Art Appreciation
Professor Paige PraterT, R, 9:30-10:50AM
A850
10 Elements of Art:
Drawing: Dry Media
• Pencil• Charcoal• Silverpoint• Conté crayon• Chalk• Pastel• Crayon
Drawing: PencilIlka Gedö, Self-portrait, 1944. Graphite on paper, 11 5/8”x8 3/8”. British Museum, London, England.
Drawing: Colored Pencil
Birgit Megerle, Untitled, 2003. Pencil and colored pencil on paper, 16 ¾” x 11 ¾” – MOMA, New York.
Drawing: CharcoalKäthe Kollwitz, Self-Portrait in Profile to Left, 1933. Charcoal on Paper. 18 ¾” x 25”. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Léon Augustin Lhermitte, An Elderly Peasant Woman, c. 1878. Charcoal on wove paper, 18 ¾” x 15 5/8” National Gallery of Art, Washingon, D.C.
Drawing: Silverpoint
Raphael, Heads of the Virgin and Child, c. 1509-11. Silverpoint on Pink Prepared Paper. 5 5/8” x 4 3/8”. British Musuem, London, England.
Drawing: Conté crayon
Georges Seurat, Trees on the Bank of the Seine (Study for Le Grande Jatte), 1884. Black Conté Crayon on White Laid Paper. 24 ½” x 18 ½”. Art Institute of Chicago.
Drawing: Chalk
Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl, 1510-11. Red chalk, 11 3/8” x 8 3/8”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Drawing: PastelEdgar Degas, The Tub, 1886. Pastel, 23 5/8” x 32 5/8”, Musee d’ Orsay, Paris, France.
Drawing: Wet Media
• Ink• Quill & Pen• Brush & ink
Drawing: Ink
Vincent Van Gogh, Sower with Setting Sun, 1888. Pen and brown ink, 9 5/8” x 12 5/8”. Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Types of Ink
• Carbon ink: 2500 BCE in China/India– soot+water+gum– Smudges
• India ink: contemporary version of carbon ink• Iron gall ink: – tannin (oak galls/parasitic on trees)+iron sulfate+gum
arabic+water– Not lightfast
• Bistre: wood soot/yellow-brown• Sepia: derived from cuttlefish secretions!
Drawing: Ink
Claude Lorrain, The Tiber from Monte Mario Looking South, 1640. Dark brown wash on white paper, 7 3/8” x 10 5/8”. British Museum, London, England.
Drawing: Process
• Life-drawing• Plaster cast• Photographs• Gesture• Contour
Henri Matisse, Themes and Variations, series P, Woman Seated in an Armchair, 1942. Pen and ink 19 ¾” x 15 ¾”. Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyons, France.
Painting
• Encaustic• Tempera• Fresco: buon & secco• Oil– Impasto
• Acrylic (1950)• Watercolor/gouache• Ink• Spray paint
Painting: Encaustic
Portrait of a Boy, c. 100-150 CE. Encaustic on Wood, 15 3/8” x 7 ½”. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Jasper Johns, Three Flags, 1958, Whitney Museum of Art.
Painting: Tempera
• EGGS!• The Virgin and Child with Angels,
Ferrarese School, c. 1470-80. Tempera, oil, and gold, on panel, 23 x 17 3/8”. National Gallery of
Scotland, Edinburgh.
Painting: Fresco
• Fresco secco - dry• Buon fresco - wet
Michelangelo, The Libyan Sibyl, 1511-12. Fresco. Detail of the Sistine Chapel Ceiling, Vatican City.
Painting: OilJan van Eyck, The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin, 1430-34. Oil on wood, 26 x24 3/8”. Musee de Louvre, Paris, France.
Painting: Oil (impasto)
Joan Brown, Girl in Chair, 1962. Oil on canvas, 5 x 4’. LACMA.
Painting: Acrylic
Roger Shimomura, Untitled, 1984. Acrylic on canvas, 5’ ½” x 6’ ¼”. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
Painting: Watercolor/Gouache
Albrecht Durer, A Young Hare, 1502. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 9 7/8” x 8 7/8”. Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
Painting: Ink
Suzuki Shonen, Fireflies at Uji River, Meigi period, 1868-1912. Ink, co.lor, and gold on silk; hanging scroll, 13 ¾” x 50”. Clark Family Collection.
Painting: Spray Paint/ Wall Art
John Matos, a.k.a. “Crash”, Aeroplane 1, 1983. Spray paint on canvas, 5’ 11 ¼” x 8’ 7”. Brooklyn Museum, New York. Blek le Rat, David with the Machine Gun,
2006. New York.
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