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2000 BCE
Neolithic Jade
As the early forebears picked up bamboo, wood, stones, and bones, turning them into tools, they found that a few stones were not only hard and enduring, but also beautiful and smooth. Amazing tools made of this fine material helped them as if by magic, while its radiating sheen looked just like the springtime sunshine which woke the world back to life. They figured that the beautiful stone was also imbued with the life-catalyzing jingqi and gave it an elegant name yu, i.e. jade. -
1400 BCE
Language perspective from the public
The monks and the priest is the only people that had access to the books and knew how to read. Literacy wasn't available also in this age. Everything you know about science, spirituality was something given by mankind. - People wasn’t given space to learn things themselves. 4-5 bibles floating around the villages. Bibles before 1400 was produced by hand (limits the speed of production) -
1127 BCE
Ding Ware Baby Pillow in White Glaze
The facial expression and details on the clothing were carved. The base is flat, with a round hole cut into the left and right sides to allow air to escape during the firing process. The glaze is ivory white with a hint of yellow and gray. As Ding ware was fired using charcoal as fuel, it had to be fired in an oxidizing atmosphere, giving the white glaze this yellowish hue. The glaze has run on several parts of the base, an effect described by literati as “tear marks.” -
990 BCE
Moveable types
Instead of having 1 block, you will have multiple letters that can be moved around to create different text.
Bi Sheng (990-1051) wrote a book called Northern Song Dynasty.
Famous text called JIKJI---- metal type (1377) Korea -
544 BCE
Chinese Seals
The first record of a seal in China is from 544 BC. Actual bronze seals survive from the 5th century BC, and the practice of sealing must be some centuries older. The emblematic characters cast on Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) bronze vessels imply the use of something like a seal for impressing on the mold. The royal seal and other seals of high office were termed xi; other seals of rank and appointment were yin. -
Period: 350 BCE to
Art history
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220 BCE
Wood Block Printing in China
the earliest printing ways was started with wood block prints (220AD)
- used for money and textile design -
207 BCE
Qin and Han Bronzes
With the advent of great centralized empires Qin and Han, bronzes turned from august ritual vessels to common daily wares. -
220
Wood Block Printing
Wood Block Printing used for money and textile design. Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. -
960
Song Dynasty Ceramics
Chinese ceramics of the Song Dynasty (960-1279) constitute perhaps the foremost expression of ceramic art, not only in China but in the entire world. During the Song period, a unity of the essential components fundamental to the art: vessel shape, potting techniques, glaze, decoration, firing processes, and aesthetic theory were all combined in a high standard of excellence. -
1127
Ru Ware Narcissus Basin with Light Bluish-green Glaze
This oval dish has deep, slightly flaring sides, a flat base, and four cloud-shaped feet. The body is very thin on the sides, becoming slightly thicker on the base and feet. It is covered all over in a light blue, highly lustrous glaze, which shows a hint of green at the base: the glaze is slightly thinner at the rim and the corners. The lustrous, elegantly aesthetic, and harmonious effect created by the artifact was much sought after during the Song dynasty. -
Apr 28, 1323
Poem on the Hall of Pines and Wind
This is one of the greatest surviving masterpieces by the Northern Song calligrapher Huang Tingjian (1045–1105). He wrote the poem in 1102 as he traveled through Wuchang and calligraphed it as a handscroll probably afterwards. In the Southern Song, the scroll passed through the collection of the prime minister Jia Sidao (賈似道, 1213–1275) and then came into the possession of Princess Xiangge Ciji (祥哥剌吉, ca. 1283–1331) in the Yuan dynasty. -
1388
Returning Late from a Spring Outing
Dai Jin (1388-1462)
In the lower right corner of this painting is a wall surrounding a residence blocked from our view. The greenery and peach blossoms in the scene indicate the season as spring. Judging from the darkness, it appears to be late in the day. He was not constrained by any particular style as he developed his own mode of painting. His daring yet mature brushwork yielded a variety of ink effects. Spirited and free, but not uncontrolled, this is a classic example of Dai Jin’s style. -
1397
Temple of the Golden Pavilion
Kinkaku-ji (金閣寺, literally "Temple of the Golden Pavilion")
one of the most popular buildings in Japan. It is designated as a National Special Historic Site and a National Special Landscape, and it is one of 17 locations making up the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto which are World Heritage Sites. -
1415
Linear Perspective
Architect Fillipo Brunelleschi (1377-1446) : Created a famous image and used a mirror to see the perspective lining with lenses and a mirror reflection.
