Sunday, February 28, 2010
Friday, February 26, 2010
I Sold Andy Warhol (too soon) Review Due
http://www.polskyart.com/welcome.html
ANDRÁS SZÁNTÓ
ART BUSINESS
PhD, Columbia University; MA, Columbia University; BA, Budapest University of Economics.
Andras Szanto is a writer, researcher, and consultant whose work spans the worlds of art, media, policy, and cultural affairs.
Barbara Allie, Instructor
San Jose City College
I Sold Andy Warhol. (too soon) Reading Assignment -- due April 6. Mr. Polsky will be in class to answer your questions. Please have prepared two questions to ask him.
1. Read the book by Richard Polsky, I Sold Andy Warhol. (too soon)
2. Then go to the amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com, and read the editorial reviews, The questions and answers about I sold Andy Warhol. (too soon), as well as the review by Sandiek at the Barnes & Nobel site.
3. After you have completed the two above tasks read the information below on how to write a book review. All of the various reading materials should give you a fairly good idea of how your Book Review is to be written. The paper must be type written and double-spaced. Ideally it should be between 500 and 1000 words.
4. How to write a review -- Please read link below:
http://www.lavc.edu/Library/bookreview.htm
Sites of Interest:
Anderson Collection – Harry & Moo Anderson
http://www.aacollection.com/index.html
John Berggruen Gallery – San Francisco
http://www.berggruen.com/
Wayne Thiebaud
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Thiebaud
http://www.sothebys.com/
http://www.gagosian.com/
http://www.christies.com/
http://www.warhol.org/
(go to Google and type in “andy warhol fright wig” to see image and last price it sold for.
Other Books of Interest:
• The Art of the Steal: Inside the Sotheby's-Christie's Auction House Scandal
by Christopher Mason
• Sotheby's: Bidding for Class
by Robert Lacey
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Lecture Notes Week of Feb. 15
International Gothic Style:
By the end of the 14th century, the fusion of Italian and Northern European art had led to the development of an International Gothic style. For the next quarter of a century, leading artists travelled from Italy to France, and vice versa, and all over Europe.
As a consequence, ideas spread and merged, until eventually painters in this International Gothic style could be found in France, Italy, England, Germany, Austria and Bohemia.
WORDS TO KNOW:
Iconography – is the study of themes and symbols in the visual arts – figures and images that lend works their understanding and meaning.
Aesthetics –A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
Style - is at once the most concrete and intangible of all components of an artwork. It is the signature look of an artist’s work – that something that enables us to tell the difference between a Rubens and a Rembrandt, a Picasso and a Pollock.
Medium – in which an artist works –The plural, mediums or media –
Refers to the physical components of art.
Chiaroscuro – the drawing or painting the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling.
By the end of the 14th century, the fusion of Italian and Northern European art had led to the development of an International Gothic style. For the next quarter of a century, leading artists travelled from Italy to France, and vice versa, and all over Europe.
As a consequence, ideas spread and merged, until eventually painters in this International Gothic style could be found in France, Italy, England, Germany, Austria and Bohemia.
WORDS TO KNOW:
Iconography – is the study of themes and symbols in the visual arts – figures and images that lend works their understanding and meaning.
Aesthetics –A branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty, art, and taste and with the creation and appreciation of beauty.
Style - is at once the most concrete and intangible of all components of an artwork. It is the signature look of an artist’s work – that something that enables us to tell the difference between a Rubens and a Rembrandt, a Picasso and a Pollock.
Medium – in which an artist works –The plural, mediums or media –
Refers to the physical components of art.
Chiaroscuro – the drawing or painting the treatment and use of light and dark, especially the gradations of light that produce the effect of modeling.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
"The Sold Andy Warhol Too Soon" Talk
The talk by the author of "I Sold Andy Warhol Too Soon" will be Tuesday, April 6.
The written "Review" of the book will be due on Tuesday, April 6. It should be 2-3 pages long, type written and double spaced.
Please order the book if you have not done so already and read it. I will prepare next week a list of questions you should answer in your review.
The written "Review" of the book will be due on Tuesday, April 6. It should be 2-3 pages long, type written and double spaced.
Please order the book if you have not done so already and read it. I will prepare next week a list of questions you should answer in your review.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
Notes For Feb. 11, 2010
Artists Covered (refer to handout)
Cimabue
Ducccio Di Buoninsegna
Giotto de Bondone
Filippo Brunelleschi (Medici DVD)
Composition – refers to how art work is organized
Shapes on 2D surface or 3D arranging shapes in space
Form – Medium (2D or 3D) – Materials used & Technique
Fresco
He was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle ages.
He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.
16th century biographer Varsari says of him:
“He made a decisive break with the crude traditional Byzantine style, and bought to life the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years.”
The Adoration of the Magi is the name traditionally given to the Christian subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him
PowerPoint Presentation on "Line"
•A line is the path made by a moving point.
•A point has no measurable size.
•Lines are created through the connection of points and are defined as the side-by-side placement of an infinite number of points. (Whew!)
•Line is without end.
•Line has no width.
The Quality of Line
The quality of a line describes either its measure or its characteristics
For example:
•The measure of a line might be that it is thick or thin.
•Or the characteristics might be that the line is smooth or rough.
Change these things to create a line with personality, expression or emotion.
