Art Appreciation closely observe our world, which will

lead us to be critical thinkers.

- requires a certain degree of intelligence and
not just a simple ‘liking’ of the work of art.
- The exploration and analysis of the art forms
that we are exposed to Art
- The ability to view art throughout history,
focusing on the cultures and the people, and - INTENTION: to give people material to
how art developed in the specific periods create their own thoughts and emotions
- Man-made material - one that is
Art manufactured through human effort and are
-
man-made, because we are rational beings, usually made using natural, raw materials
capable of expressing ourselves through the - SUBJECT: second consideration
creation of various forms of art: - Human way of expressing their
 painting vulnerabilities
 sculpture - Different from person to person depending
 architecture on how they express who they are
 music - Sophisticated tool
 literature - Communicate in the world in order to help
 theatre us live a better life
 dance - Like love, it is difficult to define
 drama Art is like love, it is difficult to define because of the
 film nature of the art.
 photography ang allied arts
- his way of expressing himself through What makes an art valuable is the art itself.
visual, auditory, and performing arts Fine Art
- extension of one’s ‘soul’
- soul here means “rational soul”(concept of - Is where a person mostly focuses on the
Aristotle) visual aspect of things rather than the entire
- way of expressing his ideas, beliefs, political domain of arts
views and emotions - An area that allowed to aesthetically
- embodies skill and talent distinguish one concept from the other
- everyone can be an artist but not all has the - Artists have spent decades on refining the
potential, those only know the basic of art way they present their art; has been centuries
making in the making
- when combined with politics is powerful - Deals with freehand approach
- has multiple interpretations  7 SECTIONS
- tool for self-expression 1. Architecture
 Do I now have a clear idea of ART? 2. Sculpting
3. Music
o Yes, art is only made by humans because 4. Dancing
we are the one who can only express our 5. Dramatics
ideas. 6. Literature
 Do I have the potential to be an artist? 7. Painting
o I have a potential to be an artist only if I  the following activities come into play:
know the basic art of making. o DRAWING
 Will this course make me a critical thinker by  Charcoal
analyzing works of art?  Chalk
o I think yes, it takes time to examine the  Pastel
details of art, and by taking this course,  Pencil
it will develop our mind to analyze and  Pen and ink
 Caricature
 o Sculpture Quick An inspiration An expression
 Bronze Definition given that is
 Stone manifestation visually
o Painting through a person presented
 Tempera painting Viewers Perceive art Perceive fine
 Oil painting differently art in the form
 Water colour painting depending on of 7 sections
 Gouache their perception
o Printmaking Difference Between Arts and Fine Arts
 Engraving
 Has been centuries in the making
 Lithography wood carving
 Visible but to certain people who do not
 Etching
study the matter
Applied Arts  Apparent throughout history and the most
recent differences between fine arts and arts
- Deals with creativity which is have made it possible to comprehend them
commercialized and materialized such as
architecture, graphic designing, interior Difference Between Fine Arts and Applied Arts
designing, fashion designing, etc
 The work created and made
- Product or service is soothing to the eyes
- The creativity is more sophisticated and Historical Development of Art
technical
- Deals with technically and materialized 1. Rome 290 AD
work  Religion – like an advertisement
 WORKS - they used art to advertise and send
o Industrial design messages
2. Thailand 15 century C. 1450
o Fashion design
o Interior design - as invitation to calmness and
o Graphics Art contemplation
o Decorative Arts
- Buddhism: to eliminate suffering
o Tapestry
o Batik 3. Paris 1801
o Jewellery  French artist Jacques-Louis David –
o Metalwork “Napoleon” Victory in war crossing
o Pottery the mountain
o Goldsmithing - politics
o Basketry - symbol of power
- to show hierarchy/authority
o Mosaic Art
4. 1833-Theofile Gautier
o Architecture  Art for its own sake; art for art sake
BASIS OF ARTS FINE ARTS - away from religion and politics
COMPAR 5. New York 1917-Marshall Dechaux
ISON  Independent artist
Category It is in general This is a sub-  Rebellion of many notion of what art
form category of is
arts as a - provocative
whole - promoting the future
Purpose Inspired by the Inspired to - art must have purpose
artist’s create an - futuristic
perception of an aesthetically 6. New York 1949 MARCUS
object pleasing ROTHKOWITZ
object  Pure color fields Abstract
 - has purpose - when recreating other’s work, he must
- highly appealing know the meaning behind it
- no more subject 4. The percipient’s Re-creation of the
- free to interpret – era of artist’s idea
impressionist - selective
- post-impressionist – artist puts - basing other’s work
experience and not feelings in their 5. Art as expression of:
art a. Individual – personality,
7. Venice 2005-Spanish curators, Maria de background
Corral and Rosa Martinez b. Society
 Art becomes the playground of super
rich
- involves money QUESTIONS THAT ARE INVOVED IN ART
RELATION OF ARTS IN OTHER ANALYSIS
DISCIPLINE
1. Arts and Religion I. What is the work of art about? Referring
- art is used for communication to the SUBJECT of art.
2. Arts and Economics
- art is related to traveling Subject
- trading - is the term used for whatever is represented
3. Arts and Politics in a work of art, it has meaning,
4. Arts and Geography
a. Topography – landscape, open area Content
- can distinguish lines
- is the significance, value and importance to
2 perspective
us.
1. Linear
- Broader meaning
perspective
- when going far, “non-objective arts”
the image
becomes small - which they are what they are and do not
2. aerial perspective represent anything in real world.
- - abstract has no subject but has content
blurring/fuzzy/glo SOURCES:
omy when going
far 1. Nature
b. Climate and weather – affected in - common source of art
buildings and establishments 2. History
- architectural - happening during particular period of time
arts - something that happened in that particular
5. Arts and Technology period of time
- now a days 3. Greek and Roman Mythology
- gods and goddesses
NATURE OF ART - deities and heroes
1. Art as Creation 4. Judeo-Christian sources of Art
2. Art as Re-creation - Bible
- represent reality 5. Apocrypha
- if the painting has no subject, the artist - the books in the Bible that are officially not
expresses his feelings and emotions accepted
3. The performer’s re-creation of the artist’s 6. Lives of saints
work 7. Rituals
- dances, festivals, beliefs
8. Oriental sacred texts Unlike the subject, there is no art without medium.
9. Subjects derived from other works of art
- based from another work of art 3 divisions of art
- e.g. Romeo and Juliet 1. Visual art
2. Auditory art
II. What is it for? Referring to the 3. Combine arts
FUNCTIONS of art. - can see and hear
Functional art - e.g. theater

