Introduction to Modern Art and Society

LECTURE I

Where do artists work?

Where do artists work?

Who are artists?

Where do artists work?

Who are artists?

What is the art world?

Where do artists work?

Who are artists?

What is the art world?

How to look at a painting.

Where do artists work?

Who are artists?

What is the art world?

How to look at a painting.

How to look at subject-matter.

Where do artists work?

Who are artists?

What is the art world?

How to look at a painting.

How to look at subject-matter.

Where to look at modern art.

!6th century Artist’s Workshop

Seventeenth Century Artist’s Workshop

Ecole des beaux Arts,

Paris.

Mid-19th century

Jan Vermeer, The Artist and His Model,

!7th century

Caspar David Friedrich’s studio, 1812

Gustave

Courbet,

‘The Artist’s

Studio’

1849-50

Francis bacon’s Studio, London, 1950’s – 1980’s

Andy Warhol,

‘The Factory’.

New York, 1960’s

Anselm Kiefer’s studio, 2000

Summer Mountains, Northern Song dynasty (960–1127), 11th century. Attributed to Qu Ding (Chinese, active ca. 1023–ca. 1056) Handscroll; ink and pale color on silk

Cloudy MountainsMi Youren (Chinese, 1074–1151)Handscroll; ink on paper

Vincent van Gogh’s last painting.

Jackson Pollock painting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kRAJW4Atjo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGG_QJjnRbA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRSgxaVx2vo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHkGu6e0R4I

Johannes Itten, Bauhaus, 1920’s

Tracey Emin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE9XoOgSY3w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq7WkSuTcrs

Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds cover half of the Tate's Turbine Hall. 2010.

Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome

Salon, 1827

Salon, Nineteenth Century, France

Suh Do Ho

Art Scene WarehouseShanghai, China

Lee Ufan exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2011

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1qZflfKiN0

Kim Sooja

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZ8bzy6Mrko

New Delhi, India, Art Fair 2011

Piero della Francesca, ‘Baptism of Christ’, 1450

Paul Cezanne, ‘Large Bathers’, 1898-1905

Top: Medieval TriptychTop Right: Sandro Botticelli, 1470’sBottom Right: Jean Fouquet, c.1510

Top: Victorian PaintingLeft: Contemporary Indian PaintingBottom; Picasso, 1920’s

Bottom Left: Mark Rothko, 1950’s

Left: Italian Renaissance, 1480’s

Bottom: Northern Renaissance, 1530’s

Left: Mark Rothko Right: Caspar David Friedrich

Left: Hiroshige, 1860’s, Right: Van Gogh, 1880’s