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Art!

What makes it great?

Sharayu Ghurye
5.12.2022
Goethe Zentrum , Hyderabad
 Do you sketch or paint? Why*not?
 Why do kids have to paint or draw in
school?
 What do you like in a painting?
Please sketch or paint Apples!

 Stick them up next to each other on the board!


With an Apple I will astonish Paris!

 Still Life with Apples 1878


Paul Cezzane
Great Art

 Lots of good Art is produced ever year


 Great Art manages to satisfy the viewer at a deeper
level
 Timeless
Art only for intellectuals?
 Beginning of the 14th Century, for people who could
not read, but who could recognize and have empathy
with stories told visually
 Do you know any such examples?
Expression
Gesture
Giotto di Bondone c.1304 -13

 Agony
Cruxifixion
Mathis Grünewald
Isenheim Alterpiece 1512 - 16
Brushstrokes
Vincent Van Gogh 1890
Lyrical
Composition No 6
Wassily Kandinsky 1913
Restlessness, Tension, Anticipation
The Tiger 1912
Franz Marc
Symbolism

Universal Anxiety of modern Humaniy


Memories
The Scream
Edvard Munch 1893
Symbolism

Dreams
Horror of War
Guernica 1937
Pablo Picasso
From an Interview with Picasso
 Gestapo Officer:  Picasso
 `No , you did´.
 You did that didn´t
you?  `
Beauty
Mystery
Mona Lisa 1503- 06
Leonardo da Vinci
Perfection
Self-Portrait at Thirteen 1484
Albrecht Dürer
Praying Hands
Albrecht Dürer
The Everyday
The Milkmaid 1658 – 1660
Johannes Vermeer
Capturing The Moment
Impression: Sunrise 1872
Claude Monet
Narrative
Mythological
The Birth of Venus
Sandro Boticelli c.1486
Status
Mr. And Mrs. Andrews c.1750
Thomas Gainsborough
The wanderer above the sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich c.1818
Metaphor for the unknown Future
Erotic
The Kisss
Gustav Klimt 1907 - 1908
Movement
Relationships
Fall 1963
Bridget Riley
Consumerism
Campbell’s Soup Cans 1962
Andy Warhol
Make your own Art !
Thank You

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