ART GNRL 1020 1st Edition Lecture 2 Outline of Last Lecture I Art Around the World Outline of Current Lecture II Words and Images III Calligraphy IV Realism V Iconography VI Multiple Perspectives Current Lecture Chapter 2 Rene Magritte The treason of images 1929 This is not a pipe script translated on the artwork o uses visual and verbal techniques He said Art can be powerfully persuasive informative and aesthetically engaging beautiful and captures attention All of these aspects work together Words and Images Visual Literacy ability to comprehend and discuss visual images Descriptive vocabulary Historical and social context Integration These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Prof said a picture or painting of a tree is a mild representation it is not the tree itself you need to go touch that tree physically to prove that it is real Piece with the Neck Visual and verbal Depersonalization is a technique used in the photo because no face or identity is shown This photo tells the potential and past violence faced by African Americans o Ex Lynchings shows this with the words neck neck ed etc Picture of the city Shows complex network of voyeurism Shirin Neshat From Iran She sometimes uses her own body as a canvas She has pictorial essays one being Rebellious Silence Rebellious silence from women of Allah series shows an Islamic woman in a burkah the woman has writing on her face and a rifle barrel against her lips o The barrel divides the woman in Calligraphy Is the fine art of handwriting Piece shown is a page from the Persian Manuscript o 16th century Islamic Belief words can be trusted but images cannot The page of poetry depends for its power on its visual prescence and beauty Works of art are said to be Representational and realistic if the subject matter is recognizable Abstract if the subject matter is recognizable but it is abstract or reduced to essential qualities which are then isolated exaggerated and distorted Non representation or non objectives No recognizable subject matter Ex Of Representational o Albert Bierstadt 1863 The Rocky Mountains It records and describes the world It is a patient reproduction of the tints and traits which make up and identify its local character His work The Matterhorn does these things as well Ex Of Abstract o Erna Motna Bushfire and corroboree dreaming o Susan Rothenburg painting of the horse Ex Of non representational or non objective o Malevich Supremeist painting Black rectangle Blue Triangle 1915 o Beatris Mihazes carambola 2008 Shapes and colors no recognizable subject matter o Claude Monet His non representational work always works with light and qualities of light o Jackson Pollock American Artist 1st great American Artist Along with others he helped establish the American Art sector o Piet Modrian series of abstraction of a tree his work becomes more abstract over time it develops into geometry he is know for this later on the Grey tree more abstract than his 1st tree To appreciate the communicative value of art one must understand an artworks visual and expressive qualities Realism Apollo Belvidere o sculpture from the Roman times afte the 4th century o is very realistic and human like o shows the beauty of the human profile Leonardo DaVinci o 5 characters in a comic scene o 1490 o is very realistic and is very accurate to the depiction of the human face Masks from Africa Art is interlaced with larger cultural and aesthetic beliefs of historical periods and events as well as reflecting an artists personal philosophy Iconography Visual images render meaning understood by a given cultural group Ex of this is Jan Van Eyck the marriage of Geovanni Amolfini and Giovanna This shows a part of cultural reality Important parts to note o Hands o The Green Dress o The Shoes on the Ground o Dog which shows fidelity aka loyalty Jean Michael Basquet is another example of this He was an American artist that died at a young age Multiple Perspectives Taylor drawing of the treaty signing at Medicine Creek Lodge o 1867 o very realistic o highlights important figures Howling Wolf SAME TITLE AS ABOVE WORK 1875 used colored pencil cartoonish less accurate and an aerial view