chapter 11 painting - houston community college
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Chapter 11 Painting
• Before Renaissance, painting is seen as a mechanical skill and not an intellectual pursuit
• Historically, used to imitate nature; a painting’s aesthetic value would be measured according to how well it did so
• When people think of “art” they most often think of painting
• The nature of painting- immediacy, uniqueness and auratic (there is an infinite # of possibilities)
Terms used to discuss Painting
• Support- the structure and surface of the painting • Ground or prime- layer of white paint covering the
tooth of the canvas or other surface to be painted upon
• Three components of paint materials – Pigment – Binder – Solvent or vehicle
Painting Materials
• Oldest; most traditional materials – Encaustic – Fresco – Tempera – Oil – Watercolor/gouache
• More recently used by artists – Synthetic media
(acrylic) – Mixed media
Title: The Art of Painting
Artist: Giorgio Vasari
Date: 1542
Source/Museum: Vault of the Main Room, Arezzo, Casa Vasari. Canali Photobank, Capriolo, Italy.
Medium: Fresco
Size: n/a
La Pittura- an image emerging during 15th c. that personified painting
Title: Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting
Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi
Date: 1630
Source/Museum: The Royal Collection © Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35 ¼ x 29 in.
Title: Mummy Portrait of a Man
Artist: n/a
Date: c. 160 – 170 CE.
Source/Museum: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. Charles Clifton Fund, 1938.
Medium: Encaustic on wood
Size: 14 x 18 in.
Encaustic
Title: Three Flags
Artist: Jasper Johns
Date: 1958
Source/Museum: Collection of Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. 50th Anniversary Gift of the Gilman Foundation, Inc., The Lauder Foundation, A. Alfred Taubman, an anonymous donor, and purchase 80.32. Photo: Geoffrey Clements. © Jasper Johns/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY.
Medium: Encaustic on canvas
Size: 30 ⅞. X 45 ½ x 5 in.
Title: Still Life with Eggs and Thrushes
Artist: n/a
Date: Before 79 CE.
Source/Museum: Villa of Julia Felix, Pompeii, National Museum, Naples. Scala/Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Fresco
Size: 35 x 48 in.
Fresco
Title: Lamentation
Artist: Giotto
Date: c. 1305
Source/Museum: Arena Chapel, Padua, Italy. Scala/Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Fresco
Size: Approx. 70 x 78 in.
Buon fresco
Title: The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Date: c. 1495-1498
Source/Museum: Refectory, Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan. A.K.G., Berlin/SuperStock.
Medium: Mural (oil and tempera on plaster)
Size: 15 ft. 1 1/8 in. x 28 ft. 10 ½ in.
Fresco secco
Title: The Glorification of Saint Ignatius
Artist: Fra Andrea Pozzo
Date: 1691-1694
Source/Museum: Nave of Sant' Ignazio, Rome. Scala/Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Ceiling fresco
Size: n/a
Because frescoes use walls as their support, artists often incorporate existing architectural elements into their image
Title: Study for the Libyan Sibyl
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: c. 1510
Source/Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1924 (24.197.2). Photo © 1995 Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Medium: Red chalk on paper
Size: 11 3/8 x 8 7/16 in.
Title: The Libyan Sibyl
Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Date: 1511-1512
Source/Museum: Detail of the Sistine Ceiling, Sistine Chapel, Vatican City. Canali Photobank, Capriolo, Italy.
Medium: Fresco
Size: n/a
Title: Primavera
Artist: Sandro Botticelli
Date: c. 1482
Source/Museum: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Scala/Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Tempera on gesso ground on poplar panel
Size: 80 x 123 ¼ in.
Tempera dries fast and is highly durable Lessening the amount of pigment creates veiled effects
Title: Braids
Artist: Andrew Wyeth
Date: 1979
Source/Museum: Private collection. © 1986 Leonard E. B. Andrews. Photo courtesy of Ann Kendall Richards, Inc., New York.
Medium: Egg tempera on canvas
Size: 16 ½ x 20 ½ in.
Tempera allows for high detail of visual texture
Diagram of a section of a fifteenth-century oil painting demonstrating the luminosity of the medium.
Title: The Annunciation (The Mérode Altarpiece)
Artist: The Master of Flémalle (probably Robert Campin)
Date: c. 1425 – 1430
Source/Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Cloisters Collection 1956 (56.70). Photo © 1996 Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Medium: Oil on wood
Size: Triptych. Central panel: 25 ¼ x 24 7/8; Each wing: 25 3/8 x 10 ¾ in.
