Art 1 Discovering Art History Mr. Stanzione Westside High School Art Department Portrait bust of a bearded man, ca. 150–75 A.D.; Antonine Roman Marble
How old is Art? As old as Mankind! As old as Mankind! It has recorded our history. It has recorded our history. Lets us see how we lived long ago. Lets us see how we lived long ago. It will always be part of us. It will always be part of us. (music, dance, visual art is how we interpret the world around us and express how we feel.) (music, dance, visual art is how we interpret the world around us and express how we feel.) Lions hunting Bison, ca 30,000 BC. Chauvet Cave, France
What is Art? Expression. (Feelings) Expression. (Feelings) Inspiration. (Religion) Inspiration. (Religion) Explanation. (Science) Explanation. (Science) Utility. (common use) Utility. (common use) Amphora, ca. 530 B.C.; Archaic; black-figure Attributed to the manner of the Lysippides Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta Stonehenge, ca B.C. England
What does Art do for you? Imagination Imagination Records history (our lives) Records history (our lives) Records our feelings (what is important to us) Records our feelings (what is important to us) Pleases us (makes life interesting) Pleases us (makes life interesting) Architecture Fashion Dream it!
Looking at Art Aesthetics (what pleases us) Aesthetics (what pleases us) Style (what it looks like) Style (what it looks like) Purpose (why did the artist do this) Purpose (why did the artist do this)
How do we look at Art? Elements of Art or How we make Art. Elements of Art or How we make Art. Line Shape/Form Texture (simulated and real) Space (perspective) Color Value (changes of dark and light)
Line A moving dot made by a tool to create shapes, forms, value, and movement. A moving dot made by a tool to create shapes, forms, value, and movement. How does this picture use line? It creates movement, shapes and forms by making simple designs.
Shape and Form Shape is a 2D geometric or organic object. Shape is a 2D geometric or organic object. Form is a shape that is 3D in appearance. Form is a shape that is 3D in appearance. SHAPE 2D FORM 3D
Texture How something feels or appears to feel. How something feels or appears to feel. Painting of fur!Real fur!
Space and Perspective Foreground Background Perspective View from angles.
Color Hue and all of it values makes an object 3D. Highlight Blue Hue Shadow Cast Shadow
Value Like color creates 3D with highlights and shadows. Contrast (bold) dark and light.
How do we look at Art? Principles of Art or How we look at Art. Principles of Art or How we look at Art. Balance (symmetrical=even/asymmetrical=odd) Unity Emphasis Contrast Movement Pattern/Rhythm
Balance Mona Lisa, ca , Leonard da Vinci Italy Symmetrical Centered, even Still Life with Apples, ca , Paul Cezanne France Asymmetrical Uneven, not centered
Unity Pyramid of Skulls, ca Paul Cezanne France Objects relate to each other. Still Life, ca Nora Heysen England
Emphasis Impression: soleil levant (sunrise), ca 1874 Claude Monet France Drawing the attention of the viewer by using shapes, movement, or color. Notice the bright colors in each painting!
Contrast Pickerel Frog, ca 2005 Leanne Wildermuth USA Dark versus Light colors Cool versus Warm colors (opposite) Frederic Remington
Movement The Charge of the Rough Riders, ca. 1898, Frederic Remington, New York The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, ca 1800’s Katsushika Hokusai’s Japan The direction of objects creates drama and movement.
Pattern and Rhythm Iguana, ca 2007 Lance Leopold Photograph Notice the natural patterns in nature!