The three types of linear perspective--one, two, and three-point perspective--are shown in the diagram below. -
1434
Iconography, Sacred Space, Ritual, and CONTROVERSY
Emerald Buddha RESEARCH HIM. LOCATED Thailand. Made in approx.. 1434. -
1434
Monywa Buddhas
Burma are 90meters long and 30meters high. Can enter the body b/c it’s a building. Reclining in 1991 stand in 2008. -
1434
Emerald Buddha
The figure is 19 inches wide at the lap, and 26 inches high.The Buddha is in a seated position, with the right leg resting on the left one, a style that suggest it might have been carved in the late Chiangsaen or Chiangmai school, not much earlier than the fifteenth century A.D. However, the meditation pose of the statue was not popular in Thailand but looks very much like some of the Buddha images of Southern India and Sri Lanka, which led some to suggest an origin in India or Sri Lanka. -
1440
Johannes Gutenberg's Printing Press
Things are becoming more accessible. Gutenberg created a printed bible in 1454. -
1512
Antonio Gaudí
A modern artist. Gaudí is an Architect from Spain. Most of Antonio's work is located in Barcelona. Gaudí has a masterpiece that was very known for. It's names Magnum Opus. -
1567
Art History+ Food
Peiter Brugal the Elder created a painting "The Peasant Wedding". Peiter is an filmiest renaissance painter. This painting shows some of the traditional flemish wedding. -
Qing Dynasty Chinese Ceramics
During the Qing dynasty(1636-1912), potters began using bright colors to adorn plates and vases with meticulously painted scenes. Potters continued developing five-colored ware by applying a variety of pigments to floral, landscape, and figurative scenes – a style which was (and is) highly sought-after in the West. -
Joseph Mallord William Turner
English Romantic Painter, printmaker, and watercolourist. The painting I love that Turner created was the Arundel Castle on the river Arun. This painting was a watercolour on paper. The rainbow was placed in this picture to defuse the anger and hazy emotions that people represented. This painting was inspired by nature. -
Photography ---drawing in light
When using the machine, you need light sensitive materials. Henrey Fox (1800-1877) figured out paper transparency of paper and images. Calotypes or Talbotypes. (1826) moves into the 20th century. Beginning of photography was the beginning of truth in images.- The first known photograph (1826-1827) ”Hiliography” Jospeph Nicéphore. -
Thomas Cole
Is the father of the Hudson River school painters. "The Savage State was really big back in 1833. Cole liked artist who focused on the wildness of nature. Cole started a series of the wild and native people. -
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Kandinsky's creation of abstract work followed a long period of development and maturation of intense thought based on his artistic experiences. He called this devotion to inner beauty, fervor of spirit and spiritual desire inner necessity, it was a central aspect of his art. -
Lithography developed as an artistic medium
At first, lithography only had limited effect on printmaking due to the limitation of technology. As time went by, the technical difficulties had been resolved and lithography was adopted by artists during the 1820s. In 1862, people tried to initiate lithographic portfolio and the revival began during the 1870s, especially with in France with Artists such as Odilon Redon.
