Dada Photomontage:"Broken Language"

HarmonIntroImpressionismPostImpressionism

April 19, 2015

HUA101

                                         Online Assignment #4

         Impressionism is a style of painting that originated in France about 1870. Paintings of casual contemporary subjects were executed outdoors using divided brush- strokes to capture the light and mood of a particular moment and the transitory effects of natural light and color. Impressionism art focused more on what the eyes see rather than what the mind knows, according to the lecture Harmon Intro Impressionism Post Impressionism. Certain impressionism art had something called open form or “cropping the image” which is a form whose exterior is irregular or broken, having a sense of growth, change or unresolved tension; from in a state of becoming or reaching out.

     This piece of impressionism artwork is called Melody of the Night by Leonid Afremov.

        Post-Impressionist believe in a free interpretation of nature, not to see things but to see through them to a significance in reality deeper than what superficial appearance gave according to the lecture. This period developed from about 1885 to 1900 in reaction to what these artists saw as the somewhat formless and aloof quality of Impressionist painting. This is also art created by French artists. These artists were considered “Beings of extraordinary insight, mysterious, visionary and fantastic. Post-impressionist used paint while other artist were using pencil, sketch, painting quickly and with a lot of rhythm.

      This piece of Post-Impressionism art is called Starry Fright by Vincent Van Gogh.

HarmonIntroRenaissanceBaroque; Museum visit

 April 6^th, 2015

HUA101

                                               Online Assignment #3

                The Renaissance, or Rebirth, is a period in Europe from the late fourteenth through the sixteenth centuries, which was characterized by a renewed interest in human centered classical art, literature, and learning. This was connected with humanism. Humanism was a cultural and intellectual movement during the renaissance, following the rediscovery of the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome etc. The philosophy of humanism, presented in the lecture while talking about the art Masaccio, was a legacy of the Greeks and Romans. It was a code of civil conduct and a theory of education. Renaissance art consisted of styles such as frontal poses with prominence, halos and uses of gold leaf which emphasizes flatness. It also highlights the prominent role of religious orders.

   This portrait is The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John the Baptist by Perino del Vaga. He was an Italian painter of the late renaissance. Vaga was born in Florence, Italy in 1501 and died in Rome, Italy in 1547. This rare work dates from the mid- 1520’s. Young Christ holds traditional symbols of a goldfinch which is symbolic of the resurrection and a cherry, signifying the “delights of the bless”. Young Saint John the Baptist who is the cousin of Christ, wore leopard skin was usually associated with the ancient god Bacchus. The pagan and Christian mirrors ideas prevalent

             The Baroque period was the seventeenth-century period in Europe characterized in the visual arts by dramatic light and shade, turbulent composition, and pronounced emotional expression. Some of the arts were of religious experience. The Greek mythology was that being nude was the highest form of beauty. The dramatic shade created an illusion of volume.

  This is Venus and Adonis by Peter Paul Rubens. Rubens was a Flemish Baroque painter who was born in Siegen Germany in 1577 and died in Antwerp, Belgium in 1640. This painting was dated back to about the mid 1630’s. Mistakenly hit by one of cupid’s arrows, Venus, the Goddess of love, fell in love with the handsome and strong hunter Adonis. With manly indifference to the goddesses’ charm and her warning of danger, Adonis hunted a wild bear and was gored to death. The story was well suited to decorate grand country houses, where the chase occupied noblemen indoors and out.