Please write on your index card:*Name *Year & Major

*Email (only if not using Columbia email)

*For group work: are there people you would like to be paired with?

*Do you have a job or sports practice that makes it impossible to go to a

museum, if so, what days?

What is art?

Art as physical object

Art as signifier (of something else)

VS.

•Materials and techniques•Visual effects created (Formal Analysis) through:

Line ShapeColor Perspective etc.

•Size, scale and location•Art as commodity (patronage, authenticity, exchange value)•Issues of cultural patrimony •How does a given work get made in a specific time and place?

•Genres (esp. of painting)Portraiture/self-portraitureHistory / mythologicalReligious and others…

•Context (broadly defined)•Tradition and rupture in art•West and non-West in Western art•Art as something defined by theartist or museum/gallery system

Materials and techniques

Materials and techniques“The Agony in the Garden”

Dürer, Woodcut, ca. 1510 Rembrandt, Etching withDrypoint, ca. 1567

Carlo CrivelliCrucifixion, ca. 1480

Pietro PeruginoThe Crucifixion with SaintsLate 15th century40 x 22”

Visual effects

Right: an altarpiece in situ

Size, scale and location

Raphael, The Sistine Madonna, c. 1512-13. Oil on canvas

Art as commodity

Cultural patrimony

Genres of art

(Self) Portraiture

Landscape/History painting

Still life

Context

Las Meninas, 1656, Diego

Velázquez (1599-1660)

Tradition and rupture

Picasso – one of hundreds of Las Meninas “remixes” he made. Ca. 1930s

Eve Sussman, still from video “recreation” of Las Meninas, 2002, Bklyn

West and/vs. non-West

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907(L)Iumba mask (R)

What is “the West?” and Is theresomething inherently “Western”

about Western art?

What is Western about Western art?

•Works in specific genres

•Self-referential character of Western art

•Tradition, imitation and rupture

•Belief that works of art have an improving influence on those who view it

•Specific visual strategies or tricks, preferred and demanded (esp. linear perspective)

Raphael, “The School of Athens” fresco

“Art autobiography”

Death mask of King Tutankhamun, Egyptian, 1332-1323 BCEGold inlaid with glass and colored stones~21” H Louis Comfort Tiffany

Hudson River Landscape, colored glass, ca. 1905

What is your “art autobiography?” – (written, not PPT)

Kees Van Dongen Woman in a Red HatOil on canvas, ca. 1907

Zapotec urn, southern Mexico, ca. 600 CEAbout 22” H

Rene Magritte, The Treason of Images, ca. 1928-29