Art History

1. Art History • Prehistoric (Paleolithic), Venus of Willendorf • Ancient, Greek Architecture Parthenon , architectural columns, and the use of the Golden Mean • Middle Ages Giotto, Madonna and Child • Middle Ages Architectural styles of Churches • Renaissance, New medium of Oil paint • Renaissance, Michelangelo Sistine Chapel • Neo classical , Monticello, Thomas Jefferson • Invention and development of photography during the 1800’s, Civil war photographer Matthew Brady • 20th Century Modern Art Pablo Picasso Guernica • 20th Century Modern Art Kandinsky Pure Abstract/Non-Objective Art • 20th Century Modern Jackson Pollock Abstraction Expressionism Lavender Mist • 20th Century Modern Andy Warhol Pop art Marilyn Monroe

2. Prehistoric Art (Paleolithic) • Nude Woman (Venus of Willendorf), c. 28,000-25,000 B.C.E., Limestone, 4-3/8” (Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna) • One of the oldest known works of art (sculpture) • http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/nude-woman-venus-of-willendorf.html 4:20 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnm2jOyRxQE&safe=active How Art Made the World 4:45

3. Ancient time period • Greek • Parthenon, Temple for Athena designed using the Golden Mean • http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/parthenon.html (just intro) 2:28 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzhA3yiEofI 3:09 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmaVqkR0ZXg Golden ratio cute 3:11

4. Ancient • Greek (architecture) • Greek columns • Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrRJkzXl4a4 Smarthistory

5. Madonna and Child,probably 1320/1330 • Middle Ages (Late or Gothic) • Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 – January 8, 1337), known as Giotto (Italian) was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Italian Renaissance. • Known for his expressive portraits during the Middle Ages (emphasis upon human qualities) • Tempera on panel (33 11/16 x 24 7/16 in.) National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

6. Vasari also relates that when the Pope sent a messenger to Giotto, asking him to send a drawing to demonstrate his skill, Giotto drew, in red paint, a circle so perfect that it seemed as though it was drawn using a compass and instructed the messenger to give that to the Pope.

7. Giotto’s fresco paintings

8. Middle Ages • Architectural Styles of Churches • Early Christian, Romanesque, Gothic

9. Early Christian were based upon Roman Basilicas (town meeting halls); given a Transept/intersection as the Christian symbol of a cross

10. Romanesque Churches are characterized by semi-circular arches. • Around the 6th to the 10th century

11. Gothic Churches—Its characteristics include the pointed arch, the ribbed vault and the flying buttress. http://library.thinkquest.org/10098/cathedrals.htm

12. Pointed arch a.k.a. Gothic arch, not to be confused with American Gothic which also has a Gothic arch

13. Ribbed vault

14. Flying Buttresses

16. Flying Buttresses

17. Washington National Cathedral

18. Renaissance • Architecture & Painting • Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo • The work was completed between 1508 and November 1512 • http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/sistine-chapel-ceiling.html • http://www.history.com/news/7-things-you-may-not-know-about-the-sistine-chapel

19. Renaissance • New Medium of Oil Paint • The claim by Vasari that Jan van Eyck "invented" oil painting is not correct but has cast a long shadow, but van Eyck's use of oil paint achieved novel results in terms of precise detail and mixing colours wet-in-wet with a skill hardly equalled since. • First recorded useThe oldest known oil paintings date from 650 AD, found in 2008 in caves in Afgahnistan’s Bamiyan Valley, "using walnut and poppy seed oils.” • Jan van Eyck’s Wedding Portrait in done in oils and is one of the world’s most famous dual portraits

20. Neo Classical time period • Thomas Jefferson’s design of Monticellobuilt in 1772

21. Photography revolutionized art with its development in the 1800’s; technology impacts the artist

22. Modern time period • Pablo Picasso’s Guernica, 1937 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1_qjc4SQlk Smarthistory 8:54

23. Wassily Kandinsky is credited with painting the first purely abstract works. Modern time period • Basically, he did non-objective paintings • Discovered one of his paintings upside down and thought it was beautiful

25. Jackson Pollock is known as the most famous of the Abstract Expressionist painters. a.k.a.” Jack the Dripper” • Action painter • Painted gesturallyby dripping the paint onto the canvas which was on the floor

27. Actual film of Pollock • http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/250 • http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/123/687 MoMA 3:47

28. Andy Warhol is the most famous of the Pop Artists from the 1960’s • His works explore the relationship between artistic expression, celebrity culture and advertisement that flourished by the 1960s. • He is famous for the statement, “"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes” • Celebrity and Fame is short-lived

29. Marilyn Diptych, 1962

30. http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/15/1672MoMA teen video Marilyn Monroe • http://www.biography.com/people/andy-warhol-9523875/videos bio 3:34 • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNqYH6B1sIs interview • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deRMRh8Zjgg interview “no, yes” • http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/audios/57/1098MoMA soup cans