ARHI 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Common Era, Deconstructivism, Birds Eye View
16 Dec 2016
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Art history survey of western art in its cultural context: pre-history to the later middle ages. Test identification of images (name of artworks), no dates. Art: an object with a material or media/conceptual aspect. Painting: pigments stick to a material (wood, paper, etc) Sculpture: subtractive method: something is taken away to form sculpture. Start with a block and carved/cut away. Stone or wood block: additive method: built up to form a sculpture. Clay, terracotta: mold: sculpture formed in a mold. Bronze cast statues: sculptures can be 3d (front, back, and sides, relief sculptures: Low: a small degree of 3d, not cut as deep. High: deeply carved to create shadows and depth/3d. Art has both a use value (purpose) and an aesthetic value (beauty: architecture: Different experience of architecture based on perspective (inside/outside, aerial view or sidewalk view) Remains of the structure can give artists an indication of what an ar(cid:272)hite(cid:272)tural spa(cid:272)e (cid:373)ight"(cid:448)e looked like.
