Painting with Blue and red Barnett Newman, Voice of Fire, 1967 Owned by the national gallery of Canada, museums try to get these different collections. Very close to Canada culture, shown at the expo 67 in Montréal, the world’s fair. When the work came up for by the widow by the artist, the museum thought, it was a great idea, and offered a much lower price than what she could get at auction. But the how this work defies our expectations in art. One of those are is representation. Art should represent something, it seems to reject and deny it. If the red and blue and been jumbled up it would look like fruit sitting on the table it would look closer to art sitting on the table. But Newman intention in painting thought, it was much more widely accessible, something that everybody can understand. His intention was to create an artistic vocabulary and have a universal appeal. He was hoping to achieve something cross-cultural, but it was naïve on the artist’s part. It’s not just its not representational. It also doesn’t tell a story, that’s what we count on, on art to tell us a story. Although, art can only show you a moment of the story. The newman said he was inspired by the old testament in the bible. How we look at it and bring our own expectations of art is much more literal. He does something symbol. He is representing a timeless essence in the story. I’m showing you the essence of the story. The difference between an art work and the expectations of art. It seems to not show any technical skills. Why this painting is controversial? Its controversial because its skill doesn’t appeal to art. Because public money bought for 1.7 billion, they believed that the dollar value did not match based on the type of skill that It is showing.
Van Gogh, Vincent. Still Life: Vase with Fifteen Sunflowers, 1888 The quality of genius, what defines genius? Someone like van gogh was not recognized in his time; very few people thought he was talented. But after his death, he almost immediately became popular. There has being a rising in the popularity in his work till this day. The dollar value that they attract when they are sold. Vincent van gogh he is referred to as an icon of artist genius. It’s not because of the particular work he did but the myth of the kind of a person he was. The myth has to do with he carried on for 10 years of his careers without even being recognized, he put in a lot of personal sacrifice. the sense of genuine self-expression, he created that and he was the first artists to make an subject of his view of the world. He painted in the time he lived in the world he was in at the present. The each of the flowers has its own mood. His signature in the vase suggests it’s a kind of a self-portrait of his art. Why is this considered to be the work of a genius? Talk about the technique, he has this unfinished quality to it, looks sketchy, not polished. He did not go to any great lengths to make his picture to look perfectly polished and finished that a lot of the other art lovers expected back then. He left it quite rough in the technique. There are lots of his letters that survive to this day, he talks about in his letters of the process of creating art. He does not to hide the process of making art but to show that and make it evident in making the art as the end result. The very strong sense of passionate commitment despite of being mentally and emotionally grounded, he had big struggle. He didn’t have a mental order, he always felt like siting were rushing by him. He took that send of disorientation and feeling cast at sea and channeled it as the sea, is what we consider is genius.
The Parthenon, built from 477 to 438 B.C., Athens, Greece The roles of art plays in society and in history in different cultures. (greek building) Discuss this work as temple but also a center of the community of ancient Athens. It was the destination of the procession of the great recession to the apocalypse. How it symbolizes the Greek aesthetics from the great period in greek history. These high points in civilization. Today it is only fragment of what is used to be. And how it looked like in its glory day, All painted. He had the great statues of gold statue of Athena. From an artistic point of view, it was a giant sculpture, and to interact with the building and to walk in and around the columns. The greeks actually believed that in the human body is the perfect thing that gods ever created. The god themselves represented human beings and so they based their architecture in the human body. The columns were actually statures of human figures. The sense that they are thinner in the top and thicker at the bottom and seem to reflect of the weight of the columns, it just an illusion it’s just a stone. The precise geometry of the elevation so that theory is this slight bowing of the floor level it is slightly convex and even the columns bow outwards. There is this really precise optical illusion by this very slight curbing of the building to seem like it is breathing and moving. The building is moving make you feel like that. There I s also a musical analogy, the linear decoration on it is called FLUTING, it suggesting, the string of the guitar. It express all of the important ideas of beauty aesthetics ideas of beauty, human scale, music, community, and Athena.
