In the first class, we begin to discuss what is included and excluded from the typical definition of art.

1. Welcome to ART 100!
Summer 2015

2. agenda 6.16.15
administrative matters: how does this class work?
any questions?
on Compass: what is art?
what will we learn about in this class?
specific questions for today's class:
what is art? what makes something art or non-art?
what is folk art? how is folk art different from fine
art?

3. agenda 6.16.15
how does this class work?
Compass
submit assignments and papers
take exams
find readings, weblinks, and course powerpoints
Collaborate [synchronic/live sessions]
syllabus
• calendar/due dates
• requirements

4. what is visual culture?
casting a wide net: anything we apprehend through our
sense of vision
including vision itself—what it is, how it works

5. range of possibilities
• natural world
• scientific imagery
• design
• art
• advertising/commodity culture
• places and spaces

7. “The Wave,” at Coyote Buttes, Vermilion Cliffs National Monument, Arizona, USA

9. possible topics for
visual culture
how do we collect and display the natural world?

14. how are designers and artists inspired by natural forms?

15. Beaty Biodiversity Museum
Vancouver, BC, Canada
atrium with blue whale skeleton
opened 2010

16. Andrew McConnell,
photograph of blue whale skeleton, Beaty Biodiversity Museum
drawing of whale vertebra

17. Andrew McConnell, Vertebrae Staircase, 2013

18. All components of the staircase
are identical modules.
Slight modifications to the module are
required at the bottom and top step
where they are bolted into the floor.

19. interior structure of module with
steel components

21. When all the connections are made, continuous structural spirals run through every
vertebra at the two connection points, reinforced by structural foam and steel rods.

22. Brian JUNGEN, Shapeshifter, 2000
White polypropylene plastic chairs. 57 x 260 x 52 inches
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.

23. Brian JUNGEN, Cetology, 2002
Vancouver Art Gallery

24. designed by
Poul Henningsen,
1958,
manufactured by
Louis Poulsen
PH Artichoke
(English)
PH Kogle
(Danish, etc)

27. Random Light
designed by
Bertjan Pot
(2001) for
Moooi

30. dwr.com
Hugely dramatic, light as a feather and distinctly
Dutch, the Random Light (2002) by Bertjan Pot
began as a modernist craft project of sorts. After
making attempts at knitting fiberglass as a means of
creating structure, Pot turned to coiling epoxy-dipped
fiberglass around a large balloon in varying patterns.
Once the balloon was popped, the dramatic globe
shape remained, becoming a buoyant pendant lamp
for an entryway, dining room or lounge area. The light
bulb is visible at the center of the globe, creating an
all-over glow with minimal glare when lit.

31. Random Light - Small #6620
$642.00 - $686.00USD
Random Light - Medium #6621
$1,232.00 - $1,298.00USD
Random Light - Large #8707
$2,270.00 - $2,418.00USD

34. what is visual culture?
design
brand identity
graphic design
product design

41. designwright (Adrian and Jeremy Wright) for Lexon

43. Scholz & Friends packaging design, 2010

44. spaces and places
real and imaginary

47. Johannes Vermeer
Girl with a Pearl Earring
c. 1665-1666
oil on canvas
Mauritshuis, The Hague

48. visitors to the Frick Gallery photographing the work, summer 2014

50. Wangechi MUTU
born Nairobi, Kenya,
1972
came to US in 1990s
BFA Cooper Union, NYC
MFA, Yale
lives/works Brooklyn, NY
large-scale collages
pieced together from
found imagery

51. Wangechi MUTU
Pin-up
2001
ink, acrylic, and collage on mylar

52. Wangechi MUTU
Riding Death in My Sleep,
2002. Ink, collage on paper,
60 x 44 inches (152.4 x 111.76
cm).

53. Marcel DZAMA
name is pronounced
(Zah-mah)
born 1974, Winnipeg,
Canada
drawings, constructions
and films
studied art at University
of Manitoba
now lives/works in
Brooklyn

54. Marcel Dzama, If you can't bring good news, then don't bring me any, 2012. Ink, gouache, graphite, and collage on paper.

55. Marcel DZAMA
Eight Strong Winds, 2005.
50x34 inches

56. Malala will have her revenge, 2013, Ink, gouache, and graphite on piano scroll, 22 1/2 x 32 inches (57.2 x 81.3 cm)

57. if all of these things can be visual culture, what is art?
does that question even matter?

58. John Singleton COPLEY
Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwaite
1771
oil on canvas
50 1/8 x 40 1/8 inches
http://www.mfa.org/collections/
object/mrs-ezekiel-goldthwait-
elizabeth-lewis-32756

59. Ammi PHILLIPS
Lady in a gold-colored dress
Probably New York,
Connecticut, or
Massachusetts, 1835–1840
Oil on canvas
33 1/2 x 28 1/4 in.

61. http://folkartmuseum.org/?t=images&id=1582
Ammi PHILLIPS (1788–
1865)
Girl in red dress with cat
and dog
Vicinity of Amenia, New
York 1830–1835
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches

62. John Singleton COPLEY
(American 1738-1815)
Head of a Negro, 1777-8
Oil on canvas
21 x 16 1/4 in.

63. James Hampton
1909-1964
born in rural South Carolina
moved to Washington, DC
to live with his brother;
worked as short –order cook
and janitor
served in WWII in a
segregated unit, 385th
Aviation Unit, maintaining air
strips on Saipan and Guam
returned to Washington, DC
worked as a janitor for the
GSA
“Director, Special Projects
for the State of Eternity”

64. gold and silver aluminum foil, Kraft paper over mixed materials
180 pieces in overall configuration: 10 1/2 x 27 x 14 1/2 ft.
Includes plaques, tags and notebooks in a not-yet deciphered
language.
James HAMPTON
The Throne of the Third Heaven
of the Nations' Millennium
General Assembly
circa 1950-1964

66. posted on the wall of Hampton's garage
"Where there is no vision,
the people perish.”
Proverbs 29:18

67. possibly made the first
piece as early as 1945 in
Guam
in 1950, rented a garage
and built a special staging
area inside
collected castoffs/junk from
his job and all over the city
to make this environment

80. Howard FINSTER
(1915-2001)
born Alabama, one of 13
children
“born again” at age 13
and followed call to
become a Baptist
minister

81. Howard Finster ·
Howard Finster, Man of
Visions. 1988, Wood
Sculpture with paint,
13.00 x 8.38 x 3.5
inches.

83. Howard FINSTER
George Washington in Another World
1987
oil on panel
58 ½ x 47 inches

84. Howard Finster, Florence Nightingale

85. Paradise Garden, Pennville, GA
bought 4 acres of
inexpensive land, which he
began to clear and drain
after purchasing.
Began planting, as well as
building walkways and
structures, mostly made of
concrete with embedded
objects. Many sculptures
and structures, including a
chapel he called the
“World's Folk Art Church.”

90. installation view, Howard Finster, Paradise Garden at the High Museum