Orientation in Art

Chapter 4

The Visual Elements

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Elements of Art

• Line• Shape• Form• Space• Value• Texture• Color• Time and Motion

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Elizabeth Murray. ( 1882-1967) The Sun and the Moon. 2005.Oil on Canvas on wood, 9’9” x 8’ 11 ½” x 2”

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Sarah Sze.Hidden Relief. 2001.Mixed media 4

Keith Haring

Untitled,1982 , vinyl paint on vinyl taurpaulin 72” x 72”5

Keith Haring

Untitled,1984

                                                                                                    

                      

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Jennifer Pastor

Sequence 6 from Flow Chart for “The Perfect Ride”

Animation. 2000

Pencil on paper

Size: 13 ½” x 17 inches 9

Judy Pfaff

Cirque Cirque

date: 1992 -9510

Judy Pfaff

              

                                                                                           

     

                                                      

                                                                                                                                  

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Moxibustion, 199411

Henri Cartier-Bresson

Aquila, Abruzzi, Italy, 1951.

Photograph

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At the Coronation Parade of George VI, Trafalgar Square, London     (1938 )

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Thomas Eakins

The Biglin Brothers Racing, 1873-7415

Eugene Delacroix (1798-1863)

The Raft of Medusa, 1818-19, Oil on canvas, 16’ 1” x 23’ 9” 16

The Embarkation for Cythera

1718-19(?) Size: 50 13/16” x 76 3/8”

Jean-Antoine Watteau

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Bill Reid

The raven and the First Men.

1983

Laminated yellow cedar,

Height 6’ 2” 18

Bill Reid

The Raven and The First Man

Date: 1983Medium: laminated cedar

wood

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Emmi Whitehorse

Chanter, 1991 oil on paper mounted on canvas

39 ½” x 28”

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Emmi Whitehorse

Verdure, 1999 oil on paper on canvas in wood encasement45 1/2 x 28 3/4 inches

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Circular shield with stepped fret design. Aztec, before 1521. Diameter 27 5/8” 22

Figure/Ground

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Raphael.  Madonna of the Meadow. 1505 or 1506. Oil on panel

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Giovianni Bellini, Pieta, 1500-1505Oil on wood

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James TurrellLive Oak Friends Meeting House, Houston. 2001

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Skyspace

James Turrell

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James TurrellSilent Leading, 2006

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James TurrellJuke Green, 1968

                                                                                                              

                                      

James TurrellJuke Green, 1968

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Manuel Alvarez Bravo

The Visit. 1935 Gelatin silver print6 5/8” x 9 3/8”

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Grayscale

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Laughing Mannequins

1930

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

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Portrait of the Eternal, 1935Medium: photograph

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Leonardo da Vinci

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, c.1500

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Color Wheel

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Camille Pissaro

Palette with a Landscape,

1878

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The garden of Pontoise, painted 1875

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Inka Essenhigh.

In Bed, 2005,

oil on canvas

5’8” x 5’2” 42

43Diana Cooper. The Site, 2006, Mixed media

Diana Cooper. Art Work 6 , 2009, Mixed media 44

A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte 1884-86

George Seurat (1859-1891)

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Detail from Seurat's La Parade

(1889), 46

Georges Seurat. Bathers at Asnieres 1883-84 Oil on canvas 6’ 10” x 9’10”47

Georges Seurat

La Parade, 1888, oil on canvas 48

Chuck Close. Bill1990. Oil on canvas, 6’ x 5’ 49

Lucas (1986 - 1987), Oil and pencil on canvas

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Mark (1978 - 1979), Acrylic on canvas. 51

Big Self-Portrait, 1967-68.Acrylic on canvas. 107 1/2 x 83 1/2" (273 x 212 cm). Walker Art Center,

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Self-Portrait. 1997

Oil on canvas, 102 x 84" 53

James Abbott McNeill Whistler(1834-1903)

Nocturne in Blue and Gold

1872-1875

Oil on canvas

23 ¾” x 18 3/8” 54

Ando Hiroshige

Riverside bamboo market at Kyobashi1857 from the seriesOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo

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Whistler

Nocturne in Black and Gold:

The Falling Rocket (1874)

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Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother (1871) popularly known as Whistler's Mother

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Year: 1893

Type: Tempera and casein on cardboard, 37 7/8" x 30 5/8"

Collection: National Gallery, Oslo

Edvard Munch

The Scream

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Mona Hatoum.