<The smiling spider>, 1887, Lithography -
Constantin Brâncuši
A roman sculptor and photographer in which he started his career in Franće. -
Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935)
A Russian painter and art theoretician. A pioneer of geometric abstract art and the originator of the avant-garde Supermatist movement. He believed that the central task of an artist was that of rendering spiritual feeling. In 1915, Malevich laid down the foundations of Suprematism when he published his manifesto, FROM CUBISM TO SUPREMATISM. He exhibited his first BLACK SQUARE at the Last Futurist Exhibition 0,10 in Petrograd in 1915. He was led to abstractions by aerial landscapes. -
The Basket of Apples
Art is a harmony running parallel to nature. Paul Cezanne famous artist painted these apples. A Big meditation of reality painting -
Alberto Giacometti
A Swiss sculptor, painter, draughtsman and printmaker. He was also a key player in the surrealist art movement. He said:"Figures were never a compact mass but like a transparent construction" REALLY IMPRESSIVE WITH HIS ARTWORKS AND ALL THE SCULPTURES. -
THE FEMALE FORMS IN ART AND VISUAL CULTURE
Marie Casseatt—made painting of woman hood and mothers breast feeding. Tote Mutter (dead mother). Egon Scheile was a argon artist. He made many hyper sexual images. Painted a pictured called Mother dead , this picture was an example of how woman passed away during child birth. -
Suprematism
Suprematism is an art movement, focused on basic geometric forms, such as circles, squares, lines and rectangles, painted in a limited range of colors. It was found by Kazimir Malevich in Russia, around 1913, and announced in Malevich's 1915 exhibition,<The Last Futurist Exhibition Of Painting 0.10> in St. Petersburg. The term "Suprematism" refers to an abstract art based upon "the supremacy of pure artistic feeling" rather than on visual depiction of objects. -
Art in the age of mechanical reproduction
Walter Benjamin created the first mechanic reproduction of art (a poster or painting that you can take home with you. Walter tried to figure out what the paintings represented. Walter believed that the original art is what carries the truth to the top of an artist emotions. He does not believe in reproducing an art piece that is already created. -
Rasheed Araeen
Rasheed Araeen is a London-based conceptual artist, sculptor, painter, writer, and curator. He was pursuing a career as an engineer when he was first exposed to avant-garde art. Then he decided to pursue art-making and embarked a second career. He began working as an artist without any formal training, producing sculptures influenced by Minimalism and by his engineering experience. -
Kara Walker
taken into eutectics and creating art. As you start to look through here work, you will see a familiar piece and bring out the extremes of life. -
Ken Gonzalez-Day
Ken took out violence in a piece and made people self reflect -
David Wojnarowicz (1954-1992): "A Fire in My Belly"
An American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performance artist, song-writer/recording artist and AIDS activist prominent in the NYC art world. "Close to the Knives: A Memoir of Disintegration," is an autobiography made up of creative writings discussing topics from his troublesome childhood to becoming one of the most renowned artists in NYC of his time. While his artwork was main source of expression, his book was used to speak to the public about important controversies of the time. -
Doris Salcedo
Salcedo’s work gives form to pain, trauma, and loss, while creating space for individual and collective mourning. These themes stem from her own personal history. Members of her own family were among the many people who have disappeared in politically troubled Colombia. Much of her work deals with the fact that, while the death of a loved one can be mourned, their disappearance leaves an unbearable emptiness. -
Color／Reproduction and Sexuality---artist: Yves Klein
Yves Klein(1828-1962) was a French artist considered an important figure in post-war European art. He is the leading member of the French artistic movement of Nouveau réalisme founded in 1960 by art critic Pierre Restany. In C2, we saw his artwork <Yves Klein's IKB> while talking about color.In C7, "reproduction and sexuality", we see his artwork:<Anthropometry of the Blue Period(ANT82)>,(1960).The picture below is his artwork named< People Begin to Fly > -
Daniel Spoerri
Opened three restaurants in his life that he considered to be art work. Painted Snera pictures. Used images and objects relations in his paintings -
Vassily Kandinsky:
A Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting one of the first recognised purely abstract works. -
Glenn Ligon
An American conceptual artist whose work explores race, language, desire, sexuality, and identity. Based in New York City, Ligon engages in intertextuality with other works from the visual arts, literature, and history, as well as his own life. He is noted as one of the originators of the term Post-Blackness. -
Land art and Earthworks
Landart comes from two main sources and has a philosophical perspective. Maya Lin made a piece of a line study to represent the ceremonial area. Maya Lin was a very smart and strong lady. -
Screen Printing--Marilyn Diptych
Screen printing: a technique whereby a mesh is used to transfer ink onto a substrate, except in areas made impermeable to the ink by a blocking stencil and it's also known as silk-screen. (from wiki)
<Marilyn Diptych> Andy Warhol silkscreen -
Andy Warhol--- Cambell's Soup Cans
Andy created the famous soup cans, Cambell's Soup. American capitalism gets real around this time. -
David Hammons
Very important artist thats been around since the 60's. Hammons is exploring art mostly through sculpture. David takes over the admissions office and has a bear representing blacks not being able to access there education just as well as a white priviledge person. David takes stereo types and presents them in art works. He implies that stereo types are ways of enforcing black identity. -
Conceptual Photography
conceptual photography is a true of photography that illustrate and idea and artists who used photography extensively were more often described as "photo conceptualists" or "artists using photography". -
Bas Jan Ader (1942 – disappeared 1975)
A Dutch conceptual artist, performance artist, photographer and filmmaker.Ader was lost at sea in 1975, attempting to cross the Atlantic Ocean from the US to England in the smallest boat ever. His deserted vessel was found off the coast of Ireland on 18 April 1976, offering few clues as to his fate.
