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Art Is Us Lecture #9
Isms is in!
Philippe Halsman The Dali Atomicus SurrealismAre dreams the only true reality?
Images Of The Mind: Imagine that!
Real?Try to smoke it!
Ambiguity of form.Can dreams be translated?
Reality? Dali Persistence of Memory
Can you find feet in these images? Hint: Be negative.
Dali Apparition of Face and Fruit Dish on a Beach
A face or bowl of…?
A dog or landscape?
Dali Nelson
Plagiarism?
Miro The Tilled Field
20th Century cross-pollenization
Mondrian: Composition in Red, Blue and Yellow
De Stijl/Neo-Plasticism: Reasoned arrangements and condensations of primary (?) colors and shapes.
Mondrian Broadway Boogie
Action Painting: A visual choreography of an artist’s interaction with paint and color.This is a presentation; not representation
AbstractExpressionism
A visual record of the inherent qualities of paint applied in achoreography of drips and pours.
The final conclusionof Art For Art’s Sake
Jackson Pollock
A myth maker who proclaimedthat the only valid subject matter is that which is tragic.
“Without monsters and gods,art cannot enact a drama.”Rothco
An Age of Proclamations
“A colorist he is not!” Dick Nelson
Should we trust the art critic?
Motherwell Elegy to the Spanish Republic No. 110
Can My Six-Year-OldDo Better?
If this is a statement,what does it state?
De Kooning Woman
De Kooning Gotham News
Reshaping post-war frustrations with a new expressive vision. Does this rationale “FLY”?
Reason
Passion
Josef Albers: Homage To The Square Hans Hoffman: The Gate
Op Art
AbstractExpressionism
Andy Worhol Campbell’s Soup
Pop Art
Familiarity breeds…?
Quality control!
Claes Oldenburg Hamburger
Oldenburg Eraser Seeing the familiar in an unfamiliar way
Soft Bathtub
What does our ART tell us about “us”?
Patriotism Or Patronizing?
Contemporary Icon: Let’s run it up the flagpole and see if it flies!Jasper Johns
The visual elementsare upstaged by concept.
Illustration or fine art?
Thiebaud: Three Machines
OP ART Is this all there is?
Bridget Riley Movement In Squares
Albers Homage to the Square
1 + 1 = 3The interaction of color
Nelson: Homage To Albers Learning Never Ends Albers
Vasarely Optical Illusion
Is permanence a factor in art?
Ralph Goings Ralph’s Diner
Photo-Realism It’s all an illusion
When paint mimicsphotos which mimicoptical reality…(literally speaking)
Now, this is truly taking dictation!!
A synthesis of Pointillism, Photo-Realism, Op and Intuition Chuck Close
A visual statement with two verydifferent realities.
One is seen at a DISTANCE; the other at CLOSE range
What’s APortrait?
Close…..Up?
Distant Viewing?
Your spatial preference?
Art: An observation
Art and plants thrive in fertile soil. For some, art is only there for the picking. They plant and harvest endlessly, with little thought of replenishing or rotating the crop.
But there are those artists and patrons who replenish, and in so doing, harvest a crop rich in both tradition and insight.Their soil encourages new growth and a mutation of endlessvarieties of new visual and tactile experiences.
And then there are those who plant a new variety of seedwhich germinates to become esoteric concepts. Their soil bears abundant fruit, rich in verbal, philosophical, socialand political pronouncements for a chosen few. This crop is not a feast for the eye or touch of a hand, for such qualities are no longer recognized by these authors or theirsupporters.
Visual/tactile art is not literature, music or dance. Whatmakes it unique is its ability to communicate visual ideas.When the visual/tactile experience no longer serves as theprimary means of communicating, it may be an art form, butone whose definition serves another master.
© 2009 Richard Nelson
1. Humanism. L R N B a. The world as it is.
b. Contrapposto pose.
2. God Dominated Society. L R N B
a. Stylized.
b. Idealized.
3. Capturing the climax of the story. L R N B
a. Plane composition,
b. Painterly.
THE FINAL EXAM
4. The roots of Romanticism.
L R N B
5. Portrays the significance of reality.
L R N B
6. Art For Art’s Sake.
L R N B
Reason
Passion
Classic
Hellenistic Ideal
World as it is
RenaissanceBaroque
Climax
Anti-climax
Linear
Painterly
Florentine
Intimate
Closed form Plane
Recessional
Clear edgesLost edges
Venetian
Time stopped
Time in fluxOpen form
Art Is Us: Final Assignment As we conclude nine weeks of exploring the ever
expanding definition of art, we might find it
enlightening to measure our behavioral changes,
if any, resulting from the experience.
Assignment #1: Select a single work of art which,
as a result of this experience, has had the greatest
impact changing your understanding and appreciation
of art. It need not be your favorite, but rather an
important stepping stone in your quest to reach beyond
your previous shoreline.
Patti
Cézanne Still Life with Basket of Apples
Valerie,Jill
Manet Olympia
Holly
Mycenaen Octopus Vase
Steve
Picasso Guernica
Sheri
Cycladic head
Elizabeth Ann
van Gogh
Jill
Goya The Third of May 1808
Art Is Us: Final Assignment
Assignment #2: Read the following articles and write out
any comments or questions which the two articles prompt.
1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conceptual_art
(read the introductory section and as much of the rest as
you'd like)
2. Why the Art World is a Disaster by Roger Kimball
http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Why-the-art-
world-is-a-disaster-3178
(read all of this)