Art History & Theory class - 21/05/2019

Art History

Week 11 (7 May) 
-Affected by changes in society reading gamer A. the stone book. 
Note on context: Marxist influence on the Communal of 1871 Paris. 

-Essay selection and planning. (Due date:18th of June) 
*'primitivism' and Modern art. What relationships can we find. 
    -Cover sheet needed 
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Struggle: Netflix. Leonardo DiCaprio and his father made a film based on a polish artist. 
  
Week 12 

Sister Wendy: Impressions of light. 
Paris 1870 
Manet, Upper class gentlemen. 
Olympia: Depicts a prostitute laying on a mattress accompanied with a black servant. At the far side a black cat was shown. 

later the group of impressionist appear.Starting to paint outside, changing how an easel construct.  snapshot of a moment.  

Painting: Impression sunlight 

Manet, saw something that nobody is able to see. The colour, lighting, how wonderful he was able to combine everything. 

Painting: The Orangeria . 
The exhibition space makes the audience feels the moment of dream and beautiful world. 

Renoir 
Painting: Colours were pretty and sweet. he was capturing scene of daily life. The painting shows renior personality was still young. 

Mary Cassette

Degas, commented on Cassette's painting, saying she paints too well to become a women.    

Painting: Ballet Dancer. He was obsess with the black stage, the behind the scene footage. Body language was highlighted rather than the personality. Telling the statemen of the body, was it tired or enjoying. 

Post impressionist. 
Dutch, created a new way of painting. A technical and systematic way, that is the Pointillism. It is the principle and scientific analysis of a painting beautiful. He was Georges Seurat.   
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Paul Gauguin 
His love towards painting made him leave his family to seek for his impression across the pacific seas. 
Spirit of the Dead Watching

Vincent Van Gogh
Return to northern France with the help of his brother, Theo. 
He was a difficult person to deal with, then he turn to painting to release his energy. 

A painting of a Church, there is no door. The movement of the church lifted the building up. after a while painting the church, he killed himself in the corn field. 

He felt his life was such a failure, even killing himself was consider a failure. 

Homework: A New Pair of Eyes: sister wendy's story of painting, episode 9.  

Art theory 
4th June: critique two draft (For final assessment) 
11th June (blog due) 

Ontology: 
  1. 1.
    the branch of metaphysics dealing with the nature of being.
  2. 2.
    a set of concepts and categories in a subject area or domain that shows their properties and the relations between them.

Annotation: Notes
-Informal way to communicate with the author.
* annotated bibliography
an example. 
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Irit Rogoff: Looking Away 

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