VIC101H1 Lecture Notes - Georges Braque, Edgar Degas, Consumerism
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Today"s images in the lecture aren"t on any test (unless they recur) Download slides in pdf form to study. Art in context: social, cultural, political context linking art to world events. Modernism: art from 1900-1965; the art that led to postmodernism. Don"t write down slide info i. e. images (will be available on fadis); make notes on the concepts discussed in the lecture (what led to the work/movement *biographical info = not important; overall context is more important) Modern: overall design of the picture, technique is important; how paint is applied. Postmodern: story involved; can"t escape subjectivity and narrative; something going on. Hippocrates contrasted art with life - art of medicine. Plato put art above routine b/c art follows rational principles and rules. Aristotle: arts were skills based on knowledge that could be learned. Arts = linked to sciences into the renaissance. Worked with cadavers in order to accurately depict the human body.