages of life - from fully in bloom to withering. The paintings were innovative for their use of the yellow spectrum. Newly invented pigments made new colors possible.
On March 31, 1987, even those without interest in art were made aware of van Gogh's Sunflowers series when Japanese insurance magnate Yasuo Goto paid the equivalent of USD $39,921,750 for Van Gogh's Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers at auction at Christie's London - a record-setting amount for a work of art. The price was over four times the previous record of about $12 million paid for Andrea Mantegna's Adoration of the Magi in 1985. The record was broken a few months later with the purchase of another Van Gogh, Irises by Alan Bond for $53.9 million at Sotheby's, New York on November 11, 1987.
While it is uncertain whether Yaso Goto bought the painting himself or on behalf of his company, the Yasuda Fire and Marine Insurance Company of Japan, the painting currently resides at Seiji Togo Yasuda Memorial Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. After the purchase a controversy arose whether this is a genuine van Gogh or an Emile Schuffenecker forgery.
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