- Have special use MEDIUMS

- Have practical usage - It is the material which a work of art is
Non-functional art created

- No special usage THE PRINCIPAL MEDIA OF

CREATIVE ART EXPRESSION
Can we say that functional art is more valuable
than arts that are not functional? 1. Language
- music
- Even it is not functional, it has value. Even - combine arts
art do not have functions, it has value. - communication use
FUNCTIONS OF ART 2. Tone
1. Self-expression of the artist 3. Physical matter/media
2. Communication of ideas - visual arts
- also for communication - Juan Tulas – styroist
- to convey ideas of the artist
IV. How is it put together? Referring to the
3. Art for art’s sake ELEMENTS AND ORGANIZATION
- paint the reality Elements
4. Aesthetics - Things we noticed in art work, not the
materials of course.
5. Utilitarian
EXPRESSIVE ELEMENTS IN AN ART
- satisfies the artist and viewer FORM
6. Enhancement of prestige 1. Line
7. Educational / instructional - define the subject
8. Entertainment - essential element
- gives pleasure - separates the subject to the background
- e.g. music a. Straight line
9. Commodity - line of masculine; either
- source of income horizontal, vertical, or diagonal.
- e.g. souvenirs b. Curve line
- line of feminine (single line)
10. Ritual and Ceremonial - line of grace (double line)
- gods and soul c. Horizontal
- line of repose
11. Instrument of change - at rest
d. Vertical
III. What is it made of? Referring to the
- line of balance
MEDIUM of art
- stability
 - static - It holds the work together. The skeleton of
e. Diagonal the art work
- line of action
- moving Kinds:

