History of Art

Week 1:
Course Introduction & Pre-Historic Arts
 Course Introduction
How to fail the Class

Part 1: Reading, Interpreting and Writing History

Part 2: Technical Terms in History of Art

Part 3: Pre-Historic Art

 Rules and Regulations
Each students are given A grade right on this moment

Each students have all the rights to decrease their

grades and have also the rights to struggle to fail
 How to Fail
Absent: See students handbook.

Do not submit assignments.

 Projects and Assignment
Assignment 1: Hunting Art Works

Assignment 2: Visual Concept (for Project 1)

Assignment 3: Group Presentation

Assignment 4: Analytical Paper

Project 1: Making artwork based on concept (10th Apr)

Project 2: Film and Artistic Approach analysis (12th

June)
 Weekly Assignment
Write a paragraph of review of the class subject based
on the lecture and reference books.

Attach a work of art from each topics with a short

explanation of your interpretation.

Assignment should be submit every Friday before 12

AM.

Send assignment to nosanormanda@gmail.com;

subject: AHW2017-(name)-(assignment number)
 Group Presentation
Class will be divided into groups and each group have
to present a chapter of the Art History

Presentation 1: Ancient and Classical Art: Egypt,

Mesopotamia, Crete, Greek, Roman.

Presentation 2: Byzantine, Gothic, Medieval Art.

Presentation 3: Renaissance Art, Baroque Era.

Presentation 4: Post-Renaissance: Rococo, Neoclassical,

Romantic
 Group Presentation
Presentation 5: Modern Art: Realism, Impressionism,
Symbolism, Post-Impressionism.

Presentation 6: Modern Art: Expressionism , Dadaism,

Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism.

Presentation 7: Transition into Postmodernism: Pop

Art, Video Art, Street Art.

Presentation 8: Arts in Practical & Cultural Designs:

Architecture, Art Deco, Bauhaus, Art Nouveau.
 Group Presentation
Presentation 9: Non-Western Traditions: Hinduism,
Buddhism & Islamic Influence in Global Art,
Architecture, Calligraphy, Craft & Ornament.
Presentation 10: Indonesian Art Ancient and Early
Modern Era: Human and Culture of Indonesia,
Romanticism, Mooi Indie, Modern Bali, Persagi
Movement, Japanese Colonialism, Revolution.
Presentation 11: Indonesian Art Modern and
Contemporary Era: Art Scholars Role, Post-Revolution
Art
 Group Presentation
Presentation 12:Global (Post) Modern Era:
Synthesizing Histories, Global Media and Art, Film
Part 1: Reading, Interpreting
& Writing History
What is History?

What is iconology?

What is Art?
 History
What is history?
 Iconology
Watch footage from the Da Vinci Code.
 Art
What is art?
Part 2: Technical Terms in
Reading History of Art
Starter Kit

Examples Discussion
Starter Kit
How to see art
Formal Elements of Art
LINE

SHAPE

COLOR

TEXTURE

SPACE

MASS

VOLUME
Formal Elements of Art

LINE

Actual or Implied

Contour Lines
Formal Elements of Art

SHAPE

Geometric or
Biomorphic

Open or Closed
Formal Elements of Art

LINE and SHAPE

Formal Elements of Art

COLOR

Hue

Value

Saturation
Formal Elements of Art

Hue
Primary,
Secondary, and
Tertiary

Warm or Cool

Black and White

Formal Elements of Art

Value Saturation
 Formal Elements of Art

Which picture has the Cool Colors?

 Formal Elements of Art
Which picture has the Cool Colors?
Formal Elements of Art

TEXTURE SPACE

Actual or Implied

Actual or Implied
Examples Discussion
 Part 3: Pre-Historic Art
Context

Technical Development
 Context
Pre-history definition

The Stone Age

The Paleolithic Period

The Neolithic Period

The New Metalurgy, Enduring Stone

 Pre-History
Time when human knows no writing (?)

Relativity of time

Pre-historic NOW
 Prehistoric Art

THE FIRST

Used as decoration

Regular pattern (which

element?)

Mass production?
DECORATED OCHER

From Blombos Cave. Southern Cape coast, South Africa. 77,000 years ago.
 Prehistoric Art - Paleolithic

SCULPTURES

In-the-round

Subtractive and Additive

Subject matter not found in nature

Animal or human (or both)?

