ESSAY EXERCISE 1.
Q: ‘One must look to the past to create the future. ’ Discuss this
statement with reference to artists and their work.
It was during this Renaissance period that the idea of both linear and atmospheric
perspective in Painting developed.
Piero Della Francesca, (
Italian,1415 – 1492) The
Flagellation of Christ,1455, Oil
and tempera on panel, 59 x 82
cm
Manet (French 1832-1883)
Olympia, 1863, oil on canvas,
131 cm × 190 cm)
Execution of Maximilian, 1868.
Marcel Duchamp
(France 1887 – 1968)
Nude descending a
staircase No. 2,
1912, oil on canvas,
147 x 89cm
Juan Gris, (Spanish, 1887 –
1927) Breakfast, 1914,
collage, crayon and oil on
canvas, 80 x 59cm.
Picasso, Still life with
chair caning, 1912.
Jackson Pollock, No 11 (Blue Poles), 1952,
212 x 488cm, paint and glass on canvas.
Mark Rothko, Untitled, oil on
canvas, 207 X 167cm,
1949.
Photography – changes everything.
Nadar, portrait of Edourard Manet,
1870
Alessandro Moretto, (Italy, 1478 /1518 –1554)
Christ and the woman of Samaria,
oil on canvas , 38 x 31cm
Traditionally art had a moral purpose. History subjects were used –Bible stories or
Myths or ancient heroic figures.
Daumier, The Laundress, ? 1863
Edgar Degas, The Dance Class 1875
Degas,
Waiting,
1882
Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans, 1849-50
Stonebreakers, 1849-50
Examples of Friezes. Courbet used the
Style of the Frieze in his Burial at Ornans
To indicate that the funeral was an
Important subject even though it was
A contemporary one, not a history
Subject.
Tom Roberts, Shearing the
Rams, 1890
Arthur Streeton, Fire’s on!, 1891.
Claude Monet, Woman with a parasol, 1875
Not all 19th century art was interested in contemporary culture…
Fernand Khnopff (Belgian,1858 – 1921) The caresses, 1896, oil on canvas, 51 x 151cm
Gustave Moreau (French, 1826 –
1898) The Apparition, 1876,
watercolour on paper, 105 x 72cm
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863 – 1944)
The Scream, 1893, oil, tempera & pastel
on canvas, 91 x 74cm.
Kathe Kollwitz, (German
1867-1945), Woman with
dead child, 1903
etching, 42 x 48cm,
Enst Ludwig Kirchner, Self Portrait,, 1920
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of a sick man, 1918
Otto Dix, Card-playing war cripples, 1920
Otto Dix (Germany 1891 – 1969) Der
Krieg, (The War), Plate 6 of 50,
1924, etching & aquatint
20 x 29cm
Max Ernst, Little machine
constructed by Minimax Dadamax in
person, pencil &
ink frottage, watercolour, gouache,
1919-20
Hugo Ball at Café Voltaire with his nonsense poem
And his nonsense costume, 1916
Hans Arp, Collage with squares arranged
according to the laws of chance,
collage, 48 x 35cm, 1916-17
Hans Arp, Automatic drawing, ink on paper, 42 x 54cm,
c. 1917
Victor Brauner, (Romania, 1903-1966) Louptable (Wolf-table), table and fox parts,
1939-47
Rene Magritte, (Belgian,1898-1967) The
False Mirror, oil on canvas, 1928, 54 x
80cm
Games of chance (as in Dada) were also used extensively by the
Surrealist group.. Exquisite Corpse was a game where someone
draws something or writes something, then folds over the
paper and passes it to the next person, who can’t see what has
been done, but must create something. Then they fold their bit
over, and so on. The total sum of the image is a collaboration by
the group who couldn’t see each others work
Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, & Greta
Knutson,
Landscape: exquisite corpse, c. 1933,
coloured pencil on paper, 24 x 31cm
Jackson Pollock, No 11 (Blue Poles), 1952,
212 x 488cm, paint and glass on canvas.
Mark Rothko, Untitled, oil on
canvas, 207 X 167cm,
1949.
Jaques-Louis David (French,1748 – 1825) The oath of the
Horatii, 1784, oil on canvas, 326 x 420cm
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, 1780 – 1867 ) The
Valpincon Bather, 1808, Oil on canvas , 146 cm × 97 cm
Antonio Canova (Italy, 1757-1852) The Three Graces,
marble, c. 1815, 173 X 97 X 57 cm.
Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917) , Little dancer of 14 years, originally wax with clothes,
1865 -1881, approx. 108cm,cast in bronze in about 1921 after his death.
Auguste Renoir (French,1841-1919) Luncheon
of the boating party, 1880-81, oil on canvas,
130 x 176cm
Claude Monet, Impression:
Sunrise, 1872
Enst Ludwig Kirchner, Self Portrait with Model, 1920
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Portrait of a sick man, 1918
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863 – 1944)
The Scream, 1893, oil, tempera & pastel
on canvas, 91 x 74cm.
Kathe Kollwitz, (German
1867-1945), Woman with
dead child, 1903
etching, 42 x 48cm,
Salvador Dali, Soft self-portrait with bacon, 1941,
oil on canvas, 61 x 51cm
The persistence of memory, 1931, oil on
canvas, 24 x 33 cm
Woman V, 1952-3
Willem de Kooning (U.S.1904-1997)
,Pink Angels. c. 1945. Oil and
charcoal on canvas, 132 x 102 cm.
Kathe Kollwitz (German 1867-1945)
Death seizes a woman, 1924
The Widow, woodcut, 1922.
Self-portrait, 1923-4
Edvard Munch (Norwegian, 1863 – 1944)
Madonna, 1894.
Mark Rothko, 1957 # 20, 1957
Juan Gris, (Spanish, 1887 –
1927) Breakfast, 1914,
collage, crayon and oil on
canvas, 80 x 59cm.
Picasso, Still life with
chair caning, 1912.
Hannah Hoch (German, 1889-1978) Love, photomontage, 1931
Raoul Hausmann, (Austrian, 18861971) The spirit of our time,
assemblage, 33cm high, 1921
Pablo Picasso, Guitar 1914
Guitar, 1912
Big electric chair, 1971 screen print
Based on newspaper image.
Andy Warhol, Marilyn, screenprint series based
on newspaper image, 1967
From last session….Screen printing:
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Roy Lichtenstein, Crying Girl, 1962, painting based on comic book image.
Jackson Pollock used new materials within his artworks – liquid paints; house paints,
broken glass; sand. Also the techniques he used to apply the paint were new: hardened
brushes; sticks; turkey-baster syringes; and famously, DRIPPING the paint from the can
onto the canvas, which was outrageous at the time.
He took his paintings down from the easel and laid the canvas on the floor. This meant he
could approach the canvas from any direction and use his body in new ways. He felt he
‘entered into’ the painting. This was a huge break with Western tradition.
Jackson Pollock, No 11 (Blue Poles), 1952,
212 x 488cm, paint and glass on canvas.
Rosalie Gascoigne,(NZ.1917
– 1999) Suddenly the lake,
1995, formboard plywoods,
galvanised iron sheeting,
acrylic paint on composition
board; four panels overall
(approx.) 131 x 361 x 8 cm
Rosalie Gascoigne (NZ.1917 – 1999) Poplars
19, 1996-97, linoleum on painted wood with
retro-reflective strip,60 × 62cm.
A photo of
poplars.
Drawing, 1950
RK982, 1968-2001
Robert Klippel (Aust 1920-2001)
Australian sculptor. Used found
objects and rubbish to create his earlier works;
later works were in bronze but LOOKED as
though They were created out of found
objects.
These works are not OF anything. They are
Just objects in themselves – note the titles,
Deliberately not telling any story about the
work. Some Ab Ex work was like this.
No. 753, 1989
Joseph Kosuth, Art as idea as idea (water), Photocopy on board, 1966.
Barbara Kruger, I shop therefore I
am, 1980s, photocopy.
Barbara Kruger, You invest in the divinity of
the masterpiece, 1982, photocopy.
Guerrilla Girls Public Service Announcement,
1980s, poster
Marie Mcmahon, Pay the Rent, screenpint
Poster, 1981-2
John Baldessari, (US b. 1931)
I will not make any more boring
art, lithograph, 1971, 57 x 76cm
Piero Manzoni (Italian, 1933-1963)
Artist’s Shit no. 14, 1961,
Yoko Ono, Cut Piece, 1965
Jill Orr, Bleeding Trees, performance
1979