Lecture Summary: 10/8/10

What holds a work of art together?



Conceptually?
-Point, line, shape, color, texture, and value
Formally?
-Repitition, gestalt, placement, balance, symmetry, asymmetry, shape/textures, value/color, position, scale, and proportion




Unity <--------------------->Contrast
Harmony is more related to unity.

Expressionism has more specific work.

We looked at a variety of artists, including:

Picasso
Egon Schiele
George Grosz
Otto Dix
Hans Bellmer
Frida Kahlo
Benito Mussolini
Jean Dubuffet
George Baselitz
Andy Warhol
Roy Lichtenstein
Carolee Schneemann
Chuck Close
Phillip Pearlstein
Judy Chicago
Lucian Freud
Leon Golub
Cindy Sherman
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Eric Fische
Ron Mueck
Vanessa Beecroft
and
Louise Bourgeois