Visual Art-Part1
Visual Art-Part1
Visual Art-Part1
Part 1
Lecturer:
M.Sc. ANTONIO PATRUNO
Practicing Professional Architect
October, 2017
CONTENTS
Definition of Visual Art
History of Visual Art:
From the origin to the Middle Age
Renaissance and Baroque
18th 19th and 20th Century
What is VISUAL ART?
The visual arts are art forms such
as ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture,
printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video,
filmmaking, and architecture.
Many artistic disciplines (performing
arts, conceptual arts, textile arts, etc.) involve
aspects of the visual arts as well as arts of other
types.
Also included within the visual arts are
the applied arts such as industrial
design, graphic design, fashion design, interior
design and decorative art.
Current usage of the term "visual arts"
includes fine art as well as the applied,
decorative arts and crafts, but this was not
always the case.
M.K.Esher - dwg
“Form and content are indivisible“
[Rudolph Arnheim, 1982]
History of Visual Art
In the Prehistoric Era drawings and
paintings has its documented origins in
caves and on rock faces. The finest examples,
believed by some to be 32,000 years old, are
in the Chauvet and Lascaux caves in
southern France.
In shades of red, brown,
yellow and black, the
paintings on the walls
and ceilings are of bison,
cattle, horses and deer.
Frescoes of Pompeii
Caracalla
«Roman Engenering» spread out all over the
known world with the construction of bridges,
anphiteatres and basilicas.
Coliseum
Rome, Italy
In the 10th century the establishment of
churches and monasteries led to the
development of stone architecture that
elaborated vernacular Roman forms, from
which the term "Romanesque" is derived.
Christian Basilica
of St. Paulus
Romanesque
Cathedral of Trani
Puglia, Italy
Romanesque art, especially
metalwork, was at its most
sophisticated in Mosan Art
Portable Altar
Nicholas of Verdun
Flying Buttress
Cathedral of Chartre - France
Laon Cathedral, France
The illuminated manuscripts produced by monks
during the Middle Ages are the most significant
contribution to European visual art.
The Byzantine art was the expression of deep
changes in the Roman Empire
Queen Theodora
Byzantine S. Marco Church
Venice - Italy
Apart from the illuminated manuscripts produced
by monks during the Middle Ages, the next
significant contribution to European art was
from Italy's renaissance painters.
Leonardo da Vinci
Self-portrait &
Homo ad Circulum and
homo ad Quadratum
From Giotto in the 13th
century to Leonardo da
Vinci and Raphael at the
beginning of the 16th
century, this was the richest
period in Italian art as
the chiaroscuro techniques
were used to create the
illusion of 3-D space.
Giotto
Madonna di Ognissanti
Giotto - San Francesco
Giotto
Incontro di Anna e Gioacchino
Giotto
Deposizione di Gesù
Ambrogio Lorenzetti
Allegoria del buon governo e del cattivo governo
(Allegory and effect of good and bad government)
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper
Raffaello Sanzio
Via Crucis (Spasimo) 1517
Raffaello Sanzio, The School of Athens, 1509
Raffaello Sanzio
Eraclito
Detail from
The School of Athens
Raffaello Sanzio
Aristoteles and Plato
Detail from
The School of Athens
Ops!
Leonardo da Vinci
Dama con ermellino, 1491
Raffaello Sanzio
Dama con liocorno, 1506
Leonardo da Vinci
Monnalisa, 1506
Albrecht Dürer
Innsbruck castle courtyard
Albrecht Dürer
Self Portrait with Fur
The 17th century witnessed the emergence of
the great Dutch masters such as the versatile
Rembrandt who was especially remembered for
his portraits and Bible scenes, and Vermeer who
specialized in interior scenes of Dutch life.
Rembrandt, Leçon d’anatomie
Rembrandt, Self-portrait
Vermeere, Les Enfants Terrible
Vermeere, Girl with ear-ring
The Baroque started
after the Renaissance,
from the late 16th
century to the late
17th century. Main
artists of the Baroque
included Caravaggio,
who made heavy use
of tenebrism.
