Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Major Art Trends Art Vocabulary

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Graffiti taken in a subway in Lisbon, Portugal 1999

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Cave art(17,000 years old?) in Lascaux, France

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Chinese Propanganda Art during the Great Leap Forward Campaign

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Mark Rothko, No. 14, 1960

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson and Bubbles

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Claude Monet

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 What is art? 1.Is art something that takes talent, patience, hardwork and thus should be appreciated for the considerable skills of its maker? 2.Must art look like something? 3.Must art trigger strong emotions? 4.Must art represent human truth?

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 One popular way to understand Art: Art as Language The study of sign systems – Semiotics- takes into 6 components of human interaction

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art as Language To begin the process of communication: 1.The addressor says hello to the addressee 2.Btw the 2 participants a message passes 3.A shared code that makes the language intelligible 4.Assumption that both participants understand English – the medium of communication 5.Context of conversation is established 6.Purpose of communication is articulated

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Let’s apply this concept - Art as Language to one of Mary Cassatt’s Portraits Addressor: the Artist(Mary Cassatt) Addressee: the viewer Message: the tenderness of the relationship between mother and daughter, the innocence of the child, the nurturing character of the woman Code: Traditional Western pictorial devices such as shallow illusionistic space, modeling to produce volume, the influence of Japanese prints introduced in the late 19 th C Context 1891 painting by a woman artist, now situated in a late 20 th C museum environment Medium of Communication: a 39 ½ x 26 in(100.2 x 66 cm) oil painting Mary Cassatt, The Bath, 1891

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art and its Codes Art has a series of codes that makes its images, objects and buildings intelligible to others.

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art and its Codes Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664 Kikugawa Eizan’s Beauty on Parade, 1810

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Line When organised collectively suggest a message? With different characteristics – shape, density, rhythm and angularity- suggest a message? When depicted with different material-suggest a message? Van Gogh’s Road with Cypress and Star

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Line Henri Matisse’s Portrait of Baudelaire, 1932

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Value Contrast in light and dark Overlapping of lines produce a variety of values that enables the subject to be defined in illusionistic space Jacques Villon’s Portrait of Jeune Femmer, 1913

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Colour Primary Colours: Red Yellow and Blue Hue(Name of colour wheel colours), Value(colour’s relativeness to darkness and lightness) and Intensity(Colour’s purity) Complementary Colours Analogous Colours Monochromatic Colours

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Harmonies and Discord Monochromatic colours? Complementary Colours? Analogous Colours? Berthe Morisot’s La Lecture, 1888

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Harmonies and Discord Monochromatic colours? Complementary Colours? Analogous Colours? Vincent Van Gogh’s Night Café 1888

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Harmonies and Discord Monochromatic colours? Complementary Colours? Analogous Colours? Henri Matisse, Goldfish, 1908

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art in the Renaissance

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art in the Renaissance Leonardo Da Vinci His masterpiece is the Mona Lisa Took him 6 years to compete Who was she? Why was she smiling? Is she Leonardo himself?

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art in the Renaissance Michelangelo’s David Man as the Centre of Divine Creation

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Baroque Art Andrea Pozzo’s Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits,

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Romantic Art Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, 1830

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Romanticism JW Turner’s Snowstorm, 1844

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Impressionism Monet’s Rouen Cathedral: Full sunlight, Dull light, Morning Light

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Expressionism Van Gogh’s Starry, Starry Night

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Cubism Picasso’s Woman Playing the Mandolin, 1909

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Surrealism Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, 1931

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Abstract Expressionism(Fr 1945) Jackson Pollock, Number 32, 1950

Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Pop Art Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein