Humanities

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Humanities

• Visual Art

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What Is Visual Art?

• -Unlike the performing arts (music, drama and
  dance) visual art is generally produced without
  an audience.
• -The audience typically sees the work after it
  has been completed.
• Visual art is usually a finished product.

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What is it made of?

• -Visual art can be made from almost any type of
  material (medium/media).

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Medium paint

• The Blue Boat 1892.
• Winslow Homer
• Museum of Fine
• Arts, Boston
• watercolor on paper

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Medium paint

• Mona Lisa, 1503-05.
• Leonardo da Vinci
• The Louvre, Paris
• Oil on poplar

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Medium paint

• Separation of Light
• from Darkness, 1512.
• Michelangelo
• Sistine Chapel,
• Vatican.
• Fresco (paint
• in/on plaster)

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Medium drawing materials

• Saskia Asleep,
• c.1642.
• Rembrandt.
• British Museum,
• London.
• ink wash on paper

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Medium drawing materials

• Self Portrait, 1512.
• Leonardo da Vinci.
• Biblioteca Reale, Turin.
• red chalk on paper

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Medium sculpture

• Mother and Child, 1971.
• Elizabeth Catlett.
• Collection of Alan Swift
• walnut

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Medium sculpture

• The Three Soldiers,
• 1984.
• Frederick Hart.
• The Mall,
• Washington, D.C.
• bronze

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Medium sculpture

• Pieta, 1498-99.
• Michelangelo
• St. Peters Basilica,
• Vatican.

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Medium environmental art

• Spiral Jetty, 1970.
• Robert Smithson.
• Great Salt Lake, Utah
• basalt, sand

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Medium pottery

• Amphora, c. 520 b.c.
• The Andokides Painter.
• Munich, Germany.

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Medium found materials

• Bulls Head, 1943.
• Pablo Picasso.
• Galerie Louise
• Leiris, Paris.
• bicycle parts

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Medium photography

• Clearing Winter Storm, 1944.
• Ansel Adams.
• Yosemite National
• Park, California.

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Medium film

• Fantasia, 1940
• Walt Disney

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Medium architecture

• Flat Iron Building, 1902.
• Daniel Burnham,
• Frederick Dinkelburg
• New York, NY.

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Medium Performance art

• Coyote I Like America and America Likes Me.
  5/23-25 1974.
• Joseph Beuys. Performance at Rene Block
  Gallery, New York.

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So, what is art?

• Just about anything can become art.