Art HistoryGrade 8 sketch book assignment

Renaissance – 1300 – 1600 approx Mona Lisa by Leonardo DaVinci, 1503-1506 and possibly as late as 1517

Key Features of the Renaissance time period:

• Art and Science working together to make

images appear more realistic

• Discoveries of Linear Perspective and

Atmospheric Perspective

• Painted very carefully to hide any evidence

images were hand made. Wanted images to

appear as if looking into a mirror

• Most artists working for Church and

Wealthier families

Crisis in Representation

Invention of Photography in 1820’s changed the role of the

artist forever.

Artists no longer the only way to record visual information

Many different styles of art develop in a short period

towards the end of the 1800’s into the early 1900’s as

artist struggle to find a new identity and reason to

continue painting

Impressionism 1860-1930 and beyondClaude Monet – “Woman with a Parasol – Madame Monet and her son” - 1875

• Working quickly to capture the impression of a

moment in time

• Brush strokes are visible and part of the style

• The speed the artist works is captured in the brush

strokes which gives the image an emotional energy

• Very concerned with the colour of light of a scene and

how we see colour.

• Colour can be a powerful memory trigger and helps

give the image a time and place

• What time of year or day do you think this image is?

Impressionism

Claude Monet would experiment with colour by painting scenes at different times

of the day or year, trying to capture the subtle changes in the colour of sunlight

at these different times.

Photographs of the time could not be taken quickly, needed bulky equipment and

were black and white.

Monet was essentially pioneering the art of the modern photographer, using

colour and light to set a mood in a scene, doing what photographers of the day

could not yet do.

Monet’s Rouen Cathedral series, made during different times of day, year and weather conditions

Post Impressionism – 1886 - 1914Vincent Van Gogh – Starry Night - 1889

Inspired by the work of Claude

Monet and the other Impressionist

painters.

Using colour to show emotion

more than to simply show the

colour of light that he saw.

More expressive style, not as

concerned with showing exactly

what things looked like.

More interested in the mood or

emotion of the colours and the

way he applied the paint in

sweeping patterns

Expressionism – 1890-1960+

Paintings that ‘express’ an emotion

Meant to create an emotional reaction

in the viewer

What reaction do you get when you look

at “ The Scream” by Edvard Munch from

1893, how does the image make you

feel?

Pointillism – 1880’s-1890’sGeorges Seurat – “A Sunday on La Grande Jatte” – 1884-86

High detail scan of “La Grande Jatte” made available by the Art Institute of Chicago:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/exhibitions/seurat/SeuratOver.swf

Painted in a style very similar to modern colour

printing, the CMYK colour process

This technology was being developed around the same

time as the above image was painted.

Detail of a modern magazine photo.

Notice the Cyan, Magenta and Yellow dots

A painting photographed with black and white film through colour filters and

reproduced with separate Cyan, Magenta and Yellow colour plates, c.1893

The first widely reproduced colour photograph

created in the same way, created in 1893 with

four separate black and white photos taken

through 3 different colour ‘halftone’ filters

Realism Although the invention of Photography

changed art forever, there have always

been artists who have continued to

explore the potential and limits of

human ability to perfectly recreate a

realistic image with paint

Andrew Wyeth – “Christina’s World” – 1948, Maine.

Chuck Close – “Mark” -1978-79

Non Objective art (Abstract) c.1910 The complete opposite of realism, Abstract art attempts to simplify art down

to it’s most basic function, making art that does not rely on a subject to be

appreciated as beautiful.

Appreciated only for their use of colour and shape, texture, line, and the

other elements of art.

Enjoyed in the same way one might enjoy a song, or a sunset, not for what it

is as much as for how it makes you feel.

First popularized as art by Wassily Kandinsky around 1910, who was also a

poet and musician.

Surrealism c.1920 Partially inspired by the work of early psychologists Sigmund Freud and Carl

Jung, the surrealists set out to search the subconscious mind and bring the

world of dream imagery into reality, painting convincingly real images of

seemingly impossible things gathered through methods meant to create a

visual pathway into the deepest parts of the mind.

i.e. they painted dream like pictures in a photo real way

Rene Magritte – “The Treachery of Images” -1928-29

Rene Magritte – “The Return” 1940

Salvador Dali – Persistence of Memory, 1931 (Surrealism)

M.C. Escher

“Relativity“

- 1953

Andrew Lipson and Daniel Shiu