LION-HUMAN

From Hohlenstein-Stadel, Germany. c. 30,000 26,000 BCE. Mammoth ivory, height 29.6 cm. Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany.
Prehistoric Art - Paleolithic

FEMALE FIGURES

Memory Image

Abstract Art (basic shapes)

WOMAN FROM BRASSEMPOUY

From Grotte du Pape, Brassempouy, Landes, France. Probably c. 30,000 BCE. Ivory, height 3.6 cm. Muse
des Antiquits Nationales, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France.
Prehistoric Art - Paleolithic
FEMALE FIGURES
WOMAN FROM DOLN VESTONICE
From Moravia, Czech Republic. 23,000 BCE.
Exaggerated features Fired clay, 11 x 4.3 cm). Moravske Museum,
Brno, Czech Republic.

Represents fertility

A way of nonverbal
communication
WOMAN FROM WILLENDORF

From Austria. c. 24,000 BCE. Limestone,

(Pregnant) female height 11 cm. Naturhistorisches Museum,
Vienna.
sculptors?
Prehistoric Art - Paleolithic
CAVE PAINTING TECHNIQUES

Prehistoric Graffiti
(Charcoal + Saliva + Water) = Human Spray Can

Fingerpainting and Ochre Crayon

SO A PREHIPSTERIFIC BANKSY?
Moss or Hair Paintbrush
Prehistoric Art - Paleolithic
CAVE PAINTINGS

WALL PAINTING WITH HORSES, RHINOCEROSES, AND AUROCHS

Chauvet Cave. Vallon-Pont-d Arc, Ardche Gorge, France. c. 32,000 30,000 BCE. Paint on limestone.

Animal figures Mostly in profile

 Prehistoric Art - Paleolithic
CAVE PAINTINGS

Curving wall suggests space

Composite pose
HALL OF BULLS
Lascaux Cave. Dordogne, France. c. 15,000 BCE. Paint on limestone,
length of largest auroch (bull) 5.50 m. HALL OF BULLS
Lascaux Cave. Dordogne, France. c. 15,000 BCE. Paint on limestone,
length of largest auroch (bull) 5.50 m.

The first narrative?

Different colors
Prehistoric Art - Neolithic

EARLY POTTERY: FROM JAPAN S JOMON CULTURE

12,000 BCE.

POTTERY AND CERAMICS

Containers

From ceremonial to colloquial

EARLY POTTERY: FRANCHTHI CAVE, GREECE
6500 BCE.
Prehistoric Art - Neolithic

POTTERY TECHNIQUES

Shaping: play-doh style or using a mold

LIKE THIS
Potters wheel (4000 BCE)

Fired in special ovens called kilns

Earthenware and Stoneware

BUT SEXIER
Prehistoric Art - Neolithic

HUMAN FIGURES

Body as Identity

Open eyes

HUMAN FIGURE

From Ain Ghazal, Jordan. 6500 BCE. Fired lime plaster with cowrie shell, bitumen, and paint, height approx.
(90 cm).

National Museum, Amman, Jordan.

Prehistoric Art - Neolithic
FIGURES OF A WOMAN AND A MAN
From Cernavoda, Romania. c. 4500 BCE. Ceramic,
height 11.5 cm. National Historical Museum,
Bucharest.

HUMAN FIGURES

Distinctive features

Pose: looking upwards

Relationship?
Prehistoric Art - Neolithic
METALLURGY

Copper and gold at first

Ornamentation and jewelry

Take it to the grave

GOLD FACE MASK

From Tomb 3, Varna I, Bulgaria. Neolithic,

3800 BCE. Terra cotta and gold.
Archaeological Museum, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.

GOLD SCEPTERS
From Varna, Bulgaria. 3800 BCE. National Museum of
History, Sofia, Bulgaria.
 Prehistoric Art - Neolithic

ROCK CARVINGS

Relief-like

Ground exposed rock

surfaces

Boat motif

Near shorelines ROCK ART:BOAT AND SEA BATTLE

Fossum, northern Bohusln,Sweden. Bronze Age.c. 1500 500 BCE.

 Weekly Assignment
Write two paragraph on art history approach and
prehistoric art.

Give an example of one of the products in those

periods along with your interpretation of itYour own
interpretation, another possibilities that can be read
from those products.
End of Course