Art Interpretation

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Introduction to Art
Interpretation

Slide Contents
I. What is Art? Its Purpose and Its Function
II. Fundamentals of Interpretation: Formal and
Contextual Anal...

Leonardo da Vinci
Mona Lisa
Oil on poplar
c. 1503

Claude Monet
Impression, Sunrise
Oil on canvas
1872

Andy Warhol
Superman
Screen print
1961

What is Art?
• Art (art), n. 1. the quality, production, or
expression of what is beautiful, appealing,
or of more than or...

Popular Media
• Paint media
– Acrylic, Enamel, Gesso, Glaze, Ink, Oil, Tempera,
Watercolor
– Used on: Canvas, Cloth, Glass...

Medium: Watercolor
Thomas Girtin
Jedburgh Abbey from the River. 1798-99. Watercolor on
paper.

What is “History”?
• History (his-tuh-ree), n. 1. the branch of
knowledge dealing with past events. 2. a
continuous, syste...

Purposes and Functions of Art
• Communicating
information
– In non-literate
societies, art was used
for teaching
– Today, ...

Purposes and Functions of Art
• Spiritual
Sustenance
– All of the
world’s major
religions have
used art to
inspire and
ins...

Purposes and Functions of Art
• Personal & Cultural
Expression

Purposes and Functions of Art
• Social & Political Purposes
– Artist have criticized or influenced values or public
opinio...

Social & Political Influences
Paul Revere
The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston,
Massachusetts. 1770. Eng...

II.Fundamentals of Interpretation:
Formaland Contextual Analysis

Art = Form + Content
• In the most basic way art can be thought of as
having two parts:
1. its form
2. its content
• Form ...

Formal Analysis of Painting
• Looking at a work of art to try to
understand what the artist wants to
transmit visually
1. ...

1. Line and Shape
• Lines define space and may create an outline or
contour, as style called “linear.”
• They can be visib...

2. Color
• Color is the event of wavelengths of light hitting an object
and those wavelengths reflecting back into your ey...

2. Color: Hues

2. Color: Saturation - quality or brightness or
dullness of the hue (a.k.a. intensity)

2. Color: Value - degree of lightness
or darkness of a hue

3. Texture
• Texture is an element of art pertaining to the surface
quality or “feel” of the work of art.
• Texture can be...

4. Space and Mass
• Space references to what
contains objects; may be three
dimensional (actual) or two
dimensional (illus...

4. Space and Mass: Perspective
• Perspective is the technique that artists
use to project the illusion of three-
dimension...

4. Space and Mass: Foreshortening
(Escorzo)
• Foreshortening is way of representing an object so that it conveys the illus...

5. Composition
• How items are arranged or organized in a
work of art
– Symmetrical or assymetrical
– Static or dynamic
• ...

5. Composition
• Composition, then, is the relationship of the parts of a
painting, sculpture, or work of architecture.
• ...

6. Scale
• As an art history term, scale refers to the size of the
art object at hand or the size of the objects
represent...

Movement
• Another quality an artist might utilize
• Gives lifelike feeling to a work
• Artists often search for ways to c...

Analysis of Raphael’s
School of Athens
• Subject Matter/Content: It is not a school but a gathering of important Greek phi...

III. Principlesof Design:
Style

Style
• Style refers to the consistent and
characteristic handling of media, elements of
form, and principles of design th...

Cultural Style
• Societies develop their
own beliefs and style of
material forms (clothing,
buildings, etc)
• Artists are ...

Period Style
• Styles change over time
• Art changes because of economic & political
changes, new technology, religious in...

Regional Style
• Geography also leads to diverse styles
• May be conscious decision or caused by a
mere lack of communicat...

Group Style
• Sometimes artist form alliances, exhibit
together and publicize their aims as a group to
promote a distinct ...

Personal Style
• Individual artists often have characteristic
modes of personal expression

Two Basic Forms of Style
• Representational
– Seeks to create
recognizable subject
matter
• Abstract
– Seeks to capture th...

Representational Styles
• Realism – the attempt to depict objects
accurately, objectively
• Naturalism – similar to Realis...

Realism

Naturalism

Illusionism

Abstract Styles
• Non-representational – does not produce
recognizable imagery
• Expressionism – Plays with subjectivity, ...

Non-Representational

Expressionism

Websites About Art
• Chris Whitcombe’s web site - Dr. Whitcombe hosts the singularly best
resource for art history on the ...

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