Hello Monday July 11th 2011

Assignment 2 due Wednesday: Iconographic Study Today: Themes of Art cont. Sister Wendy s Odyssy

Words used to Describe Art:

Representational Art:

Realistic Naturalistic Figurative Illusionistic

Abstract Art:

Picasso, Dora Maar Sitting, 1939

Nonrepresentational Art:

also called nonobjective art

Piet Mondrian, Compositions, 1910-14

Art and Realism

Picasso, Dora Maar

Picasso, Olga in an Armchair

Conventions and Art

Art and Beauty

Form and Content

Iconography

The Themes of Life become the

Themes of Art
Nature Genre Still-Life Portraits Politics Religion Fantasy

Nature

Claude Monet and Impressionism

Theme: RELIGION

The Great Stupa, Sanchez, India, 3rd c. BCE - 1st c. CE

Chartres Cathedral, 13th century

Dome of the Rock, 692, Jerusalem

Buddha, 13th century

Jan van Eyck, God, 1432

Genre: Art about Everyday Life

Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk, 1082

Pierre August Renoir, Boating Party , 1880-81

William Johnson, Going to Church, 1940

Marriage

Jan van Eyck, Arnolfini and Giovanna Cenami. 1434

Akhenaten and Family, 1350 BCE

and Death

Vanitas also called Momento Mori = a reminder of death

Invocation, 1982 64 x 80"

Genre: Art about Everyday Life

Vanitas = vanity designed to invoke a higher order of thought

Day of the Dead

Thursday Sunday Field Trip: The National Gallery

The National Gallery

REPRESENTING OTHER REALITIES:

Fantasy

and Surrealism

REPRESENTING OTHER REALITIES:

Fantasy

and Surrealism

Salvador Dali: Persistence of Memory, 1931, o/c, 9 1/2 x 13 , MoMA

Theme: Politics

Trafalgar Square

Nelson s Column

Trafalgar Square in 1908

The Plinths

George IV King at the time

By Sir Fransic Chantrey, 1840s

The Plinths

Major-General Sir Henry Havelock By Willaim Behnes, 1861

The Plinths

General Sir Charles James Napier by George Cannon Adams, 1855

The Plinths

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

How to Blow up Two Heads at Once (Ladies), 2006 Two mannequins, two guns, Dutch, wax printed cotton textile, shoes, leather riding boots, plinth 93 1/2 X 63 X 48 inches

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

The Age of Enlightenment - Adam Smith, 2008 Life-size fiberglass mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, mixed media Figure: 70 X 43 1/2 X 33 1/2 inches Plinth: 4' 11" X 5' 7" X 5"

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

Man on Flying Machine, 2008 Mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, steel, rubber and aluminum Mannequin: Approximately 61 x 23.6 x 27.6 inches Flying Machine: 78.7 x 23.6 x 35.4 inches

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

Girl on Flying Machine, 2008 Mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, steel, rubber and aluminum Mannequin: Approximately 39.4 x 23.6 x 21.7 inches Flying Machine: 65 x 22 x 31.5 inches

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

Woman on Flying Machine, 2008 Mannequin, Dutch wax printed cotton, steel, rubber and aluminum Mannequin: Approximately 53.1 x 39.4 x 31.5 inches Flying Machine: 78.7 x 23.6 x 35.4 inches

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

La Mduse, 2008 Wood, foam, plexiglas, Dutch waxprinted fabric, and acrylic paint 83 1/2 X 66 X 54 inches

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

La Mduse, 2008 Wood, foam, plexiglas, Dutch waxprinted fabric, and acrylic paint 83 1/2 X 66 X 54 inches

Thodore Gricault (French, 1791-1824), The Raft of the Medusa, 1819, Oil on canvas 491 x 716 cm (193 5/16 x 281 7/8 in.), Muse du Louvre, Paris

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

Nelson's Ship in a Bottle, 2010 Fourth Plinth, Trafalgar Square, London

Yinka Shonebare MBE b. 1962

Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 by Elmgreen & Dragset has been successfully commissioned for 2012

Hahn / Cock by Katharina Fritsch has been commissioned for 2013.

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