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| 4 steps in analyzing/critiquing artwork |
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1. identify artist, title, date, medium, size
2.identify subject matter ("visual inventory")
3. identify content (what it's saying)
4. identify any personal judgements, like or dislike? |
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| it is important to evaluate art within ______________. |
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| historical context-time period and place it was created |
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| line that is descriptive, delineates edges of a form |
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| scribbles, convey emotions and/or state of mine |
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| reception->extraction->inference |
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| the idea of a color (candy apple red, grass green), the color that appears under even lighting |
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| murky heightened form of chiarosuro |
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| architectual practice that strives to build more environmentally friendly & sustainable building |
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| the organization of formal elements in a work of art |
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| 2-D area, boundaries of which are measured in hight and width, FLAT. |
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| any solid that occupies a 3-D volume |
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| center of visual attention, often different from physical center of work |
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| Edouard Manet's Dejeuner Sur l'herbe |
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| rejection of traditional painting techniques, broad visible brush strokes, distorted sense of space. based on Raumondi's "The Judgement of Paris" |
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| Maya Lin's Vietnam Memorial |
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| insulted soldiers because at ground level, "antimonumental monument" |
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| Gomez-Pena's performance art |
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| artists crucified themselves for 3 hrs to make political point about immigration/border issues between CA and MX |
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| sculpture, was meant to symbolize David's triumph over Goliath, represented city's freedom from domination by Medici family |
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| Chris Ofili's Holy Virgin Mary |
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| virgin mary with elephant shit and porn images, "wanted to bring together beauty & decorativeness with the ugliness of shit and make them exist within a twighlight zone-you know they're always there together but you can't ever feel comfortable about it." |
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| Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty |
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| "earthwork," uses natural environment/elements, man-made landscape art |
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| Malevich's Black Rectangle, Blue Triangle |
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| nonobjective/nonrepresentational art, content=form in this type of art |
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| statues, pursue withches, thieves, adulterers and wrongdoers at night, belief in existance of souls and conviction that the nonhuman can have souls also |
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| Albert Bierstadt's Rocky Mountain |
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| content="the essence of the american west," not exactly true |
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| from manuscript "Shahnnamah of Firdaws," visually compelling but never representational |
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| Howling Wolf's Treaty Signing... |
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| same content as original, HW depicts scene from above with women, figures are identifiable (tribe symbols, etc) |
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| inspired by polka-dots, how big the universe is and how small human beings are |
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| function of line of sight, direction a figure is looking/pointing/facing that guides viewer |
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| dimensions of the closer extremities are adjusted in order to make up for distortion created by point of view |
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| dimension of art in relation to the original object that it depicts in relation to objects around it |
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| relationship between the parts of an object and the whole, between an object and its surroundings |
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| an area of closely space parallel lines /// |
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| one set of hatches is crossed at an angle by multiple sets...gives lines a sense of volume # |
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| mext to eachother on color wheel |
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| across from eachother on color wheel |
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1. ACTUAL: marble is shaped, brush strokes, etc
2. VISUAL is an illusion |
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| even distribution of weight in a composition |
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| assymetrical but with same amount of visual weight on both sides |
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| repetition of shapes and colors, used to create unity through works |
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| portrays natural objects in recognizable form |
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| doesn't always portray objects in recognizable form |
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| nonrepresentational/nonobjective art |
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| doesn't refer to any THING |
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| what the work expresses or mean |
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| system of visual images that are widely understoof by a given culture/group...ie symbols |
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| symbolic hand gestures of Buddha, refer to general states of mind and to specific events that happened in the Buddha's life: mediation, fearlessness, protection, etc |
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