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Good Afternoon Wednesday July 6th
Visual Journal Check
Today: The Themesof Art
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DevelopingVisual
Literacy
Words and
Images
Rene Magritte,The Interpretation of Dreams,1930Rene Magritte, The Interpretation of
Dreams,1930
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Rene Magritte, The Treason of Images, 1929
Words and Images Work Together?
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I Caught a Fish Thiiiiis big!
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The Power of the Image
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I Caught a
Fish Thiiiiisbig!
Words and Images are 2 different systems of describing the world
Words refer to the
world in the abstractImages reproduce
its appearance
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Words used to Describe Art:
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A work of art is either
Representational
Abstract
Nonrepresentational
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Representational Art:representing or reproducing the world
in varying degrees
Types of Representational Art:
RealisticNaturalistic
Figurative
Illusionistic
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Trompe Loeil(Fool-the-eye)
P S E & G Substation, New Brunswick
NJ
Before Mural
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Illusionistic or Trompe Loeil
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Abstract Art:Expressing objects and images in a simplified wayto take
fromthe essence of something.
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Nonrepresentational Art:art that makes no reference to the visual world the
artwork is the reality
also called nonobjective art
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Piet Mondrian, Trees, 1907-10
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Piet Mondrian, Compositions
Nonrepresentational Art
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Conventions and Art
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Conventionshabits of your
culture
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Art and Beauty
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Picasso, Dora Maar Picasso, Olga in an Armchair
Art and Realism
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Form and
Content
Form = what you see
(materials, designelements,
composition)
Content = the
interpretation of what
you see
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as Form changes Contentchanges
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Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini
and his Bride, 1434, 33
x 22 o/panel
15th Century Art in
Northern Europe
Iconography= the set of symbols
used and recognized by the peopleas having specific meaning
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Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini
and his Bride, 1434, 33
x 22 o/panel
15th Century Art in
Northern Europe
Iconography = the symbols used by
artists and their meaning
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The Themes of Life
become the
Themes of Art
Nature
Genre
Still-Life
Portraits
Politics
ReligionFantasy
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Theme:
Nature
Albrecht Durer, The Large Turf,15th Century
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Georgia OKeeffe,
Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930
Theme:
Nature
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Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1873
Theme: Nature
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Monets Haystacks
Theme: Nature
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Theme: Nature
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Theme: RELIGION
Dome of the Rock, 692,
Jerusalem
The Great Stupa,
Sanchez, India, 3rd c.
BCE - 1st c. CE
Chartres Cathedral,
13th century
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Buddha, 13th century
Jan van Eyck, God, 1432
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Genre: Art about Everyday Life
Pierre August Renoir, Boating
Party, 1880-81
William Johnson, Going
to Church, 1940
Court Ladies Preparing
Newly Woven Silk, 1082
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Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini and
Giovanna Cenami. 1434
Marriage
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Akhenaten and Family, 1350 BCE
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and Death
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Vanitas = vanity
designed to invoke a higher order of thought
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Vanitas also called
Momento Mori = a reminder
of death
Invocation, 1982 64 x 80"
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Hans Holbein the
Younger, The
Ambassadors, 1533
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Hans Holbein's
The
Ambassadors
Anamorphic
Skull
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Th d S d Fi ld T i
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Thursday Sunday Field Trip:
The National Gallery
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The National Gallery
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The Courtauld Gallery next week
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