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- 1What is a formal analysis? Horizontal lines suggest a feeling of rest or repose because objects parallel to the earth are at rest. In this landscape, horizontal lines also help give a sense of space. The lines delineate sections of the landscape, which recede into space. They also imply continuation of the landscape beyond the picture plane to the left and right.Vertical lines often communicate a sense of height because they are perpendicular to the earth, extending upwards toward the sky. In this church interior, vertical lines suggest spirituality, rising beyond human reach toward the heavens.
- 2Shape and form define objects in space. Shapes have two dimensions–height and width–and are usually defined by lines. Forms exist in three dimensions, with height, width, and depth.Formal analysis assumes a work of art is:
• A constructed object with a stable meaning
• Can be ascertained by studying the relationship between the elements of work
• If the elements are “cohere” the work is meaningful - 3Line is a mark with greater length than width. Lines can be horizontal, vertical, or diagonal; straight or curved; thick or thin. Shape is a closed line. Shapes can be geometric, like squares and circles; or organic, like free-form or natural shapes. Shapes are flat and can express length and width. Forms are three-dimensional shapes expressing length, width, and depth. Balls, cylinders, boxes, and pyramids are forms.Space is the area between and around objects. The space around objects is often called negative space; negative space has shape. Space can also refer to the feeling of depth. Real space is three-dimensional; in visual art, when we create the feeling or illusion of depth, we call it space.
- 4Color is light reflected off of objects. Color has three main characteristics: hue (the name of the color, such as red, green, blue, etc.), value (how light or dark it is), and intensity (how bright or dull it is). • White is pure light; black is the absence of light. • Primary colors are the only true colors (red, blue, and yellow). All other colors are mixes of primary colors. • Secondary colors are two primary colors mixed together (green, orange, violet). • Intermediate colors, sometimes called tertiary colors, are made by mixing a primary and secondary color together. Some examples of intermediate colors are yellow green, blue green, and blue violet. • Complementary colors are located directly across from each other on the color wheel (an arrangement of colors along a circular diagram to show how they are related to one another). Complementary pairs contrast because they share no common colors. For example, red and green are complementsTexture is the surface quality that can be seen and felt. Textures can be rough or smooth, soft or hard. Textures do not always feel the way they look; for example, a drawing of a porcupine may look prickly, but if you touch the drawing, the paper is still smooth.
- 5Principles of design: Balance is the distribution of the visual weight of objects, colors, texture, and space. If the design was a scale, these elements should be balanced to make a design feel stable. In symmetrical balance, the elements used on one side of the design are similar to those on the other side; in asymmetrical balance, the sides are different but still look balanced. In radial balance, the elements are arranged around a central point and may be similarEmphasis is the part of the design that catches the viewer’s attention. Usually the artist will make one area stand out by contrasting it with other areas. The area could be different in size, colour, texture, shape, etc.
- 6Movement is the path the viewer’s eye takes through the work of art, often to focal areas. Such movement can be directed along lines, edges, shape, and colour within the work of art.Pattern is the repeating of an object or symbol all over the work of art.
Repetition works with pattern to make the work of art seem active. The repetition of elements of design creates unity within the work of art.
Proportion is the feeling of unity created when all parts (sizes, amounts, or number) relate well with each other. When drawing the human figure, proportion can refer to the size of the head compared to the rest of the body
Rhythm is created when one or more elements of design are used repeatedly to create a feeling of organized movement. Rhythm creates a mood like music or dancing. To keep rhythm exciting and active, variety is essential.
Variety is the use of several elements of design to hold the viewer’s attention and to guide the viewer’s eye through and around the work of art.
Unity is the feeling of harmony between all parts of the work of art, which creates a sense of completeness. - 7Lecture for week 1 Image: people riding horses holding swords, black and white, wood cut, line is used to outline and give definition, shading and some depth Albrecht Dürer, Four Horseman of the Apocalypse, woodcut (ca.1497-98)Painting full of lines (looks like and illusion) waves back and forth, think and thin lines ribbon effect, dense toward bottom of painting, vibration of lines. Look at it from a distance.
