humanities visual art. what is visual art? -unlike the performing arts (music, drama and dance)...
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Humanities
Visual Art
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.
What is it made of?
• -Visual art can be made from almost any type of material (medium/media).
Medium: paint
• The Blue Boat 1892.
Winslow Homer
Museum of Fine
Arts, Boston
watercolor on paper
Medium: paint
• Mona Lisa, 1503-05.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Louvre, Paris
Oil on poplar
Medium: paint
• Separation of Light
from Darkness, 1512.
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel,
Vatican.
Fresco (paint
in/on plaster)
Medium: drawing materials
• Saskia Asleep,
c.1642.
Rembrandt.
British Museum,
London.
ink wash on paper
Medium: drawing materials
• Self Portrait, 1512.
Leonardo da Vinci.
Biblioteca Reale, Turin.
red chalk on paper
Medium: sculpture
• Mother and Child, 1971.
Elizabeth Catlett.
Collection of Alan Swift
walnut
Medium: sculpture
• The Three Soldiers,
1984.
Frederick Hart.
The Mall,
Washington, D.C.
bronze
Medium: sculpture
• Pieta, 1498-99.
Michelangelo
St. Peter’s Basilica,
Vatican.
Medium: environmental art
• Spiral Jetty, 1970.
Robert Smithson.
Great Salt Lake, Utah
basalt, sand
Medium: pottery
• Amphora, c. 520 b.c.
The Andokides Painter.
Munich, Germany.
Medium: found materials
• Bull’s Head, 1943.
Pablo Picasso.
Galerie Louise
Leiris, Paris.
bicycle parts
Medium: photography
• Clearing Winter Storm, 1944.
Ansel Adams.
Yosemite National
Park, California.
Medium: film
• Fantasia, 1940
Walt Disney
Medium: architecture
• Flat Iron Building, 1902.
Daniel Burnham,
Frederick Dinkelburg
New York, NY.
Medium: Performance art
• Coyote: I Like America and America Likes Me. 5/23-25 1974.
Joseph Beuys. Performance at Rene Block Gallery, New York.
So, what is art?
• Just about anything can become art.