Drawing and Painting
Livoti
11-10 to 11-14
Monday 11-10
Aim: How can you begin to add color to your
landscape?
Do Now: Following the technique
demonstration, write a brief statement about
what techniques you will apply to your artwork.
HW: Due Friday 11-14: Create a detailed drawing of one of the
following points of view:
Your room as it would appear through a key hole, your room
viewed from inside of a closet within your room, or your room
viewed from under the bed
Tuesday 11-11 No Classes
Wed 11-12
• Aim: How can you work in an open studio to apply
color to your landscape?
Do Now: Practice techniques in your sketchbook for
creating implied texture
Thurs 11-13
Field trip- complete coverage work
Friday 11-14
• Aim: How can you continue to work in an
open studio to create your landscape
• Do Now: Flashback Friday art analysis:
• Art of the Sublime
HW due today
John Martin
The Great Day of His Wrath 1851-3
Oil on canvas
Scholars have debated the term ‘sublime’ in the field of aesthetics for centuries. Many more
artists, writers, poets and musicians have sought to evoke or respond to it. But what is the
sublime? Is it a thing, a feeling, an event or a state of mind? The word, of Latin origin, means
something that is ‘set or raised aloft, high up’. The sublime is further defined as having the
quality of such greatness, magnitude or intensity, whether physical, metaphysical, moral,
aesthetic or spiritual, that our ability to perceive or comprehend it is temporarily
overwhelmed.
The best-known theory published in Britain is Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into
the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). Burke’s definition of the sublime
focuses on such terms as darkness, obscurity, privation, vastness, magnificence, loudness
and suddenness, and that our reaction is defined by a kind of pleasurable terror.
During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sublime was associated in particular
with the immensity or turbulence of Nature and human responses to it. Consequently, in
Western art, ‘sublime’ landscapes and seascapes, especially those from the Romantic period,
often represent towering mountain ranges, deep chasms, violent storms and seas, volcanic
eruptions or avalanches which, if actually experienced, would be life threatening.
Other themes relate to the epic and the supernatural as described in drama, poetry and
fiction, for example, by Homer, Dante, Milton, Shakespeare, as well as more contemporary
authors, such as Byron and Mary Shelley. Arguably the greatest source of the sublime for
European art is the Bible, which begins with the creation of the world and ends with
apocalypse and the Last Judgement.