The “Anavyssos” Kouros, carved in approximately 530 BCE. Aphrodite of Milos (called “Venus de Milo”), 130-120 BCE. Natural expression: Curose from a period called the arckeic period of greek art. 530 BCE. Couple of hundred years before the Parthanon.on the right the late rgreek work of Milos/. Strong difference between the two. There is a presence of a real human figure on the right, but the left one is completely frozen, just looking in one direction. In the evolution and progress in greek art, one of them is the idea of natural representation. Representation the human body and how it functions in space. This leaning on one leg because we all do that, (statue on the right) so it’s a natural representation that way we work. And by the time this sculpture was created, they had a standard approach of leaning on one leg and a one quarter turn with moving the upper body. Back then, writers and art lovers referred to this as the classic S curve, the letter S. its based on observation and still more beautiful in the greek mind than any real person it can be. This was the idea of art in the greek society in term of beauty. They acquainted beauty with virtue. Statue on the right” where are her arms? “he was dug up in a farmer’s field in the 1820 and she was found her without her arms. They would carve the arms separately in the ancient times. So they would have just attached it separately. So that’s why she is so mysterious to us today, this is an intact examples of greek, the missing arms add to the mystery, if she had arms, it would be less interesting.
Western facade of Chartres Cathedral, built for the most part from 1140 to 1150. Western façade of Westminster Abbey, London. Begun 1245 The role of art in this long period of art called the middle ages: western history from about 400 to 1400 BCE. Two examples of the cathedrals which were the full expression of the embodiment of the whole world view in the middle ages. The cathedral on the right: west minister abbey. Its the western the cathedral always pointed towards the east, in the direction of jerursalem. Talked about his very strong symbolism that was intended with every part and aspect of the church. The cathedral is place where this bishop resides. The cathedral on the left, the rose window represents and symbolic on different levels it was dedicated to Mary purity but its also symbolic of the setting sun. the setting sun is also the last judgments that is going to come that happens and everyone should be preparing for that. You are reminded as you walk in not only of Mary purity but also that it s going to come to an end. There is also the third association of the crown of thorns that Christ Torne. Even the building itself, was beautiful painted in white and gold. It supposed to look like a miracle as if it is being held up by God, divine power. Soaring height so big. The sculpture you see in the stained glass windows, it has symbolic function. It has a story telling, teaching function, it was also important for the pilgrimages that came to these cities to visit the most holy sites. This was where all the artistic actives happed in the middle ages.
Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling, 1508 – 1512, Vatican Slide of the ceiling: The period of the Renaissance. The reason its called the re-birth because there was a sudden increase in interest in ancient greek and roman culture and ideas. During the renaissance people suddenly looked back at the art of the middle ages and saw it as being very superstious, repetitive and unoriginal. Yea we need to get away from that, because it seemed to represent fear. In the renaissance, the role of art changed it was not only to illustrate, to tell stories or to express something symbolic but were given freedom and license to interpret stories. And to interpret their one intake of the meaning. The work of Macngelo, the sistien chaple ceiling. Some of the scenes, god is creating the sun and moon, god is giving Adam life, god is separating light and dark. This was important because macangleo was going against the priest, because the priest would guide on how these arts should be produced, but mcangleo had its own unique interoperation on what he has his opinions and changing it to create his own effect. Macangloe was really good friend with the pope so he name was Julius kept advising him to keep it down. But they were collaborative and risk taking in creating this materspeice. Really difficulty illusions. Its just a flat ceiling it is all illusions you see it. But macnaglo made It look like real architecture and characters swirling around in space.
Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of an unknown woman (called “Mona Lisa” or “La Gioconda”), c.1503 Famous art piece of all time. How the role of art really changed and it was changed by this picture. How it was a oritingal on many different fronts. It started of being a portrait of a wife named Jaconda and a wide of a banker. It quickly changed into a symbolic important for leonardo da vinci, he kept it with him his whole life, he would take it out and start working on it again and put it away. What is so extraordinary about it now? How different it is from other portraits we see today in that time period. In that time, they had their self-field portrait and be representing something like representing myself as a teacher, or standing front of a house as in representing homeowner of this hose, but if you look at mona lisa,. There is no portrait of status, lineage, and family. Is very deliberately done because it has very opportunity to show that he could have done with showing a book, or a showing her property. She is status less nameless, symbol of something timeless. She is widely interpreted to be a portrait of an idea to be a portrait of a person. She has the perfect of ease, grace and to serious about all the troubles in this world, how to behave. She is an example of how to be and how to behave; she is effect example of IDEALISM, not showing something specific but something timeless. Leonardo likes to start out with darkness and add light into darkness to show he his god like in his art with dark background and to dimly lit figures emerging from the shadows he is close student of nature. It shows that she is made up of nature, her hair is like nature twirling and his water in the background and his landscape seems to be imaginary. His is perky idea of childhood but it’s all eternal, timeless. Leonardo came from the mountains in northern Italy
Michelangelo, David, 1501 – 1504 Nobody in the middle ages thought art could be a reactance creation by micheloagelo of the face of DAVID, it represents a determined look, great statue by michelagelo , not focused on the story of the king DAVID, but he did everything he can to deny the story, the figure itself is the point. And the decision that DAVID MADE TO take on Goliad. The work of art that expresses determination, courage, makes decisions and the courage in the face of all the odds being against you. For micheloangelo this made it so timeless, he did not care about the characters, location, that’s all window dressing, he cares about the essence of the story, the moment when the decision was made.
