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Why Do We Study the History of Art?
Arts and their history teach us about our own creative
expressions and those of our past
3 major types of visual art in the west
• Pictures
• Sculpture
• Architecture
Artistic Impulse
• Inborn- can be seen by observing children
• Desire to leave something behind
Self-Portraits
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Patrons
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Why Do We Value Art?
• Valued by entire cultures
Material Value
Intrinsic Value
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Religious Value
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Nationalistic Value
Psychological Value
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Art or Manufactured Metal?
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Art and Illusion
• Naturalistic art- true to life
• Representational or Figurative- depicts recognizable objects
• Illusionistic- subjects can be mistaken for the real thing
• Trompe l’oeil- artist’s purpose is to fool the eye
Illusionistic Art:Duane Hanson
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Trompe l’oeil:Julian Beever
• video
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The Crevasse: Making of Street Art
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SNYtd0Ayt0&feature=related
Archaeology and Art History
• Archaeology- reconstructs history from the physical remains of past cultures
• Art History- the study of the visual arts
• Aesthetics- art appreciation
Methodologies of Art History
• Formalism- art for art’s sake• Iconography- emphasizes the content of art• Marxism- study form and content for social
messages they convey• Feminism-assumes that art is influenced by
gender• Biography and Autobiography- interpret art as
expressions of the artists’ lives and personalities
Methodologies of Art History
• Semiology- the science of signs- takes issue with biographical method and much of formalism. Sign and signifier.
• Deconstruction- opens up meanings, rather than fixing them within structural patterns. A work has no ultimate meaning conferred by its author.
• Psychoanalysis- works of art are sublimations of instinct through which instinctual energy is transferred by work and talent into aesthetic form
The Language of Art
• Composition- work of art and its overall plan and structure
Plane- flat surface having direction in space
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Balance
• Symmetrical Asymmetrical
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Line- path traced by a moving point
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Perspective-mathematical systems that aid artists in
creating the illusion of depth
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Color
• Hue
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• Value-lightness or darkness of an image
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• Intensity-brightness or dullness of a color
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• Texture-surface characteristic of an object
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Realism or Naturalism
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Idealized
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Stylized
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Romanticized
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Nonrepresentational or nonobjective
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Abstract
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