Caravaggio, Self-portrait
Caravaggio
Flagellazione di Gesù
Peter Paul Rubens was a flemish painter who
studied in Italy, worked for local churches
in Antwerp and also painted a series
for Maria de' Medici.
Rubens,
Judgement of Paris
Rubens,
La chasse de Meleagre et Atlante
Rubens,
The Nightwatch
Annibale Carracci took
influences from the Sistine
Chapel and created the
genre of illusionistic ceiling
painting.
Villa Tasca
Palermo Italy
Antonio Canova
Amore e Psiche
The French Empire style is an early-nineteenth-
century design movement in architecture,
furniture production, decorative arts and visual
arts that flourished between 1800 and 1815
during the Consulate and the First French
Empire.
Napoleon’s
bedchamber in
Versaille
Romanticism
The Romantic Period born in Europe toward the
end of the 18th century as an artistic, literary,
musical, cultural and intellectual movement.
It was partly a reaction to the Age of
Enlightment and emphasized intense emotion as
an authentic source of aesthetic experience.
The Romanticism was characterized by its
emphasis on emotion and individualism as well
as glorification of all the past and nature,
preferring the medieval rather than the classical.
Romanticism
Théodore Géricault
The Raft of Medusa 1819
Romanticism
Henry Fuseli
Nightmare, 1781
Romanticism
C. D. Friedrich
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818
Romanticism
Francisco Goya
Saturno devorando a su hijo, 1823
Spanish etching
Francisco Goya
El sueño de la razòn produce monstruos
1799
Interior Design
Owen Jones, father figure
A pivotal figure in popularizing theories of interior
design to the middle class was the architect Owen
Jones. Jones was one of the most influential design
theorists of the 19th century.
His first project was his most important – in 1851
he was responsible for not only the decoration of
Joseph Paxton’s gigantic Crystal Palace for the
Great Exhibition, but also for the arrangement of
the exhibits within.
Interior Design
MS Kungsholm
First Class Smoking Room
Art Deco
Peacock Lantern
Toulouse Lautrec
Mulin Rouge Label
Impressionism
Claude Monet
Degas Breackfast on the grass
The school of dance
Impressionism
Renoire
Le Mulin de la Galette
Impressionism
Paul Cézanne
Madam Cèzanne
in Yellow Chair
Impressionism
Auguste Rodin
The Thinker
Auguste Rodin
The Body in Bronze
Post-impressionism
Van Gogh
Self-portrait with grey hat
Post-impressionism
Van Gogh
The Church in Auvers-surOise
Post-impressionism
Toulouse-Lautrec was
famous for his vivid
paintings of night life
in the Paris district of
Montmartre
Toulouse Lautrec
Ambassadeur Label
Symbolism
Edvar Munch
The Scream
Symbolism
Jerome
Diogenes the Cinic
Symbolism
El simbolismo alquimico
Panteon de Juda
Expressionism
Partly as a result of Munch's
influence, began in Germany
the expressionist movement
that distort reality for an
emotional effect.
Kirkener
L’artiste Marcella
Cubism
The style known as Cubism developed in
France as artists focused on the volume and
space of sharp structures within a composition.
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque were the
leading proponents of the movement. Objects
are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in
an abstracted form. By the 1920s, the style had
developed into surrealism.
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Dora Maar
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Fabrica a Horta de Hebra
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Maria Picasso
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Science and Charity
Cubism
Pablo Picasso
Olga Picasso
Cubism
Georges Braque
Glass on Table
Cubism
Franz Marc
Abstract with Cattle
Surrealism
It was a visual arts and writings that began in
the early 1920s in France.
Surrealist works feature the element of
surprise and unexpected juxtapositions .
Salvador
Dalì
Max Ernst
The Elephant Celebes
Surrealism
Savador Dalì
Persistence of Memory
Surrealism
Savador Dalì
White Horse
Surrealism
Magritte
Golconde
Surrealism
Magritte Magritte
Dreamland Son of Man
Surrealism
Mirò
Constelaciones
Surrealism
Mirò
Sueño y color
Vienna Secession
Gustave Klimt
Sleeping Danae
Vienna Secession
Rembrandt
Sleeping Danae
Gustave Klimt
Detail of Sleeping Danae
Modern Art
The Modern Design grew out of the decorative arts
(Art Deco) in the early 20th century. One of the first
to introduce this style was Frank Lloyd Wright, who
hadn't become hugely popularized until completing
the house called Falling Water in the 1930s.
