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● a solid surface
○ 2 dimensional
○ flat
○ no actual depth
○ only with width and length: no actual depth
○ a solid: occupies space (in space)
■ doesnt have actual depth
● covered with colored forms
○ color is the most important element in painting
○ the most engaged sense is the sense of sight
■ context of time and space: Painting of the Babaylan
● whose arrangement is pleasing —> taking delight in beauty
○ always pleasurable
○ delight comes from our minds reading or seeing of the unity of the arrangement of the the parts which are arranged in unity
and harmony of f the execution
● unity of the form harmony of the parts
● perfection of execution
● “ A plane surface covered with colors arranged in a certain orrder” - Maurice Denis
> MATERIALS
● Oil
● Watercolor
● Acrylic
● Mixed
● Tempera
● Wax
> SUBJECTS: what is presented in the painitng, representation in painting which is is the form for abdtact
● Landscape
● Portraits
● Still Life
● Genre
○ everyday scennario and livelihood
● History
● Mythology
● Religion
● Mona Lisa:
○ Linear Perspective
○ representation of space realistic in paintings
○ representation of a landscape
● Madonna of the Carnation
○ organization of space
● Virgin of the Rocks
○ Foreground
○ Middle ground
○ Back ground
■ three spaces organzied in a flat surface
● Linear
○ Lines converge toward a vanishing point: illusion used to create depth and real space
○ objects diminish in size as they approach the vanishing point
■ one point linear perspective
■ two point linear perspective
■ multiple linear perspective
● Aerial
○ COLOR:
■ warm colors are placed in the foreground
■ cool colors (blue gray) are placed in the background (based on how we see color in reality
○ VALUE:
■ dark: foreground
■ light: background
○ TEXTURE:
■ foreground: detailed textures
■ background: hazy
● Realistic Space
● Flat
● How space is represented in a flat/ 2d space
> RAPHAEL: STANZA CYCLE
> LINE
1. To connect things belonging together and separate the ones that should be apart
2. To identify or distinguish - black and white distinguish the mourners from the happy brides, and the images of the Maddonna are known
by her blue coat and red dress
● The Rest on the Flight to Egypt: different intensities of blue are repeated: creates a sense of harmony
● 2 TENDENCIES
○ structure
○ naturalistic verisimilitude
● Genevra De Benci, 1478
○ Leonardo Da Vinci
○ Renaissance Style
○ 3D space through color
○ warm colors on the foreground
FOR MIDTERMS:
● Period of creativity:
○ inflow of profane art
○ the art of the period chose biblical themes reinforced with scientific methods and technical mastery
● Revival of the classical form or Greek art in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture
● Age of Discovery:
○ this cause economic growth
○ artisits and scientists pursue the arts without worrying financially
● stylistic traits
● Leonardo Da Vinci
○ The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
○ Madonna of the Carnation
■ perspective
■ sense of real space
○ The Baptism of Christ (by Verocchio and Leonardo da Vinci)
○ also known for his drawings
● Raphael
○ Stanza Della Segnatura Cycle
■ Frescoes in relation to other frescoes
■ PLACEMENT OF FRESCOES: respresents the practice and understanding of cardinal virtues and liberal arts
■ 4 Frescoes: Jurisprudence, Poetry, Philosophy, Theology —> pathway to God
■ 2 Themes: Liberal Arts and Cardinal Virtues: combined because these are important pathways by which man can
be truly human - principal of humanism, man becomes the measure of all things
○ Disputation of the Most Holy Sacrament
■ Fresco na katapat ng School of Athens
■ corresponds to Theology
■ Upper portion: Holy Trinity with Mary and John the Baptist
■ Besides: Patriarchs and apostles —> triumphant church is highlighted
○ School of Athens
■ Plato and Aristotle in the middle
○ The Wedding of the Virgin
○ The Madonna of the Meadow
■ Pyramidal composition of Leonardo
○ The Madonna of the Pinks
○ The Coronation of the Virgin
○ The Mond Crucifixion
○ Transfiguration
● Michelangelo
○ Sistine Chapel Frescoes
■ Representation of the history of salvation
■ CEILING AND WALL FRESCO
■ The Last Judgement
■ most important fresco in the chapel
■ ORGANIZATION OF THE ICONOGRAPHIC PROGRAM OF THE CEILING
■ 9 panels: history of salvation: center of the fresco
■ from creation
■ (around the 9 panels) alternating figures of prophets and civils: prophets are considered to see the
future
■ Middle Panel: God the Father giving life to Adam who is earthborn
■ (in between the panels) 8 spangles: ancestors of Christ
■ Pendentives: on the four corners
● Boticelli: The Birth of Venus
● charcovva
● da vinci
● intoretto
> THE PERIOD OF THE RENAISSANCE
> RAPHAEL
> BAROQUE:
> DYNAMIC: the descendant of Italian Renaissance painting (which focused on overall composition)
> FULL: descendant of Low Countries Renaissance painting (which focused on realistically capturing the immediate physical world)
● classical adherance to certain rules of proportion and sobriety uncharactersitic of the Baroque as it was practiced in most of the rest of
Europe during the same period
● ARTISTS
