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Art has served many functions throughout history beyond just aesthetic appreciation. It has been used for decoration of people and dwellings to convey beauty, status, and wealth. Art has also been used to make statements of power to impress and intimidate others. Additionally, art has played a role in community rituals and religious expressions. While the modern definition of art is a relatively recent Western concept, objects from around the world dating back 77,000 years show evidence of artistic expression and decoration. Context is also important for understanding art and its original intent to communicate with other humans.
UVCSP16Module3.1
- 2. what is art? STRICT, MODERN, WESTERN DEFINITION • A relatively modern invention—last couple of centuries in Europe. • Something that is made for “pure, disinterested contemplation.” • Something that is appreciated for its sensuous qualities (for example, its form, its coloring, its tactile appeal, its sound). • An invention of the West, though we have appropriated objects from around the world to join this category
- 3. some functions of art Our goal today: understanding art through its uses. decoration of people and dwellings for beauty, interest, status statements of power that impress and intimidate stockpiling of material wealth in the form of gold and gems ritual in which a whole community participates expressions of artistic skill in transforming paint and canvas into a wealth of illusions
- 4. the “art” context As John Dewey warned us, context can easily get in the way of our actual connection with art. Every object, even the most prestigious, prized possession of a great museum, was made by a human with the intent of communicating with other humans.
- 5. The Art Institute of Chicago
- 6. The Art Institute, 1900
- 7. The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano, 2009
- 8. Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, installed at the Art Institute
- 9. location of Blombos Cave, virtually at the tip of South Africa
- 11. exterior of the cave
- 12. The Indian Ocean, seen from inside the cave. Layers of sandbags are protecting the surface from the excavators walking in and out.
- 13. BLOMBOS CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA excavation at work, note the meticulously flagged layers http://cogweb.ucla.edu/e p/Blombos.html
- 14. incised ochre, Blombos Cave, c. 77,000 BCE
- 15. Marine shell bead excavated at Blombos Cave, South Africa, dating to 70,000 years ago (string of beads at bottom is a reconstruction)
- 16. next slide Cueva de las manos, (Cave of the Hands) Santa Cruz Province, Argentina c. 7300 BCE
- 19. decoration Art may find its origin in a human tendency to decorate anything and everything that we make.
- 20. useful objects: combs Jade comb, China, c. 400 BCE Ivory comb, Etruscan (ancient Italian) 6-5th century BCE
- 21. useful objects: swords Ancient Persia, , c. 750-650 BCE sword hilt, silver, (iron blade) Ancient Korea, Bronze Age sword hilt, Between 900-300 BCE
- 22. Precious courtly objects The original bling http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=TSyLLWZ5jp8
- 23. Precious courtly objects Objects like these were created to impress and intimidate. Crown Jewels, Tower of London England
- 24. Status and power “I’m the king, and you are not.” “This are the symbols of my worldly power and wealth.”
- 25. Napoleon in his coronation garb, painted on porcelain after a lost painting by Gérard.
- 26. What creates value in art? Reliquary of Ste.-Foy at Conques
- 27. Reliquary Statue of Sainte Foy Abbey Church of Conques Conques, France Late 9th or 10th century with later additions
- 28. Reliquary: receptacle used to store or display sacred objects
- 29. Nkisi figure Kongo early 20th century
- 30. devotional booklet, ivory German, c. 1330
- 31. Simone Martini (and Lippo Memmi), The Annunciation, tempera on panel with gold leaf, c. 1333, 10’1” x 8’8” Fra Angelico, The Annunciation, fresco in cell 3, Convent of San Marco, Florence , c. 1440
- 32. Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece (open), completed 1432, Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium
- 33. Jan van Eyck, Mary Crowned, detail of the Ghent Altarpiece, completed 1432, Cathedral of St. Bavo, Ghent, Belgium
- 34. Jan van Eyck, Mary Crowned, completed 1432 Jan Vermeer Girl with a Pearl Earring, c. 1665-6, oil on canvas, 17 1/2 x 15 3/8 inches