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VISUAL LITERACY

This comprehensive overview delves into significant artworks spanning various cultures and eras, showcasing their unique characteristics and historical contexts. Highlights include the fertility symbolism of the Venus of Willendorf, the architectural brilliance of the Dome of the Rock, and the emotional depth of Michelangelo's David. Other masterpieces discussed include Jan Van Eyck's Arnolfini and His Bride, David's Oath of the Horatii, and the dramatic narratives in Goya's The Third of May 1808 and Picasso's Guernica. Each piece reveals the evolving themes and techniques in art history, emphasizing cultural identity and human emotions.

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VISUAL LITERACY

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  1. VISUAL LITERACY MASTER TEACHER 2010 BRANDY SITTS

  2. Paleolithic • Venus of Willendorf • 28,000- 25,000 BCE • Characteristics: • Served as fertility image. • No facial features • Ball-like shapes

  3. Islam • Dome of the Rock • 687-692 • Characteristics • 1st great achievement of Islamic architecture • Octagonal dome • Interior is vivid and colorful

  4. Ancient Africa • Nok Head • 500-200 • Characteristics • Flaring nostrils and triangle eyes are unique to Nok art • African culture liked heads

  5. Ancient India • Shiva as Nataraja • 1000 • Characteristics • Nataraja means Lord of the Dance • Portable image • Dwarf that she is standing on represents ignorance

  6. High Renaissance Sculpture • David by Michelangelo • 1501-1504 • Characteristics • Formal references to classical antiquity • Compositionally and emotionally connected to an unseen presence • Head turned to show pent up energy

  7. Late Gothic • Arnolfini and His Bride by Jan Van Eyck • 1434 • Characteristics: • Almost every object portrayed sanctity • Symbolism • Purpose: Record and sanctify marriage • Dog: Fidelity, Shoe: Holy Ground

  8. Neoclassicism • Oath of the Horatii by David • 1784 • Characteristics: • Conflicts between heart and patriotism • Statuesque figures- men: Rigid, Angular

  9. Romanticism (Spanish) • The Third of May 1808 by Goya • 1808 • Characteristics: • Encouraged empathy of the Spanish by portraying horrified expressions and enhanced drama through stark use of darks and lights

  10. Romanticism • Raft of the Medusa by Gericault • 1818-1819 • Characteristics: • Actual historical event • Subdued palette and prominent shadow lend ominous pall to the scene • Emotionally charged • Comments on slavery Apathy

  11. Fauvism • Red Room by Matisse • 1908-1909 • Characteristics: • Color = Warmth • Colors contrast richly and intensely • Depicts objects in simplified and schematized fashion and flattening out form

  12. Photo Realism • Fanny Finger Painting by Close • 1985 • Characteristics: • One moment it’s a spitting image of a person, the next it’s an animated pattern of spots

  13. Cubism • Guernica by Picasso • 1937 • Spanish Civil War • World’s Fair in France • Shows anguish of residents murdered in Basque Country of Spain

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