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Cave Painngs

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These cave paintings are from the Paleolithic period and were found by hikers in the South of France.

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Warhols, Thirty are Better than One, 1963

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Warhol is inviting commentary on the image itself as celebrity.

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Van Gogh ‐ Starry Night, 1889

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Part of the "to give tangible form to feeling" role of the artist, van Gogh used his view of death as inspiration for this night landscape. Van Gogh said, "Just as we take the train to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to Reach a star"

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Vanitas

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Vanitas, Latin for "vanity", speak of the passage of ,me, the meaning of life and immortality.

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STYLE

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Refers to a characteristic or a group of characteristics that we recognize as constant, recurring, or coherent.

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Jan Van Eyck, Arnolﬁni Double Portrait, 1434

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Iconography (the story including symbols or references, people, events, etc.) requires knowledge of a speciﬁc ,me, beliefs or culture.

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LIST OF THE THEMES OF ART

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1. The Sacred Realm 2. Politics and the Social Order 3. Stories and Histories 4. Looking Outward: The Here and Now 5. Looking Inward: The Human Experience 6. Invention and Fantasy 7. The Natural World 8. Art and Art

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Picasso, Guernica, 1937

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Guernica‐by Pablo Picasso, depicts the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty‐four bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, in which a number of people estimated between 250 and 1,600 were killed and many more were injured.

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Natural World: Naturalistic and Stylized

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The two ways we look at nature in art are Naturalistic and Stylized.

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Visual Elements

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1.Line 2.Shape and Mass 3.Light 4.Color 5.Texture & Pattern 6.Space 7.Time & Motion

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Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495

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During the Renaissance; Linear Perspective became a vehicle for meaning just like any other visual element.

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Principles of Design

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1.Unity and Variety 2.Balance 3.Emphasis/ Subordination 4.Proportion /Scale 5.Rhythm

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Leonardo da Vinci, Study of Human Proportions According to Vitruvius ..... {Vitruvian Man}, 1485

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Da Vinci was one of many artists that became fascinated by the ideas of Vitruvius, a Roman architect of the first century B.C.E. who related the perfected male form to the perfected geometry of the square and circle.

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Dry Media (materials for drawing)

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1. Graphite 2. Metal Point 3. Charcoal 4. Pastel 5. Crayon 6. Chalk

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Liquid Media materials for drawing)

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1.Pen and Ink 2.Brush and Ink

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Edgar Degas, Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper, 1873

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In Degas's piece, Dancer Adjusting Her Slipper, he used a process called "squared for transfer", to make it easier to copy and use in other finished work.

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Painting Techniques

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1. Encaustic 2. Fresco 3. Tempera 4. Oil 5. Watercolor 6. Gouache 7. Acrylic 8. Collage

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Romare Bearden, Mysteries, 1964

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Romare Bearden carried on this technique, but worked with bits of photographic magazine illustrations to evoke his life as an African American growing up in rural North Carolina.

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The goal of the Graphic Designer is, the communication of a specific message to a specific group of people; the success of a design is measured by how well that message is conveyed

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Symbols

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These convey information or ideas for all languages.

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Logos and trademarks

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Symbols that represent the company or its product gain meaning through effective advertising. They play a major part in the identity of a corporation.

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Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999.

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SCULPTURE; as defined, is art that encompasses height, width and depth. It is also the act or practice of shaping figures or designs "in the round" or in "relief", by using the four basic methods for making sculpture that include additive, subtractive, casting and assembling processes. Also includes earthworks and installation.

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Roman Copy of Apoxyomenos, c. 320 B.

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Greek artists developed a distinctive stance for their standing figures, called Contrapposto. Meaning "counterpoise" or "counterbalance", contrapposoto sets the body in a gentle S‐shaped curve through a play of opposites.

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Craft Media

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1.Clay 2.Glass 3.Metal 4.Wood 5.Ivory, Jade & Lacquer

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María and Julien Martinez, Jar, 1939

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Coil method, that were almost geometrically perfect. She built the pieces while her husband did the glazing. Known for their BLACK ON BLACK WARE pottery.

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Edouard Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l'herbe, 1863

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In Manet's "Luncheon on the Grass", Manet seems to have wanted to accomplish two goals with his work. The first was to join Courbet and other artists in painting modern life. Secondly, was to prove that modern life could produce eternal subjects worthy of the great masters of the museums. His solution was to update two famous Renaissance images, Titian's "Fete Champetre" and Raphael's "The Judgment of Paris."

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Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907

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Pablo Picasso, at age 26, painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, a pivotal work in the development of 20th century art. Picasso consciously broke traditions that had been followed since the Renaissance period Picasso rocked the art world with this shockingly geometric version of nudes. This painting is our first glimpse of the Cubism movement.

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Claude Monet, Autumn Effect at Argenteuil, 1873 Monet's work was of the Impressionist style (Impressionism) and now that painting had moved outdoors because of the miraculous invention of portable tube paint, their aim was to capture the transient effect of light as well as modern life.Monet painted the work above from a small rowboat in the middle of the Seine River.

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Monet's work was of the Impressionist style (Impressionism) and now that painting had moved outdoors because of the miraculous invention of portable tube paint, their aim was to capture the transient effect of light as well as modern life.Monet painted the work above from a small rowboat in the middle of the Seine River.

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Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1949.

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Abstract Expressionism, was inspired by the Surrealism movement and one of the movements main contributors was Jackson Pollock. "Jack the Dripper", as he was known, used the "drip technique," controlled gestures, non‐representational style, and a lack of focal points in this painting. Pollock creates a large "field" of negative space so that the viewer can lose themselves in these dance like motions of creation. The spontaneity of his movements was an important factor in maintaining the artists' focus for a unified expression.

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Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962

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Pop Art, derived imagery from popular, mass-produced culture. Pop artists sought to draw art closer to life, but life as it had already been transformed for them by advertising and the media.

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