○ Nicolas Poissin: rational control, proportion, Roman classicism
○ Georges de La Tour
● REMBRANDT (FLEMISH)
○ The Return of the Prodigal Son
■ biblical narratives - dramatic
■ contemplate - lighting
■ doctrine of faith: biblical representation of a biblical system
■ IMPORTANT ELEMENT: VALUE: geroscuro
■ Sense of quiet, forgiveness
■ father and the son embrace
■
○ The Jewish Bride
● CARRAVAJIO (ITALIAN)
● NICOLAS POUSSIN (FRENCH)
○ A Dance to the Music of Time
● VERMEER (FLEMISH)
○ The Milkmaid
○ The Art of Painting
○ Girl with a pearl earring
○ The View of Delft
● CORTONA
○ Triumph of Divine Providence
○ Apotheosis of the Franciscan Order
● ANDREA POZZO
○ Triumph and Apotheosis of St. Ignatius de Loya
● ACOPO TINTORETTO
○ Last Supper
● MODERN STYLES
○ CLAUDE MONET: Realism
■ Sunrise
○ EDOUARD MANET: Realism
■ Luncheon at the Grass
1. MODERN
1. ordinary French woman in the nude
2. ACADEMIC
1. Space: use of perspective - realistic space (middle ground: woman bathing, body of water,
boat)
1. vanishing point
2. arrangement of color: 3Dimensional space
3. classical balance of the Renaissance: pyramidical composition
○ WILLIAM TURNER
○ VINCENT VAN GOGH
■ style: expressionistic
■ art to express himself through colors and violent strokes
>> SCULPTURE
● CONTENT
○ the form of sculpture as Fine Art
○ the end or final purpose of sculpture as fine art is beauty
○ Sculpture as fine art has a value ot’s value os redemptiveFORM
○ transcendental quality of the form: Benedict XVI
1. Carving
1. subtractive
2. Modelling
1. additive
2. start with a material then build on it
3. Casting
1. involves creating a mold
2. melting and pouring of molten material onto the mold
3. breaking of the mold to reveal the form
4. Assemblage
● PRINCIPLES
○ Orientation
■ frontal, multi-focal
○ Proportion
○ Scale
■ how part influences another part
■ size of one object in relation to another
○ Articulation
■ how the parts are jointed or disconnected
○ Balance
○ Movement
● THREE MEN WALKING II
● KORE
○ Style: Kore
● ELEMENTS & PRINCIPLES OF DESIGN (SEE PIC)
● ELEMENTS
○ 2 PRINCIPLE ELEMENTS IN ADDITION TO MOVEMENT
1. MASS OR VOLUME:
1. sculpture’s bulk
2. the solid bit contained within its surfaces
3. solidity of a sculpture
1. OVAL WITH POINTS
1. Artist: Henry Moore
1. important element: the bulk / mass
2. THREE MEN WALKING II
1. Artist: Alberto Giacometti
2. Style: Modern
4. Articulation
1. the way the parts are jointed
2. SPACE
1. the air around a solid sculpture
1. ECSTASY OF ST THERESA
1. Artist: Gianlorenzo Bernini
2. Style: Baroque
3. MOVEMENT
1. motion
1. APOLLO AND DAPHNE
1. Artist: Gian Lorenzo Bernini
2. Medium: Marble
3. Style: Baroque
2. BIRD IN FLIGHT
1. Artist: Constantin Brancusi
2. Medium: Marble
3. 1923
3. DAVID
1. Artist: Michaelangelo
2. Style: High Renaissance
2. activity
3. shifts
4. rhythm
● GILSON’S BOOK
○ Page 82: Statuary
■ beauty of the form in David is already in the medium (marble)
● SCALE
○ the size of a sculpture
● PROPORTION
○ classical canon of proportion (the Canon) by Polykleitos of Argos
○ relation of one part to another figure
1. Kore or Korai: female figure in peoplos or chios
1. ARCHAIC STYLE
1. Kouros or Kouri: nude made figure
1. one leg steps forward
2. bulging eyes
3. archaic smile
4. clecned fists
5. vertical, rigid stance
6. closed form
7. stylized hair
● no extending arms or legs
● wears a gown (chios: more fluid more folds with lines more fluid or peplos: simpler)
● in the round but fronta;
● important element: orientation, where it can be accessed from
1. CLASSICAL OR HELLENIC STYLE
● Polyclitus and His Canon of Proportion
○ Emphasis on the scale and proportion
○ Canon of proportion to present the human figure —> POLYKLEITOS —> IN THE EXAM
■ length of the body should be 8x the size of the head
○ relaxed and weight bearing group of muscles
○ principle of balance
○ clarity, balance, completeness
○ WORKS OF POLYCLITUS
1. Spear-bearer
2. Discuss-bearer
3. Athlete Tying on a Fillet
1. balance between the relaxed muscle group and the engaged muscle group
● OTHER SCULPTURES
1. Belvedere Apollo
■ contrapposto position
■ draperies
■ stoic expression natural stance
■ open form
1. Myron: Discobolus Thrower
2. Phidias Elgin Marble, East Pediment
3. Lysippus: Scrapper
4. Alexandros of Antioch: Venus de Milo (classical)
5. Roman Copy, Marble Statue of a Wounded
3.HELENISTIC STYLE
4.ROMAN SCULPTURE
> SCULPTURES
1. PIETA
1.Artist: Michealangelo
2.Style: High Renaissance
1. Our Lady with Jesus Christ
1. deep sense of sorrow at the same time at peace
2. tranquility and peace is highlighted as if Mary accepted the fate of her son
2. distorted scale and proportion
1. head of Mary is too small compared to the body
2. triangular shape of the figure
1. FORM: figure is stable: creates a good support for the figure of Christ
3. Made of marble
4. Classical Balance
3. Unknown Artist
1. Normal scale and proportionate figure
1. Agitating and painful to look at
2. brutal representation of the death of Jesus
3. suffering of Mary is felt
2. ECSTASY OF SAINT THERESA
1. Artist : Bernini
2. Style: Baroque
3. Space: impact on the aesthetic of the sculpture
1. altar
2. space of worship
3. DAVID
4. WATER STONE
1. Artist: Isamu Noguchi
2. Style:
3. Year: 1986
4. element of time & sound