ARTH 205 Lecture Notes - Johann Joachim Winckelmann, Pompeo Batoni, Clement Greenberg
9 Oct 2011
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Stylistic choices always help to construct meaning with subject : Stylistic elements: medium/size, light/shadow, colour, composition, space/depth, line; texture. Support your statements with evidence from the paintings! Never call things masterpiece or beautiful in this class. High contrast (yellow and black) but not well defined (brining attention to focal point?) Focal point, woman and child creates symmetry deciding the space. It incapsulates a huge and varied set of art and artists. Generally an innovative, self conscious acknowledgment that it is different from what has come before it. Rejecting the previous and some contemporary work! Only certain artworks were absorbed into the modern art movement. Not just about a specific time period (mid 19th to today) There were particular set of aspects and attitudes about that particular time period! Art should be concerned with present day subjects, concerns, everyday life, everyday people! The ephemeral (lasting a short time, transitory) , the contingent, .