2. Value 1. Pyramidal plan

- broad base
- light and shadowing
-
- lightness of artwork
2. Symmetrical
3. Tone/ shading /Chiaroscuro
- like mirror
- darkness
- has balance and proportional
- contrasting
4. Color
-
- most appealing element
3. Asymmetrical
- catches attention
- not balanced
Hue
- not mirrored
- distinguish one color to another
Intensity -
C
- appearance of the color 4. Radial
Texture - meeting point at the middle
- roughness/smoothness - convergence at the middle
- sense of touch
5. Volume / Mass /Solidity -
- thickness BASIC PRINCIPLES OF ORGANIZATION
6. Space 1. Balance
- distance 2. Symmetrical and asymmetrical
7. Perspective 3. Proportion
- creates illusion 4. Emphasis
a. Linear perspective - has flows
- when going far, the image 5. Repetition
becomes small
6. Unity
b. arial perspective
- oneness of the artwork
- blurring/fuzzy/gloomy when going
far 7. Contrast
Organization 8. Frame
Plan V. What is its mood? Referring to the
STYLE
Kinds:  We must first learn to understand the history
of the work of art before we can
1. Abstraction ‘appreciate’ it.
- hides the subject  ‘appreciating’ a work of art is a process
- no reality unlike appreciating nature which is
2. Cubism automatic.
- geometrical shapes  You need to understand the work from many
- has measurement different angles to find its beauty.
3. Distortion
- deviate reality Craft
- another form of abstractionism
4. Expressionism - Often used to describe the family of artistic
- use of powerful/influential emotion practices within the family decorative arts
5. Fauvism that traditionally are defined by their
- use/application of vibrant color relationship to functional or utilitarian
6. Impressionism products (such as sculptural forms in the
- rebelled against the classical art vessel tradition) or by their use of such
- no more clear subject natural media as wood, clay, ceramics, glass
- separate pigments - The craftsman has no intention of showing
7. Post-impressionism his artistic emotions
- inclusion of emotion  Imagination is the key
8. Pointillism  Appreciating art means understanding it
- connection of dots from its very core
9. Primitivism
10. Realism
- represent reality OOOOHH
11. Surrealism
- Depicts yellow male genitalia on a black
- application of nightmare
background
12. Futurism
- Painted by Richard Gomez
- nightmare
- Means lust, self pleasure, power
Is it good and beautiful? Referring to
Simon de Beauvoir
JUDGEMENT
- French feminist
 it involves Aesthetical taste
- Second sex
Paintings or any artwork talks. Uses art to convey
Aesthetics ideas.

- finding the beauty beyond what you can see Avoid being subjective, thus, be objective.
- finding the beauty in nature of an art There are two realities inevitably go in every
Beauty aspects of our lives

