Art Chapter 11 Painting 10 24 2012 Painting Giorgio Vasair The art of Painting Didactic function To teach religious ideals to elevate the mind to urge the contemplation of salvation Cimabue Madonna Enthroned Giotto Madonna and Child Enthroned Dante Once Cimabue was thought t ohold the field now it is Giotto s turn Lamenstation Giotto Sculptural quality rendered by modeling Connotation as well as denotation Contemplation of salvation Akseli Gallen Kallela Painting Encaustic Fresco o The art of painting on fresh moist lime plaster with pigments suspended in water o Buon Fresco pigments applied to we plaster Painting is part of wall surface quick drying o Fresco Secco pigments applied to dry plaster o Example Last Super by Leonardo da Vinci o Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes The Glorification of Saint Ignatius Fra Andrea Pozzo Michelangelo The Libyan Sibyl o Tempera o Egg tempera detail and luminosity o Oil Painting o Artemisia Gentileschi Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting o Can be easily blended o Subtle changes of light o Realistic effects o The Annunciation Rober Campin o Jan de Heem Still Life with Lobster o Betty Gerhard Richter Watercolor Pigments powdered colors Suspended in a medium or binder Mummy Portrait of a Man Jasper Johns Three Flags Encaustic example Expressiveness Susan Rothenberg Biker 10 24 2012 Giorgio Vasari The Art of Painting La Pittura means the picture Artemisia Gentileschi Self Portrait as the Allegory of Painting Presents herself as both a real person and as the personification of La Pittura Imitated the effect of color Artists use pigmetns or powdered colors suspended in medium or binder that holds the particles of pigment together Most supports are too absorbent to allow the easy application of paint artists often PRIME or pre treat to support the paint Finall artists use a solvent or thinner tat enables the paint to flow more readily Encaustic Made by combining pigment with a binder of hot wax Used in classical Greece Mummy Portrait of a Man Faiyum Egypt Requires the painter to work quickly so that the wax will stay liquid Fresco Pigment is mixed with limewater and then applied to a lime plaster wall that is either still wet or hardened and dry Buon Fresco applying mix to a wet wall Fresco Secco applying mix to a dry wall Bodhisattva detail of a fresco wall painting in Cave I Ajanta Giotto Lamentation The Arena Chapel was specially designed by Giotto himself to house his frescoes Focal point is Christ s face Giotto Lamentation Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes Villa of Julia Felix Pompeii Realism of eggs Push forward into our space Michelangelo s Frescoes for the Sistine Chapel Fra Andrea Pozzo The Glorification of Saint Ignatius Painted for the churc of Saint Ignazio in Rome Sense of the roof has been removed Uses foreshortening to smaller as you move upwards into the skys Tempera A medium made by combining water pigment and some gummy material usually egg yolk The Paint was meticulously applied with the point of a fine red sable brush Chiaroscuro were accomplished by means of careful and gradual hatching Gesso made from glue and plaster of Paris or Chalk Creates an extremely durable and softly glowing surface unmatched by any other medium Giotto Madonna and Child Enthroned Represented like his frescoes in the Arena chapel Feel the volume of the Madonna s knee in Giotto s altarpiece to sense actual bodies beneath the draperies that clothe this models Michelangelo Buonarroti The Libyan Sibyl Didacticism the ability to teach to elevate the mind in this case to contemplaion of salvation Sandro Botticelli s Primavera One of the greatest tempera paintings ever made Andrew Wyeth Braids One of the few contemporary artists to wrok almost exclusively in the medium of Tempera Uses warm colors Oil Paintings Oil paint is a far more versatile medium than tempera It can be blended on the painting surface to create a continuous scale of tones and hues many of which especially darker shades were not possible before Oil paintings started in Flanders The Master of Flemalle Robert Campin The Annunciation Campin is telling the viewers that the entire life of Christ enters Mary s body at the moment of conception Jan de Heem Still Life with Lobster Vanitas painting is the tradition of still life painting is specifically designed to induce the spectator to a higher order of thought Vanitas is the latin term for vanity Antonio Lopez Garcia New Refrigerator A modern still life the objects of traditional still life removed from the tabletop into the refrigerator Pat Passlof Dancing Sheos Milton Resnick U Me Painting is a culmination of layer upon layer of paint being added to the work Watercolor Potentially one of the most expressive Made by expending pigments suspended in a solution of water and gum Arabic to dampened paper Xu Wei Grapes The aim was to capture the spirit or essence of nature Winslow Homer A Wall Laurie Reid Ruby Dew Gouache Essentially watercolor mixed with Chinese white chalk Display a light reflecting brilliance Jacob Lawrence You can buy bootleg whiskey for 25 cents a quart Dramatically intense complementary colors blare like the jazz we can almost hear Synthetic Media Oil painting lacks the sense of immediacy so readily appearent in more direct media Helen Frankenthaler Flood Judith F Baca The Great Wall of Los Angeles Mixed Media Combination of all types of media Collage A process of pasting or gluing fragments of printed matter fabric natural material anything that is relatively flat Juan Girs The Table Romare Bearden The Dove Hannah Hoch Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany Painting toward Sculpture Painting on Sculptures to add depth Marcia Gygli King Springs Upstate Travels off the wall into three dimensional space Patricia Patterson The Kitchen A celebration of family life on the island of Inishmore Robert Rauschenberg Monogram Combine painting or high relief collage Fred tomaselli 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