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lectures, Italian renaissance painting, week 6, Vitruvis, Lecture notes…
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Vitruvis
lecture
Rome pantheon -- for all the gods
- the most Roman building to sruvive antiquitiy
- built by an Emperor Hadrian and dedicated c. AD 126
- Originally the temple of all the gods
grand dome
- coffered dome
- phanteon's dome is still the world's largest unreinforced concrete dome
- oculus
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- Town planning / civil engineering
- building materials
- Temples and orders of architecture
- contamination Book III
- civil buildings
- Domestic buildings
"Triad" of characteristics associated with architecture:
- utillitas, firmitas and venustas
Principles of good architecture
- order = arrangement of parts
eurythymy
- symmetry
- propriety
- economy
The classical or Vitruvian orders:
- Doric = fluted or smooth columns with no base & round capitals (the top part) This is the earliest and plainest order. Associated with masculinity. There is a very plain version valled; The Tuscan order
2.Ionic is usually lfuted, slender columns, a separate rounded base, and capitals with volutes the curly tops associated with feminity
- Corinthian. Fluted columhns, with elaborate capitals, including volutes and acantgys leaf decoration. This is the order developed last and the fanciest classical order
Lecture notes week 3
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Emergence of a new style: characteristictics:
- strong delineation of form
- Inticate technique
- heigtened realism
- intense realism
- expressivity
- complex icongraphy
- three dimensionality and perspective
- skill in rendering colour
- attention paid to natural phenomena like light, shadow and reflection
New Patrons
- New public (and patrons) for painted art arise in the Netherlands in the fifteenth century
- Many of these were wealthy townspeople
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Final lecture
post modernism
- rejection of absolute truths
- skepticism of grand narratives
- emphasis on relativism, pastisch and the recognintion of diverse perspectives in art, culture, and society
- emphasises the subjectivity of knowledge and the multiplicity of perspectives
- challenges the distinction between different art forms: merges hig hand low culture, genres and styles
- employs irony and humor to subvert traditional artistic seriousness and reevaluate
POWERPOINT
- postmodernism represents a loss of faith in human reason
a return to subjectivity to most important element of human existence
- It provides a bleak prognosis of the human condition and offers no real solution
Abstract expreesionism Mark Rothko 1903-1970
- interested in fields of colours and relations of colours
- in the texture Itself of these particular colours itsel
- explore colour as a way of expressing meaning and emotion in art
- Jackson Pollock, One, number 31 1950- 1950
Pop Art
- emerged in the 1950s in US and UK
- challenges the concept of fine art by incorporating imagery from popular/mass culturue: advertising, comic books, mass-produced objects
- fine art, high and low art etc. and trying to elevate these popular images to high art
Andy Warhol 1928-1987
- leading figure in this popart movement
- explored the interface between art, advertising and celebrity culture of the 1960s
- worked in a variety of media including painting, silkscreen, printing, photography film etc.
andy warhol campbells soup cans 1962-3
- mass produced imager
- and what is imagery from a more elevated register
silkscreen prints
*Andy Warhol Marilyn Diptych 1962
- religious imagery - dipytich was older
Roy Lichtenstein Whaam 1963
- creates large painting
- plays with the concept of the comic books and has these characters that are almost taken from comic strips
- tries to embody the astethics of a comic
- Balloon Dog by Jeff Koons 1994-2000*
- Example of how postmodernism embraces ktisch and pop culture
- koons challenges the boundaries between high and low art, raising questions about taste, consumerism and the nature of contemporary art
under post modernism umbrella
- Postmodernism as social commentary
Barbra Kruger
I shop therefore I am 1987
- creates these images that are quite humorous but aim to critique: consumerism etc.
Cindy Sherman
- untitled film stills 1977-1980
- feautes photographs in which she portrays various female characters in staged cinematic scenes
themes;
- identity, representation, and the construction of gender
- Sherman's work is a quintessential example of postmodernism's focus on the performative nature of identity
PWOERPOINT
Postmodern fascination with the unexpected and the provocative
- aims to challenge traditional ideas of art beauty and representation
themes
- morality
- the boundaries between life and death
- the role of the spectacle in contemporary art
Damien Hirst the physical impossibility of deathi n the mind of someone living 1991
- The structers defy conventional architectural nroms. They reflect postmodernism's departure from modernist simplicity and its embrae of eclectic architectural forms
- John johansen, mummers stage center theater Oklahoma 1970
- frank gehry, state center MIT, 2004
Modernism main themes
- rebellion against tradition
- quest for originialtiy and authenticity
- exploration of new forms and techniques
- pushing the boundaries of representations
Itialin futurism 1909-1914
- typical subject matters - celebrated industrialisation
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