Above information taken from "Art Though the Ages" text
Cimabue
Ducccio Di Buoninsegna
Giotto de Bondone
Filippo Brunelleschi (Medici DVD)
Composition – refers to how art work is organized
Shapes on 2D surface or 3D arranging shapes in space
Form – Medium (2D or 3D) – Materials used & Technique
Fresco
- Oil Painting
- Tempera
- Sculpture
- Drawing
- Cartoons
- Watercolor
- Pastel
- •Landscape
- •Still Life
- •Figurative
- •Abstract
- •Religious
- •Self Portrait
He was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle ages.
He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance.
16th century biographer Varsari says of him:
“He made a decisive break with the crude traditional Byzantine style, and bought to life the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years.”
The Adoration of the Magi is the name traditionally given to the Christian subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh, and worship him
PowerPoint Presentation on "Line"
•A line is the path made by a moving point.
•A point has no measurable size.
•Lines are created through the connection of points and are defined as the side-by-side placement of an infinite number of points. (Whew!)
•Line is without end.
•Line has no width.
The Quality of Line
The quality of a line describes either its measure or its characteristics
For example:
•The measure of a line might be that it is thick or thin.
•Or the characteristics might be that the line is smooth or rough.
Change these things to create a line with personality, expression or emotion.
Above information taken from "Art Though the Ages" text
Homework on Medici DVD
Homework:
Write in your journal your reaction to the Medici DVD and in partitular about Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
Talk about the building of the Dome and the role that the Medici played in building it.
Write in your journal your reaction to the Medici DVD and in partitular about Filippo Brunelleschi (1377-1446)
Talk about the building of the Dome and the role that the Medici played in building it.
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Notes for Feb 9, 2010
http://www.cengage.com
Fresco painted by Giotto
Italy, 1200 To 1400 Chapter 19
The Pope was not only the spiritual leader of Europe; he
was also a secular ruler.
The special nature of Italy at this time allowed these
small independent city-states to evolve into very
powerful commercial and trading giants.
Pisa and Venice controlled the maritime lanes between
Europe and the East.
Bubonic plaque:
• Deadliest pandemics in history
• Europe – 1348 ‐ 1350
• 30% ‐60%
– Reduced Population declined from 450 million to 350‐370
million
• It is believed the plaque grew out of rat fleas
from merchant ships
• That it started in Central Asia
The response to the Black Death in Italy:
• Was a commissioning of devotional works and images.
• Religious orders became major health benefactors,
constructing hospitals and caring for the sick and dying.
• Another consequence of this plague was economic: a
lack of population led to a labor shortage.
• And, and already tense and frightened society
exacerbated the tensions between the aristocracy and
the peasants
• The rise of the vernacular language (Latin remained the
official language) allowed for the further and rapid
evolution of philosophy and intellectual conceptual
thinking to be disseminated to a broader base.
• As a consequence “Humanism” became a focus of
interest. This interest created a resurgence of interest in
the writings of Antiquity, and this, in turn, led to
recognition of scholarship.
• Scholars today differ on an exact label for 14th century
Italy. Some call this period "Late Gothic", while others
refer to this century as the “Proto-Renaissance” using
definitions stemming from France
Byzantine Style
The art, territory, history, and culture of the
Eastern Christian Empire and its capital of
Constantinople (ancient Byzantium)
The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire,
was the Roman Empire during the Middle
Ages, centered on the capital of
Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors.
• Frescoes Byzantine Empire (1164), with their
unique blend of high tragedy, gentle humanity,
and homespun realism, antcipate the
approach of Giotto and other proto‐
Renaissance Italian artists.
Notes based on information from "Art Though the Ages" by Fred S. Kleiner
As well as information taken from Wikipedia
Fresco painted by Giotto
Italy, 1200 To 1400 Chapter 19
The Pope was not only the spiritual leader of Europe; he
was also a secular ruler.
The special nature of Italy at this time allowed these
small independent city-states to evolve into very
powerful commercial and trading giants.
Pisa and Venice controlled the maritime lanes between
Europe and the East.
Bubonic plaque:
• Deadliest pandemics in history
• Europe – 1348 ‐ 1350
• 30% ‐60%
– Reduced Population declined from 450 million to 350‐370
million
• It is believed the plaque grew out of rat fleas
from merchant ships
• That it started in Central Asia
The response to the Black Death in Italy:
• Was a commissioning of devotional works and images.
• Religious orders became major health benefactors,
constructing hospitals and caring for the sick and dying.
• Another consequence of this plague was economic: a
lack of population led to a labor shortage.
• And, and already tense and frightened society
exacerbated the tensions between the aristocracy and
the peasants
• The rise of the vernacular language (Latin remained the
official language) allowed for the further and rapid
evolution of philosophy and intellectual conceptual
thinking to be disseminated to a broader base.
• As a consequence “Humanism” became a focus of
interest. This interest created a resurgence of interest in
the writings of Antiquity, and this, in turn, led to
recognition of scholarship.
• Scholars today differ on an exact label for 14th century
Italy. Some call this period "Late Gothic", while others
refer to this century as the “Proto-Renaissance” using
definitions stemming from France
Byzantine Style
The art, territory, history, and culture of the
Eastern Christian Empire and its capital of
Constantinople (ancient Byzantium)
The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire,
was the Roman Empire during the Middle
Ages, centered on the capital of
Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors.
• Frescoes Byzantine Empire (1164), with their
unique blend of high tragedy, gentle humanity,
and homespun realism, antcipate the
approach of Giotto and other proto‐
Renaissance Italian artists.
Notes based on information from "Art Though the Ages" by Fred S. Kleiner
As well as information taken from Wikipedia
Saturday, February 6, 2010
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