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“Istoria” or “ Historical paintings”*Looking at art has more than an aesthetic quality: It has a message
or tells a story, and serves a purpose.*In societies where few people are literate, art often tells a religious story.
These stories would have been relevant to the time periodand easily understood by their viewers.
**Order of importance:1. Historical Biblical stories
large in scale because of importance and depict enobled figures, dramatic gestures of bravery and emphasize the serious nature of the work
2. Mythical paintings- Grand Scale to be housed in palaces 3. Genre Paintings- small scale, featuring peasants and bourgeoisie enjoying past
times- usually has a moral message
Signifiers:1: Scipio on the throne2: Crown3: grand gesture Towards woman in blue4: fiance’s gratefulGesture of acceptance5:soldiers- remindViewer that it is war
The Continence of Scipio, Nicolas Poussin, 1640
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Religious: the altarpiece
often commissioned for churches•Took form in either a diptych- two hinged panels like a book• a Triptych- has a central panel and two wings•Or a polyptych- more elaborate with many panels- sometimes shaped like cathedrals
Key figures in Christian art:
1. Madonna and Christ child2. Saints who have died for their faith- martyrs
- usually have an attribute identifying them, related to their martyrdom
Predella- bottom section of an altar piece that depicts a series of religious scenes
Diptych- altarpiece with two hinged panels like a book Diptych with the Angel Gabriel and the Virgin
Narrative- any account of connected events, presented to a reader or listener in a Sequence of pictures or words.
Composition is used to give the work a natural flow that helps the spectator follow the action, aka- “read the painting”It helps you to understand:
1. What is going on2. Lead your eye to the main components of the story3. shapes, linking devices, contrast in scale, and color
Balance:
All components of a picture have to Balance each other out so that the Image works as an integrated whole.
Depending on the artist’s aim he or sheWill use the components to create: HarmonyRhythmSerenityDynamismJagged Discord
Reading this painting: Christ is firmly established as the central Figure because the composition is basedUpon the most stable of shapes: the triangle
This creates a feeling of Harmony and Serenity
The Ressurection, Piero della Francesca, c1463
Rhythm: a painting or sculpture should have rhythm like a piece of Music. Shapes can be repeated- repetitionOr the Shapes can be set in opposition to each other.
**Spaces between the shapes are just as important as the shapes themselves** - the provide places for the “moving” elements to go
1.Unified Color scheme and finish2. Interplay of light and shade3. Use of perspective
*Elements vital to a rhythmic composition*
Use your notes, and vocabulary that we have learned up to this pointAnd analyze this painting to the best of your ability…. Write as much as you can
The people appear to come out of the Canvas toward you- creates a nightmarish scene
The curves of their pale, almost dead faces contrastThe strong diagonals of the composition
The solitary figure heading up the street in the Opposite direction creates a sense of alienationOr solitude
The color scheme is gloomy and ominous
Brings out feelings of anxiety and tension
Composition is in landscape format . The shapes are set in oppositionFlow makes the viewer uncomfortable.
Color scheme suggests it is a night scene- window lights on, shadows, dark sky
Most figures are cropped- suggesting movement or action
Generic facial features suggest that they are tronies