- it is the quality or aggregate of qualities in a 1. Has reference from the art object which
person or thing that gives pleasure to the resembles with language
senses or pleasurably exalts (elevates) the 2. Has no reference from the art object which
mind or spirit resembles with language
- measurable to your senses Aestheticians
 The beauty we see in nature is different
when we look at a work of art. - They deal what is art, its beauty, and value
 Understanding is the key to ‘beauty’.
What makes art beautiful?/How to make art
aesthetic?
1. Universality in art - is the field of philosophy that deals with the
- One way or another, art will always nature and appreciation of art, beauty, and
highlight an aspect of universal being taste.
- Make it beautiful - Aesthetics is central to any exploration of
2. Simple art.
- Art should speak for itself and that’s why - Sometimes beauty is not the artist's ultimate
when you go to a gallery, you stare at goal.
different pieces and let them talk to you, and - Art is intended to appeal and connect with
that is the true beauty of art, the potential to human emotion.
communicate without using any words - If you already have contemplation
- Pices/parts - Uses mind
3. One-ness
- Such pieces create visual oneness for the David Hume
entire art piece • David Hume’s views on aesthetic theory and
- emphasis the philosophy of art are to be found in his
4. Message work on moral theory and in several essays.
- The spirit of art prevails not only in the
artists' workshop, art gallery, or museum, • Although there is a tendency to emphasize
but is also to permeate every other human the two essays devoted to art, “Of the
interest and enterprise. Standard of Taste” and “Of Tragedy,” his
views on art and aesthetic judgment are
Artistic and the aesthetic intimately connected to his moral
• Shockingly, there is still an almost universal philosophy and theories of human thought
failure to recognize the significant and emotion.
distinction between the artistic and the • His theory of taste and beauty is not entirely
aesthetic. original, but his arguments generally display
• It is surprising because when it is pointed the keen analysis typical of his best work.
out, the distinction is immediately obvious; Hume’s archaic terminology is occasionally
the differences are often so significant that it an obstacle to appreciating his analysis,
is bizarre to regard the artistic as of the same inviting conflicting readings of his position.
kind as the aesthetic.  “Beauty is no quality in things
• Because of the widespread, traditional, and themselves: It exists merely in the mind
unquestioned assumption by philosophers which contemplates them; and each
and other theorists over centuries, I too mind perceives a different beauty.”
accepted it at first.  “ a rule, by which the sentiments of men
maybe reconciled.”
• But then, one day, it struck me how absurd it
is to regard them as synonymous, or, at least,
to consider the artistic as a species of the Ways of looking at art
aesthetic.
Looking at art requires an effort to look in a
• It should have been obvious for years that serious, focused manner.
they are quite different.
You need focused manner in analyzing art.
Artistic
You need time, seriousness, effort
- You just simply acknowledge
- Use of five senses only In order to experience art, we should of course visit
cultural spaces
Aesthetics
 Museums
 Galleries
 Old churches
  Historical places 3. Take a class
 Century old houses 4. Write what you know
 Parks 5. Visit a museum
 Cinemas - Exposure
 Theater performances 6. See through different angles
7. Analyze one thing
Art cannot be fully experienced without our - Starting point
cooperation, and this involves, above all, our 8. Think about your feelings
sacrifice of time. 9. Interview someone
Two seconds – the average time museum visitors - Learn to listen
spend looking at a work of art 10. Accept it
- Accept that you don’t understand
The encounter with art is precious… anything
Understand the artist’s culture KELLY MEDFORD
- His culture - Art can often seem inaccessible
- His belief because it has been stereotyped in
This involves some preparation popular culture as something that
only particularly educated or
- The artist put some effort wealthy people can enjoy
- It takes time to make an artwork - Methodology
Read the artist’s biography First Method
Art is our legacy, our means of sharing in the • Understanding the Artist and their
spiritual greatness of other men and women. Context
Art represents a continuum of human experience 1. Understand the historical context of the
across all parts of the world and all periods of time when the art was produced.
history
Pablo Picasso
No single interpretation of art is ever “right”, not
even the artist’s own - Father of cubism
- Guernica (1937)
Seeing – requires you to use your brain, to direct o Painting is not done to
your eyes, to ask questions and to process decorate apartments. It is an
information instrument of war against
Steps: brutality and darkness

