ARTIST AND ARTISAN

TERMS TO PONDER

ARTIST- IS DEDICATED ARTISAN- IS ESSENTIALLY

ONLY TO THE A MANUAL WORKER WHO
CREATIVE SIDE, MAKES ITEMS WITH HIS
MAKING VISUALLY OR HER HANDS, AND WHO
PLEASING WORK ONLY THROUGH SKILL,
FOR THE ENJOYMENT EXPERIENCE AND TALENT
CAN CREATE THINGS OF
AND APPRECIATION OF
GREAT BEAUTY AS WELL
THE VIEWER WITH NO
AS BEING FUNCTIONAL.
FUNCTIONAL VALUE
 PRELIMINARIES

ARTIST IS A PERSON WHO

PERFORMS ALL FORMS OF
CREATIVE ARTS.
KNOWN ARTISTS
VINCENT VAN GOGH (1853-1890)

DUTCH POST-
IMPRESSIONIST PAINTER
WHO IS AMONG THE MOST
FAMOUS AND INFLUENTIAL
FIGURES IN THE HISTORY
OF WESTERN ART.
IMPRESSIONISM DEVELOPED IN FRANCE IN THE NINETEENTH
CENTURY AND IS BASED ON THE PRACTICE OF PAINTING OUT OF
DOORS AND SPONTANEOUSLY 'ON THE SPOT' RATHER THAN IN A
STUDIO FROM SKETCHES. MAIN IMPRESSIONIST SUBJECTS WERE
LANDSCAPES AND SCENES OF EVERYDAY LIFE.
 LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

VAN GOGH WAS BORN ON HE WAS DEEPLY

MARCH 30, 1853, TO UPPER RELIGIOUS AS A
YOUNGER MAN AND
MIDDLE CLASS PARENTS.
ASPIRED TO BE A
HE SPENT HIS EARLY PASTOR, LIKE HIS
ADULTHOOD WORKING FOR FATHER. HE BECAME A
A FIRM OF ART DEALERS TEACHER IN ENGLAND
BEFORE TRAVELING TO THE AND THEN HE WORKED
HAGUE, LONDON AND AS A MISSIONARY IN A
PARIS. MINING REGION IN
BELGIUM
 LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

HE SPENT TIME IN ON MAY 9, 1889,

PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITALS AND HE ASKED TO BE
SWUNG BETWEEN PERIODS OF ADMITTED TO
INERTIA, DEPRESSION AND THE ASYLUM AT
INCREDIBLY CONCENTRATED SAINT-RÉMY-DE
ARTISTIC ACTIVITY. HIS WORK PROVENCE, A
REFLECTED THE INTENSE HOSPITAL FOR
COLOURS AND STRONG LIGHT THE MENTALLY
OF THE COUNTRYSIDE ILL.
AROUND HIM.
 LIFE OF VINCENT VAN GOGH

ON JULY 27, 1890, HE

SHOT HIMSELF IN A
LONELY FIELD AND
DIED, TWO DAYS LATER,
IN THE MORNING OF
JULY 29, 1890.
VINCENT VAN GOGH WORK

"THE STARRY
NIGHT"
THE STARY NIGHT

METHOD: OIL
PAINTING IMPASTO
(PAINT IS LAID ON
AN AREA OF THE
SURFACE THICKLY)
THE STARY NIGHT

THE STARRY NIGHT IS BASED ON

VAN GOGH’S DIRECT
OBSERVATIONS AS WELL AS HIS
IMAGINATION, MEMORIES, AND
EMOTIONS. THE COMBINATION OF
VISUAL CONTRASTS WAS
GENERATED BY AN ARTIST WHO
FOUND BEAUTY AND INTEREST IN
THE NIGHT, WHICH, FOR HIM, WAS
“MUCH MORE ALIVE AND RICHLY
COLORED THAN THE DAY.
LEONARDO DA VINCE (1452-1519)

ITALIAN
PAINTER,
DRAFTSMAN,
SCULPTOR,
ARCHITECT, AND
ENGINEER
 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S BIOGRAPHY

DA VINCI RECEIVED NO
DA VINCI WAS BORN IN FORMAL EDUCATION
ANCHIANO, TUSCANY BEYOND BASIC READING,
(NOW ITALY), IN 1452, WRITING AND MATH, BUT
HIS FATHER APPRECIATED
DA VINCI’S PARENTS HIS ARTISTIC TALENT AND
WEREN’T MARRIED, AND HIS APPRENTICED HIM AT
MOTHER, CATERINA, A AROUND AGE 15 TO THE
PEASANT, WED ANOTHER NOTED SCULPTOR AND
MAN WHILE DA VINCI WAS PAINTER ANDREA DEL
VERY YOUNG AND BEGAN A VERROCCHIO OF
NEW FAMILY. FLORENCE.
 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S BIOGRAPHY

