Week of April 15-Early 20th Century- Between World Wars

                                                         ''The Art Critic Der Kunstkritiker''


Dada was an art movement that formed in Europe when World War I was happening. Many artist moved to Switzerland because it was a neutral country. Dada began to show his protest through artistic medium by creating non art since art in the society meant nothing. This art movement was a protest but it always was fun to see. Most of the art was sarcastic, colorful and silly. In addition this movement is responsible for influencing many trends in visual art. Their aim was to destroy traditional value in art and create new art to replace the old. Artist Raoul Hausmann named this piece '' The Art Critic Der Kunstkritiker'' around 1919 to 1920. Hausmann was a member of the Berlin Dada group. This image was an anonymous figure cut from a magazine. Behind the critic's neck there is a German banknote that suggest he is being controlled by capitalist forces. Lastly there are words in the background of a poem by Hausmann.

''The Cabinet Maker, 1994''

Jacob Lawrence was an African-American painter known for his portrayal of African-American life. His work was rooted in US history mainly focus on the struggle against slavery and racial oppression. Lawrence was the first black artist to achieve prominence in what was still a largely segregated art world. Lawrence shows poverty, poor health care, police harassment, and racial discrimination. There were many influences that contributed to the unique style of this young artist. Other influences were such leading American artists as Stuart Davis, whose cubist-influenced style bears some resemblance to Lawrence's work. 

Week of April 8- Late 18th and 19th Century Art- Romanticism- Post Impressionism

Impressionism is a style of painting developed around the nineteen century. By using bright colors to present the effect of light in an object. In other words this impressionism is a way of painting in which color and tone are light. Impressionism is often painted outdoors to capture sunlight and the color of the object. This is an impression sunrise by Claude Monet in 1872. The way colors are being express shows us that without the brighter orange or the gray sky there will be no sun. Impressionism captures the effect of light which could convey a change in weather or season. Artist captures the image of an object as someone would see it if they caught a peek of it.

Post Impressionism is the style of a wage range of different artistic styles that all share a common movement. This movement became a new way artist  painted. Post Impressionism influenced many groups during the 20th century. Many artist use their emotions in order to connect in a deeper level. It mainly focused on abstract form and patterns. This is a painting of a lady in the field by Camille Pissarro in 1889.

Week of April 1- Renaissance & Baroque

During the Baroque period, which ran from 1600 to about 1750. Most artists used Renaissance technique to move art to a more dramatic and emotion style. The Baroque period had various styles that shows great energy and dramatic use of light, scale and composition. Many of the characteristic  that Baroque style promoted by the Roman Catholic Church's response to the Protestant Reformation. This is a painting of ''The Conversion of Saint Paul'' By Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. This painting was made around 1600 to 1601 in Santa Maria del Popolo, Rome, Italy. Caravaggio uses dramatic painting by using light and strong contrasts. This makes viewers feel the intensity of the painting.  The painting shows Paul in a Roman dress pushed to the ground, this makes viewers feel like we are right there. 

Lamentation of the Death of Christ is a High Middle Ages fresco painting by Italian painter Giotto di Bondone. This painting shows the body of Christ also Christ's supporters, and the Angels in heaven after he had been crucified. This was around C. 1305 Italians believed they were responsible for the rebirth of the glory of ancient Greece.  The Renaissance was a period of new and renewed understanding. New values and technology brought a new style in art around the fourteen century. Art of the Renaissance started to change in northern  and southern Europe. The reason this happened is because the people of the two region had different attitude and experience. Painter Giotto di Bondone showed a new beginning of humanist art. He took a step back from abstract by portraying feelings and physical nature. Giotto di Bondone brought light, space and a sense of realism to painting. In addition in Lamentation Giotto shoes a spiritual reality.

Week of March 25- Design Elements & Principles

 
Scale is often refers to the size of an object oppose to another object. In art the size between an object and a human body is important. The scale of an artwork is to compare the its size to the size of our own body. This sculpture expresses human scale at another level. In this sculpture scale represents by the largest object. This is a great example of scale because  the sculpture shows a young boy's body being really big compare to the people besides him.

Asymmetrical balance is a form of symmetry in which two sides of a picture are different but also visually balanced. An asymmetrical painting are visually equal without it being identical. For example object in a photos are placed so that the viewers's sense of balance come into play. In other words in asymmetrical balance the elements are arranged so that people can get a sense of balance.

Many artist have different ways of unifying their work. Unity is the appearance or condition of oneness. In design unity describes the feeling that all the elements in a work belong together. In other words, the images work together to create meaning.Unity helps all the elements function together. This is a painting by Vincent Van Gogh. This painting gives us a sense of unity by the way the shapes are swirling pattern and the colors. By combining dark color with bright yellow, tell the viewer this is a painting of the moon at night.

Week of March 18- Antiquity: Prehistory, Mesoamerican, Greek & Egyptian Art

This is an ancient Egyptian painting. This painting where usually found in tombs. Egyptians  would paint the walls, believing that when someone passes away they are able to take all the images of their life with them. In fact the painting were never meant to be seen by human eyes after the tombs were closed. Egyptian art and painting doesn't change very much. In ancient Egypt color and tone were taken seriously. Men and Women skin tone were different, women had a lighter brown color and Men had dark reddish skin. The reason why women had lighter skin tone is to reflect how their stay in doors. In the other had Men had darker skin tone to show how their always outdoors. Each color that Egyptian use had a symbol. For example the color ''blue'' represent the sky, water. The color Red was the color of fire, anger chaos.

Egyptian and Greek are artworks are very different. This Geek statue represents a guy after a victory in an athletic contest. The original sculpture stood in a sanctuary, where game where held. Greek art usually designed with special attention to the body. Geeks are different from Egyptian because Geeks idealize the human body and showed the body fully nude in most sculptures. While Egyptian art focused more on religion. Unlike Egyptian art, Greek art examined the world as it was. Egyptian statues were more on the symmetry and the Greek statues we not based on any symmetry. Lastly the Greek statues were more realistic. For example the expression on the greeks statues is clear.

About Me

My name is Erika Bello and Im a liberal Arts major.