Art Records and Commemorates ExperienceArt Reflects the Social and Cultural Context of a

SocietyArt Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

Interpretation of history using a visual medium

Art Records and Commemorates Experience

Art Records and Commemorates Experience

A portrait of a pair of stricken

emigrants as they sail

away on the ship that will

take them from

England forever

The company of Frans Landscape with the Funeral of Phocion, 1648, Oil on canvasPhocion was a Greek who was executed because he would not conceal the truth. It is a comment on the stoic nature of Phocion and reflects this in its sharp detail and calm.

Art Records and Commemorates Experience

Jan van Eyck and (Hubert van Eyck), 1390-1441 Arnolfini Wedding Portrait, 1434, oil on wood, 32"x 23" -full of symbolic imagery: dog (fidelity), mirror (eye of God), fertility symbols -record of a real event -artist is shown in the mirror on the back wall Art Records and Commemorates Experience

The company of Frans Banning Cock preparing to march out, known as the Nightwatch, 1642, Oil on canvas Art Records and

Commemorates Experience

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

The American People Series #4: The Civil Rights Triangle 1963, Oil on canvas, 36 x 42"

The Greeks believed that Man was an ideal form. In their estimation,

Man is the measure of all things. Their

works reflect an interest in the

naturalistic world. More like reality except that there

is an emphasis on the "ideal" figure.

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Hieronymous Bosch, 1450-1516 Garden of Earthly Delights, c. 1505-10, triptych, oil on wood, 12' long (open)

-Heaven on right panel, Hell on left panel -center panel is full of images about earthly pleasures

-moralistic triptych, that comments on sin --fantastic, surreal images

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

The School of AthensA reflection of the influence of Classical ideas in

Renaissance Italy

School of AthensItalian Renaissancefresco1509-11by Raphael

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1525-69 The Peasant Dance, c. 1567, oil on wood, 3'9"x 5'5" -people overindulge in the presence of religious icons

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louis David, oil on canvas1784 (Neoclassical)

A visual retelling of a story of the ancient Roman Republic. In this image is a group of sons swearing to their father that they will defend Rome to the death. In David's time, there was a growing movement toward a democratic government and many believed that they had to be completely committed (like the Horatii) in order for it to succeed.

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

The Gleaners- 1857, oil on canvas, 2'9 "x 3'8" A view of peasants and pulling the last fragments of straw from a field.

Jean-Francois Millet (1814-75) depicted peasants and working people.

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Neoclassicism was also used in the architecture and art of the US to show solidity, and order, this was a way of creating the image of a stable government. This was exemplified in the sculpture of George Washington as Socrates by Horatio Greenough.

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Edouard Manet Used familiarity and confrontational views to shock and comment on society.

Many of the American artists of the 1930's and 1940's were interested in creating an identity that would boost the American spirit during those times war and hardship.

NighthawksEdward Hopper, oil on canvas 1942

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Art Reflects the Social and Cultural Context

Pop Art -Pop artists were interested in raising mundane everyday things to heroic proportions Andy Warhol -artist who took images from popular culture, soup cans, etc. and through his art gave them greater than usual importance -used a workshop of artists who mass-produced work, just like a factory (so he emulated the manufacturing process for everyday items in the art process) -recognized cultural icons (Elvis, Marilyn Monroe, etc.) and used them as heroic figures by mass producing their images (just like the Greek ideal human forms)

Art Protests Injustice

and Raises Social

Consciousness

Third Class Carriage, 1862, oil on canvas -portrays life and class within French society

Honore Daumier (1808-79)The primary purpose of his art work was to show the brutality of the French government while dealing with the working class, dedicating much of his life and art to social realism.

Concentrating on the inequities between the classes, and atrocities committed by the government. Daumier mocked those in power, mostly in lithographs or the newspaper

Caricature

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

Honore Daumier (1808-79) -caricaturist and artist His caricature of the king as Gargantua led to Daumier's imprisonment for six months

Daumier shows King Louis-Phillipe as a ravenous monster who is devouring all of France's wealth, food, etc. to satisfy his own appetite

Rue Transnonain was created in response to the massacre of 19 people - including women and children - by the French National Guard in response to the

strike of silk weavers in Lyon, on April 14, 1834.

Rue Transnonain,15 April, Lithograph 28 x 44 cm, 1834 July 1834

The Death of Marat also by Jacques-Louis David retold the story of the murder of a pro-democracy writer who was a member of the same political party as David. David takes great care to portray this character as a martyr by making him look more like a Classical Greek sculpture in pose and the way he is painted.

Death of MaratJacques-Louis Davidoil on canvas1793 (Neoclassical)

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

Liberty Leading the PeopleRomanticist work that implied a need for spontaneous revolution that they thought

should be supported by all the classes of 19th Century France.

oil on canvas1830by Eugene Delacroix

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

Raft of the Medusa, 1819, oil on canvas, 16‘ x 23'6" About a real life tragedy that involved a ship wrecked at sea and its survivors

Seen as a symbol of political injustice because the captain, who was appointed by Napoleon, abandoned the ship and left the 149 passengers one small raft.Gericault researched this painting by interviewing survivors of this event.

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

Guernica, 1937, oil on canvas, 11 '6“ x 25‘ 6" A painting memorializing first saturation bombing of a civilian area

Guernica * Cubism * oil on canvas * 1937 * by Pablo Picasso

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

They say yes and give their hand to the first one who comes: depicts a beautiful

young girl being married off to a ugly older man.

Rather than having sympathy for the girl, Goya, by quoting a line from a poem

in his caption, Is suggesting that the girl is marrying

the old, ugly man for his money alone. The lustful older man gets his trophy

bride while the young woman achieves financial security.

"the innumerable foibles and follies to be found in any civilized society … the common prejudices and deceitful practices which custom, ignorance and self interest have made usual". Goya ,1799

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

They Carried her OffThe plate is one of Goya's

particularly forceful indictments against violence

towards women. The perpetrators remain

anonymous; the one at the back is wearing a monk's

habit. Only the woman's head is

rendered in detail.

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

Executions on the Third of May, 1808, 1814, oil on canvas, 8'9"x 11'4" -historical scene of French soldiers killing Spaniards near Madrid

-mood created with color and rhythms in the composition

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness

Art Protests Injustice and Raises Social Consciousness