Prefatory slide lecture_2_
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Basic properties of Art
Form and content
• Form refers to purely visual aspects of art.
• Content refers to non-visual aspects of art .
Form
• Line
• Shape
• Color
• Space
• composition
Line
• Implied - movement of the viewer’s eyes follows a path determined by the artist
• Actual – when it is visible
• Expressionistic• Classical • Romantic
Barnet Newman, “Onement I” 1960s
Titian, Assumption and Consecration of the Virgin 1516-1518
David, “Death of Socrates” 1787
Delacroix, “Death of Sardanapalus” 1828
Color
• Hue
• Value
• Saturation
• Complementary colors
• Cool and warm colors
Texture
• Actual
• Implied
space
• Is what contains objects – Actual and 3 dimensional – Represented illusionistically in two
dimensions– Picture plane– Foreground, middleground, background– objects
Perspective
• Overlapping
• Dimunition
• Vertical and diagonal perspective
• Atmospheric perspective
Content
• Social, political, religious , economic contexts
• Intention of the artist
• Reception of the work
• Meanings of the work to both artist and viewer
Subject vs Subject Matter
Style
• Period style• Regional style • Representational styles
– Realism– Naturalism – Idealism Abstract styles
nonrepresentational expressionism