Other masters of the Modern Design were C.R.
Mackintosh, Le Coubusier, Mies Van der Rohe and
Walter Gropius (one of the founders of the
Bauhaus).
Modern Art
Bar in Rotterdam
Modern Art – Italian Industrial Design
The International Turin Exposition in 1902 was one
of the most important manifestations concerning the
relationship between industry, applied arts and
architecture. It was an extremely successful
exposition with great influence on Italian industrial
design and on its specificity.
It was in this period that furniture design came to life
(design of fanciful furniture conceived by authors
like Duilio Ciambellotti, Ernesto Basile and the
Bugatti brothers). It was the time of luxury industry.
Modern Art – Italian Industrial Design
The vanguard movement that more influenced the
idea of an aesthetic revolution of the world was
Futurism. It was closely related to fascism and its
“spiritual leaders” were Tommaso Marinetti and
Umberto Boccioni.
The project's culture knew great growth between
1920's and 1930's thanks to trade journals. The most
important were “Domus”(founded in 1928 by Gio
Ponti) and “Casabella”. This second review became
the Modernism's official voice thanks to Giuseppe
Pagano and Edoardo Persico's articles.
Gio Ponti - Oak and Pear Wood
Console by Roncoroni, 1940.
The most interesting personalities in this period were
Gio Ponti, Mario Asnago, Claudio Vender, Franco
Albini, Piero Bottoni and Giuseppe Terragni.
Achille e Piergiacomo
Castiglioni Sedia Tric, 1979
Installment by L. Gargantini
for the Bolzano fair, 1957
Memphis Group
Lido Sofa 1980
Studio Alchimia
Olo Chair 1988
The most important Italian Exhibition for Design
is the Triennale di Milano.
Geishe
Mandi Tsung
Ikuyo Toba, Flower
Bushido Code
The soul of samurai
Zen Circle
The Futurism (Futurismo)
It was a cultural, social and artistic movement born in Italy
at the early 20th century, founded by the Italian poet
Filippo Tommaso Martinetti in 1909.
Natalia Gorachova
The Cyclist
Giacomo Balla
Dynamic Expansion + Speed
The Futurism
Giacomo Balla
Dymnamics of a dog on a leash
Umberto Boccioni
The Rising City
The Futurism
Antonio Sant’Elia
Futuristic Architecture
Alessandro Bruschetti
Aereo-self-portrait
The Metaphysical Art
(Pittura Metafisca)
Was a painting style of
the 20th century founded
by the Italians Giorgio de
Chirico e Carlo Carrà.
Dreamlike works with
sharp contrasts of light
and shadow often with a
vaguely threatening and
mysterious quality are
typical of this art.
Giorgio de Chirico
Ettore e Andromaca
Andy Warhol
Balthus
Kathia with cat
Renato Guttuso
Marta 1949
Renato Guttuso
Il bordello 1956
I Campieri 1949
Sears Tower (Willis)
by Bruce Graham & Fazlur Khan
of Skidmore, Owings & Merril
Norman Foster
Airport
Bilbao, Spain
Santiago Calatrava
Bridge
Cosenza, Italy
Jean Nouvelle
Galleries Lafayette
Berlin, Germany
F. O. Gehry
Guggenheim Museum
Bilbao, Spain
Vitra Museum
Weil am Rhein, CH
Renzo Piano
Sony Centre
by Murphy-Jahn, Kollhof,
Isozaki, Piano, Rogers
Potzdamer Platz
Berlin, Germany
Daimler-Chrysler Centre
by Rogers
Underground Entrance
Jewish Museum - Berlin, Germany
by Libenskid
Dubai Architecture
Dubai Architecture
Residence in Bangkok, Thailand
«L’architettura è un cristallo»
(architecture is a crystal)
Gio Ponti
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