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•Is the lightness or darkness Is the lightness or darkness of a surface.of a surface.

Squint your eyes, how many values do you see?

Where is the light source?

Do you see outlines?

Lines are created when two values are placed next toLines are created when two values are placed next toor adjacent to one another.or adjacent to one another.

Highlight

Reflective Light

Cast Shadow

Transitional Light(light to medium)

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Core Shadow

What the heck is What the heck is Chiaroscuro?Chiaroscuro?

In art is characterized by strong contrasts between light and dark that affects the whole composition. It is also a technical term used by artists and art historians for using contrasts of light to achieve a sense of volume in modeling three-dimensional objects such as the human body or on a still-life

Chiaro= LIGHTOscuro= Dark

Chiaroscuro originated during the Renaissance as drawing on colored paper, where the artist worked from this base tone towards light with white gouache and dark with ink.

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Why is this an example of Why is this an example of Chiaroscuro?Chiaroscuro?

LIGHTLIGHT

SHADE

What type of drawing is this?

Still Life

Stay STILL….Stay STILL…. we are going we are going to talk about to talk about the history of the history of

STILL-LIFE in the STILL-LIFE in the upcoming weeks!upcoming weeks!

A still life is a work of art depicting mostly of commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on)

A still life painting gives the artist more leeway in the arrangement of design elements within a composition than landscape or portraits.

Origins in the Middle Ages and Ancient Greek/Roman art.

Pompeian painter around 70 ADStill Life with Glass Bowl of Fruit and Vases63-79 ADFresco

Pompeii (1Pompeii (1stst Century)Century) For who do

you think the art was meant?

It was believed that food objects and other items become real and available for use by the deceased in the afterlife

Joachim Beuckelaer, (1533-1575), Kitchen scene, with Jesus in the house of Martha and Mary in the background, 1566.

RenaissanRenaissancece

Another similar type of painting is the family portrait combining figures with a well-set table of food, which symbolizes both the piety of the human subjects and their thanks for God’s abundance

Pieter ClaeszVanitas Still-Life 1625Oil on canvas

BaroquBaroquee

•Vanitas: is a type of symbolic work of art

•Also known as funeral art

•The word in Latin, meaning "emptiness" and loosely translated corresponds to the meaninglessness of earthly life and the transient nature of vanity.

What do you think the objects represent?

NeoclassicismNeoclassicismRachel Ruysch Still Life with Flowers on a Marble Tabletop1716

By the 18th century, in many cases, the religious and allegorical connotations of still life paintings were dropped and kitchen table paintings evolved into calculated depictions of varied color and form, displaying everyday foods and flowers

Gabriel MunterBlumen in der Nacht1941Oil on Cardboard

Modern - 20th CenturyModern - 20th CenturyIn the 20th century there were different styles. Mostly experimentation.

Paul Cézanne Still Life with Blue Potca. 1900 Watercolor over graphite

Post-ImpressionismPost-Impressionism• Cezanne was the first to move away from the symbolism of objects• He was the first to simplify the elements of color, form, and line, •He paved the way for Abstract art.

Juan GrisLe Déjeuner1915Oil and Charcoal on canvas

CubismCubism

What are the objects that are painted in the artwork?

•Looking at one object from different sides•Breaking the object

Audrey FlackEnergy Apples1980Oil over Acrylic on canvas

PhotorealismPhotorealism

Painting from a picture that was taken from real life

Anjolie Ela MenonStill Life with Head1998

Surrealism is a cultural Surrealism is a cultural movement that began in movement that began in the early 1920s, and is the early 1920s, and is

best known for the visual best known for the visual artworks that is dream artworks that is dream

likelike

19981998 Nuvia RuizStill Life1998Watercolor

MC Escher

Drawings Hands, 1948Lithograph