ART APPRECIATION Examples of Dances

Modern Dance
ART 1. Dorie Duncan: Mother of
Modern Dance
2. Martha Graham
Visual Performing
Arts Examples of Film
1. Food: Breakfast
Types of Visual Arts Examples of Visual Arts
1. Paintings
2. Sculptures Examples of Sculptures
3. Architecture 1. ACURUS: Free standing
- Architecture is sculpture: Youth
considered to be the GREECE: Where the cult of the
highest visual art form young boy started
- Androginous
Types of Performing Arts 2. NUDE vs NAKED (Female
1. Music body)
2. Dance
3. Theatre (Film/Drama) Examples of Paintings
- This type of performing
art is different as we 1. White Center or
question, who is the real “Rockefeller” by Mark
artist behind it? Is it the Rothko
artist/director/actor/ Price: 72, 840, 000
scriptwriter? - Abstract painting
completed in the year
Examples of Performing Arts 1950
1. Nessun Dorma (None Shall - The painting was sold on
Sleep) by Luciano Pavarotti MAY 2007 by Sotheby’s
2. Madame Butterfly (Puccini) on behalf of David
3. Broadway: Mis Saigon Rockefeller
4. Flower Duet by Lakme - Buyer: Royal family of
5. Diva Dance: 5th element by Qatar
Eugenia Laguna - This painting set the
6. Broadway: Les Miserables record as the most
7. Bang Bang (Pop Art) by expensive post-war work
David Guetta of art sold at auction

2. Massacre of the Innocents

by Peter Paul Rubens
Price: 76,529,058
- Depicts the
Massacre of the
 Innocents at - Monet is a French
Bethlehem Impressionist
- There are two - June 2007:
versions of the Painting was sold
painting at the Sotheby’s
- 17th century: auction in London
painting is part of - One of the most
the collection of recognized and
Leichenstein celebrated works
Collection in of the 20th century
Vienna, Austria and is hugely
- 1920: sold to an influential to many
Austrian family artists
- 1923: loaned to
Stift Reichersberg,
a monastery in 5. Portrait of Dr. Gachet by
northern Austria Van Gogh
- 2001: Sotheby’s in Price: 82,500,000
London - Dr. Gachet was the
- Buyer: Kenneth one who took care
Thomson of Van Gogh
during the final
years of his life
3. Au Moulin de la Galette by - There are two
Piere- Auguste Renoir versions
Price: 78,100,000
- Dance at Le
Moulin de La 6. Triptych by Frances Bacon
Galette Price: 86,281,000
- Found at the - Bacon is an Irish-
Musee d’Orsay in born artist
Paris - He is known for
- Impressionist painting large size
painting paintings:
- 1879 to 1894: triptychs
Painting belonged
to Gustave 7. Adele Bloch Bauer II by
Caillebotte Klimt
then belonged to Price: 87,936,000
the French - Also known as the
Republic Woman in Gold
- The painting is
made of oil and
4. Water Lily Pond by Claude gold on canvas
Monet - Donated to
Price: 80,379,591 Austrian State
 Gallery as a - The painting
request by Adele features the
- Currently June mistress of Pablo
2006: painting was Picasso: Marie-
bought by Ronald Therese Walter
Lauder for the - Part of the
Neue Gallery in personal
New York City collection of art
collectors Sidney
8. Dora Maar au Chat by Pablo and Frances
Picasso Brody in Los
Price: 95,216,000 Angeles
- Dora Maar – the - It is now in the
painter’s lover Tate Modern in
- Painting was sold London
at 1963 but was
never shown until
the 21st century ART VALUE is based on
- 2005-2006: Owned 1. Provenance
by the Gidwitz -Who first acquired the art
family of Chicago 2. History
- Sold at the 2006 -History of the
Sotheby’s auction artwork/artist

3. Artist
9. Garcon a la Pipe by Pablo
Picasso 4. Place
Price: 104,168,000 -Where the artwork was
- Painted in 1905, placed
Pablo Picasso was
24 years old
- Oil on canvas
- Provenance:
Painting was first
bought by John
Hay Whitney in
1950
- May 2004: Sold at
the Sotheby’s
auction

