Thursday, September 29, 2016

Thursday, September 29 2016
NO CLASS THIS TUESDAY, OCTOBER 4

Find a transparent water color painting

Watercolor vs. Oil painting 

Painting Media

Encaustic

Fresco

—buon-fresco Mural (sect means dry) apply water based paint plaster to the wall, soaks into the wall and becomes the wall, No longer in the modern world commonly. 

Time consuming. 

(The School of Athens Raphael 1510-11 Fresco)

Egg Tempera

—yolk of an egg thinned with water, becomes permanent, yellow of the egg dulls  the color

(Braids Andrew Wyeth 1979 Egg Tempera on Canvas)

Oil

The most popular Pigment+linseed oil—(Comes from flax plant)

Cleaned up with turpentine 

Kind of like toothpaste when it comes out of the tube.

Generally painted on canvas

Glaze:

(same word as glass)

A way of painting in oil paint, not very popular today.

There are two ways of oil painting 

indirect method—make a color translucent painting. to change color

Glade only placed on shade part

Creates Luminosity

(Man in Red Rurban Jan Eyck 1433 Oil on Pannel)

Direct method

Direct application of paint

Vincent van Gogh irises

Watercolor

Transparent water color

Gouache Water color

Brushes are normally plastic

Transparent Watercolor Painting

-The white parts in a watercolor painting are paper not paint

Normally painted light to dark 

A good transparent watercolor will always look wet

Opeac/Gouache Watercolor Painting

Layer upon layer, more like poster paint.-non toxic

Self Portrait Mary Cassat 1979 Gouache

Acrylic

—synthetic paint. Wasn’t developed till the 1970s

Day glow bright colors

Tahkt-I-Sulayman, Frank Stella 1967- acrylic

Gesso

White chalky liquid, that neutralizes the surface of canvas, panel, etc. makes it able to paint on.

“Grisaille”

-a method of painting in gray monochrome, typically to imitate sculpture.

Painting Vocabulary

Pigment=Color Particles

Medium or Binder=

—Substance that holds the pigment. (essentially the glue that holds the pigment)

Solvent

—Substance that thins the medium and pigment

Support or Substrate:

Canvas, wood paper etc.

Encaustic: Paint with wax.

Young woman with Gold Pectoral Egypt Roman

Painting Terms/Techniques

Impasto

A thick application of paint

Wash

A very thin application of paint

Less medium and more pigment

Mostly used in water color

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Drawing and Painting

Vocabulary

Pictograph (graph: to write) (pinto: to draw)

Ideograph (expressing an idea)

Media/mediums:  Different materials produce a different type of mark. You have to make sure that your material you’re using is for the right type of drawing.

Dry Media: Pencil/graphite, metal point, scratchboard, charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel, etc.

Liquid Media: pen and Ink, brush and ink, etc.

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Charcoal: 

Carbon Charcoal

Willow Charcoal

Chalk, Crayon and Pastel: You have a pile of pigment oil that you get from a number of plants. (Kind of like flour or sugar) You have to add something like wax, linseed oil, etc.

Cartoon: is a preliminary drawing to working out problems or design problems like a road map or rough draft to your final work. Maybe consider it a study.

“Lead” Pencil or Graphite

“H” means “Hard”, “B” means “black”

Tooth of the Paper— Texture of the paper, bumps in the paper

Three reasons why people draw:

• Information
• Illustration
• Expression

Why do people draw for INFORMATION? Blueprints, instructions, anatomy, etc.

Why do people draw for ILLUSTRATION? Trying to give a different look to something that’s familiar. Sometimes to sell a product. Ex: propaganda

Why do people draw for EXPRESSION? Doing paintings because it’s important to express yourself. It doesn’t matter if you sell your art, it matters if you express yourself. Ex: Expressive drawings

Basic Notes

If we can draw we are always better off. It’s great to challenge ourselves because it’s educational. Drawing is the hardest thing but it’s also the most natural thing.

Your tool that you use while drawing makes  a very big difference.

Drawing comes from a place that precedes language. We can use drawing to communicate. 

Three reasons why people draw:

Information 

Illustration

Expression

Media/mediums:  Different materials produce a different type of mark. You have to make sure that your material you’re using is for the right type of drawing.

Dry Media: Pencil/graphite, metal point, scratchboard, charcoal, chalk, crayon, pastel, etc.

Liquid Media: pen and Ink, brush and ink, etc.

Chalk, Crayon and Pastel: You have a pile of pigment oil that you get from a number of plants. (Kind of like flour or sugar) You have to add something like wax, linseed oil, etc.

Normally you can use sand paper for you chalk pastel. Generally people won’t use something slippery like wax paper, artists generally use a harder paper. 

Doodling?

People doodle mindlessly.

Do people draw with their brain or their hand?

People draw with their brain.

People put their ideas into physical reality when they doodle.