Bridget Riley, Fall, polyvinyl acetate paint on hardboard (1963) - 8Image is shown as a swirl on the beach linear elements, line of large scale, black rock earth crystal water, hydraulic shovel used to create. Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, black basalt rock, salt crystals, earth, water (1970)Painting, oil, strong horizontal line across canvas, stability, general sense of depth
Claude Monet, Poppy Field, Argenteuil, oil on canvas (1875) - 9Stable background, powerful curve of road, dramatic diagonal curve, bent trees, floating papers make u look from one side to the other Katsushika Hokusai, “Ejiri in Suruga Province” (Sunshū Ejiri) from the series “Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji,” colour woodblock (1830-1833)Week 2: what does art look like?
- 101) Frank P. Wood Gallery Room 123, west wall Francis Bacon, Studies of the Human Body, 1975 Oil on canvas • Fairly large scale 6 feet • 2 figures, vaguely human figures • human body parts, manly • Darkness and anxiety • Humanity that is distorted1) Reuben Wells Leonard Memorial Gallery Room 117, east wall Frans Snyders and Cornelis de Vos, Evisceration of a Roebuck with Portrait of Married Couple, around 1625 Oil on wood
• Animals being cut open on a table, rabbit, boar lobster
• Animals hung in the background in front of a window
• Lady is holding a tray of fruit
• Shows wealth, clothes are too nice to be getting dirty but they don’t care
• Portrait of a couple, women is behind, man is cutting the buck
- 111) Thomson Collection of European Art Room 108, glass case on south wall Pendants and locket, #9-16 Various materials including boxwood, ivory, gold, silver, precious gemstones and enamel • Gold pendants and lockets mostly used for praying or private use not meant to be displayed • Small ivory gold silver stones • Inside each scene is a iconic event, detailed doors and windows like a church you carry • Last super crucifixion1) Georgia Ridley Salon Room 234, east wall Kathleen Munn, Untitled (Cows on a Hillside), around 1916 #72 in the “Art in the Institution” guide by the benches Oil on canvas
• Bright and colourful, broad, mix of warm and cool
• Wet pasty paint on canvas, not blended, sloppy brush stroke checker board pattern
• Cows surrounded by trees and hills
• Contrast between colors to create highlighted portions of the body
• Colour is what creates the shape in this painting
• Made by a woman, not would have been allowed into salon
- 125) John Ridley Gallery Room 232, south wall Yvonne McKague Housser, Untitled (Veronica?), around 1933 Oil on canvas • Detailed face • Background series of houses and a sky with some clouds their simple • Face is more blended and trying to capture the face • At this period rare to see images of black bodies • European art is usually shown black bodies in exotic paintings not like this more neutral • What is this women’s role?1) Sandra Rotman Gallery Room 507 Brian Jungen, 1960, 1970, and 1980, all from 2007 Polyester, metal and painted sonotube
• Material, golf bags positioned to create towers
• Distinct shapes, totem pole resemblance
• Repurposed material black is common to these bags
• Use of form line, a thick black line to delineate a selection of shapes
- 13Week 3 What is Contemporary Art?Podcast about what is contemporary art
• Gives examples of what art is and the limits of art
• Indicates quality
• What is modern art? and that you need to know contemporary art to understand modern art
• Art can serve a dual function and was not bound to any ideas
• How does an object become art?