Leonardo da Vinci The last supper: Jesus with his disciples by leonado da vinci, just bedeo the year 1498. Talked about in terms of kind of idealism of space and perspective. In this work, in particular there is a kind of hidden geometry that seems to take over the characters the story and seem to break into 4 groups of three and the space is very clearly and rationally organized with a perfectly centered perspective. The idealized space in the way it is designed to be seen by GOD, you can’t get a more perfect view than this. The moment when Leonardo chose, the moment it had the most dramatic effect, all the drama that led up to that moment and the impact it had when Jesus says that one of you will betray me and they all react to that.
Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, 1647-52 A mod of visual communication, examples of idealism as in mode of visual communication. Sculpture group that designed by artist Bernini in the 1600 of that century. It shows that saint Teresa avail almost popular saints in that time and everyone knew about her and heard her life story. And the surrounding architecture and showing the moment of the miracle taking place and this religious vision of an angle visit her. And the angle showed up in her own diaries and became popular in the century and how the angle came in pierced her heart and awaken her by deigned gravity and how marble seemed to float, many tons of rock but it sculptured in such a way that is wax or light and invaluable. He created that effect or illusion of a miracle taking place. The clothing of the angle, the drapery seems to move like water it is full of motion. The surrounding architecture seems to burst in the chple. It seems to express the meaning of the sculptures and the light cascades down sand seems to be more miraculous and divine. These are all the techniques and tricks of therapist disposal of the appurtenance of miracle taking place. This is called the baroque period and has a lot in common of the middle ages, like giving life to the miracles such as holy story. This was no longer the renascences.
Engraving showing the Paris Salon of 1785. The rise of art as a commodity in the market and the academies of art and institutions for the production of art and art that had a consistent level of quality and having reputation of subjects. The academies produced these annual exhibitions, held in france. The works of the artiest would be displayed for 2 months and was the first open public discourse conversation about art in modern times. That what they were about, people went to look at it and talk about it and talk about the meaning of art. There was difference between the official various what artist put out and then there was an unofficial version of the people underground and the critics produced to have a controversy and societal conversation. How rare images were rare aback then. They were talked about and thought about and composed about and how they are going to be intrepid. It was great period for the rise of images.
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784 Ancient roman history. Just lie all of the artist, Divvied wrote a little booklet to interpret and help people understand. How it was interpret completely different way by the public. It was some of these unofficially citizens saying that divvied is secretly saying that he is calling for an secret French revolution but then after it happened or hidden call for revolution, divved agreed and saif yed that hsiw ath he was interepregn when ht made this painting to become popular. Art was seen like as propaganda. There were some rules and that how the public insisted on his own interoperations of art. So it became to propaganda. It was a powerful insiticaging force that lead up to the turmoil of 1789. The abstract qualities of it, how it made the instance form, the angular shapes that is connected with males group on the left and the soft group the tis connected with the women on the right. The right macule seem more masculine seem to have a floppy idea in front of feminist in the right. The little boy is looking up in admiration and the mother is protecting him, he is being inspected. The pillars are meant to be very legible and to be very clear on what and that characters are easy to read. This is the team when art is beginning to become very important in the terms of politics and propaganda and how napoleon was came into power mainly based on propaganda
Joe Rosenthal, photograph of U.S. Marines raising the American flag on the island of Iwo Jima, 1945 What are some qualities of idealism? Some of the qualities are like must inspire virtuous action, meant to uplift you emotionally, artistic master was created by accident: made by joe rosevelt after they won the batter of Hiroshima, he was stage directing the scene and he just caught his moment that it reseated powerfully that when Roosevelt was caused of faking it and public felt they were betrayed, and it was lied and galvanizing to the American people it has been reproduced since that time, like firefighters of this picture like spontaneously decide to re-image it again.
