Art Appreciation 1301

Pattern

An arrangement of predictably repeated elements

Velazquez, Las Meninas, 1656

Velázquez used Las Meninas to show his importance as a painter and his intimacy with the royal family Combining modes of analysis Formal analysis—Multiple focal points discovered: Princess Margarita King and Queen Velázquez painting Nieto in doorway Contextual analysis Identification of members of the court in scene Biographical analysis Artist's desire to be knighted Artist's relationship with King Philip IV Iconographical analysis Cross on Velázquez

Secondary colors

Violet, orange, green

Isometric perspective

Now common in conemporart computer graphics to allow uniform objects to remain the same size yet move around in a game field. Note "The Sims"

Texture: Louise Bourgeois, Maman, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

Open volume, legs has buoyancy and tension.

Emphasis

The principle of drawing attention to particular content in a work

Proporion

The relationships between the sizes of different parts of a work make up its proportions

Focal Point

The specific part of an area of emphasis to which the artist draws our eye

Foreshortening example

Trinity: Volume 1, Wonder-woman, Superman, and Batman

2D

Two Dimensional- length x width

Unity

Unity refers to the imposition of order and harmony on a design Provides an artwork with its cohesiveness and helps communicate its visual idea

Subject matter: Non- Objective

Unrecognizable

Clamp, Tsubasa RESERVair

Uses line to communicate direction and movement, direct our eyes and, intensify the feeling of movement.

Variety

Variety is a kind of visual diversity that brings many different ideas, media, and elements together in one composition

Complementary color

colors that look good but are opposite of each other. Ex: purple & yellow, red & green, orange & blue.

Simon Rodia, Watt Towers, 1921- 1954

- Construction worker, not a trained artist - Citizens liked the painting - Originally named Nuestro Pueblo

The Journey of the Sun God Re

- Egyptian culture - Reflects importance of rivers - Painted on the inside of coffin - Refers to Egyptian after life

Tea Bowl, 16th Cent., Japanese- Traditional

- Western cultures make a distinction between high art and craft

da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503-6

-Wife of a merchant - Smile makes it unique - Landscape is shown - He was known for painting beautiful hands

Subject matter: Abstraction

Abstracted art

The Great Pyramid of Khufu Giza- There are three pyramids, so precisely done that the greatest difference in length of the sides is ____. Originally encased in fine white limeston. The simplicity of their geometry must have appeared like gigantic crystals in the desert sands.

1 3/4"

Space- techniques to create the illusion of space or depth

1. Size change 2. Overlapping 3. Position 4. Atmospheric Perspective 5. Linear Perspective

Motif

A design repeated as a unit in a pattern

Mass

Colossal Head, Olmec, 1500, Basalt

Factors indicating value

Condition of the work? How prolific was the artist?

Definition and functions of line

Connects two points Defines the boundries between planes Directs the viewer's eye

Psychological Analysis

Considers the mental state of the artist when the artwork was being made and uses this to help interpret the work

Surrealist

Created work drawing on ideas and images from dreams and the unconscious mind.

Implied motion: Bernini, Apollo and Daphne, 1622

Daphne is running because she doesn't want to be raped so she is turned into a tree instead

Subject matter: Representational

Depicts object or people we can recognize

Implied Line

Egon Schiele, Portrait of the Artist's Wife

The Meeting of St. Mathew and St. Paul

Example of expressing a cycle of time Merges a series of episodes into one picture

Alexander Calder, Untitled, 1976

Example of kinetic and performance art

Chuck Close, Self-portrait, 1997

Example of motif

Meret Oppenheim, Object, 1936, fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon

Example of subversive texture

The Taj Mahal, commissioned by Shah Jahan, Agra, India

Example of symmetry

Tell a story

Express a cycle of time

Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814

Feminist analysis: Objectified subject (nude woman in a harem) Male audience/viewer Pose is sensual and submissive

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Decapitating Holofernes

Most of the lightest values in the painting are reserved for the clothing adorning the dead body of St. Bonaventure These create a central focal point that stands out in contrast to the surrounding dark values The whiteness of his clothing symbolizes Bonaventure's spotless reputation Enough light value is distributed to the other figures to allow our eyes to be drawn away from the saint's body, making the composition more interesting

Symmetrical balance

If a work can be cut in half and each side looks exactly (or nearly exactly) the same, then it is symmetrically balanced

Chiaroscuro- from the Italian Renaissance

Italian for "light- dark"

Balance

Just as real objects have physical weight, parts of a work of art can have visual weight or impact If the amount of visual weight does not have a reasonable counterweight on the opposite side, the work may appear to be unsuccessful or unfinished If there are reasonable visual counterweights the work seems complete, and balance has been achieved

Actual motion

Kinetic and performance art Kinetic art plays out the passage of time through an art object, usually a sculpture, which moves

Marc Quinn, Self, 1991

Made art of 8-10 pints of his own blood and froze it

Rembrandt van Rijn, Self-portrait

Made more than 100 self-portraits; this piece was stolen many times, his paintings are small, piece is made of copper & oil, worth $35 million

Texture: Frank Gehry, Guggenheim Museum, 1997, Bilbao, Spain

Museum is made of titanium and is reflective; designed to look like a ship; looks reflective & 'airy' Guggenheim.

Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer II, 1912

Painted is the painter's girlfriend; he painted his wives and sisters, sold in 2006 for $87.9 million

Fine Art

Painting, drawing, sculptures, sometimes print

Edward Hopper, Nighthawks, 1942

Psychological analysis: Made during America's entry into World War II Emotion conveyed through figures and setting

Primary colors

Red, Yellow, Blue

Foreshortening

Results from the rules of perspective applied to represent unusual points

Feminist Analysis

Role of women as: Artists Subjects Viewers

Implied motion

Showing time and a story in a painting

Relief vs. In the round

Stela with supernatural scene, Mexico or Guatemala, 761 CE., Limestone (bas- relief)

Subversive Texture

Tactile conflicts with actual experience. Hidden.

Hierachical scale

The deliberate use of relative size in a work of art, in order to communicate differences in importance

Color: Four basic properties- Hue

The general classification of a color as seen in the vidible spectrum

Emphasis and subordination

The opposite of emphasis is subordination Subordination draws our attention away from certain areas of a work

Asymmetrical balance

When artists organize a composition they often use different visual "weights"on each side of it

Radial Symmetry

achieved when all elements in a work are equidistant from a central point and repeat in a symmetrical way from side to side and top to bottom