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Chapter 11 - Photography

Others

Still Life

Interior

Genre

Precursor of the Facebook food post

Historical

Portraits

Biblical

Self-Portrait

Portrait

Historical

Mythological

Portrait

"Scapes"

Seascape (Maritime)

Landscape

Cityscape

Types of Representational Paintings

"Scapes"

• Landscapes
• Cityscapes
• Seascapes (Maritime)

Portraits

• Self-portraits

Historical

• Mythological
• Biblical

Still Life

Interior

Representational Painting

Samples of Abstract Paintings

Claude Monet, La Promenade, 1875

Kandinsky, "Black Lines," 1913

Matisse, "Snow Flowers," 1951

Gorky, "Water of the Flowery Mill," 1944

Some Impressionists

Vincent Van Gogh, Blossoming

Almond Branch in a Glass, 1888

Noland, "April," 1960

Marc, "Stables," 1913

Edouard Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882

Louis, "Delta Kappa," 1960

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881

Rothko, "No. 13," 1958

Edgar Degas, Yellow Dancers (in the wings), 1874

Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day, 1877

Impressionist School

Rothko's "Earth Greens," 1955

• Intensity and restfulness
• Sensa in their primitive but powerful state of innocence
• Rest from practicality
• Vertical – strength
• Horizontal – stability
• Together – peace
• Green – heavy & quiet
• Red – warm cloud

1870-1905, Centered in Paris

Name from Monet's painting "Impression: Sunrise"

Subjects: everyday people and objects

Celebration of middle-class life

Goal: to record personal impressions of light

at different times of day

and on different surfaces -

water, grass, buildings, faces

“Situate the sensuous in objects and events”

• Recognizable things from everyday life anchor the painting in reality
• Past and future are implicated
• Subject matter is interpreted by form into content

Abstract Painting

Stylistic "Schools"

Pop Art

"revelation of mass-produced products"

Impressionism

"revealing the play of sunlight on color"

Style schools – not really schools, but groups of like-minded artists who influence each other

Suprematism/Constructivism

"portraying sensa in movement"

Stylistic Examples

"Techniques vary, art stays the same; it is a transposition of nature at once forceful and sensitive." – Claude Monet, 1840-1926

Post-Impressionism

"drawing out the solidity of things"

• Non-representational
• Subject matter is the sensuous (sensa) –

anything that stimulates our vision

• In abstract painting, sensa are freed –

they exist for their own sake

• "Presentational immediacy" –

freedom from considerations of past or future

Abstract paintings can heighten our sense of sight, which in turn may heighten our awareness

of the world around us –

God’s “ordinary” grace.

Surrealism

"expressing the subconscience"

Expressionism

"portraying strong emotion"

Dada

"poking fun at the absurdity of everything"

Cubism

"displaying 3-dimensional qualities"

The Sensuous

Sensa vs. sensual

Christians taught to distrust sensuality -- Puritan tradition a reaction to the excess of the Catholic Church

God made colors, textures, pigments, shapes, lines, forms – out of nothing!

Sensa

A "made-up" word used to describe anything that acts upon our senses - a color, a smell, a sound, a movement.

In painting: color, line, shape, texture, structure, space, light, shadow, volume, mass -- anything that stimulates our vision.

Clarity

“Cezanne’s form distorts reality in order to reveal reality.”

Stylistic "Schools" of the 20th Century

"All-at-Onceness"

In visual arts, the object -- painting, sculpture, photo, drawing, etc. -- holds still and stays ever the same.

Our eyes may follow any path we choose

We have freedom to stop and consider details, areas, or the entire structure for as long as is desired

Time for vision to focus, hold, and participate

Impressionism

Post-Impressionism

Expressionism

Cubism

Dada

Surrealism

Suprematism/Constructivism

Pop Art

Aspects of Painting

All-at-Onceness

Clarity

Sensa

The Sensuous

Abstract vs. Representational

Announcements

• Chapter 4 Discussion due Sunday
• Next week: Chapter 11

Participation Activity

Thought for the Day:

the Discipline of Noticing

Choose a painting and read the information on the back

Share:

• Name of painting and artist
• Why you chose it
• Something interesting you learned from the back

“If we want to live in grace, we must develop eyes that see. We must learn what might be called the discipline of noticing… The practice of noticing is a skill. It involves learning to pay attention to gifts that we otherwise take for granted. Stop for a moment and try it.

“The sight of a garden blooming in a riot of color, a cold glass of water on a hot afternoon, … the taste of your favorite food, a long conversation with a good friend. All ordinary, but all grace nonetheless. Train yourself to notice, to pay attention, to become absorbed in the grace of your Shepherd.”

~John C. Ortberg, Jr.

"Grace: an Invitation to a Way of Life"

“The breath you just took, the way your eyes are reading these words, the working of your mind to understand and learn – notice them. They are not accidents. Nor are they entitlements. They are gracious gifts. And what’s even more amazing is that their Giver is lovingly present with you even as you are experiencing them.

Types of Paintings

Final Thought:

"In pictures of God and the blessed Virgin painted on wood, God and the blessed Virgin are held in mind, yet the wood and the painting ascribe nothing to themselves, because they are just wood and paint; so the servant of God is a kind of painting, that is, a creature of God in which God is honored for the sake of his benefits. But he ought to ascribe nothing to himself, just like the wood or the painting, but should render honor and glory to God alone."

~St. Francis of Assisi

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