Ch. 2 What is Art?

Van Gogh. Story of Western Art.

Robert Watts

Leonardo da Vinci. Most famous work of Western Art. Not a real woman.

Andy Warhol, popart

living off the idea of the culture (money maker)

the Mona Lisa isn't a portrait of an actual person, instead, it is a recreation of himself as a woman. No evidence of her existence.

A Pope of a King decides who's a master, or if the current master dies - the best student would step up.

Andrea del Verrocchio's best-known works is of a biblical hero.

Claude Monet, a part of group known as impressionists.

Dasavanta, Madhava Khurd, and Shravana illustrating the 360 tales of the Hamzanama.

James Hampton, a janitor.

taught from a school, books, master, assembly line, were given help to learn art

self-taught artists; little or no formal training in the visual arts

devoted magazine for Outsider Art.

devoted museum for Outsider Art

celebrated the art of the insane, attributing to these artists the most exemplary works of Surrealism

how things are placed on a page.

Edward Weston. Lets our imagine play.

• Giovanni Bellini.
• Christian art, devotional image.
• Italian for sadness.
• Symmetry, simple geometrical shapes, and pure colors, triangle.

• Francisco de Goya.
• Increasingly pessimistic view of human nature, depicts cronos.

• Pablo Picasso. 
• Representational, naturalistic.

• Pablo Picasso.
• Cubism, Abstract.

taking things, pieces apart, and creating something new.

to make colors, light to make art, usually different but still realistic (abstract)

• - survivor of the art world
• - best artist to this day
• - can copy the style of any and all artists
• - Henry Malia and Picasso need another (friends), Brock also just not as much series of artist

meant the end of painting

Louise Bourgeois

to present again the visible world in such a way that we recognize a likeness

faithful to visual experience

fictional character, as in a novel or a play

• - glass ceiling breaker
• - female version of Picasso
• - studied with Fernand Leger
• - Married Robert Goldwater

French for "fool the eye"

representational works so convincingly lifelike that we can be fooled for a moment into thinking that they are real.

Duane Hanson

Yoruba. Naturalistic portrait sculpture in brass were created to commemorate the kingdom's rulers.

describes representational art that conforms to a present style or set of conventions for depicting the world.

art that does not represent or refer to the world outside of itself

Rebecca Purdum

Vasily Kandinslay

• refers to a distinctive, recognizable ensembles of recurring characteristics
• - individual style
• - cultural style
• - school style
• - Period style

• The Chinese porcelain bowl, 1506-21. Porcelain painted in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels. 
• Bowl is decorated with a depiction of a dragon flying through clouds ..... The clouds are stylized, defined by lines that spiral inward like a snail shell or a scroll...

is decorated with a depiction... stylized... Scrolling clouds were a convention in Chinese art for many centuries,..

Sultan Muhammad.

Sonia Delaunay. nonrepresentational art. Visual experience.

Tara Donovan. (textbook p. 35)

• - one theory of art maintains that style is what distinguishes artists from other skillful makers. not all people who set out to make art eventually develop an individual style, but all artists do 
• compare these individual styles:
• - Kitagawa Utamaro: Hairdressing, from Twelve Types of Women's Handicraft.
• - Edgar Degas: Nude Woman Having Her Hair Combed.
• - Susan Rothenberg: Maggie's Ponytail.

- Aztec style in Meso-America

- Gothic style in Europe

- which are styles shared by a particular group of like-minded artists (Impressionist style).

Kitagawa Utamaro. Culture recognized, not the person - style.

Edgar Degas. Naturalistic.

Susan Rothenberg, both non and representational.

Henri Matisse. Discipline and intellectual side

Henri Matisse. Family togetherness; pleasure, sensual side

music

the physical appearance of the world, everything the eye registers about it. Such as colors, shapes, and internal organization.

the work of art is about, its meaning.

for representational and abstract works, content begins with the objects or events the work depicts.

a device that disciplines musicians as they practice by beating steady time.

Auguste Rodin. White marble had been a long standard material for sculpture.

Janine Antoni. Cube of chocolate and lard.

describing images, involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art.

Jocho. In the Hoodo (Phoenix Hall), Byodo in Temple.

Jan van Eyck

From Ghana. Asante, 20th century.

the personal, social, cultural, and historical setting in which it was created, received, and interpreted.

passages from the letters of Vincent van Gogh helped set his painting in the context of his life and thought.

Titian

A cereal box made by cutting nine boxes into small squares and then piecing them back together as one.

viewed as a sacred activity, photography is not usually permitted.

religious specialist known as a singer, hataali, calls upon spirit powers to heal and bless someone who is ill.

named by Alexander Baumgarten. He derived his word from the Greek word for perception, aisthanomai, and he used it to name what he considered to be a field of knowledge gained by sensory experience combined with feelings.

embraces such concepts as naturalness, simplicity, understatement, and impermanence.

adds overtones of loneliness, old age, and tranquility.

two key terms: wabi and sabi. Through its connection with the tea ceremony and with Zen Buddhist spiritual ideals, this simple bowl partakes in a rich network of meanings and associations.

Japan's term for art. Translated it as "form and design."

• - its natural state is one of beauty, harmony, and happiness, conditions summed up in the word hozho.
• - countered by forces of ugliness, evil, and disorder.

Joseph Beuys

jade carving from the ancient Mesoamerican Olmec culture gives visual form to ideas about the power of the Shaman

when buy goes into museum walking around talking to dead hare, ritual like.

shows a procession of nature spirits entering a community of the BWA people of West Africa.

space is presented as a work of art that can be entered, explored, experienced, and reflected upon.

Created for a space that was already intensely evocative on its own, the cavernous raw sugar warehouse of the Domino Sugar Refinery in Brooklyn, New York. By Kara Walker. Installation.

Billboard, dimensions vary with installation. Located in NYC.

the idea is more important than the object.

tombs burial sites

reveals imagination and genius.