Terms Of The Day For 10-1

Photography - “light writing” or “light drawing”--the process, activity and art of creating still or moving pictures by recording radiation on a sensitive medium, such as a photographic film, or an electronic sensor.
Camera Obscura - a darkened enclosure in which images of outside objects are projected through a small aperture or lens onto a facing surface.
Daguerreotype - a photograph made by an early photographic process developed by Louis Daguerre; the image was produced on a silver plate sensitized to iodine and developed in mercury vapor.
Photo Essay - a collection of photographs on a single subject, arranged to tell a story or convey a mood in a way not possible with a single photograph.
Persistence of Vision - the brief retention of an image by the retina of our eyes after a stimulus is removed.
Film Editing - a process in which a film editor selects the best shots from raw footage, then reassemles them into meaningful sequences.
Close-Up - a shot shoing only the actor’s face.
Longshot - a shot photographed from a distance to emphasize large groups of people or a panoramic setting.
Montage - an editing technique combining a number of very brief shots, representing distinct but related subject matter, in order to create new relationships, build strong emotion, or indicate the passage of time.

Clips From Landmark Silent Films

Georges Méliès
A Trip To The Moon
1902



D. W. Griffith
Intolerance
1916



Sergei Eisenstein
The Battleship Potemkin
1925



Charlie Chaplin
City Lights
1931

Quiz #2

Below are 9 images from which I will choose the 5 for the quiz next week. Study up!

Vincent van Gogh

The Fountain In The Garden Hospital

1889

Jan van Eyk

Madonna And Child With The Chancellor Rolin

1433-1434

Wayne Thiebaud

Around The Cake

1962

Michelangelo Buonarotti

Studies for the Libyan Sibyl

c. 1510

Winslow Homer

Sloop, Nassau

1899

Gustav Klimpt

The Kiss

1907-1908

Damien Hirst

Posterity--The Holy Place

2006

M. C. Escher

Sky And Water 1

1938

Asher Brown Durand

Kindred Spirits

1849

Short Essay Questions For The Quiz:

#1. Give the definitions of the general Formal, Sociocultural, and Expressive Theories of art criticism.

#2. Define the words "pigment" and "vehicle." What are the vehicles used in watercolor, tempera, oil, and acrylic painting?

Simon Schama's THE POWER OF ART: Rembrandt

Click HERE for a very interesting program on the life of Rembrandt that will give you much more information about his rise and fall than I was able to give you in class. It will also give you more to work with on the essay question that will be on the midterm exam.

Terms Of The Day For 9-24

Drawing - to pull, push, or drag a marking tool across a surface to leave lines, marks, and values which construct a picture.
Receptive Drawing - a drawing which attempts to capture th physical appearance of something before the artist.
Projective Drawing - a drawing of something which already exist in the mind of the artist, either as a memory of something seen or something imagined.
Cartoon - a full-sized drawing made as a guide for a large work in another medium, particularly a fresco painting, mosaic, or tapestry.
Dry Media - drawing materials such as pencil, charcoal, conte crayon, and pastel.
Liquid Media - drawing materials such as ink and sometimes watercolor.
Painting - the process, art, or occupation of coating surfaces with paint for a utilitarian or artistic effect.
Pigment - dry coloring matter, usually an insoluble powder, to be mixed with water, oil, or another base to produce paint and similar products
Vehicle (or Medium) - the substance in which pigment is suspended in order to apply it.
Impasto - The application of thick layers of pigment to a canvas or other surface in painting.
Fresco - An ancient wall painting technique in which very finely ground pigments suspended in water are applied to a damp lime-plaster surface.
Printmaking - the artistic design and manufacture of multiple copies (prints) of a single image

Rembrandt's Self-Portraits

1634

1658

1669

Sanford Biggers