J. Howard Miller, poster We Can Do It, 1942 Norman Rockwell, Rosie the Riveter, 1943 Two examples of rosy the riverate. Character who symbolized the importance of women in the industrial production of ware in the wwii. It has a graphical power and the image by Rockwell in the left that seems to echo and to symbolize the schilturpe of the Sistine chapel. Portraying her this way and with the Sistine chopped making her a timeless character of the women during the wwii. Mean t to move you emotional inspire courageous action, meant to celebrate the imagination and what is possible and what it can ben.,
Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini Betrothal, 1434 Realism: is the mode of visual communication. Example of painting of a small painting of an artist named VAan eakc. Arnaoldinih batrol. Italian business man who lived in brurauge in Belgium and talked about the microscopic detail tha tvan aigen used and his technique was extremely fine and tiny touches with brushes. The whole purpose was to not to create any sense of beauty, but to it was to provide a visual inventory of everything that was in the room. His purpose was to create a perfect realism representation of everything that was there, by describing this room in detail gives it authority and detail and to show that these two were bound by contract and were engaged. The panting is visual equivalent of engagement of witness and to paint of the picture and expectations were of artist of 1400. It was not to be beautiful or inspire a noble thought, but it way of documenting reality and investigating reality. The convex mirror in the background, the chandler. Their faces aren’t very realist, they have cartoonish in their face, there was only an extend of realism they could made in their face, there was still artists realism that they have still had to follow.
Caravaggio, David With the Head of Goliath, 1599 Heres another approach to realism, this is painting by caravario, realists of the baroque period, 1600 and made pictures as in they were taking place in the room that you were standing in. like as in these figures were right in front of you. He is showing a same scene that macngleo showed in the picture, he is not showing us the heriod decision of determination, courage, his showing that unimportant moment that his head is cut off and he can take it home like it is trophy. There is no light on davids face, he is in the shadow, is seems to be counter dramatic, and ant-dramatic. He wanted to show how ordinary these characters were, he wanted to show how ordinary people can identify david slitting his throat. Brutal realism but with idealism aims and wants to connect to the holy story and making it seems to common place.
Jacob Ruisdael, Landscape with a Ruined Castle and a Village Church, 1665-72 Importance of realism in dutch art: symbolically important They claimed so much land from the sea, country side became acceptable as art. Ruysdael the point of showing the fascinating complxigint of clouds, and to show what the eye really sees. The dutch approach to realism was to take what exactly what the eye sees optically. Its obvious to show that the random moment was shown does into show any special moment. Completely random. And to show that church is in shadow, nothing important, if you were an idealism you would expect that church is symbolic and is center of the subject of the picture and light falling from above. But no in realism, his view is that light is just showing as in orginicary thing.
Gustave Caillebotte, Rainy Day, Paris, 1876 19th century had a lot of part of the impressionist movement and considered themselves to be realist. The purpose was to show how things really are and show how the modern world really is and the way it is. Shows us a very randomly moment on a drop and rainy day in Paris. Bored ad distracted people decided to show in the moment. How natural and real in felt and how realistic how these shadows, and highlights are on the rain and cobblestones. The more you look at it you see how it so carefully chosen,. The realist technique sis there is a mask to carefully constructed nature of art work. I want you think that this a random moment bt the light pole is right n the centre, and the people couple in the right looking on the left. And to show that people int eh upper middle class, status and the people in the left: are wokersker poor people. It is pretending to be a realistic and dreaded and drop and orridnareyness. But this is a big class difference in the picture that it doesn’t make it obvious only when you look at it closely
Robert Bateman, Mountain Meadow - Dall Sheep Slide: picture with white rams sitting, still living and many artist had copied his style and his example: unique approach to realism and uses photography to study the different angles of photography, sitting there with them and how they behave and when he makes his paintings, creates an images he tries to sympathize all together his observations he has made, he doesn’t copy his photograph, he all about using realism and understand the nature and his art work is bringing together something new and bring together all those memorize and ths observers he has based in his photography. He is also considered by the asrt establishment, ans ainart illustratrator.r realism is still undervalued today.
Ron Mueck, In Bed, 2005.Las example: the work of ron muac. Scultpre: doing props for films, he likes to use scale, he scale as in adding a high incredible giant punch. Portrait of his wife, siting In bed thinking lost in the world of thought. Haunting and powerful work. Cannot get a vivid sense of thought she is lost in. its meant to show the strangeness of the real world rather than showing the familiarly of it. Dutch artist loved to show landscape that people knew of and full of flowers people had in their homes, but this is the realism that to show an alarming effect that how strange people are in the real world. It is meant to show the strangeness of the world. This is realism to create an alarming state of the reality.