ART 2 Introduction to Art

ARTMAKING:ARTMAKING: some

TERMINOLOGYTERMINOLOGYand

CONCEPTSCONCEPTSVasily Kandinsky

MEDIUMS/ MEDIA: MATERIALS and TOOLS of ART-MAKING

Pastels (chalk)

Watercolor and Ink

Paint: Acrylic, Oil, Watercolor

Photography/Camera

Pencil, Colored Pencil

Digital/ Computer

Ceramics

Sculpture: Stone Carving

2-Dimensional MEDIApainting, drawing, photography, digital art, printmaking…

photographyacrylic painting

chalk drawing

digital print

printmaking

oil painting

watercolor painting

photography

pen and ink

3-D MEDIA:Sculptural Media

stone

metal

wood

mixed media, assemblage

clay

ART MEDIA:ART MEDIA:

Light Installation

other

LIGHTLIGHT

Video Installation

Installation, Environmental, Performance

Richard Long Yoko Ono

Judy Pfaff

Any art-work can be looked at, and talked about,

in terms of both

FORM and

CONTENT.

Painting byDana Schutz

FORM refers to the purely abstract visual qualities in the

work, such as particular COLORS, types of SHAPES and TEXTURES, or

the quality of SPACE.

CONTENT refers to what is represented and to MEANINGS that might be communicated.

The abstract visual components of a work of art

are known as

Formal Elements of ArtFormal Elements of Artoror

“The Elements of Form”.The arrangement of formal elements

as a unified work is known as a COMPOSITION.

Elements of Form:

LINE SHAPESPACESPACE TEXTURE VALUE COLOR

SCALE MATERIAL TIME

Christo (“Running Fence”)

Picasso light drawing

Franz Kline painting

Chloe Piene pencil drawing

Louise Bourgeois sculpture

LI NE

A line can bethought ofas a moving point.

Philip Guston

LINE describes oroutlines form…

Childe Hassam

and edges of form are seen as line…

Donald Lipski

and form may be a line.

Jack Thompson

Matisse paper cut-out

Jackie Winsor sculpture

Monet painting

Tom Friedman sculpture

SHAPE Shapes can be thought of as enclosed line.

Wouter Dam

“Negative Shapes” or “Negative Spaces” are the shapes thatexist between the shapes of represented forms in a composition. In a painting, negative shapes may be made up in part by edges of the canvas.

Paul Gaugin

Salvadore Dali painting

Magdalena Jetelova installation

Jiang Yangze ceramic sculpture

R. Devore ceramic vessel

SPACE:SPACE:Volume,Volume,Mass,Mass,

DimensionalityDimensionality

TEXTURELia Cook tapestry

Meret Oppenheim sculpture

Vincent Van Gogh painting

Adrian Arleo clay sculpture

Texture, the tactilequality (relating to the sense of touch) of surfaces, may be actual or purely visual.

Caravaggio painting (@1600)

Edward Weston photograph

Paul Klee painting

VALUEthe quality of darkness or lightness

Henri Matisse painting

Hhans Hoffmanans Hoffman painting

CCOOLLOORR

Bruce Nauman neon sculpture

Marco Evaristti dye on ice

Henri Matisse oil painting

Ron Nagle ceramic sculpture

Willie Cole

Jonathan Borofsky

Japanese Netsuke

Rene Magritte painting

Ron Mueck sculpture

Willie Cole sculpture

relating to size, perceived size, relative size/ proportion.

(miniature)

(@ 3 ft.)

SCALE:

Anthony Gormley (toast)

Marilyn Levine (ceramic)

Marc Quinn (frozen blood)

Wolfgang Laib(hazelnut pollen)

MATERIAL

Cai Guo-Qiang(gunpowder on paper)

Tony Oursler video projection on forms

Janine Antoni performance

Liza Lou bead environment

Alexander Calder mobile

TIME…

Kinetic, moving forms; work involving time in its creation (such asperformance); ephemeral works.

Ephemeral Art: Andy Goldsworthy

THE FORMAL ELEMENTSTHE FORMAL ELEMENTS(abstract and objective)(abstract and objective)

ARE BUILDING BLOCKS OFARE BUILDING BLOCKS OF(subjective)(subjective)

CONTENT

Form and Content

Andy Warhol “Electric Chair” series, silk screen prints

may be thought of as the ideas, meanings or aesthetic

value associated with an artwork.

CONTENTCONTENT

Meaning in an artwork is suggested by --- abstract visual qualities (such as color, shape or value) --- subject matter: what is represented --- symbolism and reference/ allusion --- text within or about the artwork

Abstraction (non-objective or non-realistic imagery) can allow pure form (line, shape, texture, color, etc.) to communicate directly, and in ways that allow for

open-ended interpretation/ appreciation.

Richard Diebenkorn

Martin Puryear

Tibetan

Navaho

SANDPAINTINGS

Meaning (and the function of an art-work) is culturally determined.

PavelTchelitchew1942

Content may beemotional or psychological.

James Turrell “Skyspaces” architectural installations 2000’s

Marcel Duchamp “Fountain” 1917(found urinal) Sherrie Levine “Fountain (after Marcel Duchamp: A.P.)”

1991 (polished bronze)

“Post-modern” art sometimes self-consciously reflects on the history of art, as in this re-make of Duchamp’s famous “Ready-made.”

Ai Wei Wei “Sunflower Seeds” installation http://vimeo.com/52688185

Meaning in an artwork may also derive from cultural or historical references, or from the process of making, itself.