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Art Appreciation. Looking at Art. Where is the work displayed? How is the work displayed? Is it real or a reproduction?. Where am I?. Point of View : Where the viewer is visually in in the composition – above, below, or with a head-on view of a scene
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Looking at Art • Where is the work displayed? • How is the work displayed? • Is it real or a reproduction?
Where am I? • Point of View: Where the viewer is visually in in the composition – above, below, or with a head-on view of a scene • Focal Point: The center of focus or the most important part of a work of art, where the eye lands first and usually lands last.
Point of View Sistine MadonnaRaphael, 1513
Point of View Adoration of the Shepherds Gerrit van Honthorst, 1622
Focal Point Madonna of the Meadow Raphael, 1505
Focal Point Battle of Carnival and Lent Brueghel the Elder, 1559
Focal Point Convergence, Jackson Pollock, 1952
Color • Analogous Colors • Cool Colors • Warm Colors • Complementary Colors • Blue to Orange • Red to Green • Yellow to Purple
Color School of Athens Raphael, 1510-1511
Color Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Line • Biomorphic: Lines that recreate biological or organic surfaces. • Curvilinear: Lines that are organic, biomorphic or natural. • Geometric: Lines that are angular. • Descriptive: Lines that aid in identifying an object or figure. • Expressional: Lines that occur in representations from abstract art to natural subjects.
Line Demoiselles d’Avignon Pablo Picasso, 1907 • Geometric • Expressional
Line Child Holding a DovePablo Picasso, 1901 • Biomorphic • Descriptive • Curvilinear
Line New York, N.Y. Franz Kline, 1953 • Geometric • Expressional
Space • Void: Vacant space. Jubilee Gestalt Vase
Composition • The combination of color, line, and shape that give art a sense of balance. • Symmetrical versus Asymmetrical • Open versus Closed • Scale or Proportion
Composition Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps J. M. W. Turner, 1812
Composition Death of Germanicus Nicolas Poussin, 1627