Chapter 5-8 Art Appreciation
Drawings can mean many things (107)
1.Sketches that record an idea or provide information about something the artist has seen. 2. Plans or preparatory studies for other projects, such as buildings, sculptures, crafts, paintings, plays, and films. 3. Fully developed and autonomous works of art
conte crayon
A square stick composed of compressed powdered graphite or charcoal mixed with a wax or clay base, square in cross-section.
Crayon
Any drawing material in stick form
kathe kollwitz "Self Portrait (1924)"
Black and white drawing of an old man doing a hand sign symbol of an o. German expressionist.
Gentile de Fabriano "Adoration of the Magi"
Catholic scene, wood. Baby Jesus and everyone else
Claudio Bravo "Package (1969)"
Charcoal, pastel, Sanguine. Its a Blue paper package tied in sting. No indication of dusty quality to the work.
zhao Xiaomo "Family by the lotus pond"
Chineese print maker uses blocks to create a complex, energetic compositions that stimulate oil paintings. Uses Shades of blue and white background.
Carol Prusa "Whirl" (108)
Complex intertwining and repetitive patterns of silverpoint, graphite, white acrylic paint across the acrylic domed surface.(Sketch)
Photograph of Ms. Mary Lou Furcrons House
Describes her way of living/life.
Why was pencil silverpoint preferred over pencil?
Egyptians ruled in favor of metallic lead
Miriam Schapiro "Maid of Honour"
Fabric and acrylic pigment. Celebration of women's experiences with sewing, quilting, needlework and decoration. Floral design
Roger Shimomura "untitled (1984)"
Famous cartoon characters all mingled together. Amusing clash of American and Japaneese pop cultures.
Roy Lichtenstein "George Washington"
Focused on paints clarity and perscision. Patterns, grays, lines.
mezzo tint
Half tint
Ando Hiroshige "Sudden rain at atake and ohashi"
Japaneese artist, achieved the finest detail in his works by choosing a close grained wood and by tightly controlling the movement of his carving tools. Clean-cut, uniform lines define the steady rain. Its a photo of people walking across a wooden bridge in the rain.
katsushika hokusai "boy playing flute"
Japaneese artist, painting of a young boy. emphasis on his clothes
Fang Lijun "Ink and wash painting #3"
Looks like an old man praising god walking on water.
Marc Brandenburg "untitled (2004)"
Micheal Jackson. emulates a photographic negative in its merticulous execution and sharp tonal contrasts. (pencil)
Giotto "Lamentation"
Mural of mary holding jesus on the ground angels, saints and people crowd around as jesus came off the cross.
Beverly Buchanan "Henriettes Yard"
OIl Pastel. Lovely constructed, light brush strokes. (shack, chicken, country, vibrant colors)
Acrylic Paint
Offers many of the advantages of oil paint, but without mess.
Gilbert Stuart "George Washington"
Painting of the one on the US dollar.
Lucas Samaras "Head #12"
Pastel on black paper (pure and intense). Arabian Face, black beard, greenish tint to face.
Dr. Suess "Cages cost money"
Political Cartoon. Nazi sign on animal in the cage. During WWII
Elizabeth Peyton "Marc (april)"
Realistic drawing of young man leaning on couch armrest (colored pencil)
Michealangelo "Studies for the Lybian Sybil"
Red Chalk. Portrait of a naked man hoping, with floating random body parts around him
Beverly Buchanan "Hometown shotgun shack" (wood/mixed media)
Represented organic and ever evolving structure.
Ralph Goings "Rock Ola"
Retro chrome surface at a diner interior.
gilding
The application of thinly hammered sheets of gold to the panel surface
Fresco
The art of painting on plaster
squeegee
The artist forces paint or ink through open areas of stencil with a flat rubber blended implement.
Kay walkingstick "solstice"
acrylic and wax on canvas. Native american symbol of a canoe, can also be viewed as a abstraction signifying shifting of seasons from autumn to winter.
water color
any painting medium that employed water as a solvent.
lithography
artist draws an image with a greesy crayon directly on a flat stoned slab.
Cheyney Tompson "Ink on paper, untitled (2003)" (106)
black on white, lots of shading, hard to make out what it is. (ink)
Adrian Piper "Self-portrait Exaggerating my negroid features"
black/white female. allows focus on genetic features. Challenges to confront prejustice about differences in race (pencil)
Beverly Buchanan & Mary lou Fucron
both builders of sculptures
Gino Severini "Dancer (1912)"
clean contours, distinct shapes evoke fragmented glimpses of a dancer wiring in space. Vibrant colors contrast with the black paper.
Helen Oji "Mount st. Hellens"
color and texture stimulates unbridled power of one of the worlds few active volcanoes
Georges pierre-seurat "at the concert europeen"
contrast of tones. looks like smudges for people on a stage with a conductor. white paper seems to illuminate the stage
Franz Gertruz "Silvia"
contrasting textures, sharp realism. Portait of a young hispanic woman.
George Condo and Mark Bardenburg
contrasting works, pencil can be manipulated to achieve dramatically different effects that compliment the subject.
