Christian Petersen

relief sculpture and fountain

1934

Food Science Building (Dairy Industry Building)

paid by Works Progress Administration

High Relief

made of: Terra-cotta

3 panels to the left: old style dair

3 panels to the right: new style dairy

Idealization: simplified detail

Eurtythmia: visual rhythm, similar curves, smooths eye movement

Janus Agri Alter

Beverly Pepper

1986 with east addition to agronomy blding

Modernist/abstract

Names after Roman God Janus who protected crops w/ 2 faces

Resembles several diferent tools

paid by 1/2 of %1 rule

Agronomy Hall

Achitechts Dougher, Rich, & Woodburn

1952

very Bauhaus w/ supporting pilotis

East addition

1986

Both have mucho Grid & functionalism

exposed interior, form follows function

-tilted stair windows

-exposed ceiling mechanics 

each thing is separated from building

exterior curtian wall with wrapping windows

exreem Bauhaus style and the 5 points of architecture.

by Richard Haas

trompe l'oeil

(trick the eye)

uses perspective

got in 1986 with the 1/2 of %1

mimics rest of the building

Vietnam Veteran's Memorial

Maya Lin won contest

1978-1982

Jan Scruggs- veteran that founded/organized memorial

+respect veterans+no glorify war+have 58000 names+fit in with mall+no political statement+be contemplative and reflective+

1980 James Watt required flag and statue

3 Servicemen

1984

Fredrick Hart

complementary to Vietnam Veterans Memorial

made of bronze via "lost wax"

has coloring coating called patina

Mixes of races and services

Vietnam Women's Memorial

Glenna Goodacre

1993

made of bronze

women rep. faith, hope, and charity

similar to Michelangelo's "The Pietà"

The Sacajawea Dollar

Glenna Goodacre and Thomas Rogers

2000

Copper with zinc cladding

model: Shoshone Indian Randy Teton

The Liberty Dollar

Robert Scot

1795

Silver

personification- person represents something more abstract (the goddess Liberty - liberty)

The Susan B. Anthony Dollar

Frank Gasparro

1979-1981

$1 Copper with nickel cladding

Kitsch - trailer park, pink flamingos and lawn gnomes

King: Thomas Kinkade

*Happy Valley, c. 1990. Oil on canvas

Camp - pretentious, giant balloon dog

King: Jeff Koons

*New Shelton Wet/Dry, 1981 (vacuums)

*Ceramic puppy and giant flower puppy

*Balloon Dog, 1995, at Venice Biennale

Double Eagle

St. Augustus Gaudens

1907

$20 gold coin

most beautiful coin

goddess Liberty

tourch of enlightenment + olive branch

Erwin Penofsky stated 3 levels of art interpritation

1: Natural- anyone can see these things

2: Conventual- social customs we are taught to recognize

3: Intrinsic- deep inside thought?

Pareto Prinipal

%20 of people do %80 of the work

Vilfredo Pareto- Italian Rail engineer/designer

Didrachma (2 drachma)

drachma means handfull of obol (6.25 grams of silver)

Obol was a metal rod of bronze

coin has Athena (Goddess of war w/ victory leaves)

city mascot and identifying marks

obverse die on the bottom

reverse on top pressing a coin blank or flan

Tetradrachma

333 BC

25 grams of silver

became the dollar of the ancient world

Obverse: Figure of Hercules with Alexander the Great's face. Wearing lion shows strength.

Reverse: Zeus w/ mint mark, mint master, and statement

Great Seal of the United States of America

Bricolage

Final by Charles Thomson, 1783

First- Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John 

Adams, in consultation with Pierre Eugène Du Simitière, 1776

Second-Francis Hopkinson, 1780

Third- William Barton, 1782

Buffalo Nickel

James Earle Fraser

1913

copper-nickel alloy

also known for "The End of the Trail", 1915

depicts native

coin face bassed off

Two Moons of Cheyenne, Iron Tail of sioux , and John Big Tree of seneca

Sometimes made into Hobo Nickels in the 30's

Zeuxis, the greatest Greek painter, needed 5 different models to paint Helen of Troy.

c. 400bc

Jefferson Nickel

Felix Schlag

1938

Copper-nickel alloy

reverse: Jefersons house, Monticello

Lincoln Penny (“Wheatie”)

Victor David Brenner

1907

Copper

Lincoln Penny (memorial reverse)

1957-

Frank Gasparro

Copper

Lotka's Law

Alfred Lotka

Contributers contributing that much = (Total # of contributers) /(# of supposed contributions)^2

Foundation in Education

2004

from Arbor Day by Grant Wood

Governor Tom Vilsack made committee to put together state quarter. 