Quotes

“To suggest is to create to describe is to destroy.”

-Robert Doisreau

Syllabus

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Tuesday/Thursday, September 20 and 22, 2016

TUESDAY/THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20 AND 22, 2016

• Elements:
  8 elements of art
  we deal with main five art elements
  Tools: (Ingredients of Art)
  • LINE=“Path of action”/“Abstract necessity”                                                                                                    —defines shape, abstraction of truth, communicates the idea Literal line and Implied line
  • — LINE QUALITY (line varies which creates interesting variety
  Fast-Slow
  Thin-Thick
  • Smooth-Grain
  
  
  • Dark-Light
  • SHAPE=“Line Turned back on itself” Ex: Squares, Triangles, circles =Geometric Shapes—Man Made
  Random Shapes= Organic Shapes (Generally (not always) Nature made) 
  Negative—Positive Figure Ground Reversal. B
  
  
  e conscious of the mark and around the mark as well 
  • VALUE= Lightness or darkness of something. Light vs. Dark
  Insert Value Scale Full Range
  
  
  Chiaroscuro=Shading makes things more realistic, interacts with light. has to do with value! NOT COLOR!
  Extra Terms
  Light, half tone, core shadow, high light, light, reflected light, cast shadow
  • TEXTURE=Rough vs. Smooth
  • COLOR=The most emotional element
  • After Image: Brain records color and value opposites
  Color Wheel 
  PRIMARY COLORS: RED YELLOW BLUE
  SECONDARY COLOR: ORANGE GREEN AND VIOLET
  TERTIARY COLORS (THIRD COLORS) BLUE GREEN, RED VIOLET, BLUE VIOLET, RED ORANGE, ETC.
  • Hue= Name of color ex: Blue
  • Value=Light/Darkness
  • Intensity/Chroma=Saturation of color Bright/dull
  • Color Form: Changing values in colors
  • Ex: Red+White=Pink= Tint
  Red + Black = Maroon=Shade
  Red +Grey= _?_= Tone
  • Cool vs. Warm Color Temperature
  • Warm Colors: Visually Advancing
  • Cool Colors: Visually Receding (More in the background)
  • 
  Chromatic Grays: Color made by neutralizing.
  Cannot make colors brighter, you can only make it duller
  
  
  Color Schemes:
  
  
  Monochromatic 
  (Mono=one) (chromo=color)
  Ex: Blue +black/white= monocratic color scheme
  Analogous: 
  Color + Adjacent color (“cousin” to monocratic)
  Complementary:
  Opposite Color + Opposite 
  Intensifies the illusion of opposites
  Split Complementary:
  Color+The adj. of the opposite
  Triadic:
  Equal Triangle
  Ex: Red, yellow, and blue.
  Simultaneous Contrast: 
  Opposites Intensify
  
  
  Chiaroscuro: Shading to make something look realistic
  
  
  
  
  Principles:
  “Rules”—(guidelines) 
  • Emphasis and Subordination
  • Unity and Variety+ Same/Different 
  • Unity vs. Variet
  • Unity: The same—Monotonous
  • Variety: Different—Chaos
  • Aesthete-O-Meter
  • Proportion and Scale=expected size
  • Size relationship to parts of a whole
  • Balance 
  • Formal Balance (Ex: Spori Building) Formal feel, symmetrical balance 
  • Informal (Snow Building) Asymmetrical 
  • Rhythm 
  • Series of visual rhythm 
  optical effects of color
  
  
  VISUAL MIXING—
  When your eye mixes colors for you 
  TECHNICAL MIXING—
  manually mixing something
  
  
  Linear Perspective
  
  
  Hierarchil Porportion- Most important person is the biggest (status)
  
  

Vocabulary

Vocabulary:

Three Types of Outside Art:

• Naive Art
• Children Art 
• Folk Art

Aesthetic: Make you feel more and experience more (high culture) 

Anesthetic: To feel less; to dull the senses, a lower level experience. (low culture)

Impulse for Art: When the urge to create is so strong that artworks that have appeared in all cultures, from the earliest day of human kind.

Imagination and Fantasy: Images and inspiration from within surrealism

Pride and Politics: There are all symbolic relations of people’s heroism. Uses art to achieve a mind set.

——We can use art to change people’s mind sets

Themes: A head pf similarity or continuity What?

Purposes: The message, meaning, or ideas. Why?

Iconography: Symbolism that helps convey the meaning. (subtle references and imagery that reinforce the main idea of the work)

Troupe I’oeil= To fool the eye

Non Representational Art= No  recognizable subject matter (Opposite of Representational Art)

Abstract Art: Subject matter altered, stylized

Representation Art: Recognizable art subject matter “naturalistic”

Thursday, September 15, 2016

Thursday, September 15, 2016

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A person does not need to be formally trained to create art work.

People who come from strong cultural tradition do it.

In some people the impulse for art is very strong

Sometimes you just have to discover what you’re good at.

