ARTH 12001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Maya Maize God, Harriet Powers, Alpaca
7 May 2019
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Visual communication: subject matter - what the artist is conveying, media - the tools and materials the artist used, craftsmanship - the ability to make objects attractive, design - the grammar, or structure, of visual language. The artist has used the medium of a fabric quilt to depict a series of biblical images. Pierced and appliqued cotton embroidered with plain and metallic yarns, 69 x 105 . Chardin has used the student artist as his subject. Jean baptiste simeon chardin, young student drawing, 1738, french. Subject matter may be things, such as people, objects, landscapes or animals. Subject matter may also be ideas such as war, love, loneliness or joy. Some artists are concerned with purely design aspects of creating art, such as color and proportion. Artists" attitudes towards subject matter has changed greatly over the course of history and civilization. In narrative paintings the artist is telling a story.
