medium/media (singular/plural) – The material with which an artist works such as ink, bronze, oil paint, or watercolor. montage – A composition made up of pictures or parts of pictures previously drawn, painted, or photographed. movement – The direction the viewer’s eyes take when looking at a work of art. Sometimes it
[C3] In this course students engage in both visual and historical study about art and its contexts. Students develop an understanding of artworks
Therefore when we make painting of water, cloud then it is an art, but when a person look at reality of water and clouds is not art. There are different aspects of art such as narrative, expression, and formal. A formal aspect of art is anything that has lines, shapes, values, color, texture, pattern, rhythm, balance, scale, proportion, and motion. Formal quality of art is based on the values of people, their culture and the way of people’s thinking. There are different types of arts and those arts can be compared and contrasted in one way or the other.
Then draw horizontal lines 1/3 of the way down the paper and 2/3 down the paper. Where the lines intersect is a good place for a focal point or center of interest. Label the focal points. 2. Make a nonobjective painting with light or dark value passages leading to a focal area.
Not only can a frame has authorial influence, it can also have the author himself present in the frame, notwithstanding the literal author or a person he wants as to assume that is the author. One kind of authorial presence is self-portrait, but self-portrait is only a static record of an image. Another similar but different kind of authorial presence is to depict himself in his actual situation. In Las Meninas, Velázquez illustrates himself as a painter, which is his real occupation, inside a painting that he is painting. And inside the painting, the painter is painting a painting, which is what he is doing when he is painting Las Meninas.
Ghirlandaio also uses chiaroscuro, a technique where modeling of dark and light is used to create the illusion of three dimensions. This technique can be seen in the folds of the clothing that the virgin and the saints are wearing. Ghirlandaio also uses classical architecture in the background. There are also examples of iconography or religious interpretation of the content of images. The golden halos over the heads of the figures symbolize their religious important.
Describe how Expressionism is visually and thematically characterized in art history. What does an Expressionistic Artwork mean? What are some of the similar stylistic elements seen in Expressionist artworks that are seen again and again? In your own words refer to the art book Caves to Canvas in the art room to see what is written about the art movement and try and add your own information and interpretation to this movement. The websites mentioned earlier should also assist?
Then the trim is taped to decrease any paint disasters where they aren’t wanted. Next, a coat of primer is painted on the wall to stop any odors, stains or previous colors from disturbing the new color. Once all the work is complete, the new color(s) and/or painting technique(s) can be done. Color washing, striping and brushed pearl are a few techniques used to add texture to the walls. Painting begins by using a two inch paint brush to paint the perimeter of all walls and windows.
Modernism describes the art and aesthetics movement as a reaction against realism. Modernists are similar to structuralism on its view of the world that it is composed by underlying formal systems which can be known and explained (Sturken and Cartwright 2009, 4498). Postmodernism appeared as a reaction against modernism. Defining postmodernism is difficult as it would contradict inherent beliefs of postmodernism which defines that there is no absolute truth. However it is stated as a “ set of trends in the art world that question, among other things, concepts of authenticity, authorship and the idea of style progression (Sturken and Cartwright 2009, 454).
Thus, I think Mona Lisa is the most suitable artwork for me to mediate different meanings produced since the Renaissance until the postmodern world. The Renaissance’s painter Leonardo Da Vinci finished the portrait in between 1503-1504. There are multiple hypotheses about why the portrait was created: some of them says that it is a self- portrait of the painter by noting that the eyes, nose- tip and mouth of Mona Lisa actually line up with a known self portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci. Other claims that the sitter and the painter had a special rapport. Thus, the sitter appeared to look at the viewer (actually the painter) straight in the eye with ease.