• art history intro

Why Do We Study the History of Art?

Arts and their history teach us about our own creative

expressions and those of our past

3 major types of visual art in the west

• Pictures

• Sculpture

• Architecture

Artistic Impulse

• Inborn- can be seen by observing children

• Desire to leave something behind

Self-Portraits

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Patrons

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Why Do We Value Art?

• Valued by entire cultures

Material Value

Intrinsic Value

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Religious Value

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Nationalistic Value

Psychological Value

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Art or Manufactured Metal?

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Art and Illusion

• Naturalistic art- true to life

• Representational or Figurative- depicts recognizable objects

• Illusionistic- subjects can be mistaken for the real thing

• Trompe l’oeil- artist’s purpose is to fool the eye

Illusionistic Art:Duane Hanson

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Trompe l’oeil:Julian Beever

• video

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The Crevasse: Making of Street Art

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0&feature=related

Archaeology and Art History

• Archaeology- reconstructs history from the physical remains of past cultures

• Art History- the study of the visual arts

• Aesthetics- art appreciation

Methodologies of Art History

• Formalism- art for art’s sake• Iconography- emphasizes the content of art• Marxism- study form and content for social

messages they convey• Feminism-assumes that art is influenced by

gender• Biography and Autobiography- interpret art as

expressions of the artists’ lives and personalities

Methodologies of Art History

• Semiology- the science of signs- takes issue with biographical method and much of formalism. Sign and signifier.

• Deconstruction- opens up meanings, rather than fixing them within structural patterns. A work has no ultimate meaning conferred by its author.

• Psychoanalysis- works of art are sublimations of instinct through which instinctual energy is transferred by work and talent into aesthetic form

The Language of Art

• Composition- work of art and its overall plan and structure

Plane- flat surface having direction in space

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Balance

• Symmetrical Asymmetrical

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Line- path traced by a moving point

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Perspective-mathematical systems that aid artists in

creating the illusion of depth

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Color

• Hue

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• Value-lightness or darkness of an image

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• Intensity-brightness or dullness of a color

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• Texture-surface characteristic of an object

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Realism or Naturalism

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Idealized

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Stylized

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Romanticized

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Nonrepresentational or nonobjective

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Abstract

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