ART HISTORY INTRODUCTION

Over the year we will study:

Visual Art; pictures, sculpture, and architectureHistoryGeographyArchaeologyCultural IdentitiesReligionPhilosophySocial Issues

-describe the benefits of studying the history of art-discuss the artistic impulse-understand the different ways are is valued-explain the comparison of artists with gods-compare the use of space in two- and three-dimensional objects-distinguish between art history and archaeology-describe the methodologies of art and cite examples of each-understanding the dating systems AD and BC

Vincent Van Gogh Self Portrait before his Easel

Pyramids of Giza in Egypt

Parthenon in Athens Greece

Reims Cathdral France Gothic Architecture

Constantine BrancusiBird in Space 

Leonardo DaVinci  Mona Lisa

White Temple Ziggurat remains of Uruk- present day Iraq

Stele of Hammurabi Law Code

Metope reliefs (known as the Elgin Marbles) from the Parthenon in Athenson display in the British Museum

Venus with Mirror (Rokeby Venus) Diego Velazquez

The Betrayal of Images Rene Magritte

 Duane Hanson sculpture- Cowboy

Der Schöpfer als Weltenmesser  The Creator as Geometer  Bible Moralisée  ca. 1250

Tower of Babel Pieter Bruegel The Elder

Arrangement in Black and Gray James Abbott McNeill Whistler

Jan van Eyck, The Virgin in a Church, c. 1410 - 25

Meret Oppenheimer   Fur covered Cup Saucer and Spoon

-list and define the formal elements of art.-identify the expressive qualities of line, shape, and color.

-understand the nature of linear perspective.-compare shading with shadow.

-describe the color wheel and the properties of color.  -explain the relationship of black and white to color.

-use stylistic terminology to describe an image.

abstractachromatic analogous huesasymmetrical balancebiomorphicchromachromaticcolor wheelcomplementary colorcomposition contourcross-hatchingforeshortenedformal elementsgeometrichatchinghueidealized

illusionisticintensitylinearmodelingmonochromaticnaturalisticneutralorganicperspective picture plane

pigmentprimary colorrealismrectilinearromanticizedsaturationsecondary colorshadingstylizedsymmetrytertiary colorintermediate colortexturethree-dimensionalvaluevanishing pointvisible spectrum