1. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Major Art Trends Art Vocabulary

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Is this art? Claude Monet

9. 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?

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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

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

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

15. 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

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

17. 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

18. 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

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

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

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

22. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art in the Renaissance 1420-1530

23. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art in the Renaissance 1420-1530 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?

24. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Art in the Renaissance 1420-1530 Michelangelo’s David Man as the Centre of Divine Creation

25. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Baroque Art 1600-1750 Andrea Pozzo’s Allegory of the Missionary Work of the Jesuits, 1661-94

26. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Romantic Art 1815-1850 Eugene Delacroix’s Liberty Leading the People, 1830

27. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Romanticism 1815-1850 JW Turner’s Snowstorm, 1844

28. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Impressionism 1860-1900 Monet’s Rouen Cathedral: Full sunlight, Dull light, Morning Light

29. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Expressionism 1905-1945 Van Gogh’s Starry, Starry Night

30. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Cubism 1907-1925 Picasso’s Woman Playing the Mandolin, 1909

31. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Surrealism 1924-1945 Dali’s The Persistence of Memory, 1931

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

33. Ms Joyce Lim 2008 Pop Art Andy Warhol Roy Lichtenstein