10. Nude, Green Leaves and

Bust by Pablo Picasso
Price: 106,482, 500
PAINTINGS, SCULPTURES, 80,000
DRAMAS 30,000 – Venus of Willandoff
(Vienna, Austria)
Elements of Sculpture

1. Subject
- Who/What is the subject of the
sculpture?
2. Medium
What was used to make the
sculpture?
Marble, wood, copper, granite
Addition or substraction?
Technique
3. Texture
4. Place
ART
1. Prehistoric Art
2. Classical Art (Greece –
Rome)
3. Medieval Art
4. Renaissance Art
The Erotics of Art
Nude vs Naked by John Berger
 The CLIENTS that bought
the he paintings were rich
men
 WOMEN were the subjects
(Nude women)
(“objectified”
 What was practiced during
this period of time?
HEGEMONY
- The power of the rich and
powerful men over the ones
who could not afford to buy
paintings or sculptures of
naked women
TIME FRAME
150,000 – Humans evolved
What does the “ART” depict?
1. History
2. Culture
Ancient Art
 The very first sculpture was
found in Northeast of
Austria: HUNTER VALLEY
in the Village of Willandoff
 Venus of Willandoff
 Price: $60,000,000
 Modern world is dominated
by unrealistic images of the
human body
 Can be a symbol for
Fertility/Motherhood
 Principle of Exaggeration
 The Venus of Willandoff was
made during the NOMADIC
LIFESTYLE
 Red, Limestone
 Over exaggeration of Parts
Explanation of Professor
Ramachandran
- The brain of the humans in
relation to the seagulls
- Herringall Theory
Eygptian Art
 Unrealistic images of the
body
 There was a SET form of art
(standards)
 19 feet tall, 2 feet wide, 1 ½
square of the center
 More detailed and
ORGANIZED
  Art did not change · 3700 BC
throughout time
 TWO DIMENSIONAL
 Signature of the Pharoah: 4. Khephren
Cartouche · Protected by a hawk
· Diorite
 Polykleitos: Dimensions of
· 2500 BC
Egyptian body
5. Akhenaten
Italian Art
· Long neck
 Stefano: Found 2 · Unflattering accdg to experts
sculptures underwater · Egypt
· Sandstone
· 1350 BC
Greek Art
6. Nefertiti
 Realistic type of art: · Right profile
Depicting the human body · Limestone
 KRITION BOY (TOO · Painted
REALISTIC) · Egypt
 Greeks used the eyes and · 1340 BC
focused on thee detail of
the eyes 7. Tutankhamun
 Greeks were not satisfied · King Tut
with reality · The Boy King
 Greek Sculptures · Egypt
 Small scale sculpture (small · Gold, glass, obsidian and quartz
· Valley of the King
figurines)
· Nese: Cloth on had of pharaoh
 Greek Art adopted Egyptian
· 1327 BC
Art
8. Krition Boy
SCULPTURES · Marble
· Greece
1. Venus of Willendorf · 480 BC
· Red
· Vienna 9. Riace Warrior
· Limestone · Bronze: molds
· Greece
2. Venus of Lespugue · 450 BC
· France · clay – wax – clay – heat (wax
· Mammoth ivory melts – bronze
· 23, 000 BC
10. Greece: Disclobos
3. Female Figurine “Distance thrower”
· Egypt · Myron
· Bone
· Marble · No hands
· Greece · Seductive stature
· Symbol of sport · 100 BC
· 450 BC · Medusa complex: if you see a
person with disability, you are
11. Asia: Kneeling Archer forced to look
· Terracotta
· Archer 13. Seated Couple
· China · Mexico
· 8000 Terracota Warriors · Teracotta
· constructed to protect the · 50 AD
emperor
· Life size 14. Stirrup Spouted Bottle
· W/ bow and arrow · Peru
· Teracotta
Dynasties: · 50 AD
1. Sia
First dynasty of China 15. Maitum Anthromorphic Jars
2. Shang · Teracotta
3. Zhou · Philippines
Warring dynasty · 110 AD (1992)
- Confucious · Sarangani
- Lao Tsu · Burial jars
- Mi Tsu · National museum
4. Cin · Conservative Filipinos
- United China
- Start of Great Wall of China 16. Krishna Battling the Horse
- Kneeling Archer Demon
- Terracotta Warriors were made · Keshi
for “protection” · India
5. Han · Teracotta
6. Sui · 440 AD
7. Tang
8. Song 17. Buddha Preaching the law
9. Yuan · Sandstone
10. Ming · India
– end of Great Wall of China · 485 AD
11. Qing
12. Republic 18. Cuevas los Amanos
13. Mao Zedong · Hand stencils
· Painting on walls of a cave
12. Greece: Venus de Milo · 1100s
· Alexandros of Antioch Greece
· Ideal body of a female 19. Acrobatic Dancer
· Epitome of female body · Paint on Limestone
· Marble · Egypt
· 1280 BC * Oracle with prophecy
 Oedipus left Corinth
20. Symposion Seene because of prophecy
· Plaster  He killed his own father on
· 475 BC an encounter in the forest
· “Symposion: = drinking spree  Plague in Thebes
· males * Riddles
· rich houses * Sphinx (Due to the reason that
· Game: aim at the wall using the killer of King Lauis was not yet
chalice found)
· Seated on couches
 Oedipus Married Queen
· Adolescent and adult couple
Jocasta (Oedipus Complex)
GREEK DRAMA  Queen Jocasta hanged
- Tragedy was more popular herself
than Comedy  Oedipus gouged his eyes
- because of foreseeing the
Thespis future, his life became
 Father of theater miserable
 One character
Aeschylus
- Introduced the two
Sopochles
characters
 Most famous playwright
 Introduced the 3rd Agamemnon
character * Trojan war setting
 Oedipus cycle/Theban plays * BUT really happened after Trojan
* Oedipus Rex war
* Oedipus at Colonus * Cassandra
* Antigone - Oracle (must be a virgin)
Medias Res: begin at the middle - Mistress of Agamemnon

