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Good Afternoon Wednesday July 6th

Visual Journal Check

Today: The Themesof Art


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DevelopingVisual

Literacy

Words and

Images

Rene Magritte,The Interpretation of Dreams,1930Rene Magritte, The Interpretation of

Dreams,1930


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Rene Magritte, The Treason of Images, 1929

Words and Images Work Together?


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I Caught a Fish Thiiiiis big!


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The Power of the Image


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I Caught a

Fish Thiiiiisbig!

Words and Images are 2 different systems of describing the world

Words refer to the

world in the abstractImages reproduce

its appearance


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Words used to Describe Art:


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A work of art is either

Representational

Abstract

Nonrepresentational


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Representational Art:representing or reproducing the world

in varying degrees

Types of Representational Art:

RealisticNaturalistic

Figurative

Illusionistic


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Trompe Loeil(Fool-the-eye)

P S E & G Substation, New Brunswick

NJ

Before Mural


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Illusionistic or Trompe Loeil


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Abstract Art:Expressing objects and images in a simplified wayto take

fromthe essence of something.


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Nonrepresentational Art:art that makes no reference to the visual world the

artwork is the reality

also called nonobjective art


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Piet Mondrian, Trees, 1907-10


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Piet Mondrian, Compositions

Nonrepresentational Art


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Conventions and Art


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Conventionshabits of your

culture


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Art and Beauty


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Picasso, Dora Maar Picasso, Olga in an Armchair

Art and Realism


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Form and

Content

Form = what you see

(materials, designelements,

composition)

Content = the

interpretation of what

you see


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as Form changes Contentchanges


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Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini

and his Bride, 1434, 33

x 22 o/panel

15th Century Art in

Northern Europe

Iconography= the set of symbols

used and recognized by the peopleas having specific meaning


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Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini

and his Bride, 1434, 33

x 22 o/panel

15th Century Art in

Northern Europe

Iconography = the symbols used by

artists and their meaning


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The Themes of Life

become the

Themes of Art

Nature

Genre

Still-Life

Portraits

Politics

ReligionFantasy


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Theme:

Nature

Albrecht Durer, The Large Turf,15th Century


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Georgia OKeeffe,

Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. IV, 1930

Theme:

Nature


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Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise, 1873

Theme: Nature


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Monets Haystacks

Theme: Nature


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Theme: Nature


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Theme: RELIGION

Dome of the Rock, 692,

Jerusalem

The Great Stupa,

Sanchez, India, 3rd c.

BCE - 1st c. CE

Chartres Cathedral,

13th century


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Buddha, 13th century

Jan van Eyck, God, 1432


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Genre: Art about Everyday Life

Pierre August Renoir, Boating

Party, 1880-81

William Johnson, Going

to Church, 1940

Court Ladies Preparing

Newly Woven Silk, 1082


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Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini and

Giovanna Cenami. 1434

Marriage


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Akhenaten and Family, 1350 BCE


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and Death


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Vanitas = vanity

designed to invoke a higher order of thought


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Vanitas also called

Momento Mori = a reminder

of death

Invocation, 1982 64 x 80"


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Hans Holbein the

Younger, The

Ambassadors, 1533


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Hans Holbein's

The

Ambassadors

Anamorphic

Skull


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Th d S d Fi ld T i


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Thursday Sunday Field Trip:

The National Gallery


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The National Gallery


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The Courtauld Gallery next week

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