Artists are like everyone’s else they contribute to society.

Sometimes artists make art for artists and not for the viewer.

Sometimes we don’t see what it takes to create something even if it has been done quickly.

Categories of Art:

-Representation Art —Recognizable art subject matter “naturalistic” 

^^^easy to understand Subject matter is the objects that are depicted. It looks like what it’s “supposed to look like”.

-Abstract art—Subject matter altered, stylized…  (interpreted some way that creates interest generally, or makes unusual in some way or represents artist style…) Somewhat recognizable not naturalistic looking. (There are degrees of abstraction) 

Three musicians by Picasso 

Formal elements into making color, texture, color, shape, space division, visual dynamics, etc.

Viewer has to work a little harder to look at.

Art can be categorized in multiple different way

-Non-Representational Art=no recognizable subject matter….

Opposite of Representational Art

Color has an influence on us.

Sunsets can be abstract all we respond to is shape and color. 

You do not have to like abstract, but you may like it. 

It’s not always a matter of skill. 

Evaluate art without judgement is a better path

Life is not black and white there are lots of shades of grey

Sometimes its harder to have no rules

Sometimes its easier to have more rules.

Troupe l’ oeil= “To fool the eye…”

Style and Technique:

-The approach to subject and handling of the medium varies between artists.

-Different artistic objectives

Madame Matisse- The Green Stripe

Very bold with color.

The objective forcefully portray colors

Chuck Close—Rita

Photo Realism

Iconography:

Symbolism that helps convey the meaning

-Subtle references and imagery that reinforce the main idea of the work.

Marriage of Arnolfini

Random objects

• all different objects that convey the meaning of the painting
• The mirror shows that god is watching
• The dog is a symbol of loyalty
• Taking off your shoes is a symbol of reverence, holy ground, and respect.
• Fruit is a symbol of fertility 
• Candle represents the holy ghost

Iconography:

• Symbolism that helps convey the meaning
• -Subtle references and imagery that reinforce the main idea of the work.

Content: the message or meaning of a work of art 

Context: The connection of the artwork to the cultural its “environment”…

Themes and Purposes

• Themes: A thread of similarity or continuity What?
• Purposes: The message, meaning, or idea. Why?

Magic and Survival (theme)

Sympathetic Magic

Hall of Bulls — Lascaux, France

Neolithic era used art to decorate house, clothing, etc.

Megalithic era, Stone art

Religion 

Edifices of worship

Make visible that which is spiritual 

teaching of religious stories

Religion is a great supporter of the world of art.

What is your depiction of christ?

King?

Judger?

Friend?

PRIDE & POLITICS

These are all symbolic relations of people’s heroism. Uses art to achieve a mind set. We can use art to change people’s mind.

The Great Egyptians

Augustus of Prima Porta - Vatican Museum

The Death of Marat

Barrack Obama Campaign Poster

Genre

Mirror of Every day life,It just shows everyday life

Winslow Homer “snap the Whip”

“Woman Pouring Milk”

Nature

“Yosemite” Thomas Moran

“The Starry Night” Van Gogh

(Doesn’t have to be literal)

Claude Monet - The Bridge at regental

Imagination and Fantasy

• Images and inspiration from within surrealism

M.C Escher “ascending” 

Rene Magritte

IMPULSE FOR ART

Pre Historic Art

Art has always been here and is all around us. Art is important to people.

Three Types of Outside Art

• Naive art
• Children Art
• Folk Art

(typically uneducated on human anatomy)

It doesn't matter if your academically trained, it's okay it's still someone's expression.

"There are no boring situations only boring people."

In some people the Impulse for art is very strong...

It doesn't matter what people say people will still ALWAYS create and there's almost nothing that can stop them.

"The Eleventh Commandment"

(Joseph Smith's First Vision)

"...If there is anything virtuous lovely or good report, or praiseworthy, we seek after these things" -Joseph Smith

Try new things, experience.

Search for Beauty...

"Beauty is all around"

Natural Beauty

There's a lot of beauty that surrounds us.

There's always going to be someone's idea of beautiful, because beauty is in they eye of the beholder. Someday we will look at something, a film, nature, art, or music and we will be so moved by it and feel so amazing that we might even cry.

Aesthetics

Aesthetics make you feel more, experience more. (high culture) To feel something; a sense of the beautiful, a higher level of appreciation.

Anesthetics (low culture) To feel less; to dull the senses, a lower level of experience.

HIGH CULTURE VS. LOW CULTURE

What to Artists Do?

• Create places for human purposes
• Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects
• Record and commemorate
• Give tangible forms to the unknown (ex. Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, etc.
• Give tangible form to feelings and emotions

Things change that's what art is!

Seeing can connote a deeper connection

We need to see instead of just look at something, feel it and experience it instead.

Art can make sense to some people and it can make the world's sense to another

ART 101 WOO HOO