1. Full view George Braque

2. Artist - Friend of Pablo
3. Pick a starting point - Recognized as father of cubism
4. Figure it out 2. Find out the genre of the painting
- Find the genre – when it is made
3. Learn about the art movements or
MICHELLE GEORGE schools that influenced the piece
4. Read up on the life and perspective of
You don’t have to be an artist to appreciate art! the artist
10 Tips For Art Appreciation Second Method
1. Learn a Little Bit Everyday  Recognizing an artist’s craft
- By parts 1. Learn when the piece was produced
2. Try an art project - Get the plate
 2. Identify the medium that was used to make - Venus of Willendorf - was found in
the art a site of an Aurignacian settlement;
3. Recognize the artist’s effort to convey lines limestone statuette; 4.4 inches
4. Pay attention to the shapes that stand out in - Stonehenge – commanded by
the painting Druids; prehistoric monument on
- Shapes can be: Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England
Geometric – have measurement
Organic – freehand Mesopotamian (3500 b.c.–539 b.c.)
5. Notice how the artist uses color - Iran, Iraq, Pakistan
- Cooling/calming effect (blue) - Sumerian
- Optimistic effect (yellow) - Animal skins (medium)
6. Study the brushwork of a painted piece - Ur – important city of ancient southern
- Intensity depends on the brush Mesopotamia; To show hierarchy
- Soft feathery brush (light) - The Ishtar Gate - eighth gate to the inner
- Harsh brush city of Babylon; Also architectural style – to
Third Method protect the kingdom
- Hammurabi – carved code of laws in
 Making Meaning out of art precious stone
1. Keep an open mind - Social discrimination
- Remove biases
2. Evaluate how a work of art makes you feel Egyptian (3100 b.c.–30 b.c.)
3. Offer your own interpretation of what art - Narmer – Egyptian pharaoh of the Early
means Dynastic Period
4. Applaud the ambiguity of abstraction - Ramesses II – Moises’ half brother; third
5. Learn what you like and don’t like pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt
- The Hitties – Anatolian people
- Cleopatra VII Philopator – last active ruler
Art Movement 1 – From Cave Art to of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
Renaissance Art - Imhotep – was an Egyptian chancellor to
the pharaoh Djoser; made of steel
Stone Age (30,000 b.c.–2500 b.c.) - Step pyramids are structures which
- Paint in stone characterized several cultures throughout
- Cave painting history, in several locations throughout the
- Wall (medium) world
- To show that they existed - The Great Pyramid of Giza - is the oldest
- It’s not the artistic, it’s about and largest of the three pyramids in the Giza
aesthetic pyramid complex bordering present-day
- Pictograms – carved Giza in Greater Cairo, Egypt.
- Low relief - To immortalize their power and authority
- high relief – sculpture - Egypt became Roman empire
- architectural styles - The Nefertiti Bust - is a painted stucco-
- Lascaux – network of caves near the coated limestone bust of Nefertiti, the Great
village of Montignac, in the Royal Wife of Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten.
department of Dordogne in - Bronze, gold, or copper (steel)
southwestern France. Over 600 - They are the one who introduce pyramidal
parietal wall paintings cover the Greek and Hellenistic (850 b.c.–31 b.c.)
interior walls and ceilings of the
cave. - Develop establishments
- Paleolithic/Palaeolithic - Old Stone - Greek idealism: balance, perfect
Age. proportions; architectural orders (Doric,
Ionic, Corinthian)
 - Doric = Power - Hirosige
- Ionic = Intelligence
- Corinthian = Beauty Byzantine and Islamic (a.d. 476–a.d.1453)
- The Parthenon – former temple on the - Heavenly Byzantine mosaics; Islamic
Athenian Acropolis, Greece; dedicated to architecture and amazing maze-like design
the goddess Athena - Hagia Sophia – Byzantine structure; gothic
Roman (500 b.c.– a.d. 476) - Great Mosque of Ayasofya - place of
worship in Istanbul's capital district of Fatih;
- Roman realism: practical and down to earth; fresco
the arch. - Andrei Rublev – commissioned to create
- Julius Caesar Assassinated. On March 15, decorations in basilica
44 B.C.E., - The Great Mosque of Cordova - It served
- Caesar Augustus was one of the most as a central Prayer hall for personal
successful Roman emperors. devotion, the five daily Muslim prayers and
- Augustus of Prima Porta is a full-length the special Friday prayers
portrait statue of Augustus Caesar, the first - The Alhambra - It is the most important
emperor of the Roman Empire. surviving remnant of the period of Islamic
- Diocletian, a forceful Roman general, seized rule in the Iberian Peninsula
power and declared himself the new
emperor. Middle Ages (500–1400)
- The fall of the Western Roman Empire - Basilica Christianity emerged
- The Colosseum or Coliseum, also known - St. Sernin
as the Flavian Amphitheatre, is an oval - Durham Cathedral
amphitheater in the center of the city of - Notre Dame de Paris - The cathedral was
Rome, Italy consecrated to the Virgin Mary and
- The Dacian Wars (101–102, 105–106) considered to be one of the finest examples
were two military campaigns fought of French Gothic architecture
between the Roman Empire and Dacia - Duccio di Buoninsegna was an Italian
during Emperor Trajan's rule.; to show that painter active in Siena, Tuscany, in the late
they were invaded 13th and early 14th century. ; fresco; painted
- Massive monument in walls
- The Pantheon – former Roman temple, - Giotto di Bondone, known mononymously
now a Catholic church as Giotto and Latinised as Giottus, was an
Indian, Chinese, and Japanese(653 b.c.–a.d. Italian painter and architect from Florence
1900) during the Late Middle Ages. ; he painted
ceilings
- Serene, meditative art, and Arts of the
Floating World Early and High Renaissance (1400–1550)
- Birth of Buddha - Renaissance means rebirth
- Silk Road opens – used for trading - Rebirth of classical culture
- Nature – art subject - Gutenberg invents movable type (1447)
- Lines - Turks conquer
- Gu Kaizhi (simplified Chinese: was a - Constantinople (1453)
Chinese painter and politician.; He was a - Columbus lands in New World (1492)
celebrated painter of ancient China. - MartinLuther starts Reformation (1517)
- Li Cheng - Artistically and Aesthetically
- Guo Xi - Painting and sculpture
- Hokusai, was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e - Lorenzo Ghiberti – he designed “Gates of
painter and printmaker of the Edo period Paradise”, stating what happened in the
- 36 Views of Mt. Fuji Bible
- Hiroshige
- Filippo Brunelleschi, considered to be a gives the painting a hazy
founding father of Renaissance architecture atmosphere
- Brunelleschi – blueprint; his major work is  He used realism
the dome of the Cathedral of Santa Maria  Perspective background –
del Fiore (the Duomo) in Florence; plan; aerial perspective
geometrical shapes
- Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi,
known as Sandro Botticelli, was an Italian Art movements pre-historic to renaissance
painter of the Early Renaissance. ; designed Art movements 1430-1750
and popularize a lot of elements; the birth of
Venus; line of grace; The Primavera; Athena Monalisa
and the Centaur
- Created by Leonardo Da Vinci
- Donatello was one of greatest Italian
- 30x28 inches
Renaissance artists, noted especially for his
- Known by many names:
sculptures in marble, bronze, and wood.;
o La Gioconda – pertaining to her
became popular because of David (the death
of Goliath) o Lisa del Giocondo – with the
- Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as surname of his husband
Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect o Monalisa
of the High Renaissance. o Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of
- School of Athens – not realism, it is Francesco del Giocondo
representation; work of Raffaello - In background: wide road and bridge
- Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti - Smile represents the idea of happiness
Simoni - Gioconda – Italian term which means
o The Pieta – depicts the body of delight
Jesus in the lap of his mother after - Mona – my lady; madam; ma’am
the Crucifixition - Madam Lisa Gherardini del Giocondo
o he carved his name across Mary's - All about Da Vinci
sash right between her breasts - Unfinished artwork
(sculpture) - It was stolen that is why it is famous
o Sistine Chapel – most of the arts The lady with an ermine
was made by him
o The Creation of Adam – a fresco - La Dama con I’Ermellino
painted by him - Poland
o The Last Judgement – fresco, - All about the subject
covering the whole altar wall of the - Finished work
Sistine Chapel in Vatican city Jason Hiner – blogger
 Biagio sa Cesena – the papal
master of ceremonies, he is 4 glimpse
the devil Minos in the Last 1. Nothing to offer – artistic point of view
Judgement picture on the 2. He saw the vibrant color of the dress
Sistine Chapel wall 3. The thing that she’s holding
