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Major Art TrendsArt Vocabulary
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Is this art?
Graffiti taken in a subway in Lisbon, Portugal 1999
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Is this art?
Cave art(17,000 years old?) in Lascaux, France
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Is this art?
Chinese Propanganda Art during the Great Leap Forward Campaign
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Is this art?
Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain
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Is this art?
Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960
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Is this art?
Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles
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Is this art?
Claude Monet
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What is art?
1. Is art something that takes talent, patience, hardwork and thus should be appreciated for the considerable skills of its maker?
2. Must art look like something?
3. Must art trigger strong emotions?
4. Must art represent human truth?
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One popular way to understand Art: Art as Language
• The study of sign systems – Semiotics- takes into 6 components of human interaction
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Art as Language
• To begin the process of communication:1. The addressor says hello to the addressee2. Btw the 2 participants a message passes3. A shared code that makes the language
intelligible4. Assumption that both participants understand
English – the medium of communication5. Context of conversation is established6. Purpose of communication is articulated
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Let’s apply this concept - Art as Language to one of Mary Cassatt’s Portraits
Addressor: the Artist(Mary Cassatt)Addressee: the viewerMessage: the tenderness of the relationship
between mother and daughter, the innocence of the child, the nurturing character of the woman
Code: Traditional Western pictorial devices such as shallow illusionistic space, modeling to produce volume, the influence of Japanese prints introduced in the late 19th C
Context 1891 painting by a woman artist, now situated in a late 20th C museum environment
Medium of Communication: a 39 ½ x 26 in(100.2 x 66 cm) oil painting
Mary Cassatt, The Bath, 1891
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Art and its Codes
• Art has a series of codes that makes its images, objects and buildings intelligible to others.
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Art and its Codes
Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664
Kikugawa Eizan’s Beauty on Parade, 1810
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Line
• When organised collectively suggest a message?
• With different characteristics – shape, density, rhythm and angularity- suggest a message?
• When depicted with different material-suggest a message?
Van Gogh’s Road with Cypress and Star
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Line
Henri Matisse’s Portrait of Baudelaire, 1932
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Value
• Contrast in light and dark
• Overlapping of lines produce a variety of values that enables the subject to be defined in illusionistic space
Jacques Villon’s Portrait of Jeune Femmer, 1913
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Colour
• Primary Colours: Red Yellow and Blue
• Hue(Name of colour wheel colours), Value(colour’s relativeness to darkness and lightness) and Intensity(Colour’s purity)
Complementary Colours
Analogous Colours
Monochromatic Colours
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Harmonies and Discord
Monochromatic colours? Complementary Colours? Analogous Colours?
Berthe Morisot’s La Lecture, 1888
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Harmonies and Discord
Monochromatic colours? Complementary Colours? Analogous Colours?
Vincent Van Gogh’s
Night Café 1888
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Harmonies and Discord
Monochromatic colours? Complementary Colours? Analogous Colours?
Henri Matisse, Goldfish, 1908
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Art in the Renaissance 1420-1530
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Art in the Renaissance 1420-1530
• Leonardo Da Vinci• His masterpiece is the
Mona Lisa• Took him 6 years to
compete• Who was she?• Why was she smiling?• Is she Leonardo
himself?
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Art in the Renaissance 1420-1530
• Michelangelo’s David• Man as the Centre of
Divine Creation
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Baroque Art 1600-1750
Andrea Pozzo’s Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits, 1661-94
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Romantic Art 1815-1850
Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, 1830
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Romanticism 1815-1850
JW Turner’s Snowstorm, 1844
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Impressionism 1860-1900
Monet’s Rouen Cathedral: Full sunlight, Dull light, Morning Light
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Expressionism 1905-1945
Van Gogh’s Starry, Starry Night
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Cubism 1907-1925
Picasso’s Woman Playing the Mandolin, 1909
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Surrealism 1924-1945
Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, 1931
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Abstract Expressionism(Fr 1945)
Jackson Pollock, Number 32, 1950
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Pop Art
Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein
