Arts 2050 midterm

Fosso

The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists, From: Self-Portraits I-V

Chromogenic print

1997

Cultural diversity

Cultural diversity

The quality of diverse/different cultures as opposed to monoculture

Having different cultures respect each other’s differences

Unknown

Kente cloth

• Royal kente woven in hundreds of patterns was reserved for ceremonial occasions

From Ghana, Asante

Mid 20th century

Cotton

Unknown

Shiva Nataraja

• Four arms of the Lord of the Dance meaning “fear not”

India

Bronze

10th century CE

Lin

Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Washington, DC

1982

Black granite

Contemplation and remembrance of the missing, captured, and dead from the war

Lin

Marble Han River Dam

Glass marbles and adhesive

2022

Technological methods to visualize the natural environment

De Valdes Leal

Vanitas

1660

Oil on canvas

Looking and responding

Looking and responding

How information comes into our eyes, ears, nose, taste buds, fingertips and what we make out of it

de Goya

Saturn Devouring One of His Children

1820-22

Wall painting in oil on plaster

Art and Beauty

Art and Beauty

Can produce pleasure, inspire sadness, horror, pity, awe and a full range of emotions

Representational Art

Desciptiveof a work of art that depicts forms in the natural world

Picasso

First communion

1895-96

Oil on canvas

Representational art

Abstract Art

Descriptive of art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or otherwise distorted

Pablo Picasso

Seated Woman Holding a Fan

1908

Oil on canvas

Nonrepresentational Art

Nonobjective, descriptive of art that does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside itself

Delaunay

Electric Prisms

1913

Oil on canvas

Nonrepresentational art

Aesthetics

The branch of philosophy concerned with the feelings aroused in us by sensory experiences such as seeing and hearings. Aesthetics examines, among other things, the nature of art and the nature of beauty.

Wabi

Embraces such concepts as naturalness, simplicity, understatement, and impermanence

Sabi

Adds overtones of loneliness, old age and tranquility

Koetsu

Teabowl

Late 16th- early 17th century

Raku ware

Aesthetics

Wabi sabi

Installation art

Work of art/space that can be entered, explored, experienced, and reflected upon

A Subtlety/The Marvelous Sugar Baby

Walker

Styrofoam, resin, sugar and molasses

2014

Installation art

Kusama

Love is Calling

2013

Wood, metal, glass, mirrors, tile, acrylic panel, rubber, blowers, lighting element, speakers and sound

Invention and Fantasy

“Polka dots are a way to infinity. When we obliterate nature and our bodies with polka dots, we become part of the unity of our environment. I become part of the eternal, and we obliterate ourselves with Love”

Kahlo

Self-Portrait with Monkeys

1943

Oil on Canvas

Looking Inward

“I never painted my dreams. I painted my own reality”

Unknown

Navajo Men Creating a Sand Painting

Photograph

1939

The Sacred Realm

The Sacred Realm

Each society has formed its own view of the sacred real and how it interacts with our own. Art plays an important role in our relationship to the sacred, helping us to envision it, honor it, and to communicate with it.

Picasso

Guernica

1937

Oil on canvas

Politics and social order

Unknown

Stone and Gravel Garden

Ryoan-ji Temple, Kyoto

Earthwork

1488-1500

The Natural World

Gonzalez-Torres

Untitled

Billboard

1992

Harlem, NYC

Visual elements

Line, color, light, shape and mass, texture and pattern, space, time and motion

Sze

Hidden Relief

2001

Mixed media

Visual elements

Color harmonies/color schemes

The selective use of two or more colors in a single composition

Monocromatic color scheme

Harmonies composed of variations on the same hue, often iwth differences of value and intensity

Walker

Untitled

1996

Watercolor on paper

Complementary color scheme

Harmonies involve colors directly opposite each other on the color wheel

• red and green, orange and blue, violet and yellow

Marshall

Me

Linocut

2012

Complementary color scheme

Values

Shades of light and dark

Chiaroscuro

Light/dark where artists employ values to record contrasts of light and shadow in the natural world, contrasts that model mass for our eyes

White

Untitled

1979

Etching

Shape

A 2D form that occupies an area with identifiable boundaries

Mass

A 3D form that occupies a volume of space

Figure

A shape that we detach focus on

Ground

The surrounding visual information that the figure stands out from/the background

Whitehorse

Chanter

1991

Oil on paper, mounted on canvas

Positive shapes

The shapes we perceive as figures

Negative shapes

The shapes on the ground

So Hu Suh

Reflection

2004

Nylon and Stainless steel tube

Space

Reflection

Texture

The surface quality/perception of smooth or rough, flat or bumpy, fine or coarse

Pattern

Any decorative, repetitive motif or design

Wiley

Portrait of (Alicia Keys Dean)

