INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ART

Lecture I: What is ‘Art’?

What can we ask about this cup?

Mark Rothko (American, twentieth century)

The 3 Levels of Art:

1: universal – what we all share2: local – what our culture teaches us3: individual – what you decide

Byzantine Icon

Chinese (twelfth century)

Jeong Seon (Korean, seventeenth/eighteenth century)

Korean ink painting

Islamic art: Muhammad Zakariya

Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, 18th Century)

Ron Muek (Canadian, Contemporary)

Press photo

Stephan Lochner (German, Sixteenth century)

Henri Fantin Latour (French, nineteenth century)

‘kitsch’

Hiroshige (Japan, nineteenth century)

Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, nineteenth century)

Vassily Kandinsky (Russian, twentieth century)Abstract art

Kazimir Malevich (Russian, twentieth century)

James Turrell (American, contemporary)Installation art

Hiroki Sugimoto (Japanese, contemporary)Art photography

Raphael (Italian, sixteenth century)

Gustave Courbet (French, nineteenth century)

Alphonse Bouguereau (French, nineteenth century)

Paul Gauguin (French, nineteenth century)

Picasso (Spanish, twentieth century)

African tribal mask

Picasso

Francis Bacon (British, twentieth century)

Soviet Art (twentieth century)

Nazi art (twentieth century)

Above; Communist Chinese artBelow: Jackson Pollock (American, twentieth century)Abstract Expressionism

Robert Smithson (American, twentieth century)Land Art

Joseph Kossuth (American, twentieth century)Conceptual Art

Xu Bing (Chinese, contemporary)

Lee Ufan (Korean, contemporary)

Thomas Kinkade (American, contemporary)

What is an Artist?!6th century Artist’s Workshop

Seventeenth Century Artist’s Workshop

• Ecole des beaux Arts,• Paris.• Mid-19th century

Jan Vermeer, The Artist and His Model, !7th century

• Caspar David Friedrich’s studio, 1812

GustaveCourbet,‘The Artist’sStudio’1849-50

• Francis bacon’s Studio, London, 1950’s – 1980’s

• Andy Warhol,• ‘The Factory’.• New York, 1960’s

• Anselm Kiefer’s studio, 2000

Vincent van Gogh’s last painting.

Jackson Pollock painting

Johannes Itten, Bauhaus, 1920’s

Tracey Emin

Chinese artist, Ai Weiwei

Ai Weiwei's Sunflower Seeds cover half of the Tate's Turbine Hall. 2010.

Art Scene WarehouseShanghai, China

Lee Ufan exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2011

New Delhi, India, Art Fair 2011

Piero della Francesca, ‘Baptism of Christ’, 1450

Paul Cezanne, ‘Large Bathers’, 1898-1905

Top: Medieval TriptychTop Right: Sandro Botticelli, 1470’sBottom Right: Jean Fouquet, c.1510

Top: Victorian PaintingLeft: Contemporary Indian PaintingBottom; Picasso, 1920’s

Bottom Left: Mark Rothko, 1950’s

Left: Italian Renaissance, 1480’s

Bottom: Northern Renaissance, 1530’s

Left: Mark Rothko Right: Caspar David Friedrich

Left: Hiroshige, 1860’s, Right: Van Gogh, 1880’s

Michelangelo, The Sistine Chapel, Vatican City, Rome

Salon, 1827

Salon, Nineteenth Century, France

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