Notice for Exam

We will not have a terminology section on the final--only slide identification.
There will be a bonus section, though.

Here are some of the questions that could be included in that section...

What are the cross streets for the Guggenheim museum in New York?

What are Benday Dots?

What does, "Ceci n'est pas un pipe." mean?

Alexander Calder is famous for his moving, hanging sculptures that he called, "Mobiles."
What is the name he gave for his larger works that did not move?

Who are the two artists known for creating Cubism?

Where is Spiral Jetty located?

After his death, which artist's studio was moved from London to Dublin?

What is the translation of Avant Garde?

Marina Abramovic and ____?_____ started an intense love story in the 70s, performing art out of the van they lived in. When they felt the relationship had run its course, they decided to walk the Great Wall of China, each from one end, meeting for one last big hug in the middle and never seeing each other again.

Chapter 16- Contemporary Art

PATRICIA PICCININI, The Young Family, 2003
 

 KARA WALKER,
My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, 2008

 

AI WEI WEI, Sunflower Seeds, 2010

 

FOLKERT DE JONG, Human Pyramid, 2007
 

Janine Antoni, Saddle, 2000

 

Kiki Smith, Untitled ,1995

ARTURO HERRERA, Untitled, 1997-1998
 



MARK BRADFORD, Kryptonite, 2006
 



JOSIAH MCELHENY, Island Universe, 2008
 

MARK DION, Life Raft, Zurich ,1995

 

Chapter 15 - Modernism and Postmodernism in Europe and America, 1945 to 1980

JOSEPH KOSUTH, One and Three Chairs, 1965
 

ANDY WARHOL, Green Coca-Cola Bottles, 1962
 

JUDY CHICAGO, The Dinner Party, 1979

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1943–1959
 

ROY LICHTENSTEIN, Hopeless, 1963

JACKSON POLLOCK, Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)
 

JASPER JOHNS, Flag, 1954–1955
 

NAM JUNE PAIK, video still from Global Groove, 1973

FRANCIS BACON, Painting, 1946
 

MARK ROTHKO, No. 14, 1960

Claes Oldenburg, Giant Soft Fan, 1967

ROBERT SMITHSON, Spiral Jetty, 1970

Chapter 14 -Modernism in Europe and America, 1900-1945

FRIDA KAHLO, The Two Fridas, 1939
 



GRANT WOOD, American Gothic, 1930
 







PIET MONDRIAN, Composition with Red, Blue, and Yellow, 1930



FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), 1936–1939
 

MARCEL DUCHAMP, Fountain (second version),  1950 (original version produced 1917)
 

Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven, God, 1917

 

RENÉ MAGRITTE, The Treachery (or Perfidy) of Images, 1928–1929
 

SALVADOR DALÍ, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
 

HENRI MATISSE, Red Room (Harmony in Red), 1908–1909
 

EDWARD HOPPER, Nighthawks, 1942
 

VASSILY KANDINSKY, Improvisation 28 (second version), 1912
 

PABLO PICASSO, Guernica, 1937

Parameters for Research Paper

Due: November 21st

Five Pages double spaced

Five sources—at least two books.

Bibliography.

What is a Research Paper?   It is a thesis driven exploration of thoughtful reading on a particular subject.  The reading material may come from several sources.


