Humanities Visual Art. What Is Visual Art? -Unlike the performing arts (music, drama and dance) visual art is generally produced without an audience.

Humanities

Visual Art

What Is Visual Art?

• -Unlike the performing arts (music, drama and dance) visual art is generally produced without an audience.

• -The audience typically sees the work after it has been completed.

• Visual art is usually a finished product.

What is it made of?

• -Visual art can be made from almost any type of material (medium/media).

Medium: paint

• The Blue Boat 1892.

Winslow Homer

Museum of Fine

Arts, Boston

watercolor on paper

Medium: paint

• Mona Lisa, 1503-05.

Leonardo da Vinci

The Louvre, Paris

Oil on poplar

Medium: paint

• Separation of Light

from Darkness, 1512.

Michelangelo

Sistine Chapel,

Vatican.

Fresco (paint

in/on plaster)

Medium: drawing materials

• Saskia Asleep,

c.1642.

Rembrandt.

British Museum,

London.

ink wash on paper

Medium: drawing materials

• Self Portrait, 1512.

Leonardo da Vinci.

Biblioteca Reale, Turin.

red chalk on paper

Medium: sculpture

• Mother and Child, 1971.

Elizabeth Catlett.

Collection of Alan Swift

walnut

Medium: sculpture

• The Three Soldiers,

1984.

Frederick Hart.

The Mall,

Washington, D.C.

bronze

Medium: sculpture

• Pieta, 1498-99.

Michelangelo

St. Peter’s Basilica,

Vatican.

Medium: environmental art

• Spiral Jetty, 1970.

Robert Smithson.

Great Salt Lake, Utah

basalt, sand

Medium: pottery

• Amphora, c. 520 b.c.

The Andokides Painter.

Munich, Germany.

Medium: found materials

• Bull’s Head, 1943.

Pablo Picasso.

Galerie Louise

Leiris, Paris.

bicycle parts

Medium: photography

• Clearing Winter Storm, 1944.

Ansel Adams.

Yosemite National

Park, California.

Medium: film

• Fantasia, 1940

Walt Disney

Medium: architecture

• Flat Iron Building, 1902.

Daniel Burnham,

Frederick Dinkelburg

New York, NY.

Medium: Performance art

• Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me. 5/23-25 1974.

Joseph Beuys. Performance at Rene Block Gallery, New York.

So, what is art?

• Just about anything can become art.