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CHAPTER 5Art
•Art dates back to cave paintings-humans want to depict what they see
•All art is a form of imitation
•Some art strives for likeness (trying to be as close to reality as possible) also referred to as realism in this chapter
•Other art strives for imitation(the transference of what is experienced outside or inside the artist)
The Need to Imitate
Creating Likeness in Different StylesClassical Art Medieval Art Classicism-balanced
and harmonious art in Athens and Rome
Imitated real people, but perfected them (flawless)
Used marble or stone Valued balance and
harmony
Goal: remind the faithful of the life and death of Jesus, Mary, the saints, disciples
Elaborate churches, stained glass, mosaics, embroidery
Presents the idea, not a faithful representation of subject
Renaissance Art“Rebirth” of interest in classical knowledge and art
Renaissance artists combined classical discipline with the demand for freedom of expression
The Renaissance constitutes the greatest single revolution in the history of Western art and thought
Fillipo Lippi Leonardo da Vinci Michelangelo Raphael Sophonisba Anguissola Artemisia Gentileschi
Dutch SchoolMaster painters were able to reproduce faces, figure and landscapes with the greatest accuracy possible until the invention of the camera
Rembrandt Famous for chiaroscuro
(use of light and dark to create realism)
Interested in psychological realism, the character behind the face
Impressionism
Attempt to be realistic is abandoned and instead the artists projects a subjective experience of the world as color and light.
Famous Impressionists
Edouard Manet Claude Monet Berthe Morisot Mary Cassatt
Post-Impressionism
Art during the late 19th and early 20th centuries resembles but is not strict Impressionism
Not realistic or abstract
Vincent van Gogh-starving artist not recognized during his lifetime
Art as Alteration
modernism postmodernism Art produced in the
late 19th century to late 20th century
Art produced from the late 20th century to modern day
Both of these movements are connected to art as alteration-artists who do not even start with the familiar but want to impose something new on the world
Abstract Art Wassily Kandinsky-form is
all that matters in art (pleasing arrangements of line and color).
Painting should provide an experience of the beautiful
“color could become music”
Cubism
Picasso
Braque
Artist breaks down the field of vision into discontinuous segments or in which the artist shows a number of visual events taking place simultaneously
GuernicaPicasso’s depiction of a Nazi bombing of the city of Guernica. Turned the bombing victims into a wild fragment of atrocities. One of the most powerful anti-war statements ever made. Considered one of the great artworks of all time.
Surrealism
Popular style, employs recognizable shapes and forms put together in unrecognizable contexts
Imitates the world of dreams and the unconscious mind
Dali –tortured artist or clever business man?
“Unreal” Realism
Georgia O’Keeffe “art can be
analyzed only by what the artist is doing, not saying.”
Certain shapes leap out
at the artist for whatever reason
Edward Hopper Simplified realism-
leaves out the unimportant
Nighthawks-American Loneliness
Camera Art Pop Art With photography
artists are no longer needed for “realistic” images
Creative artists began experimenting with photos
Alfred Stieglitz Jerry Uelsmann
Influenced by comic books, movies, billboards
Makes a statement about American culture, endless fads/superficiality
Claes Oldenburg Andy Warhol
Performance Art
Event, artists want to create a momentary stir and then be seen or heard no more
Orson Wells (film director) cited as founder of the movement
War of the Worlds Installation Art- Edward Kienholz (Still Live) Christo (installations around the
globe)
Architecture
Serves dual purpose: provides shelter for our needs (work, play, worship, education) and it alters our reality most noticeably
Architecture is considered art is the interplay between form and function (what it looks like and what purpose it serves)
ArchitectureReligious Architecture Secular Architecture Building created for
worship or meditation are among the finest achievements in world architecture
Viewed as public art, conflicts inevitably arise