HISTART 271 Lecture 1: September 4th
Document Summary
How pictures signify and produce meaning if you understand the context within which they were made. Different methodological approaches through which we look at visual culture. The handling of genre has to do with the format - large or small. Seurat, a sunday afternoon on the island of the grande-jatte 1884-86) - Signac, portrait of felix fenenon, 1890-91) - creative, original, color theory, portrait. Gauguin, self-portrait with halo, 1889) - paint himself into the misunderstood artist, David, portrait of doctor alphonse leroy, 1783 and a demonstration of the scientific understanding of one color to another. David, self-portrait, 1794) dies unknown and then is discovered later - myth that the understood artist was created by the. 19th century (somehting in the 1880s and 90s where this type of picture makes sense) Still life - lowest genre due to lack of life (ex. Still life with tea pot, grapes, chestnuts, and a.
