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Welcome to the 2011 English-Speaking

Docent Training Course at the New Taipei City

Yingge Ceramics Museum!

Instructor: Elenor Wilson

Dates: April 2nd June 4th 2011

Times: Saturday 19:00 21:00



Saturday, April 2nd, 2011:

Greeting & Art/Ceramics History Overview

Objectives

� to introduce ourselves and the course schedule

� to review the chronology of Art History including

major genres and ceramic art

� to practice oral presentation of learned

vocabulary

Agenda

� Greeting, Introduction, Course Outline,

Attendance, E-mail List . . .

�

Timeline

� Focus on: Modern, Post-Modern, Contemporary

Art Definitions

� Review vocabulary frequently used in the

discussion of contemporary ceramic art.

� Homework

Pablo Picasso, Cubism



Timelines

Ceramics

Western Art



15th - 16th Century

Renaissance� Enlightenment

� Artists talents, innovations, and ideas began to acquire greater cultural importance

Classicism� Fascination with the values of classical Greece and Rome

� ratio; symmetry; proportion; myth; scholarship; synthesis

Richard Millette, Hydra, (1980s)Sandro Botticelli, Venus and Mars, 1483



17th and 18th Centuries

Baroque� Convince, transform and deceive through

illusion

� Still-life and landscape painting

Rococo� Florid, decorative, ornate, playful,

aristocratic, non-linear

� Pleasure and emotion valued overseriousness

Vermeer, Milkmaid ,

1658

Fragonard, The Swing,

1766

Gwen Hanssen Pigott, Caravan, 2002 Caroline Slotte, Behind Pink Skies, Early

21st

Century



19th Century

Impressionism� rejected Academic traditions of representing the

world

� perceptual impressions of sunlight color and

shadow

Post-Impressionism� focus on design, structure, and form

� refusal to imitate nature

� recovered the significance of symbolic, spiritual

and emotional meaning

Materialism begins here and continues through

to contemporary art. Broadly interpreted, it

critiques the way art and personal identity are

shaped by economic and cultural forces.

Cezanne, Still Life: Flask, Glass and Jug, 1877

Firth MacMillan, Big Grass, Little Grass, Quince,

2005



20th Century, Modern Art

Modern Art was a broad movement encompassing all of the avant-garde -isms of the 20th century.

The art was experimental and sought answers to fundamental questions about art itself and the humanexperience.

Cubism - still life, multiple viewpoints, flattened volume, collage, analytic,

synthetic

Dada a new reality, chance, unconscious, ready-mades, nonsense

Surrealism - the unconscious, dreams, irrational, uncanny, juxtaposition,

eroticism

Picasso, Still Life with Chair

Caning, 1912

Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

Magritte, The Son of Man, 1964

Kim Simonsson, Fighter, 2009



Abstract Expressionism� the first exclusively American art movement (New York)

� action painting and color field painting

� focus on process of making

� unconscious; contemplative

20th Century, Modern Art

Jackson Pollock, Untitled No. 3, 1949 Mark Rothko, Red, Orange,

Tan and Purple, 1949

Left: Peter Volkous, 1999; Right: John Glick, 2007

de Kooning, Woman V,

1953



Late 20th CenturyPost-Modern art explores and challenges the cultural values, traditional hierarchies, and economic

power. It does not use unconsciousness as a source, and does not value art for its timelessness or universality.

It values the imperfect, accessible, low-brow, disposable, local and temporary.

Conceptual art emphasizes the

idea, not the material object/image;

thus, problematizing its commercial

value.

Minimalism is sculpture that is

highly simplified, sometimes sterile,

both in appearance and concept.

Pop Art asserts that an artist's

use of the mass-produced visualcommodities of popular culture iscontiguous with the perspective of fine art.

Left: Roy Lichtenstein, Girl With Ball,

1961; Right: Shalene Venezuela, Ironing

Thing Out (series), early 21st century

Above: Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing

56, 1970; Right: Clare Twomey,

Consciousness/Conscience, 2003



Contemporary (?)

Trends: Installation, New Media, Computer-aided Design

Liu Jianhua, Dream, 2005-2008

Merek Cecula for Design in Kielce



Homework

Choose an artwork you find attractive/interesting:

http://www.accessceramics.org/for lots of great images.

Write a short (2-3 sentence) description that you feel comfortable presenting

to the class. In your description try to attribute aspects of the work to art

history or ceramic history.

http://www.artyfactory.com/sitebody/sitemap.htm

http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/sculpture-history.htm#introduction

http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/ceramics/ceramic%20features/ceramics_timeline/index.html

http://www.accessceramics.org/

http://www.pbs.org/art21/education/abstraction/index.html

Online Art History and Contemporary Art Resources



Next Time: Saturday, April 9th

Objectives:

� 1. to study the differences between art and craft

� 2. to understand and discuss the current debate surrounding these two ideas

� 3. to practice oral presentation of learned vocabulary

This presentation is posted on my blog: www.elenorwilson.com

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