Design, Investigation & Culture: Lesson 05

Expertise Multimedia/Web Design, Photography, Information Design and Human-Computer Interaction.

LESSON 5: MAJOR PERIODS OF WESTERN ART

Lecturer Itamar Medeiros (Brazil) BA in Industrial Design; PgDip in Information Design; MSc In Design.

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welcome to DESIGN INVESTIGATION & CULTURE

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Students will learn about the main periods of western art, making corelations with CULTURAL ASPECTS of each corresponding historical period.

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LESSON 05: ART LECTURE learning outcome

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A retrospect of the major periods of western art, particularly the avantgarde.

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LESSON 05: CULTURE LECTURE content

Works produced by such skill and imagination : his collection of modern art | an exhibition of Tibetan art | [as adj. ] an art critic.

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The expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power : the art of the Renaissance.

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ART noun

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Art, being a product of skill and imagination of those who produce it, reflects both the technology of its time, as well as the vision of the world of those who produce it.

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ART skill & imagination

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Artists have -- very often -- being the first among their peers to give real meaning to the technological achievements of their time.

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ART skill & imagination

But they’ve being also the ones who capture the spirit of their age.

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Now, let’s look at some of the most influential periods of western art: Renaissance;

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WESTERN ART major periods

Impressionism;

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Cultural movement which brought about a period of scientific revolution and artistic transformation, at the dawn of modern European history.

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RENAISSANCE science and enlightening

A reconnection of the west with classical antiquity, the absorption of knowledge -- particularly mathematics and experimentalism -and the focus on the importance of living well in the present (humanism)

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An explosion of the dissemination of knowledge brought on by printing and the creation of new techniques in art, poetry and architecture.

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RENAISSANCE Italy; 1400 ~ 1600

Linear Perspective A type of perspective used by artists in which the relative size, shape, and position of objects are determined by drawn or imagined lines converging at a point on the horizon.

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Artist sought new solutions to formal and visual problems, devoting time to scientific experimentation:

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RENAISSANCE Italy; 1400 ~ 1600

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Aerial Perspective the technique of representing more distant objects as fainter and more blue.

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RENAISSANCE Italy; 1400 ~ 1600

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The work of art -- particularly painting -was supposed to be a window of the natural world.

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RENAISSANCE art form & objectives

Artists depicted many of their subjects in life around them rather than in history, which was then the accepted source of subject matter.

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IMPRESSIONISM France: XIX Century

Instead of painting an ideal of beauty that earlier artists had defined, the impressionists tried to depict what they saw at a given moment, capturing a fresh, original vision that was hard for some people to accept as beautiful.

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Artists depicted many of their subjects in life around them rather than in history, which was then the accepted source of subject matter.

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IMPRESSIONISM France: XIX Century

Instead of painting an ideal of beauty that earlier artists had defined, the impressionists tried to depict what they saw at a given moment, capturing a fresh, original vision that was hard for some people to accept as beautiful.

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To achieve the appearance of spontaneity, impressionist painters used broken brushstrokes of bright, often unmixed colors.

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IMPRESSIONISM France: XIX Century

This practice produced loose or densely textured surfaces rather than the carefully blended colors and smooth surfaces favoured by most artists of the time

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The new availability of oil paint in metal tubes made painting out of doors much easier, and new paints based on artificial pigments provided brighter colors, particularly blues, yellows, and greens.

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IMPRESSIONISM scientific advances helped the impressionists

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Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergeres

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Impressionist Painters:

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Manet, Le déjeuner sur l'herbe

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Renoir - La Moulin de la Galette 1876

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Impressionist Painters:

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Monet, The Rouen Cathedral

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Impressionist Painters:

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Monet, Gare St. Lazare

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Impressionist Painters:

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Among the 20th century’s most important contributions to the history of art are the invention of abstraction, the introduction of a wide range of new artistic techniques and materials, and even the redefinition of the boundaries of art itself.

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The term modern art refer to art of the 20th century mainly in Europe and the Americas.

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MODERN ART not an imitation of life

Art for art's sake; An attempt to make painting and sculpture ends in themselves.

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Art does NOT imitate the appearance of things.

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MODERN ART abstraction

Salvadore Dali

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Piet Mondrian!

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Marcel Duchamp – 1917! !

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Samples . . . .

The focus on originality; A fascination with Modern Technology;

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MODERN ART what drives it?

A fascination with the Primitive; A need to explore and express popular culture.

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The term avant-garde, which is often applied to modern art, comes from a French military term meaning advanced guard.

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MODERN ART the avant-guarde

It suggests that what is modern is what is new, original, or cutting-edge.

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To be sure, many artists in the 20th century tried to redefine what art means, or attempted to expand the definition of art to include concepts, materials, or techniques that were never before associated with art.

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MODERN ART the avant-guarde

Roy Lichtenstein

Robert Smithson

Paul klee

Andy Warhol

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Pablo Picasso

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Art historians have related the fragmentation of form in 20thcentury art to the fragmentation of society at the time.

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MODERN ART the first years

The increasing technological aspirations of the industrial revolution widened the rift between the middle and the working classes.

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MODERN ART the first years

Women demanded the vote and equal rights.

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The view of the mind seen by the founder of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, stipulated that the human psyche, far from being unified, was mixed with emotional conflicts and contradictions.

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MODERN ART the first years

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The discovery of X rays, physicist Albert Einstein's theory of relativity, and other technological innovations suggested that our visual experience no longer corresponded with science's view of the world.

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MODERN ART the first years

It found expression in a wide range of art forms — architecture, interior design, furniture, posters, glass, pottery, textiles, and book illustration.

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ART NOUVEAU France; 1880 ~ 1910

It was characterized by its devotion to curving and undulating lines, organic shapes.

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Art nouveau was in decline by 1910 being succeeded by the sleekly elegant art deco style.

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Art nouveau borrowed motifs from Japanese prints and Gothic architecture.

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ART NOUVEAU France; 1880 ~ 1910

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Gustav Klimt (1862 – 1918)

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Erte

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Antoni Gaudi (1852 – 1926)

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The term art deco is a shortening of the title of a major Paris design exhibition held in 1925, Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes (International Exposition of Modern Industrial and Decorative Arts), where the style first became evident.

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ART DECO 1920 ~ 1930

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Art Deco is an elegant style of decorative art, furniture design and architecture which began as a Modernist reaction against the Art Nouveau style.

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ART DECO 1920 ~ 1930

Art deco retained the tendency of Art Nouveau toward abstraction and repetition of forms but moved away from the shapes and motifs of the older style

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A conscious effort to simplify the elaborately curved shapes and plantlike motifs of art nouveau.

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ART DECO 1920 ~ 1930

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Art Deco Architecture:

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Art Deco Architecture: The Chrysler Building

designed by architect William Van Alen, is considered to be one of the world's great Art Deco buildings.

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Art Deco Architecture: Graphic Design, Arts & Crafts

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