Introduction to Art History - MAKAN ENAKmisscarmengarcia.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/8/0/...Introduction...
Transcript of Introduction to Art History - MAKAN ENAKmisscarmengarcia.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/8/0/...Introduction...
Introduction to Art HistorySPRING 2015
Objectives1. Learn to ask questions!!
2. Learn to describe artwork using art historical terminology and in your own terms
3. take evidence from the artwork to make conclusions about the work of art (deductive reasoning)
What is Art History?
What is Art History?
The study of the history and development of the arts throughout human existence.
CAVE ART3,000,000 BCE
STREET ARTTODAY
What types of things do we look at?
What types of things do we look at?
Architecture
Gaudi-Casa Batllo
What types of things do we look at?
Sculpture
Myron-DiscobolusLouise
Bourgeois, Maman, 1999
What types of things do we look at?
Paintings/Drawings
Da Vinci- La Gioconda(Mona Lisa) -1503 CE
What types of things do we look at?
Utilitarian Objects
Ceramics
What types of things do we look at?
Utilitarian Objects
Metal
What types of things do we look at?
Utilitarian Objects
Textiles
What types of things do we look at?
Utilitarian ObjectsJewelry
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
1. How old is the artwork? (Date)
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
1. How old is the artwork? (Date)
2. What is the style? (movement, artist, and/or culture)
Picasso, Old Guitarist, 1904
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
1. How old is the artwork? (Date)
2. What is the style? (movement, artist, and/or culture)
3. What is the subject/narrative? (What is the story? Or What is happening in the artwork?)
Vasquez, Las Meninas, 1656
Jackson Pollock, One Number 31, 1950
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
1. How old is the artwork? (Date)
2. What is the style? (movement, artist, and/or culture)
3. What is the subject/narrative? (What is the story? Or What is happening in the artwork?)
4. What is it made of? (Materials)
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
5. Where was it made? (location or specific culture)
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
5. Where was it made? (location or specific culture)
6. What are the specific characteristics? (unique and important)
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
5. Where was it made? (location or specific culture)
6. What are the specific characteristics? (unique and important)
7. What is the artist trying to say?
What questions do Art Historians Ask?
5. Where was it made? (location or specific culture)
6. What are the specific characteristics? (unique and important)
7. What is the artist trying to say?
8. What is your opinion on the artwork?
Art Analysis
Vincent Van Gogh-Starry Night