1. Introduction

Reading in Art History Volume I, 4th Edition by Stokstad and Cothren:

Pages XXI-XLI

Learning Objectives

• Understand the Properties of Art• Define Art History• Define Iconography and name the difference

between Iconography and Natural Subject Matter

• Examine Composition• Identify the four steps that can aid in the

interpretation of a work of art.

Properties of Art

• Form: Color, Line, Shape, Texture, Space, Mass, Composition

• Content: Subject matter

• Style: unity of content and form, particular to an individual or culture

• Medium and Technique: What is it made out of? How is it made?

Color

• Humay declares his love for Humayun in a dream, 1430

Color Wheel

• The primary colors are Red, Yellow and Blue. Mixed, they create the secondary and tertiary colors.

Light

• Georges de la Tour, The Education of the Virgin, 1650.

Line

• Carpet Page from the Lindisfarne Gospels, 715-720

Form

• Michelangelo, The Holy Family, 1503

What is Art?

Rebecca Scattergood Savery, Quilt, 1839 Fred Tomaselli, Daturatron, (1998)

What is Art History?

1. Assessment of physical properties

2. Analysis of visual or formal structure

3. Identification of subject matter or conventional symbolism

4. Integration within cultural context

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2. Visual or formal structure- Composition

Raphael, Madonna of the Goldfinch, 1506

Auguste Renoir, Madame Georges Charpentier and her children, 1878

3. Iconography and Natural Subject Matter

Clara Peeters, Still Life with Fruit and Flowers, 1612

Raphael, Madonna of the Goldfinch, 1506

Auguste Renoir, Madame Georges Charpentier and her children, 1878

4. Cultural Context

• Rogier van der Weyden, Crucifixion with the Virgin and St John the Evangelist, 1460