1. Please write on your index card: *Name *Year & Major *Email (only if not using Columbia email) *For group work: are there people you would like to be paired with? *Do you have a job or sports practice that makes it impossible to go to a museum, if so, what days?

2. What is art?

3. Art as physical object Art as signifier (of something else) VS. Materials and techniques Visual effects created (Formal Analysis) through: Line Shape ColorPerspective etc. Size, scale and location Art as commodity (patronage, authenticity, exchange value) Issues of cultural patrimony How does a given work get made in a specific time and place? Genres (esp. of painting) Portraiture/self-portraiture History / mythological Religious and others… Context (broadly defined) Tradition and rupture in art West and non-West in Western art Art as something defined by the artist or museum/gallery system

4. Materials and techniques

5. Materials and techniques “The Agony in the Garden” Dürer, Woodcut, ca. 1510 Rembrandt, Etching with Drypoint, ca. 1567

6. Carlo Crivelli Crucifixion, ca. 1480 Pietro Perugino The Crucifixion with Saints Late 15th century 40 x 22” Visual effects

7. Right: an altarpiece in situ Size, scale and location

8. Raphael, The Sistine Madonna, c. 1512-13. Oil on canvas Art as commodity

9. Cultural patrimony

10. Genres of art (Self) Portraiture Landscape/History painting Still life

11. Context

12. Las Meninas, 1656, Diego Velázquez (1599- 1660)

13. Tradition and rupture Picasso – one of hundreds of Las Meninas “remixes” he made. Ca. 1930s Eve Sussman, still from video “recreation” of Las Meninas, 2002, Bklyn

14. West and/vs. non-West Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907(L) Iumba mask (R)

15. What is “the West?” and Is there something inherently “Western” about Western art?

21. What is Western about Western art? Works in specific genres Self-referential character of Western art Tradition, imitation and rupture Belief that works of art have an improving influence on those who view it Specific visual strategies or tricks, preferred and demanded (esp. linear perspective)

25. Raphael, “The School of Athens” fresco

26. “Art autobiography” Death mask of King Tutankhamun, Egyptian, 1332-1323 BCE Gold inlaid with glass and colored stones ~21” H Louis Comfort Tiffany Hudson River Landscape, colored glass, ca. 1905

27. What is your “art autobiography?” – (written, not PPT) Kees Van Dongen Woman in a Red Hat Oil on canvas, ca. 1907 Zapotec urn, southern Mexico, ca. 600 CE About 22” H

28. Rene Magritte, The Treason of Images, ca. 1928-29