George Condo "Study for the Jester"
cross hatching, wavy/ curly lines, quick zigzag scribbles comprise facial features. Looks like a scary disconfigured portrait of a man/robot.
CAI GUO-Qiang "Drawing for transcient rainbow"
dark brown dots in one circular patter on tinted brown paper.
Wash
diluted ink that typically is applied with a brush
Egyptian papyrus
drawings and ancient scrolls
wood engraving
effects differ significantly from those of woodcuts.
softground etching
employs a ground of softened wax, and can be used to render the effects of crayon or pencil drawings.
graphite
encased within wood or paper. Composed of ground dust mixed with clay that is baked until hardened.
Drypoint
engrazing with a simple twist.
Buon Fresco
executed on damp, lime plaster
David Hockney "Punchnello with block"
exercised gouching. Looks like a weird puppet next to a block looking off into the distance.
glaze
finishing coat over the tempera painting
charcoal
first used by cave men. Smudged or rubbed to create hazy effect.
Tempera
ground pigments mixed with a vehicle of egg yolk, to look thick and gooey.
gesso
ground was generally a combination of powdered chalk or plaster and animal glue.
Emil Nolde "Still life, Tulips"
he turned to water color when he was forbidden to pain by NAZIS in WWII
burin/graver
incision tools.
gauffrage
inkless intaglio.
intaglio
intaglio prints are created by using metal plates in which lines have been incised.
nib
mass produced metal tip
cartoon
means paper in italian
etching
minimal pressure is exerted to determine the depth of a line.
Karin Davie "Between my eyes and heart no.12"
oil pant. Warm colors, doesn't really look like anything just a bunch of curved lines.
silverpoint
oldest drawing medium (middle ages-1950s). Created by dragging a silver tipped implement over a surface that has been coated with a ground.
Encaustic
one of the first methods of applying color to a surface. Its pigment in a wax vehicle that has been heated to a liquid state.
Howardena pindell "Water/ancestors/Middle passage/family ghosts"
paint and fabric construction. Blue background with random bits of fabric and a center piece of a person.
Fresco Secco
painting on dry plaster
Quills
plucked from live birds
Magna artwork ex. japaneese print cartoons
realistic, looks like pop art with written expressions and dots on paper.
Jean Dubuffet "Garden"
scribbles of varying thickness outlying organic shapes. Looks like a man sitting on a bunch of trash
rosemarie trockel "untitled (1992)"
sculpture looking, but on paper (handprint piece)
Garry Kelly "Promotion for the Mississippi Delta Blues festival" mimics Archibald J. Motley Jr.'s Harlem jazz age. (107)
sensual and arithmetic pastel drawing, zigzag composition contributes to life and movement. Contrasts harsh suit with curvy woman in response to his music. (pastel)
Drawings
served artists as a kind of shorthand method for recording ideas.
Chen Xuhai "Golden Autumn"
signature landscape of an aging face. Wood cuts with short lines varying directions.
ground
sort of base layer-of bone dust-or chalk mixed with gum, water, and pigment.
John Matos "arcadia revisited"
spray paint on canvas. Parody of his own subway style in a complex canvas work.
serigraphy/silkscreen printing
stencils are used to create the design or image.
liftground
the artist creates the illusion that brush and ink drawing by actually brushing sugar and water onto a resin coated plate.
hatcher
the entire metal plate is worked over with a curved, multi toothed implement.
carication
the gross exaggeration and distortion of natural features
relief printing
the matrix is carved with knives or gouges.
woodcut
the oldest form of printmaking. Ancient Chinese stamped patterns onto textiles and paper using carved blocks.
aquaint
the subtle tonal graduations achieved by the mezzotint process can be duplicated with a much easier and quicker etching technique.
stylus
the wooden part of the pencil
Follower of Rebrandt van riji "Head of st. Matthew"
thick brush strokes, face. Big beard
transferred image
aquarelle
transparent films of paint are applied to white, absorbent surface.
calligraphy
type of fancy writing
Dry Mediums (definition)
used in drawing include silverpoint, pencil, charcoal, chalk, pastel, and wax crayon.
engrazing
used to decorate metal surfaces. The depth of the line corresponds to the amount of force used to push or puller draw over a surface.
Fluid medium
used to make a drawing in ink
Photorealism
uses transparent watercolor ingeniously.
Honore Daumier "Council for the Defense"
variety of things used to make this piece. Taunting illustration of the theatrics employed by a defense attorney to win sympathy for his client.
Gouache
watercolor mixed with a high concentration of vehicle and an opaque ingredient such as chalk
Colored Pencil
wax like cores mixed with pigment and other substances surrounded.
Gabriel Orozco "Untitled (handprints)"
way of putting ink on paper
A Painting
work in which the primary aspect is liquid material applied to a surface with an implement.
Matrix
working surface, varies according to the printmaking technique.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Hagar and Ishmael in the wilderness" v. Dubuffets Garden
you see the difference in the added areas of subtly washed tones.