Oil on linen

2024

Texture and pattern

Cave and Watt

This Land, Shared Sky

Hand-strung, breaded shoelaces, textiles, jingles

Lobby Installation at Obama Presidential Center

2026

Texture and Pattern

Cave

Soundsuits

2011

Mixed media: knits and applique, dolls, black bugle beads, vintage mammy’s cozy, hand mirrors

Cave

2026

Untitled

Opening performance at the Obama Presidential Center

Textiles and objects found

Time and Motion

Bradford

City of the Big Shoulders

Mixed media

Obama presidential center

2026

Principles of design

1. unity and variety

2. balance

3. emphasis and subordination

4. scale and proportion

5. rhythm

Balance

Visual weight: the apparent heaviness/lightness of the forms arranged in a composition

Symmetrical Balance

The forms of a composition mirror each other across a central axis, an imaginary straight line that divides the composition in half

Kojin

Reflectwo

2007

Artificial flower petals, acrylic, string

Symmetrical Balance

Asymmetrical balance

A composition has two sides that do not match

Sotatsu

The Zen Priest Choka

Late 16th-early 17th century

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Emphasis and subordination

Emphasis means that our attention is drawn more to certain parts of a composition than to others

Subordination means that certain areas of the composition are purposefully made less visually interesting, so that the areas of emphasis stand out

Tanner

The Banjo Lesson

1893

Oil on Canvas

Emphasis and subordination

De Goya

Executions of the Third of May

1808

1814-1815

Oil on canvas

Scale and proportion

Scale means size in relation to a standard/normal size

Proportion refers to size relationships between parts of a whole

Hierarchical scale: the use of scale to indicate relative importance

Unknown

Benin Royal Altar to the Hand

Brass

18th century

Scale and Proportion

Rhythm

Based in repetition, is a basic part of the world we find ourselves in

Lin

Storm King Wavefield

2007-08

Earth and grass

Rhythm

Dry media

Graphite, charcoal, crayon, pastel and chalk

Sikander

1, from 51 ways of Looking

2004

Graphite on paper

Liquid media

Pen and ink, brush and ink

Mehretu

Untitled

2001

Ink, colored pencil, and cut paper, on Mylar

How landscaped have been politicized because of wars/colonism

Mutu

Hide and Seek, Kill or Speak

2004

Paint, ink, collage and mixed media on mylar

Fresco

A wall painting technique that has been used for large scale murals since ancient times. The pigments are mixed with water and applied to plaster.

Rivera

Mixtec Culture

1942

Fresco

Lawrence

In many of the communities the Negro press was read continually because of its attitude and its encouragement of the movement (Panel 20 from The Migration Series)

1940-41

Tempera on composition boar

Lawrence

Self-Portrait

1977

Gouache on paper

“My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life-if he has developed this philosophy he does not put paint on canvas, he puts himself on canvas”

Sillman

Nut

2011

Oil on canvas

Beatriz Milhazes

Mariposa

2004

Acrylic on canvas

Bradford

Black Venus

2005

Mixed media billboard paper, photomechanical reproductions, acrylic gel medium, carbon paper

Relief

Any printing method in which the image to be printed is raised from a background

Unknown

Preface to the Diamond Sutra

868

Woodblock handscroll

Intaglio

The areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate

De Goya

Asta su Abuelo (And So Was his Grandfather)

1799

Aquatint

Lithography

A planographic process: the printing surface is flat/not raised as in relief or depressed as in intaglio

Catlett

Singing Their Songs

1992

Color Lithograph

Osorio

You’re Never Ready

2009

Inkjet on confetti

Memento mori

Swoon (Caledonia Curry)

Untitled (Kamayura Woman)

2011

Street Installation in Brooklyn, NY, 2014

Hand-colored linocut

“For me pasting is about many things and one of them is about declaring the walls of the city a public sounding board for our dreams, desires, and collective identity".”

Unknown

Camera Obscura (dark room)

1646

Engraving

Throssel

Crow Camp

1910

Modern print from a negative

“This is how we see ourselves; this is what is important to us.”

Paik

TV Buddha

1974

Video with bronze sculpture

Yin-yang symbol

Dynamic balance opposites that are believed to make up the universe and explain existence

Male (yang) female (yin)

Light and dark

Action and inaction

Yiyang

Poster for X Exhibition 07: Graphic Design in China

2007

Poster

Pfeiffer

Red Green Blue

Light and Video Installation

2023

Sculpture

Classifying sculpture: in the round, low relief, high relief

Methods/materials: modeling, assembling, carving, casting

Bourgeois

Maman

1999

Bronze, stainless steel and marble

Lewis

Forever Free (Morning of Liberty)

Carrara marble

1867

Casting

Involves a mold of some kind, into which liquid or semiliquid material is poured and allowed to harden

Unknown

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara

12th century

Gilt bronze

Assembling

Individual pieces are brought together to form a sculpture

Puryear

C. F. A. O

2006-07

Painted and unpainted pine and found wheelbarrow

Assembling to form a sculpture