DA VINCI DIED AT
CLOUX (NOW CLOS-
LUCÉ) IN 1519 AT
AGE 67. HE WAS
BURIED NEARBY IN
THE PALACE
CHURCH OF SAINT-
FLORENTIN.
 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S WORK

THE LAST
SUPPER
 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S WORK

METHOD: TEMPERA
(A PERMANENT, FAST-DRYING
PAINTING MEDIUM
CONSISTING OF PIGMENTS
MIXED WITH A WATER-
SOLUBLE BINDER MEDIUM,
USUALLY GLUTINOUS
MATERIAL SUCH AS EGG
YOLK)
 LEONARDO DA VINCI’S WORK

THE LAST SUPPER IS ONE OF

THE GREATEST
MASTERPIECES OF THE
RENAISSANCE BY ONE OF ITS
GREATEST MASTERS,
LEONARDO DA VINCI’S THE
LAST SUPPER IS A COMPLEX
DEPICTION OF THIS ICONIC
BIBLICAL SUBJECT.

THE PAINTING REPRESENTS THE SCENE OF THE LAST SUPPER OF

JESUS WITH HIS APOSTLES, AS IT IS TOLD IN THE GOSPEL OF
JOHN, 13:21
MICHELANGELO (1475-1564)

WAS AN ITALIAN
SCULPTOR,
PAINTER,
ARCHITECT AND
POET
 MICHELANGELO’S LIFE

BORN: MARCH 6, 1475 -

CAPRESE, AREZZO, FLORENCE
DIED: FEBRUARY 18, 1564 - ROME

MICHELANGELO WAS
MICHELANGELO DI A DEVOUT CATHOLIC
WHOSE FAITH
LODOVICO DEEPENED AT THE
BUONARROTI SIMONI END OF HIS LIFE.
MICHELANGELO’S WORK

THE
CREATION
OF ADAM
MICHELANGELO’S WORK

TECHNIQUE: FRESCO-
SECCO

MATERIALS: PAINT
PLASTER
FRESCO-SECCO IS A PROCESS THAT
DISPENSES WITH THE COMPLEX
PREPARATION OF THE WALL WITH
WET PLASTER.
MICHELANGELO’S WORK

THE CREATION OF ADAM

IS A FRESCO PAINTING
BY ITALIAN ARTIST
MICHELANGELO, WHICH
FORMS PART OF THE
SISTINE CHAPEL'S
CEILING, PAINTED C.
1508–1512.
MICHELANGELO’S WORK

IT ILLUSTRATES THE
BIBLICAL CREATION
NARRATIVE FROM THE
BOOK OF GENESIS IN
WHICH GOD GIVES LIFE
TO ADAM, THE FIRST
MAN.
 ARTISAN
AN ARTISAN IS ABLE TO MOST OF THEM ADD
PRODUCE SOMETHING AESTHETIC VALUE
TO THE OBJECTS
THAT HAS A
THAT THEY CREATE.
FUNCTIONAL VALUE; THIS TRANSCENDS
ALTHOUGH IT SHOULD THE OBJECT FROM A
NOT BE LIMITED TO ITS MERE OBJECT OF
USE VALUE ALONE. UTILITY.
 CHARACTERISTICS
OF
ARTIST AND ARTISAN
 ARTISTIC VALUE

ARTIST ARTISAN
THE OBJECT THE OBJECT
HAS A CLEAR HAS AN
ARTISTIC VALUE ARTISTIC VALUE.
 FUNCTIONAL VALUE

ARTIST ARTISAN
THE OBJECT THE OBJECT
HAS NO HAS A
FUNCTIONAL FUNCTIONAL
VALUE. VALUE.
 OBJECT

ARTIST ARTISAN
THE OBJECT HAS A THE OBJECT THOUGH
LOT OF AESTHETIC UTILITARIAN HAS
VALUE AND IS CERTAIN AESTHETIC
APPRECIATED FOR ATTRIBUTES TO IT.
THIS QUALITY AS IT
PLEASES THE
 QUIZ

1.Why are most famous artists

male?
2. Can anybody be an artist? Why
or why not?
3. Is everything made by famous
artists automatically considered
as an art?