Clytemnestra
OEDIPUS REX - Agamemnon’s wife
Thebes - Aegisthus (lover)
* Kingdom of Queen Jocasta and - Killed Agamemnon and
King Lauis Cassandra
* Oracle with a prophecy - Because Agamemnon
- Their child (Oedipus) will kill the sacrificed one of their
king and marry the queen daughters for the wind to be
favorable
Corinth
* Where shepherd brought Euripides
wounded baby Electra
* King Polybus and Queen * Daughter of Agamemnon and
Merope/Periboea Clytemnestra
* Adopted Oedipus
* Killed Clytemnestra and
Aegisthus
* Love for her father (Electra
Complex)
Medea
* First play wherein character was MEDIEVAL AGE
not Greek Emperor Constantine
* Orient (from Asia)  Moved the Roman Empire
* Jason from West to East
 Greek  The Roman Empire was from
 Travelled to Asia Italy to Constantinople:
 Seduced and married Istanbul
Medea
* Creon Byzantine Period
 King of Greece  Artists were unknown
 Asked Jason to marry his  Beginning of Icons
niece  Theme: Remove the icons
 Jason remarried from the “realism” of the world
* Medea killed everyone and remove the mundance
Even her own children things
To save them from the misery of  NO round or free standing
living without a father sculptures
* Medea was sentenced to death
Saved by the gods (Intervention) Renaissance Period
Deux ex machine 1. Space
* god of the machine 2. Color
* chariot from heaven 3. Detail
 Rafael, Michaelangelo,
Roman Plays Leonardo, Donatello
 Seneca  Donatello is a sculptor
 Actors were slaves  Rafael – back to Pagan
 Violet beliefs (back to classical
 Emperors used plays for period)
their entertainment
Art Works
1. School of Athens
 Plato and Aristotle
 Rafael
2. Madonna on the Rocks
 Leonardo
3. Mona Lisa
 Leonardo
4. Madonna and Child
 Rafael