Prayer Mat.

1995.Nickel-plated brass pins, brass compass, canvas, glue

26” x 44” x 5/8”

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Constantin Brancusi

Bird in Space (L’Oiseau dans l’espace), 1932-1940. Polished brass, Height, including base: 59 7/16 inches; Maximum circumference: 13 15/16 inches. Peggy Guggenheim

L'oiseau dans l'espace [Bird in space] c.1931-1936 black marble, white marble 'collar', sandstone baseoverall 328.4 (h) x 51.4 (w) x 51.4 (d) cm

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Raoul Dufy

Regatta at Cowes1934

Medium: oil on linen

Size: 32”x 39” inches

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Samuel Fosso. The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists, From Self-Portaits I-V.

1997. C-print photograph, 39” x 39”62

Alberto Giacometti

Nose, 1947,

Bronze, wire, rope, and steel, 31 7/8 x 38 3/8 x 15 1/2 inches overall

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Do Ho Suh, Reflection, 2004.

Nylon and stainless steel tube

Dimensions variable, each gate is life-size

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Maharana Amar Singh II, Prince Sangram Singh, and Courtiers Watch the Performance of an Acrobat and Musicians., Mewar, c. 1705-08. Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 20 ½” x 35 ¾”

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Architectural Perspective. Francesco di Giorgio Martini. Late 15th Century. Furniture decoration on poplar woodInk, opaque 4’ 3” x 7’ 7”

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Masolino’s ‘St. Peter Healing a Cripple and the Raising of Tabitha’ (1425

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Leonardo da VinciThe Last Supper 1495-97 15’ x 28’

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Albrecht Dürer’s 1525 woodcut ‘Man drawing a Lute’ (The Draughtsman of the Lute) 73

The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863Albert Bierstadt (American, 1830–1902)

oil on canvas, 73 1/2 x 120 3/4 in 74

Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California1868, Oil on canvas, 183 x 305 cm (72 x 120 in) 75

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Huang Gongwang, Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains, detail 1350Ink on paper

The Siege of Belgrade,

From a manuscript of

Sulaymannama.

Istanbul, 1558. Ink and opaque colors on paper.

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Southern Cross, 1963Sheet metal and steel rod, bolts, and painth 20’3”

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Alexander Calder, (American, 1898-1976)

Southern Cross, 1963Sheet metal and steel rod, bolts, and painth 20’3”

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Alexander Calder, (American, 1898-1976)

The Star, 1960Polychrome sheet metal and steel wire

35 3/4 x 53 3/4 x 17 5/8”

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Teodelapio, 1962 Photograph taken in Spoleto, Italy, 1962Courtesy The Alexander and Louisa Calder Foundation, New York

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Repetition Nineteen III. 1968. Fiberglass and polyester resin, nineteen units, Each 19 to 20 1/4"

Eva Hesse (1936-1970)

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(King Stares) Still from 89 Seconds at Alcázar, 2004

The Dog Rolls, 2004DVD, flat-screen LCD monitor, 10 x 16 in.

Diego Velázquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor), 1656Oil on canvas, Prado Museum, Madrid

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Jennifer Steinkamp

Dervish, detail 2004 Video installation at Lehmann Maupin Gallery, NY

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Go to youtube.com and type in: “Jennifer Steinkamp Dervish”

You will be able to see the installation move.

Orientation in Art

Chapter 4

The Visual Elements

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