How to take notes in Art History

Bring Your Own Object…Taeron: You can take a very simple object and expand a

whole conversation on it. We can MAKE simple objects more relevant.

Jon: mad colors ≠ Aesthetically pleasing Kenny: Different objects no matter how similar they are can create different responses for people. Each

object carries their own weight.Tots: Pop culture icons are just ‘slapped’ onto

everything…without any actual correlation to the thing itself. (superman-hacky sack…sponge bob anything)

Immediate Reactions

Name of Artist• Artwork title• Date, materials, location

• Relevant INFO

• Peer Comments

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Napoleon Leading the Army over the AlpsKehinde Wiley2005Oil on CanvasBrooklyn MuseumUSA

Napoleon Leading the Army over the AlpsKehinde Wiley2005Oil on CanvasBrooklyn MuseumUSA

Info: Historically, the role of portraiture has been not only to create a likeness of a person but also to communicate ideas about the subject's status, wealth, and power. During the eighteenth century, for example, major patrons from the church and the aristocracy commissioned portraits in part to signify their importance in society. This portrait imitates the posture of the figure of Napoleon Bonaparte in Jacques-Louis David's painting Bonaparte Crossing the Alps at Grand-Saint-Bernard.

Artist Intention vs.

Viewer Interpretation.

• Intention: What the artist wants us to take away.

• Interpretation: The way that we see the work of art, what we take away from it

• Some work is more ‘open to interpretation’ than others.

Napoleon Crossing the AlpsJacques-Louis David1801Oil on CanvasChâteau de Malmaison, France

Appropriation

• …Taeron: PLAGIARISM • Ruhith: I was gonna say that!• Kevin: THEFT! STEALING!• Myar: Reinvention…it’s not really copying If you

change the intention!!• Nyasiah: Satirically…! Brian: Parody too!• Kenny: Compliment…imitation is the sincerest form

of flattery.• Karf: paying TRIBUTE to the original. • RASHA: Taking • TOTS: When you make a few changes to something

and call it your own. • Michelle: Influence vs copying…• KEVIN: taking a few ideas….vs. tracing over it.• Gissell: What happens when we make a replica and

sell it…

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Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.

Artists that often appropriate other images:

Andy WarholMr. BrainwashRichard Prince

Jeff Koons

Appropriation• Guzzy: in a way it IS plagiarism, but it’s putting a new spin on it.

• Alannis: It’s like reinventing, but from a different VIEW. Using a familiar thing to make a new message.

• Sof: It’s not necessarily paying tribute, but it’s making work by recycling other work.

• Raph: I agree with Taeron.• Vicky: Musicians • Jakara: So…um…in Zhan’s Advanced Bio

class she said that you can plagiarize off your OWN work, but remixing is when you

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Appropriation in art is the use of pre-existing objects or images with little or no transformation applied to them.

Artists that often appropriate other images:

Andy WarholMr. BrainwashRichard Prince

Jeff Koons

Remixing Culture…Back in April 2015, Wiley had a major show at the Brooklyn Museum, and his close friend DJ Spooky explained how they both were deeply interested in “remix culture” and how appropriation is used and viewed in the 21st century.

“Painting is about the world that we live in. Black men live in the world. My choice is to include them. This is my way of saying yes to us.”--Kehinde Wiley

“Art and music are always in dialogue. While Kehinde deals with figures, I work with data.”--DJ Spooky

Cultural AppropriationCultural appropriation is a social condition which entails the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture. It is often regarded as a negative phenomenon.

What’s the difference between ‘cultural appropriation’ and ‘remixing culture?’ When you OWN the message, YOU create the message. You’ve gotta understand what you’re taking!

• Myar: It’s exploiting something for your own purposes

• Brianna: not respecting the culture and tradition that it comes from.

• Taeron: Action Bronson?• Macklemore? Eminem?• Brianna: The type of ‘art’ and

what their intention is.• Myar: Using another culture as

a “costume.” or as a way to profit.

Cultural Appropriation

Cultural appropriation is a social condition which entails the adoption or use of elements of one culture by members of a different culture. It is often regarded as a negative phenomenon.What’s the difference between ‘cultural appropriation’ and ‘remixing culture?’ A question of PARTICIPATING or just USING.

• Vicky: braids and cornrows being worn in reference to black culture.

• Tina: Reminds me of Selena Gomez “Come and Get it.”

• Nawal: Establishes double standards. Example: a white person wearing a bindi for “fashion” without the cultural respect.

• Marie: Celebrities wearing African fabric cause it’s “pretty” without acknowledging where it’s from.

• GUZZY: “I’m kinda torn on this…it could be disrrespectful, but are you saying that we can NEVER ‘borrow’ stuff from other cultures??

• Ms. Jenn: If we don’t share cultural stuff, how do we learn from each other??

VIDEO!• P8 Responses:• Taeron: Seems cool, like you want to “experience” it. • Myar: Trying to attract younger people through the emphasis on

media • Rasha: COLORS! So interesting! NEON! Eye catching. • Jon: The artists’ past experiences is seen throughout the show. • AppleCinna: Interactive and different and oh dammit I forgot.

Usually when you go to a museum, you have to stand back and not touch anything, but this you get to PLAY with.

• Nyasiah: Collage! Different types of art…some graffiti, comic books, cartoons,

• TOTS: The art is the EXPERIENCE of the public being there.• Gissell: contrast between the Arcade and the Statues.• Ruhith: BRINGIN IN DA YOUTH. People drift away, and this brings

them back. Art needs to be beneficial to people. • Len: Art can revolutionize a culture through influencing people.

VIDEO!

• Responses:• Jakara: Lots of color, lots of 1990’s references. Even though

the work seems “old” it is also “youthful” • Raph: Lots of interaction “installation”• Ardi: “Abstract” Out of the ordinary. • Sam AYYY: Chilled, classic, old school vibe. Super different

from uptight MoMA paintings. • Nyle: Both said that there is “success behind failure” and

“Failure behind success.”