VISUAL LITERACY MASTER TEACHER 2010 BRANDY SITTS.

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