HISTART 190T Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Cimabue, War Photography, Frida Kahlo
17 Feb 2017
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Ways to approach psychology of art: perception, attachment, and making (self definition of artist, etc) Italy california, c. 1300 c. 2017. Not just psychology of the viewer but also the artist. Chapel in italy by giotto, psychological ideas in the upper panels. Facial expressions of people, stylized faces, he makes sure we can see what they feel. He allows spectators to identify with the emotions. Lower marble portions: good vs evil figures, love opposing envy, hope opposing despair. Stylized tradition vs more actual human qualities and emotions. Fuseli and darker, nightmare ideas, illustrations for dante/virgil/ romanticism. Michelangelo talking about his suffering while painting. Van gogh"s distortion of the world around him. Ideas of masses and deindividualization within weimar republic and mussolini, Frida kahlo, her relation to fascist movements in europe, her struggle with mixed heritage, rich psychological self portraits. Synchronic: concerned with something, especially a language, as it exists at one point in time: synchronic linguistics.