The following is his artwork<Study for I am too sad to tell you>. consists of a 3-minute silent black-and-white movie of him crying. -
Nam June Paik TV BUDDHA
The monk name Nam June Paik doesn't allows people into his space while doing self -reflection through a tv. -
Cindy Sherman:
In each of the fifteen photographs the artist appears in a different outfit, wearing wigs, glasses and make-up according to the character being staged. Such props as a cigarette, a make-up mirror, a briefcase, a bulging paper bag or a book provide additional elements to the possible narratives evoked by each bus rider. -
Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme
Their work together across a range of sound, image, text, installation and performance practices. Overwhelmingly their approach has been one of sampling materials (both existing and self-authored) in the form of sound, image, text, objects and recasting them into altogether new ‘scripts’. The result is a practice that investigates the politcal, visceral, material possibilities of sound, image, text and site, taking on the form of multi-media installations and live sound/image performances. -
Sally Mann
Made an image of something about childhood. Sally Mann talks about children early beginnings of sexuality. She treats children more as an adult. -
Screen Printing (silkscreen) -- Keith Haring
<Retrospect>, hand-signed silkscreen, fertility series -
Carrie Mae Weems:
An American artist who works with text, fabric, audio, digital images, and installation video but is best known for her work in the field of photography. -
Female form in Art and Visual culture: Sally Mann (born 1951):
<Immediate Family>： First published in 1992, is one of the great photography books of our time, and among the most influential. It was printed using new scans and separations from Mann’s original prints, which were taken with an 8-by-10-inch view camera, rendering them with a freshness and sumptuousness true to the original edition.Mann’s pictures explore the eternal struggle between the child’s simultaneous dependence and quest for autonomy—the holding on and the breaking away. -
Fred Wilson
Fred is apart of artistic movement that provides institutional critique. The first virgin of his project happen at the American historical museum. These museum only represents white upper class art pieces, so Fred is making new information by composing objects together (becoming a tread setter). The piece below has shackles which was used for slaves surrounded by beautiful silver that white slave owners used in class. -
RINEKE DIIJKSTRA
Rineke D. likes to take pictures of women when their guard is down after birth. -
Catherine Opie
Took pictures of a transgender women breast feeding a baby
LaToya Ruby Frazier (momme portrait series) —took an image of a mother and child both having cancer. Took many images casting shadows of family -
Maren Hassinger
Maren is a very strong and independent women. She has forces her position as a female artist through the sexism. -
Female form in Art and Visual culture: Mickalene Thomas:
Mickalene Thomas (born January 28, 1971)is a contemporary African-American artist best known for her complex paintings made of rhinestones, acrylic, and enamel. Her work draws from Western art history, pop art and visual culture to examine ideas around femininity, beauty, race, sexuality, and gender. -
Nick Cave
Nick made sound suits to represent people speaking up for themselves.