What is the purpose of a research paper?  The purpose is to find and compile data, to participate in an exploration of the data, to make original observations, to show relationships between data, and to make evaluations on a subject.   Where do I begin?  Start with your primary sources.  These sources may include experiments, surveys, or interviews; notes form field research; works of art or other objects you examine; works of literature; eyewitness accounts; and historical documents.   So I'm reading the texts. What do I do now?  Begin to form your thesis; that is, take a position or stand.  It is the reason for writing the paper, the organizing idea.  You may wish to explain, argue, or justify.   What do I do next?  Research additional sources, to help support your thesis.  Look in books, magazines or journal articles, newspapers, online journals and web sites.  Locate facts or ideas which help explain, clarify, add additional information or evidence to your main point.  Make sure you understand the criteria for substantiating the authenticity of web site content.  An .edu site is a good place to start.   How should the paper be formatted?  MLA.  This style gives specific directions so that you may acknowledge each idea referenced.  Additionally, the documentation guidelines will tell you how to reference each borrowed idea in the body of your paper, and how to prepare the final page, the Works Cited or Bibliography page.    How do I cite my additional sources?  There are three basic ways of citing other authors' material:  you may use a direct quote, a paraphrase (rephrase someone else's words), or a summary.  Whether precisely stated, reworded or summarized, an author's words must be acknowledged as your source.  Remember, borrowing the ideas of others without acknowledgment is plagiarism.    Do I write in first, second or third person?  Generally, a research paper is written in third person; however, some projects may require a first or second person style.     A final point:  You are not locked into your original thesis.  As you collect information and, even during the process of writing the paper, you may discover new knowledge that will modify or alter your original thesis; it's okay to change it.

Exquisite Corpse activity

Exquisite corpse, also known as exquisite cadaver (from the original French term cadavre exquis) or rotating corpse, is a method by which a collection of words or images is collectively assembled. Each collaborator adds to a composition in sequence after being allowed to see only the end of what the previous person contributed.

The technique was invented by Surrealists and is similar to an old parlour game called Consequenes in which players write in turn on a sheet of paper, fold it to conceal part of the writing, and then pass it to the next player for a further contribution. Surrealism principal founder André Breton reported that it started in fun, but became playful and eventually enriching.

Later the game was adapted to drawing and collage, producing a result similar to children's books in which the pages were cut into thirds, the top third pages showing the head of a person or animal, the middle third the torso, and the bottom third the legs, with children having the ability to "mix and match" by turning pages. The game has also been played with the usual orientation of foldings and four or fewer people, and there have been examples with the game played with only two people and the paper being folded widthwise and breadthwise, resulting in quarters. It has been played by mailing a drawing or collage—in progressive stages of completion—to the players, and this variation is known as "Exquisite Corpse by mail".

The name is derived from a phrase that resulted when Surrealists first played the game, "Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau." ("The exquisite corpse shall drink the new wine.")^[ André Breton writes that the game developed at the residence of friends in an old house at 54 rue du Chateau (no longer existing). In the beginning were Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, Benjamin Péret, Pierre Reverdy, and André Breton. Other participants probably included Max Morise, Joan Miró, Man Ray, Simone Collinet, Tristan Tzara, Georges Hugnet, René Char, Paul, and Nusch Éluard.
Henry Miller often partook of the game to pass time in French cafés during the 1930s.

Cancelled Field Trip

Hello All,

    I just wanted to remind you that the field trip for tomorrow is cancelled and we will meet in class for test review and to look at the beginning of the next chapter.

 

Let me know if you have any questions.

 

205-310-1783

 

Prf. Livingston

Extra Credit Possibilities

You may earn up to 30 extra credit points per week. This is a great opportunity to keep up or improve your grade. Here are some possibilities:

Note: I am adding one requirement for the extra credit option. Extra credit should not replace the regular assignments, so you will not be able to receive your extra credit points at the end of the session unless you have handed in all written assignments and taken all tests.

• Create a study guide on the course website for a given day’s class work. It can include class notes and/or supplementary materials from the web. (Let me know if you want to do this on a particular day. I will try to give an opportunity to everyone who wants to try this.) Up to 20 points. Score depends on thoroughness and accuracy.

• Create a page on the website on a topic, individual artist, or work of art that we have not covered in class. Up to 20 points. Score depends on thoroughness and accuracy.

• Create a photo essay on the website out of your own photographs. Include text that interprets art-related photographs that you have taken. Up to 20 points. Score depends on thoroughness and accuracy.
Examples:

Take pictures of architectural details in your neighborhood and research the names and origins or these architectural features.
Post photos from a trip you took (in or out of the Bay Area), and describe your first-person experience of the art or architecture.