• 19th impressionism, Monet
• Redefines boundaries of modernism
• Fluid and flexible - 14Week 5 How did museums end up in charge of art? • Ennigaldi – Nanna’s museum (oldest) c 530 CE • Iraq being dug upGreeks and Romans
• Personal rooms in houses
• Display expensive art in their homes
• Public plaza
Cabinet of curiosities
• Traveled to lands far away
• Stuffed animals - 15Ashmotean Museum (England oxford) • Notable collection, cultures • No text labels, ado cent walk you through to explain Muse du louver (paris france) • Display royal collection • First salon de peinture 1699 • Gallery apollon • 380000 works, most visited in the world • most studied • Leonardo da Vinci la GiacondaLecture
• 1st picture shows Sense of order when organizing animals and bones
• 2nd picture shows boxes labelled full of shells and animal parts
• in Latin language
• wanted the viewers to lean about history - 163rd picture • warrior, pen ink watercolour • shrunken human head on the stick • he wears a head dress • looks African heritage, imagination of artist instead of life • feather skirt and sick from different places which are uncommon4th picture
• oxford museum
5th picture
• shows how things were organized
• all the north Americans in one space
• great plains and eastern woodland in another space ect…
• wall of harpoons all over the world - 177th picture • another gallery • The bedroom of Sir John Soane’s wife, Eliza from the Sir John Soane Museum, London, England • Only let 70 people in at one time Anna Hudson who worked at the AGO • Does the museum collect or just have exhibitions? • Curator take care of the objects • Different types of curators, her role was doing research, going to auctionsWeek 7 artist run centers
• Artist run so different from a museum, distinct difference offers production facilities
• Artist run center, studio for artists, residence attached
• Less info structure in artist run center
• Time lines are different, received traveling exhibition, artist who wanted to complete a project
• Commercial gallery would be more experimental as well and sales being made - 18Canadian artist-run centres (ARC or ARCs) are a series of galleries and art spaces developed by artists in Canada since the 1960s. Artist-run centre is the common term of use for artist-initiated and managed organizations in Canada. Centres follow the not-for-profit arts organization model, do not charge admission fees, are non-commercial and de-emphasize the selling of work.commercial art galleries are professionally run businesses that derive their profit from sales of artwork, therefore take great care to select art and artists that they believe will sell and will enhance their gallery's reputation. This is basically why these are the most difficult to get into but also the most important to be in. They spend time and money cultivating collectors. If the artwork sells, the gallery makes a profit and the artist is then paid.
- 19Week 8 how artists represented peopleLecture
• Europe and middle east Augustus, anyone who resisted him would be punished
• Attempted to communicate disobedience
• He deserved to lead them is what he told people because he was emperor
• Portrait statures, deliver narratives and social identities
• stature of Augustus, status by definition that can’t be shared, he is depicted in military uniform - 20—Piet Mondrian, Composition in Red, Blue, and Yellow, oil on
canvas (1937-42)
- 21—Katsushika Hokusai, “Ejiri in Suruga Province” (Sunshū Ejiri) from the series “ThirtySix
Views of Mt. Fuji,” colour woodblock (1830-1833)
- 22—Sonia Delaunay, Simultané playing cards (1964)
- 23—Caspar David Friedrich, A Walk at Dusk, oil on canvas (c. 1830-1835)
- 24—J. M. W. Turner, Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhoon
Coming On), oil on canvas (1840)
- 25—Meret Oppenheim, Object, Fur-covered cup, saucer, and spoon (1936)
- 26—J. M. W. Turner, Rain, Steam, Speed – The Great Western Railway, oil on canvas (1844)
- 27—Claude Monet, The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in the
Early Morning Light, oil on canvas (1894)
- 28—Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles D’Avignon, oil on canvas (1907)
- 29—Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, porcelain (1917)
- 30—Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, Thomas Gainsborough, oil on canvas (c. 1750)
- 31—Mr. and Mrs. Andrews Without Their Heads, Yinka Shonibare, wax-print cotton
costumes on mannequins, dog mannequin, painted metal bench, rifle (1998)
- 32—Souvenirs of the Self (Rocky Mountain Bus Tour),
Jin-me Yoon, photograph (1991-2000)
- 33• Detail of his breast place, a gift from a successor • Baby clinged to his leg, actually cupid riding a dolphin • Augustus would have been wearing sandals in a Greek sculpture not barefoot but gods are shown barefoot • Money picture, • Napoleon portrait, considered himself to be a history painter • Napoleon thinked of himself as a successor • Seated on a throne so recall image of god • Power pose communicates stability • Did decide to crown himself emperor of France • Wild body, distinction between nature and culture • Beast of forest • Natural urges tended to be sin needed to be tamed • Hair guy placed in a tree, he is hairy and naked showing he is one with nature• A few images of the hairy man, wild man is a threat to girls saving their virginity
• There were also wild women and children too
• Woman sits with a unicorn she is with sexuality, stroking unicorn
• Image of a wild man holding arrows and a crossbow, long hair and beard while women is touching her breast
• Next slide cannibalism, eating meat from a wooden structure, man chewing on an arm
• Men all have beards and lots of unicorns
• abduction of daughter by the Indians,
• sexual Menes, take her into the darkness of the forest
• sexuality was strictly forbidden, negative desires
• repressed desire, erotic fantasies, shown in romance novels
• middles ages were religion and the church, the donor painting, convectional scene
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