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Art Appreciation

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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Art Appreciation

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  1. Art Appreciation

  2. Looking at Art • Where is the work displayed? • How is the work displayed? • Is it real or a reproduction?

  3. 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.

  4. Point of View Sistine MadonnaRaphael, 1513

  5. Point of View Adoration of the Shepherds Gerrit van Honthorst, 1622

  6. Focal Point Madonna of the Meadow Raphael, 1505

  7. Focal Point Battle of Carnival and Lent Brueghel the Elder, 1559

  8. Focal Point Convergence, Jackson Pollock, 1952

  9. Color • Analogous Colors • Cool Colors • Warm Colors • Complementary Colors • Blue to Orange • Red to Green • Yellow to Purple

  10. Color School of Athens Raphael, 1510-1511

  11. Color Self Portrait with Bandaged Ear Vincent van Gogh, 1889

  12. 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.

  13. Line Demoiselles d’Avignon Pablo Picasso, 1907 • Geometric • Expressional

  14. Line Child Holding a DovePablo Picasso, 1901 • Biomorphic • Descriptive • Curvilinear

  15. Line New York, N.Y. Franz Kline, 1953 • Geometric • Expressional

  16. Space • Void: Vacant space. Jubilee Gestalt Vase

  17. Composition • The combination of color, line, and shape that give art a sense of balance. • Symmetrical versus Asymmetrical • Open versus Closed • Scale or Proportion

  18. Composition Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps J. M. W. Turner, 1812

  19. Composition Death of Germanicus Nicolas Poussin, 1627

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