Title: The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin
Artist: Jan van Eyck
Date: c. 1433 – 1434
Source/Museum: Musée du Louvre, Paris. Scala/Art Resource, New York.
Medium: Oil on panel
Size: 26 x 24 ¾ in.
The technique of glazing allows for high degree of realism in an image The slow drying time conceals the hand of the artist
Title: Still Life with Lobster
Artist: Jan de Heem
Date: Late 1640's
Source/Museum: Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. Purchased with funds from the Libbey Endowment, Gift of Edward Drummond Libby.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 25 1/8 x 33 ¼ in.
Title: Betty
Artist: Gerhard Richter
Date: 1988
Source/Museum: The St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 40 1/8 x 23 3/8 in.
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Title: Biker
Artist: Susan Rothenberg
Date: 1985
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Fractional gift of Paine Webber Group, Inc., 1986. © 2003 Susan Rothenberg/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 74 x 69 ½ in.
Oil can be used in a very spontaneous, direct manner The material can maintain its “wet” appearance even after drying This often reveals the hand of the artist
Title: Dancing Shoes
Artist: Pat Passlof
Date: 1998
Source/Museum: Courtesy of the artist and Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York
Medium: Oil on linen
Size: 80 x 132 in.
Impasto technique allows artist to build actual texture with material
Title: Door to the River
Artist: Willem de Kooning
Date: 1960
Source/Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art (60.63). © 2003 Willem de Kooning Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 80 x 70 in.
Title: A Wall, Nassau
Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: 1898
Source/Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1910 (10.228.90). Photo © 1995 Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Size: 14 ¾ x 21 ½ in.
Title: Ruby Dew (Pink Melon Joy)
Artist: Laurie Reid
Date: 1998
Source/Museum: Courtesy Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, and the artist
Medium: Watercolor on paper
Size: 192 x 240 in.
Title: Untitled
Artist: George Baselitz
Date: 1981
Source/Museum: Courtesy of The Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Acquired through the Deknatal Purchase Fund. Photo © President and Fellows of Harvard College, Harvard University, 1982.2.
Medium: Watercolor and chalk pastel on white paper
Size: 23 ¾ x 16 ¾ in.
Title: You can buy bootleg whiskey for twenty-five cents a quart
Artist: Jacob Lawrence
Date: 1942-1943
Source/Museum: From the Harlem Series, Portland Art Museum; Portland, Oregon. Helen Thurston Ay Fund. Artwork. © 2003 Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence, courtesy of the Jacob and Gwendolyn Lawrence Foundation.
Medium: Gouache on paper
Size: 15 ½ x 22 ½ in
Title: Untitled
Artist: Laylah Ali
Date: 2000
Source/Museum: Courtesy the artist
Medium: Gouache on paper
Size: 13 x 19 in.
Title: Flood
Artist: Helen Frankenthaler
Date: 1967
Source/Museum: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Purchased with funds from the Friends of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 68.12.
Medium: Synthetic polymer on canvas
Size: 124 x 140 in.
Title: The Table
Artist: Juan Gris
Date: 1914
Source/Museum: © Philadelphia Museum of Art. A. E. Gallatin Collection. Photo: Lynn Rosenthal, 1993. © Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
Medium: Colored papers, printed matter, charcoal on paper mounted in canvas
Size: 23 ½ x 17 ½ in.
Pablo Picasso collage
Title: The Dove
Artist: Romare Bearden
Date: 1964
Source/Museum: Museum of Modern Art, New York. Blanchette Rockefeller Fund. © Romare Bearden Foundation/VAGA, New York.
Medium: Cut-and-pasted paper, gouache, pencil, and colored pencil on cardboard
Size: 13 3/8 x 18 ¾ in.
Title: Monogram
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Date: 1955 – 1959
Source/Museum: © 1996 Robert Rauschenberg/Licensed by VAGA, New York.
Medium: Freestanding combine: oil, fabric, wood, on canvas and wood, rubber heel, tennis ball, metal plaque, hardware, stuffed Angora goat, rubber tire, mounted on four wheels
Size: 42 x 63 ¼ x 64 ½ in.
Title: Monogram, 1st State
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: © Robert Rauschenberg/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photo: Harry Shunk.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a
Title: Monogram, 2nd State
Artist: Robert Rauschenberg
Date: n/a
Source/Museum: © Robert Rauschenberg/Licensed by VAGA, New York. Photo: Rudolph Burckhardt.
Medium: n/a
Size: n/a