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Ways of Seeing Introduction to Art History VPHA46H3
Lecture 1
What is art?
The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power
Art is the objection of feeling
If someone calls is art, it’s art
Ways of seeing: How?
How do we analyze artworks?
Form: line, color (hue), value, saturation, texture, composition, perspective, mass, volume, etc.
Content: subject matter, iconography, (symbols, ideas) meaning.
Style: regional style (where?), period style (when?)
Attribution: Who’s done it?
Medium, medium
Medium, Media
Material from which work of art is produced. Suck as:
Sculptures could be made of marble, bronze, clay, etc.
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Painting could be done in oil paints, watercolours, pastel, ink, etc., and be on canvas, board, or paper.
Media
Technique
Describes a method of producing an object. Such as:
Lost-wax casting method (described in the textbook)
Architecture
Described in the Schematic drawings:
Plan
Elevation
Section
3-Dimenstional 2-Dimentional
Architecture Drawing/painting
Sculpture Prints
Installation art Photography
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Cutaway (see textbook for examples)
Painting
Line
Color
Texture
Composition
Style of representation
Linear or painterly
Subject matter etc
Representation
Artist represent what they conceive, not what they perceive. They record NOT what they SEE, but what they KNOW or MEAN.
Personal vision joins with the artistic conventions of time and place to decide the manner and effects of the representation.
Content
Subject matter (what is present)
Social, political, religious, economic contexts
Intention of the artist
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Reception by the audience
Iconography (symbols and symbolism)
Damien Hirst’s For the Love of God
Materialism
Possession
It’s a reminder of our mortality, the we must die one day
Pre-Historic Art
Upper Paleolithic 40 000-8000 BCE
Neolithic 8000 BCE
Sculpture
Architecture
Ceramics
Bronze age 2,300-1000 BCE
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Woman from Willendorf (Venus of Willendorf) 22,000-21,000 BCE
Made from limestone, traces of red ochre
Length: 4 inches
Found in Australia, inside caves
Large breast, a bulging stomach, wide hips and solid thighs
This artist may be showing her health and fertility, which would ensure the ability to produce strong children, thus guaranteeing the survival of the community.
Venus of Willendorf was the original name but then was changed because Venus means spiritual/religious ties which they didn’t know, therefore the name was changed to women because of the shape of the figurine which symbolizes fertility.
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Lecture 2: Mesopotamia and Egypt
Title: Nanna Ziggurat of Ur (Modern Muqaiyir, Iraq)
Date: c. 2100-2050 BCE
God’s temple
City within a city
3 step of stairs
Title: Votive Figure from the square Temple. Eshunna (Tell Asmar. Iraq)
Date: 2, 9000-2600 BC
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Offering placed in the temple
Representation of the owner/believer and this statue would offer prayer on the owners behalf
The statues eyes emphasizes their wakefulnessand it can also be “windows to the soul”
Title: Stele of Naramsin Date: 2254-2218 BCE
The king is placed above everyone
Everyone is looking up at the king while the king looks ahead
He is closest to God
Puts him more in a spiritual stance
Figure seems to be more masculine
Title: Votive Statue of Gudea from Lagash (modern Telloh, Iraq) Date: c. 2120 BCE
More peaceful and giving/caring
Large hands signify “giving”
Diorite, expensive and very hard to carve (stone)
20 surviving statues
Large eyes
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Statue to represent life and by placing it in the temple would represent itself as praying.
Title: Stele of Hammurabi (upper part) from Susa (Shush, Iran) Date: c. 1792-1750 BC
Made of basalt
He was the strongest leader
Created a written source
Title: Palette of Narmer from HierakonpolisDate: 3,150-3,125 BCE
Holographic
Almost completely in profile
Below king are two fallen enemies
King is about to kill/sacrifice someone
Twisted prospective
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Combination of perspectives
Title: Imhotep stepped pyramid of king Djoser (Zoser)
This pyramid was made for the king, but he ruled for only 19 years then died.
Title: Menkaure and his wife, Queen Khamerenebty from Giza Dynasty 4Date: c. 2500 BC
One foot is in front of the other but, there is nomovement in the hips
Proportional, balanced, rigid
All limbs close to body
King is idealized as an athletic, with his masculine body.
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Title: KhafreDate: c. 2520-2494, Dynasty 4
Masculine
Idealistic
Serious expression
Limbs are close together
Gineiss height 5’6/8”
Title: Hatshepsut
Female pharaoh
First female queen
Male attributes, since all of them looked the same since it is the closest resemblance to God.
Had to respect these male features
Title: Mortuary Temple Queen Hatshepust Deir El-Bahri Date: c. 1479-1458 BCE
Made in honor of the queen
Normally pyramids were made in honour of the king but for the queen a temple was made
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Temple leading you to the cliff, different emphasis than pyramids, since pyramidsare more sculptural.
Title: Akhenaten, Pillar statue from the temple
He thought he was the only “God”
God of both sun and moon
More narrow head, lips a narrow jaw line
Body is different proportions
belly is protruding
no muscles (no emphasis on chest)
Frontal pose
dreaming expression shows irregularity
Title: Tbiutmose, Queen Nefertiti, From Tell El-Amarna Date: 18th Dynasty
colour emphasizes folds, “wrinkles”
she was the pharaohs wife
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