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MODULE 5.2FORM & CONTENT
Art 100Understanding Visual Culture
What will happen in this movie?
How do you know?
http://prezi.com/sazemrmsx16b/what-is-a-genre/
Advertisers work hard to create visual messages that can be decoded in a rapid glance.
“This is a romanticcomedy with two young stars.”
Edgar DegasEdmondo & Thérèse Morbillicirca 1867Oil on canvas45 7/8 x 34 ¾ inches
One of these belongs to our common visual culture, the other does not.
In art history, we often distinguish between subject matter and form.
Arnold Genthe, Portrait of Helen Cooke in a Field of Poppies, 1907
Paula Modersohn-BeckerOld Woman with Poppies1906
Georgia O’Keeffe, Oriental Poppies, 1928
Fields of Oats and Poppies, 1890Oil on canvas, 25 x 36 inches
Claude Monet
Stuart Franklin (Magnum photo)
Peter Melchett’s organic farm in Ringstead, with poppies and cornflowers growing alongside organic wheat
2008
What is Formal Analysis? Breaking a work down into
component parts for purposes of systematic observation and understanding.
When the parts are put back together, you do so with a richer understanding of each part and how they fit together.
2 & 3-DIMENSIONAL MEDIA
Two-dimensional=flat Three-dimensional=existing in space
Sculpture Relief (bas-relief) Sculpture in the round Installation
Architecture and landscape architecture Dimension of time is added
Film Video
Drawings
Paintings
Photographs
Prints
Art in 2 Dimensions
a.k.a. things that are
FLAT
LINE and COLOR
Are considered the two most basic elements of two-dimensional art
Long history of talking about these two properties
Disegno versus colore (in Italy) Dessin vs. couleur (in France)
LINE
Line/design can mean several things:
(It’s clearer if we use a more direct translation: design)
Design could mean: A drawing A plan to make
something
Ingres,Apotheosis of Homer, c. 1827, brush, gouache, and gray wash on paper, Louvre
This is both a “drawing” and a “plan’ for how to make the work. It comes first.
So color was thought to be secondary.
Except that some artists defied this rule.
They said, actually paint is what paintings are made of, and paint is pigment (a color) suspended in a medium (some sort of binder).
Jan van der Straet (Dutch, 1523 – 1604) The Painter's Studio
Assistant grinding colors for use in a Diego Rivera fresco
Pierre Bonnard’s worktable, 1945
Magdalenian era, 10,000 BCE, palette and grinding stone
So color was thought to be secondary.
Artists hate rules. As soon as you give them one they will try to break it.
This academic rule “design has priority; it is the first thing, and the most important thing” was closely associated with the city of Florence.
So the artists of Venice tried to disprove it.
Michelangelo,Doni Tondo,1504
Michelangelo Buonarroti, CumaeanSibyl, detail, Sistine Ceiling, 1508-12
“Flesh was the reason oil painting was invented.”
—20th c. artist Willem de Kooning
Giorgione, Sleeping Venus, c. 1510
LEARN MORE ABOUT… VENETIAN PAINTING
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/vefl/hd_vefl.htm#thumbnails