Part one: The four specific roles of an artist: 1- Artist helps us to see the world in new or innovative ways: they create new way to us to see and think about the world around us. For example Impression?sunrise for Claude Monte, it resembles the world of natural appearance to create a new way of thinking about this works. Claude Monte, Impression?sunrise, 1872. Oil on canvas, 19. Xx. 50 in. Muse Marmot, Paris. Page 506. Fig. 20-24 2- Artist makes a visual record of the people, places, and event of their time and place.
For example the Mona Lisa painting, it reflects the visual record of her which painted by Vinci for certain reasons. Leonardo De Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1505. Oil on Wood, 30. Xx in. Muse du Louvre, Paris. Page 468. Fig 19-8 3- Artist makes functional objects and structure more pleasurable and elevates them or imbues them with meaning. For example, the Queering painting for Picasso, it’s one of the greatest political paintings of the era. It presents an event in the Spanish civil war that occurred on April 26, 1937 and what had happened to the Queering town in Spain by German and Italy.
Pablo Picasso, Queering, 1937. Oil on canvas, 11 Ft. 5. 50 in. Ex. Ft. 5. 25 in. Muses National Centers De Rate Arena Sofia, Madrid page 522. Fig. 21-14 4- Artist gives form to the immaterial- hidden or universal truths, spiritual force, and personal feelings. For example the Christ painting, from eddies mosaic, thirteen century, which presents the truths and spiritual feeling of existence of the Christ around us. Christ, from Deed’s Mosaic, thirteen century. Haggis Sophia, Istanbul. Page 443.
Fig 18-8 Part two: Animism: the belief in the existence of souls and conviction that nonhuman things also be endowed with a soul. ABA temple , Tell Assam, Iraq,c. 900-2600 Bcc. Limestone, alabaster, height of tallest figure 30 in. Excavated by the Iraq expedition of the oriental institute of university of Chicago, Feb. 13, 1934. Page 419. Fig 17-6 * Composition: the organization of the formal elements in a of art work. Three horses facing one another, Chaplet, Retarded Gorge, France, c. 30,000 beck. Page 416. Fig 17-1 Subject Matter: the literal, visible image in a work of art.
As distinguished from its content, which include the connotative, symbolic, and suggestive to the images. Leonardo De Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1505. Oil on wood, 30. Xx in. Muse du Louvre, Paris. Page 468. Fig 19-8 * Form: the literal shape and mass of an object or figure. The materials used to make a work of art, the ways in which these materials are used in terms of formal elements( line, light, color, etc. ), and the compositions that results. Queen Infertile, Tell el Marin, c. 1365 Bcc. Painted limestone, height 19. 62 in. Acceptances Museum, Berlin.
Page 423. Fig 17-11 * Content: the meaning of an image, beyond its over subject matter; as opposed to form. * Francisco Soya, Saturn Devouring One of His Sons, 1820-22. Fresco, transferred to canvas, 57. Xx. 60 in. Muses del Prod. Madrid. Page 498. Fig 20-13 * Icons/lexicography: the study or description of image and symbols. Christ, from eddies mosaic, thirteen century. * Naturalism: a brand of representation in which the artist retains apparently realistic elements but present the visual world from a distinctly personal or subjective point of view.
Ernest Missioner, Memory of civil war (The barricades), 1849. Oil on Canvas, 11. Xx. Inn. Muse du Louvre, Paris. Page 502. Fig 20-18 Abstract Art: In art, the rendering of image and objects in a stylized or simplified way, so that though they remain recognizable, their formal or expressive aspects are emphasized. Compare both representational and non-objective art. Pablo Picasso, Queering, 1937. Sofia, Madrid page 522. Fig. 21-14 * Representational Art: any work of art that seeks to resemble the world of natural appearance.
There are curvature and lines helps create unity. The shapes are geometric, lines are straight, not bendy, the colors are neutral, dull (gray, white, black), the tone are dark and light tones, the form is flat AD. 5- On the far left there is a woman screaming and holding a dead child. Beneath her is a wounded solider with a severed arm. There is another woman looking towards the light in the top center of the painting while the woman to the right is burning in a building. Alongside the characters are animals, a horse and a bull, also distorted and misshapen in form.
The horse is pierced in the side by a spear and the bull looks dazed and lost as it slowly fades into the dark background. 6- It was created in response to the bombing of Queering, a Basque Country village in northern Spain, by German and Italian warplanes at the behest of the Spanish Nationalist forces on 26 April 1937 during the Spanish Civil War. Queering shows the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals, particularly innocent civilians. This work has gained a monumental status, becoming a perpetual reminder f the tragedies of war, an anti-war symbol, and an embodiment of peace.
Upon completion, Queering was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed. This tour helped bring the Spanish Civil War to the world’s attention. Although mention is frequently made of the painting’s “return” to Spain, this is not in fact correct. 7- The purpose to the Queering painting expresses Picasso telling to horror at the news that the town of Queering had been bombed. 8- Artist makes functional objects and structure more pleasurable and elevates them or imbues them with meaning. Economic: Queering was displayed around the world in a brief tour, becoming famous and widely acclaimed. The exhibition was visited by almost a million people in the first year, because of this painting. Historical: it records a bad period in Spain during the civil war that happened in April 26, 1937. It records the town of 7000 people in Queering were suffering by German and Italy and nearby 1000 who had been bombed. Social: it is a great example to educated people about abstract art and about important past events too. Aesthetic: it’s one of the greatest political paintings of the era.
The image of a human skull overlays the horse’s body and bull appears to gore the horse from underneath make it an unique painting. Cultural: it tells you more about the truth of Queering town during the Spanish Civil War personal: it is a great painting that make me look up for more in the abstract art, its good example for educating, this painting tells about the history and the art in the same time. Educational: it educates people about important periods of the world history. It also educate people about the new abstract art because it is one of the greatest an example about this kind of art.