• Write an additional paper that expands or deepens your knowledge of the subjects we are studying. Up to 30 points…10 points per beautifully written, thoughtful page.

• Create a work of art in response to the work of another artist. Include a statement that describes your creative process and your engagement with the other artist’s work.
Score depends on the substantiveness of your response to the artwork—on the evidence that you have learned something through this process, and not on an aesthetic judgment of your work. You may bring in the artwork itself or send.
Up to 25 points. 5 additional points for posting a page on the website about the work or for making a 5-minute presentation to the class.

• Keep a multi-media journal or scrapbook with creative responses to artworks you are studying. Include drawings, scribblings, magazine cuttings, printed out images, altered images, bits of art materials, questions, comments, emotions, whatever. Up to 5 points per substantive, thoughtful, energetic page.
Here are some examples of what an art history scrapbook or journal page might look like:
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If you have another idea for an extra credit project, let me know. I am open to ideas that further your learning or that of the class as a whole.

Chapter 13 Review

Chapter 13: Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism, 1870 to 1900

 

Preview: The period from 1870 to 1900 saw intense artistic experimentation and development, particularly in France. The Impressionists, a group that included Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Edgar Degas, Berthe Morisot and others, held their first group exhibition in 1874, showing many works that had been painted en plein air (outdoors) and that captured scenes of contemporary urban life. “Post-Impressionism” is term extended to artists such as Georges Seurat, Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, and Paul Cézenne, who developed beyond the sketch-like quality of Impressionism and explored the structure of painted form or the emotions wrought by color. French Symbolists, including Gustave Moreau, Odilon Redon, and Henri Rousseau, painted subjective scenes that transcended the everyday world and were often dreamlike and sensuous. The leading sculptor of this era was Auguste Rodin, who explored the representation of movement and energy in bronze and marble. Rodin often sculpted fragmented forms that had immense influence on later modern sculptors. Architectural developments in this period varied: the Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau movements opposed modern mass production and embraced natural forms; the Eiffel Tower’s exposed iron skeleton represented the possibilities for new architectural expressions; and in the U.S., Louis Sullivan integrated organic form and the metal frame to become a pioneer in skyscraper design.

 

Key Figures: Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Napoleon III, John Ruskin, Michel-Eugéne Chevreul,

Key Cultural Terms & Events: Salon, independent art exhibitions, modernism, Salon des Refusés, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in France, Japonisme, Aesthetic Movement, Pointillism, Divisionism, Art Nouveau

Key Art Terms:  local color, en plein air

 

Chapter 12 Review

Chapter 12: Romanticism, Realism, and Photography, 1800 to 1870

 

Preview: Napoleon Bonaparte was an important patron of the arts in France at the turn of the 19^th century, appointing the Neoclassicist Jacques-Louis David as First Painter of the Empire. But early in the 19^th century, Neoclassicism gave way to Romanticism as the dominant art form in Europe. Delacroix and Gericault became the leading Romantic painters in France, favoring exotic subject matter and employing bold, loose brushstrokes and vibrant color. In England, Germany, and America, Romantic landscape painters took on transcendental themes. Photography was invented simultaneously in France and England, and by the middle of the century it was a burgeoning new artistic and documentary medium. The American Civil War was one of the first major conflicts to be thoroughly documented in photographs. In the mid-19^th century, Realism emerged as the dominant painting style, with artists such as Gustave Courbet in France and Thomas Eakins rejecting revivalist styles and historical themes in favor of depicting the people and events of their own times. Edouard Manet’s shocking contemporary subject matter and nonillusionistic painting style established the terms of early Modern art.

 

Key Figures: Napoleon, Sir Edmund Burke

Key Cultural Terms & Events: transcendentalism, Romanticism, empiricism, positivism, Realism, Saint-Simonianism, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Neo-Gothic

Key Art Terms: lithography, Beaux-Arts style, daguerreotype, wet-plate photography