VISUAL LITERACY MASTER TEACHER 2010 BRANDY SITTS
Feb 23, 2016
VISUAL LITERACY
MASTER TEACHER 2010BRANDY SITTS
Paleolithic
• Venus of Willendorf•28,000- 25,000 BCE•Characteristics:
• Served as fertility image.• No facial features• Ball-like shapes
Islam
•Dome of the Rock•687-692•Characteristics
• 1st great achievement of Islamic architecture• Octagonal dome• Interior is vivid and colorful
Ancient Africa
•Nok Head•500-200•Characteristics
• Flaring nostrils and triangle eyes are unique to Nok art
• African culture liked heads
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Ancient India
•Shiva as Nataraja•1000•Characteristics
• Nataraja means Lord of the Dance
• Portable image• Dwarf that she is standing on
represents ignorance
High Renaissance Sculpture
•David by Michelangelo•1501-1504•Characteristics
• Formal references to classical antiquity
• Compositionally and emotionally connected to an unseen presence
• Head turned to show pent up energy
Late Gothic
•Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan Van Eyck•1434•Characteristics:
• Almost every object portrayed sanctity
• Symbolism• Purpose: Record and
sanctify marriage• Dog: Fidelity, Shoe: Holy
Ground
Neoclassicism
•Oath of the Horatii by David•1784•Characteristics:
• Conflicts between heart and patriotism• Statuesque figures- men: Rigid, Angular
Romanticism (Spanish)
•The Third of May 1808 by Goya•1808•Characteristics:
• Encouraged empathy of the Spanish by portraying horrified expressions and enhanced drama through stark use of darks and lights
Romanticism
•Characteristics:• Actual historical event• Subdued palette and prominent shadow lend ominous pall to the
scene• Emotionally charged• Comments on slavery Apathy
• Raft of the Medusa by Gericault•1818-1819
Fauvism
•Red Room by Matisse•1908-1909
•Characteristics:• Color = Warmth• Colors contrast richly and intensely• Depicts objects in simplified and schematized fashion and flattening out
form
Photo Realism•Fanny Finger Painting by Close•1985•Characteristics:
• One moment it’s a spitting image of a person, the next it’s an animated pattern of spots
Cubism•Spanish Civil War•World’s Fair in France•Shows anguish of residents murdered in Basque Country of Spain
•Guernica by Picasso•1937