Foundations of Art and Design

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Foundations ofArt and Design

• Chapter 1 The Creative Impulse

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Justification for Creation

• Fig. 1.2 God as Architect of the World, Folio 1
  verso of a moralized Bible (Paris ca.
  1220 1230)

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Artists Fascination

• In the image, A Fisherman at Sea do you feel that
  nature is depicted as

Fig. 1.3a Fisherman at Sea by Henry Ossawa Tanner
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Artists Fascination
In the image, A Fisherman at Sea do you feel that
nature is depicted as

1. Subject
2. Source
3. Both
4. Neither

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Culture

• What is the difference between nature and
  culture?
• What does that difference imply?

Fig. 1.4a Diary December 12, 1941 by Roger
Shimomura
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Culture is

• The things that we are exposed to every day,
  things that shape our culture, things that are
  passed along from generation to generation.

Fig. 1.4b 99 Cent(1999) by Andreas Gursky
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Artists Response to Nature

• has taken the form of
• Landscape painting
• Land art
• Sculpture
• Can you think of any other mediums?

Fig 1.5 - We Wont Play Nature to Your Culture
(1983), by Barbara Kruger
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Why Study Art History?

• Helps you to recognize the relationship among
  artists and their influences.

• Influences
• Historical events
• Religious beliefs
• Social circumstances
• Political maneuvering
• Idiosyncratic patronage
• Art for arts sake
• Etc

Fig. 1.6 Joseph Beuys by Glenn Brown
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And its at the very moment you make a botch of
it that youre yourself.

• Fig. 1.7 Numbers in Color
• by Jasper Johns (1958-1959)

Fig. 1.8 I Am Not Jasper Johns by Yurii Albert
(1981)
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Why?

• How to develop your communication skills
• 1. Think about art
• How does it make you feel?
• What techniques is the artist using?
• What is the pieces composition like?
• 2. Write about art
• Write your thoughts down
• Reread them
• 3. Speak about art
• Participate in critiques

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The Sketchbook

• All art students should have a sketchbook.
• Why?
• To help you remember.
• To record feelings and thoughts for incorporation
  into your artwork.

Fig. 1.10 Ornothoper Wings, page from notebook,
Codex Atlanticus, fol. s309 verso by Leonardo da
Vinci
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Understanding Art

• Pablo Picasso lived to the age of 92 and was one
  of the most prolific artists in history.
• an artist works of necessity,

Fig. 1.11 Self-Portraits and Studies, 1897 - 1899
by Pablo Picasso
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Subject

• Subject is the what of a work of art.
• People
• Place
• Thing
• Theme
• Process
• Idea

• Modernism challenged the traditional definition
  of subject.
• Abstraction and Nonobjective art may appear not
  to have a subject, but

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The Subject of Abstraction and Nonobjective Art?

• Abstraction and nonobjective art still have a
  subject. The subject may be the color or the
  process.

Fig. 1.12, Study for The Cow (1917) by Theo Van
Doesburg
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Architecture as an example of iconography

• Gothic Architecture
• The design is a symbol of
• The churchs role in society.
• The religious beliefs of the time.
• Many gothic churches use the Latin Cross plan, or
  the shape of the cross for their layout.

Fig. 1.13a Aerial view of Church of St. Serin,
Toulouse, France (Romanesque, c. 1080 -1120)
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American Architecture

• Government architecture resembles Greek and Roman
  architecture. Why?

Fig. 1.13b Lincoln Memorial, Washington, DC
(1914) by Henry Bacon
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Iconography Examples

• Green dress with belly fertility
• Single candle the presence of Christ
• Dog fidelity
• What do you think the following represents
• Fruit ?
• Marriage bed ?

Fig. 1.14 Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan
van Eyck
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Compare and Contrast
Fig. 1.16 Joseph Stalin Gazing Enigmatically at
the Body of VI Lenin as it Lies in State in
Moscow in the Style of Jackson Pollock by Michael
Baldwin and Mel Ramsden

• Fig. 1.15 - Jackson Pollack

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Visual Elements

• Visual Elements
• Line
• Shape
• Value
• Color
• Texture
• Space
• Time
• Motion

Fig 1.17a Zen Circle by Torei Enji (1721 - 1292)