Q:

Would you take a hands-on art class for non-art majors— drawing, painting, ceramics—

if you were able to use the credit as an elective?

Thanks to Kasey Peters http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms2klX-puUU

PAINTING Chapter 11

The Liberal Arts

Academic pursuits that were though to involve inspiration and creative invention.

The Liberal Arts

Painting was raised to a liberal art during the Italian Renaissance.

The Liberal Arts

Rhetoric Arithmetic Geometry Astrology Music

The Liberal Arts

Rhetoric Arithmetic Geometry Astrology Music

Then, in the Renaissance, Painting

The Idea of La Pittura

Support

Can be canvas, wood, etc

Support

Ground (gesso)

Rabbit skin glue + marble dust (chalk, plaster) Can be canvas, wood, etc

Support

Ground (gesso)

Pigment

Rabbit skin glue + marble dust Can be canvas, wood, etc

Support

Ground (gesso)

Pigment

Rabbit skin glue + marble dust

Linseed oil is made from flax seed

Can be canvas, wood, etc

Support

Ground (gesso)

Pigment

Rabbit skin glue + marble dust

Linseed oil is made from flax seed

Can be canvas, wood, etc

Evolution of painting.

Giorgio Vasari. The Art of Painting. 1542.

Giorgio Vasari. The Art of Painting. 1542.

Giorgio Vasari invented art history.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erbd9cZpxps

Painting technology evolved over time.

Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630. 35 1/4 x 29 in.

Gentileschi is one of the few documented female artists from the Early Baroque period.

Encaustic is...

Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160–170 CE. 14 x 18 in.

Mummy Portrait of a Man. c. 160–170 CE. 14 x 18 in.

Encaustic medium is made of beeswax, damar varnish, and linseed oil. Read more: http://www.rfpaints.com/

Encaustic Painting Media* In Contemporary Works

*media is the plural of medium

www.landfall.etsy.com

Fresco is...

Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes, Villa of Julia Felix, Pompeii. before 79 CE.

35 x 48 in.

Bodhisattva from Cave I at Ajanta. c. 475 CE.

Bodhisattva from Cave I at Ajanta. c. 475 CE.

Plaster Tools List 6X3 stainless steel trowel 8X3 steel trowel 6X2 steel gauger large scoop hawk (bucket trowel) square/leaf ornamental notched scratcher trowel wooden "fresco float” sand sifting screen (window screen) pudging stick (wooden dowel 2" diameter) 5 gallon buckets 2 gallon buckets measuring pails (2 gallon) wire snips (for panel and/or wall prep) plaster mixing tray hudson sprayer wetting brush cordless drill

for larger fresoes add metal mixing bath heavy duty power drill hammer drill (masonry drill) masonry wisk hoe

Giotto. Lamentation. c. 1305. approximately 70 x 78 in.

Giornata is...

Fra Andrea Pozzo. The Glorification of Saint Ignatius. 1691–94.

Fra Andrea Pozzo. The Glorification of Saint Ignatius. 1691–94.

Gregorian Chant. c. 1300s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5F9oKh_3s_M&feature=related

Tempera is...

Tempera

Giotto. Madonna and Child Enthroned. c. 1310. 10 ft. 8 in. x 6 ft. 8 1/4 in.

Making a Medieval Icon – from the Warsaw Museum

Making a Medieval Icon – from the Warsaw Museum

Making a Medieval Icon – from the Warsaw Museum

Making a Medieval Icon – from the Warsaw Museum

Making a Medieval Icon – from the Warsaw Museum

Denotation is...

What is explicitly painted…what is visible in the image.

Connotation is...

A larger ideal that is communicated by the image.

Read about the development of an image.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Study for the Libyan Sibyl. c. 1510. 11 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.

Michelangelo Buonarroti. The Libyan Sibyl. 1511–12. detail of the Sistine Ceiling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMEvmZhliH4&feature=related

…from July of 1508 to October of 1512.

Sandro Botticelli. Primavera. c. 1482. 80 x 123 1/4 in.

Andrew Wyeth. Braids. 1979. 16 1/2 x 20 1/2 in.

The tool has to match the task.

A Sable

Oil paint is...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGNCdCSL3U

Diagram of a section of a fifteenth-century oil painting demonstrating the luminosity of the medium.

The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.

central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.

The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin). Detail of The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece). c. 1425–30.

central panel: 25 1/4 x 24 7/8 in.; each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 3/4 in.

Jan de Heem. Still Life with Lobster. late 1640s. 25 1/8 x 33 1/4 in.

I am rich because lemons are a rare fruit

This is the leftovers of an extravagant meal…I am so rich I can waste food.

Look at my fine tableware

Vanitas or vanity painting is meant to induce higher thought.

Antonio López Garciá. New Refrigerator. 1991–94. 94 1/2 x 74 13/16 in.

Pat Passlof. Dancing Shoes. 1998. 80 x 132 in.

Milton Resnick’s. U + Me in progress. 7/26/1995.

Milton Resnick’s. U + Me in progress. 7/26/1995.

Milton Resnick. U + Me. 1995. 93 1/4 x 104 1/2 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzOUEXaJtjQ

Watercolor is...

Xu Wei. Grapes. Ming dynasty, c. 1580–93. 65 1/4 x 25 3/8 in.

Winslow Homer. A Wall, Nassau. 1898. 14 3/4 x 21 1/2 in.

Laurie Reid. Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy), detail. 1998. 192 x 240 in.

Laurie Reid. Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy). 1998. 192 x 240 in.

Goauche is...

Jacob Lawrence. You can buy bootleg whiskey for twenty-five cents a quart, from the Harlem Series. 1942–43.

15 1/2 x 22 1/2 in.

Acrylic is...

Helen Frankenthaler. Flood. 1967. 124 x 140 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QaKYJ09D7g

Judith F. Baca. The Great Wall of Los Angeles, detail, Division of the Barrios and Chavez Ravine. 1976–continuing. height 13 ft. (whole mural more than 1 mile long).

Judith F. Baca. The Great Wall of Los Angeles, detail

Juan Gris. The Table. 1914. 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in.

Romare Bearden. The Dove. 1964. 13 3/8 x 18 3/4 in.

Hannah Höch. Study for Collage “Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany.” 1919.

10 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.

Hannah Höch. Cut with the Kitchen Knife Dada through the Last Weimar Beer Belly Cultural Epoch of Germany. 1919.

44 7/8 x 35 7/16 in.

Painting ...towards sculpture.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qiGNCdCSL3U

Marcia Gygli King. Springs Upstate. 1990–92. 6 ft. x 9 ft. x 10 ft. 6 in.; painting: 9 ft. x 5 ft. x 7 in.

Elizabeth Murray at MoMA.

Elizabeth Murray’s distinctive stretchers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yxl2WAR3-QE .

Patricia Patterson. The Kitchen. 1985. painting: 60 x 107 in; overall dimensions vary with each installation (as

illustrated: 80 x 144 x 180 in.).

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram. 1955–59. 42 x 63 1/4 x 64 1/2 in.

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, First State.

Robert Rauschenberg. Monogram, Second State.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNslYldmNts&p=0748FAA0102601FD&playnext=1&index=55

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Fred Tomaselli. Airborne Event. 2003. 84 x 60 x 1 1/2 in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VuAzThzH_E