1. What Is Art?

2. Vincent Van Gogh Wheat Field with Cypresses. Saint-Rémy. June 1889

4. Irises 1889, Oil on canvas, 28 x 36 3/4 in 82.5 million dollars

5. The relevance/ value of Van Gogh’s Art Money Influence on artists of the next generation He plays an important role in western art. There is a limited number of paintings. We are able to feel with artist, accomplishments and the story of his life.

6. Andy Warhol, Thirty are better than One?, 1936 Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-05

7. People consider different things to be art at different times and in different places. Art as a concept in Western thought has been a problematic. During the Middle Ages, art was used in the same sense as craft. Both had to do with practical skill (forging a sword, painting a picture, carving a cabinet-were all considered art. During the Renaissance/ 1500s, painting, sculpture, & architecture were considered more important forms of art. All other skilled activities became known as crafts. During the 18 th painting and sculpture were grouped with music, dance and poetry( and sometimes landscape gardening) as the fine arts because they are similar activities that had no other function than to be beautiful or expressive.

8. Artist and Audience Art and Beauty Outsider/Folk Art: art by nonprofessionals Representational (Naturalistic, trompe l’oeil) Abstract (Stylized) Nonrepresentational/ Nonobjective Form: Media, Style, Composition Content: Subject matter, message, iconography Context: Knowledge of artist, time & culture Aesthetics: Philosophy of meaning & nature of art Installation: work created for a specific site

9. Artist and Audience

10. Claude Monet, Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville 1882 ( 23 7/8 x 32 1/8 in.)

11. Outsider/Folk Art: art by nonprofessionals James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

12. James Hampton

13. Art and Beauty 18 th Century beauty and art were discussed together because both were felt to provide pleasure, a Intellectual pleasure.

14. Giovanni Bellini. Pieta. C. 1500-05. Oil on wood. 25 5/8 x 35 3/8”

15. Francisco de Goya. Saturn Devouring One of His Chidren. c. 1820-23. Oil on canvas

16. Art Appearances Representational art is to represent the world more or less as our eyes see it. Naturalistic means a work of art that closely resembles forms in the natural world ( realistic). Stylized means the works are based on forms in the natural world, but are simplified or conventionalized for design. Abstraction is a characteristic of art in which natural forms are not rendered in a representational way, but are simplified or distorted to convey the essence of form

17. Pablo Picasso. First Communion, 1895-96. oil on canvas, 65 1/8” x 46 1/2”

18. Pablo Picasso. Woman with a Fan. 1908. Oil on canvas

19. Duane Hanson Housepainter III, 1984-1988. Autobody filler, polychromed mixed-media, with accessories, life-size Trompe l’oeil, French term for “fool the eye”

20. Nonrepresentational Art “ Art that does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside of itself.” Composition VIII

21. Nonrepresentational art recognizes that we can have a satisfying aesthetic experience from the elements of art itself such as form, color, line, and shape. Rebecca Purdham. Chin Up. 1990. Oil on canvas, 9 x 6’

22. Style refers to a characteristic or group of characteristics that we recognize as constant, recurring, or coherent.

23. ART AND MEANING Form is the way a work of art looks. Form encompasses all the visual aspects that can be isolated and discussed such as size, shape, materials, color, and composition. Content is what a work of art is about.

24. Henri Matisse The Piano Lesson. 1916. Oil on canvas

25. Janine Antoni, Gnaw. Lipslick, 1992

28. Iconography Iconography “describing images,” it involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art. Helps us to understand meanings we might not be able to see ourselves.

29. Jocho. Amida Nyorai, in the Hoodo (Phoenix Hall), Byodo-in Temple, c. 1053, Multiple cypress woodblocks, lacquered cloth and gold leaf Gilded wood, height 9’ 2”

30. Jan van Eyck. Arnolfini Double Portrait. 1434. Oil on wood, 33 x 22 ½”

31. Installation: work created for a specific site Ann Hamilton. View of mantle. Miami Art Museum, 1998.