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STGA Blue Badge Culture, Society and Institutions Core Knowledge Course Art Lecture 1 Introduction to interpretation

STGA Blue Badge Culture, Society and Institutions Core Knowledge Course Art Lecture 1 Introduction to interpretation and Scottish Art. Loura Brooks L.Brooks@ed.ac.uk. What we’re gonna do:. Grasp the tools to visually, comparatively and culturally interpret works of art

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STGA Blue Badge Culture, Society and Institutions Core Knowledge Course Art Lecture 1 Introduction to interpretation

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  1. STGA Blue Badge Culture, Society and Institutions Core Knowledge CourseArt Lecture 1Introduction to interpretation and Scottish Art Loura Brooks L.Brooks@ed.ac.uk

  2. What we’re gonna do: • Grasp the tools to visually, comparatively and culturally interpret works of art • Make the most of the known information, including the ‘vocabulary’ of art • Learn how to interpret displays of works of art, both grand and small • Learn how to place works in context for yourself and your audience

  3. How we’re gonna do it: Today: • Visual Analysis • Comparative Analysis • Cultural Analysis • Short lecture about the basics of Art in Scotland • Discussion of Essays / Proforma

  4. In future classes / visits • Lectures concerning the canonical works of a period from both Scotland and Continental Europe • Notes for further reading and viewing • Practice with visual, cultural and comparative analysis using course texts and the web

  5. From Middle Ages to Reformation

  6. The Enlightenment

  7. Gallery Visit

  8. Modern and Contemporary Art in Scotland

  9. Course Texts: Scottish Macdonald, Murdo, (2000) Scottish Art, Thames and Hudson, London MacMillan, Duncan, (2000)Scottish Art 1460–2000 Mainstream Publishing Co, Edinburgh

  10. Course Texts: General Gombrich, E.H. (2000) The Story of Art Phaidon, London Honour and Fleming (1995) A World History of Art Laurence King, London

  11. Web Sources • Wiki – warning! • www.wga.hu • www.scran.ac.uk • Web Board

  12. Visual Analysis – This work of art is……

  13. About Art History • Art does not feel – we do: keeping it objective • Visual Analysis and Formal Qualities • Comparatives – Painting A is more ( this, that or the other) than painting B • Historical Evidence – How to generate the ideas • Stylistic Terms

  14. Visual Analysis Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, oil on canvas, Louvre, c. 1506 • colour • composition • foreshortening • form • linear perspective • linear style • modelling • viewpoint • atmospheric or aerial perspective

  15. Comparative Analysis

  16. Styles and Categories Labels Historical Ancient, Classical, Byzantine, Early Christian, Gothic, Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-classical, Modernist, Post-modernist…… Stylistic Classical, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Baroque, Neo-classical, Modernist (and all its arms and legs)

  17. Cultural Analysis – Hegel’s Wheel(Time Travel for beginners)

  18. Hegel’s Wheel applied Science Customs Law   Morality   Constitution Religion Technology   Art  

  19. An Overview of Scottish Art

  20. ???

  21. ?????

  22. Sites

  23. Sites 2

  24. Metalwork

  25. Metalwork 2

  26. Metalwork 3

  27. Stones 1

  28. Stones 2

  29. What did the Romans ever do for Scotland?

  30. Medieval

  31. Art in the Age of Faith

  32. Churches

  33. Relics

  34. The Art of Death

  35. Manuscripts: the Spread of Ideas

  36. The Book of Durrow Carpet page with Trumpets and Spirals

  37. The Book of Durrow, Matthew the Evangelist

  38. Durrow, text incipit

  39. The Book of Kells, the Four Evangelists

  40. The Book of Kells, Chi-Rho page

  41. The Book of Kells, the Arrest of Christ

  42. Icon, Constantinople, 13th century, tempera on wood81.5 x 49 cm, National Gallery, Washington AND Byzantine iconoclast whitewashing an image of Christ, c 900 AD

  43. Metal and woodwork

  44. The Ardagh Chalice

  45. Ardagh chalice, detail

  46. Garnet and Lapis Lazuli clasp, Sutton Hoo, 7th c.

  47. Expressions of power

  48. The Bute Mazer

  49. The Kames Brooch

  50. Tomb of Robert the Bruce

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