UVCWeek3,Class2
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Art has evolved from serving ritual purposes within communities to becoming a commodity. Originally, art was used for rituals like preparing for hunts, as seen in the cave paintings at Lascaux. It also served to decorate dwellings and people to demonstrate beauty, status, and power. Over time, art became expressions of artistic skill and representations of wealth and status through materials like gold and gems. Now, art is often viewed and displayed in museums as cultural objects and commodities.
UVCWeek3,Class2
- 1. From Ritual to Commodity ART 100 Week 3.2
- 2. agenda 9.11.14 Our goal today: understanding art through what it has been used for. ritual in which a whole community participates 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 expressions of artistic skill in transforming paint and canvas into a wealth of illusions
- 3. the “art” context which John Dewey warned us, 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.
- 4. The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, designed by Renzo Piano, 2009
- 5. Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877, installed at the Art Institute
- 8. Louise Lawler, Statue before Painting, Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Canova, 1982
- 9. Beginnings in ritual Lascaux cave, Dordogne region of France, Hall of the Bulls, c. 15,000 BCE
- 10. “Magician” or “Birdman” from Lascaux
- 11. Historians speculate: this is not “art” but may be a magical technique used as part of rituals preparing for the hunt.
- 12. The Game As ritual: You are an active participant Everyday rules don’t apply in this deviation from ordinary space/time Sacred beverages are consumed As spectacle: You are consigned to watch someone else doing something; your role is limited to viewing.
- 13. An ordered representation of a chaotic and often hostile universe, expressing our wish for a desired outcome.
- 14. An ordered representation of a chaotic and often hostile universe, expressing our wish for a desired outcome.
- 15. decoration So if art finds one set of origins in ritual, it finds another in the human tendency to decorate anything and everything that we make.
- 16. Marine shell bead excavated at Blombos Cave, South Africa, dating to 70,000 years ago (string of beads at bottom is a reconstruction)
- 17. useful objects: combs Jade comb, China, c. 400 BCE Ivory comb, Etruscan (ancient Italian) 6-5th century BCE
- 18. useful objects: swords Ancient Persia, , c. 750-650 BCE sword hilt, silver, (iron blade) Ancient Korea, Bronze Age sword hilt, Between 900-300 BCE
- 19. Art has a definite role to play in assertions of wealth and status.
- 21. http://www.mfa.org/collections/object/mr-and-mrs-isaac-winslow-jemima-debuke-32678
- 22. Chuck Close, William Jefferson Clinton, 2006, oil on canvas installed at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
- 23. Precious courtly objects The original bling http://www.youtube.com/w atch?v=TSyLLWZ5jp8
- 24. Crown Jewels, Tower of London Objects like these were created to impress, intimidate and symbolize the power of the monarch.
- 25. Status and power “I’m the emperor, and you are definitely not.” “This are the symbols of my worldly power and wealth.” Napoleon appropriated many symbols of royalty although he had no claim to royal blood.
- 26. Napoleon in his coronation garb, painted on porcelain after a lost painting by Gérard.
- 27. What creates value in art? Reliquary of Ste.-Foy at Conques
- 28. Reliquary Statue of Sainte Foy Abbey Church of Conques Conques, France Late 9th or 10th century with later additions
- 29. Reliquary: receptacle used to store or display sacred objects
- 30. Real gold Painted gold
- 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