5 finalist ideas

-cow, pig, corn, bean stock -ugly

-sulivan bros

-american gothic -rights held by VAGA

-young corn- too complex

arbor day -winner

(VAGA- Visual Arts & Gallery Association)

Arbor Day

Grant Wood

1932

Oil on composition board

 Painted for Mckinley HS in Cedar Rapids

1937 Grant Wood sold it to a hollywood director called King Vidor for $1200 dollars. Vidor dies and his kids auction it off for 1.3 mil in 1995 to Bill Koch.

Edgar and Margaret Stanton Memorial Campanile

1895

Lake LaVerne

1915

donated by LaVerne Noyes

Adonijah Welch

1st pres of ISU, 1868-1883

was in the business of greenhouses and nursery

started the first landscape acritechture program

ISU opened to students in 1869

Juniper

Grows in high elevation

Grows low

resistant to wind

nice rounded shape

its berries (blue), mixed with alcohol, make gin

Yew

European

resitant to cutting- topiary

poisonous red berries

shapes can complement architecture

Service Berry Tree

(June Berry Tree)

grey bark matches bedford limestone

blooms first and has first berries

Crimson Maple

dark leaves

hearty tree

it is a variety of the Norway maple

Basswood Tree

(Tilia Americana)

like the Linden tree

spralling branches that tend to break off

rough leaf edges- kindo heartshaped?

Linden Tree

(Tilia Cordata)

related to Basswood tree

more compact and rounded- gumdrop shapped

leaves are still rough edgged

very comon caty shade tree

White Pine

very strait trunk

tallest trees on campus

Nedles grow in clumps of 5?

Scots Pine

not straight

rought looking bark

not exactly tall

heaty survivor

Austrian Pine

long reaching branches

taller than short (Scots)

from eastern Europe (Dark Forest)

swirly-knotted bark

supposedly picturesque

Mugo Pine

Sort- low lying

found in the alps- Switzerland

Red Bud Tree

(Judas Tree)

has early, full red buds

Euonymus Tree

(Spindle Tree)

red leaves

is Greek for a very beautiful, secret name. name was never said so this became the name.

branches were used and spindles

Ash Tree

compound (5) leaves

diamond pattern bark

has the little helicopter (Samara)

short sturdy tree, very dense wood

similar looking to Linden tree

Being killed off by the emerald ash borer

Central Park

Fredrick Law Olmsted

1858

NYC, NY

FLO = godfather of landscape architecture, greatest planner too

park is a romantic, sublime, refreshment for city folk with its serpentine pathways, natural looking plantings, open meadows and ponds, cottages and castle

ISU campus (1869) was based off central park

Palace of Versailles

1660

Architect: Jules Mansart

Landscape Architect: Andre La Notre

Interior Designer: Charles Le Burn

has Galerie des Glaces- (Hall of Mirrors)

topiary- classical control of nature

Allee- bulevard with trees lining

John Turner, Slave Ship, 1844

violent anngry messy

John Costable, The Hay Wain, 1821

quieter, calmer, going with the flowing

Architect: Calvert Vaux

made barns, bridges, houses

Belvedere- a medieval castle

Cliopatra's Needle- Obelisk sent from Egypt

Balto Statue- Dog delivers anti-toxin to children of Nome, AK with Diphtheria. Considered a hero. Sold to a freak show and dies in central park zoo. 

Marston Water Tower

1897

Anson Martson

head of ISU engineering

design is very art nuevo like a woman's dress

American Gothic

Grant Wood

1930

oil on composition board

Wood entered this to his almamodre's (Chicago Institute of Art) contest and won $300. It features his sister, Nam Wood Graham, and hi dentist, Byron McKeeby. The window style is gothis with its points; it was spare fair frieght.

 Daguerreotype

Photo using very long exposure. Subjects look uncomfortable because they are being held in place to keep from moving and ruining the photo. 

Composition

Piet Mondrian

1930

Oil on Canvas

Example of Constructivism- geometrical Balance, reducing things to simple shapes and colors

Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

1931

Oil on Canvas

Example of Surrealism- odd, strange, warped reality

Friedrich Nietzsche teorized that people needed both apolonianism and dinyasism.

The idea of  Zarathustra is that with we dont rock the boat a little, society will weaken and die. It will come down to the last man (Letzermensch).

Übermensch- beyond/above/super man

Surrealite- Super life

The Melancholy and Mystery of a Street

Giorgio de Chirico

 1914

Oil on Canvas

Example of a Dreamscape being very surreal and warped

Rhythmic Figures

Joan Miro

1934

Oil on Canvas

Example of Automatism- putting the mind on auto and letting it do the work for you. Kinda like doodling

Dessert

Meret Oppenheim

1936

Ceramic dessert cup, saucer and spoon covered 

with rabbit fur

Example of Verfremdung- to make something strange or distractingly alien, make it catch your eye, in a weird way

The Human Condition

René Magritte

1933

Oil on canvas

Example of Verfremdung- to make something strange or distractingly alien, make it catch your eye, in a weird way