Lecture 2 : January 21, 2010
To Present Or Represent?
We received lots and lots of vocabulary in this lecture. And i felt what was stressed on the most was nonrepresentational art. Maybe due to the fact that it is much more common than representational art. I really liked the scale of representation that we had to organize with different works of art. We were also asked the question of "Is the dot, dot, dot project representational or not?" I think it is in a way. To us, the artists, it is portraying the gestalt principle, so that makes it representational. But if a viewer was to just walk up to it, there would probably not be any representation that jumped out at them.
Speaker : January 25, 2010
Howard Sherman
The artist Howard Sherman came to speak for us. He told us practically his life story on how he began making art. He started off by making cartoons for newspapers and starting becoming more and more famous. He inspired me to go and put my name out there. I would love to get a job over the summer where I could make art for a company, or even work for them and see what all it takes. But I really like all of his art. Some of them were a bit much for my taste, but overall i think he is an amazing artist. I see when doing art like that to just go crazy, and not to think very hard about what it is that you are making.
Lecture 3 : January 28, 2010
Art History, Theory, and Criticism
There are three different branches of art thinking. Art history, theory and criticism. Art history is broken down even further into style, influence, and medium. And Art theory is basically about the changes of beauty throughout history. Every decade or so there is a new way of art. Art criticism is basically a persons emotions and reactions on their faces whenever they look at a piece of art.
Lecture 4 : January 29, 2010
Art Today
This was a very short lecture that we had in class. We basically summarized the author, Edward Lucie-Smith's, life/ He was born in 1943 in british colonial. we were given two words: postmodernism and modernism. We had to distinguish between artworks to figure out which one nit was. i absolutely love the book art today. the pictures and photographs in it are very cool looking. This is a book i can see in my collection for many years.
Lecture 5 : February 2, 2010
19th Century: Birth of the Isms
We just discussed two different art meanings again: impressionism and post impressionism. And we saw different pictures of art, debating on which time era they were from. the impressionism painters included monet, renoir, cassat, and sisley. While the post impressionism artists were van gogh, gauguin, cezanne, and seurat. Just like the name makes it sound, the post impressionism paintings were completely influenced by the impressionisms.
Lecture 6 : February 4, 2010
Modern Art, Part II
the fauves-favism
cubism-paris
futurism-italy
de stijl-holland
constructivism-russia
precisionism-america
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