o Subject is naked, because they want 4. How on Earth did Da Vinci painted her
to depict the perfect anatomy of a beauty
person.
- Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci – Italian What he sees in the painting
polymath of the Renaissance 1. The woman shows tranquility
o Mona Lisa – La Gioconda; France; 2. She’s calm, there’s no place of arrogant,
wife of Francesco del Giocondo she’s peaceful
 Sfumato technique – Italian
word that means smoke; Cecilia Gallerani
 - she came form respectable family, but not 2. Symbol of purity – prefers to be captured
member of nobility than running away
- They came from Sienna, Italy
- 1473 – born *Da Vinci used the ermine in the painting to show
- She loves Latin the personality of Cecilia
- poetist Lisa
- Father – official in a courtroom; Fazio
- Ludovico Maria Sforza – his father is - Florence (place)
Francesco - Mother of 6
- Francesco – Fazio’s boss; he promoted - Submissive wife of a merchant husband
Fazio - Her baby died (the baby in the art)
- She’s smart but not educated formally but Characteristic of Da Vinci’s style
tutored by her brother
- At the age of 10, she was engaged to Stefano - It has blurred outline
Visconti (fixed marriage), to be a member of - Graceful figure
nobility; for 4 years, the marriage ended up - Dramatic contrast of light and dark
because her family did not meet the - Overall feeling of color
requirement of her husband’s parent
“art meant science; art meant a proof of life!”
- At the age of 14/16, monasty; Ludovico
challenged her Art Movements
Ludovico Maria Sforza War during (Monalisa)
- Ilmoro – wealth Philip II
- Have romantic relationship with Cecilia
- “immortalize the beauty of the love of my - From Spain
life” - Netherlands (war)
- He married someone else, not Cecilia - 80 years
- He married the daughter of Ferra Italy - In Amsterdam
- After the wedding, Cecilia gave birth to Rembrandt
Caesare Sforza Disconti)
- Beatrice d’Este, Sforza’s wife – her painting - Militia Company of District II under the
was made by Da Vinci Command of Captain Frans Banninck Cocq
(his artwork)
Lucrezia Crivelli - Rijn
- A later mistress of Sforza - Dutch artist
- Visual artist
Count Ludovico Carminati de' Brambilla - Avid art collector and dealer
- Cecilia’s new husband - Innovative
- They had 4 children Styles:
 Still life painting
Ermine  He is opposing Baroque style
o Baroque – expresses intimacy,
Misinterpretation:
relationship, emotion
1. Ilmoro (Ludovico)  Prolific
2. Surname of Cecilia, (Galley), (Gallerani)  Historical
– Hebrew name  Allegorical/symbolical
True interpretations: Jan Visscher Cornelissen-Engraver
1. Symbol of moderation – she all wanted - Rembrandt’s mentor
love - He encouraged Rembrandt to engage in
artworks
The painting of Rembrandt is famous for three - Company
things: - Klovenier’s code of arms
1) colossal size (363 cm × 437 cm (11.91 ft × 14.34 Caravaggio
ft)
- The first one to introduce chiaroscuro
2) the dramatic use of light and shadow tenebrism - Judith Beheads Holofernes – his art
3) the perception of motion in what would have Rembrandt’s chiaroscuro is lighter than
traditionally been a static military group portrait Caravaggio
Tenebrism Art Movements 1750-1910
- Tenebroso (gloomy, dark, mysterious) Las Meninas
3 individuals who attempted to destroy Diego Velasquez’s artwork
Rembrandt’s painting
o Spanish artist
1. Jobless shoemaker – he slashed o He served king Philip Iv
2. Jobless teacher – Wilhemus De Rijk – o He wanted to be a member of
zigzag slash (30cm) nobility – order of Santiago(the king
3. Psychiatric patient – poured acid painted the logo)
- Empress
o Infanta
 A child for royal couple but
Title of the painting can never be a successor
 Margarita – only survivor
16th century - 18th century daughter; she married
Day Guarding Night Watch Leopold I to become a queen

Taco Tibbits Baroque style

- He attempted to trace the original pigment of - In pair

the painting - Intimacy

Night watch Victory over Maryas

- Line of action - Flute (music) contest

- 3D Peter Paul Rubens
- Day scene before but because of the
restoration, the pigments get thick and it - He took care of the artwork
became dark - Fond of using mythological artstyle
- What makes this piece so great is to create a
canvas with a lot of movements
- The keystone that holds everything in place
Effects:
 The line of action
 The Captain and the Lieutenant seem
to be emerging from the frame
What represents the 3 men with guns?
- The exercise of arms- a manual
how to use weapon
Claw of chicken