In Class Exercise for 20 points: As I show each of these for about 30 seconds each, describe each image strictly in terms of formal elements: color, color palette, complimentary color, analogous color, color intensity, quality of light (atmospherics), shape, value, texture, geometry, composition, perspective, balance, lines, line quality, symmetry, asymmetry, radial symmetry, dynamic balance, eye movement, patterns, repetition, vertical/horizontal alignment, materials used, etc. Think about how the picture plane is broken up and how your eye moves within the frame. Write or type your description. http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23446/lot/1/?category=list&length=10&page=1 GUSTAVE LOISEAU (1865-1935) Chemin de Maigremont, Saint Cyr du Vaudreuil signed 'G LOISEAU' (lower left) oil on canvas laid on board 18 1/8 x 21 5/8 in (46 x 55 cm) http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23450/lot/5/?category=list&length=10&page=1 FRANK STELLA (B. 1936) Karpathenburg II, 1996 mixed media on canvas 117 x 180 1/2 in. 297.2 x 458.5 cm http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23450/lot/8/ CHARLES BELL (1935-1995) Catcher, 1988 signed 'CBELL' (lower right) oil on canvas 40 x 56 in. 101.6 x 142.2 cm http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23450/lot/10/?category=list&length=10&page=1 JACK GOLDSTEIN (1945-2003) Untitled, 1984 inscribed and dated 'A/C 1984' (on the reverse) acrylic on canvas 72 x 72 in. 182.9 x 182.9 cm http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23446/lot/25/?category=list&length=10&page=3 MAX ERNST (1891-1976) Je suis une femme, vous êtes un homme, sommes nous la république 1960 oil on canvas 24 x 19 3/4 in (61 x 49.7 cm) http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23352/lot/5/?category=list&length=10&page=1 Invader B. 1969 SP_52 2011 signed, titled and dated 2011 on the reverse mosaic on perspex panel with ID card inserted on the reverse 88 x 98cm (34 5/8 x 38 9/16in). http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23352/lot/6/?category=list&length=10&page=1 KAWS B. 1974 T.N.O.N. - I 2012 (i) signed, dated '12, titled and inscribed on the reverse (ii-iv) titled and inscribed on the reverse acrylic on canvas, in four parts each 214 x 30.8cm (84 ¼ x 12 1/8in). http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23352/lot/8/?category=list&length=10&page=1 Izumi Kato B. 1969, 加藤泉 Untitled 2004 signed and dated 2004 on the reverse oil on canvas 90 x 140cm (35 7/16 x 55 1/8in). http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23352/lot/9/?category=list&length=10&page=1 Wang Guangle B. 1976, 王光樂 120411 2012 signed and dated 2012 on the reverse acrylic on canvas 280 x 180cm (110 ¼ x 70 7/8in). http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23450/lot/12/?category=list&length=10&page=2 ROBERT LONGO (B. 1953) Study of a Tiger (No. 14), 2012 titled 'STUDY OF A TIGER #14' (lower left), signed and dated 'Robert Longo 2012' (lower right) ink and charcoal on vellum 20 x 16 1/8 in. 50.8 x 40.9 cm http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23450/lot/14/?category=list&length=10&page=2 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG (1925-2008) Crib, 1980 signed and dated 'RAUSCHENBERG 80' (lower right) solvent transfer, fabric collage and acrylic on paper 31 3/4 x 24 1/4 in. 80.6 x 61.6 cm http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/23450/lot/16/?category=list&length=10&page=2 WAYNE THIEBAUD (b. 1920) Prone Beach Figure, 1964 signed and dated 'Thiebaud 1964' (lower left) graphite on paperboard 7 3/4 x 10 3/4 in. 19.7 x 27.3 cm Now look at the following 26 images for about 30 seconds each and write on paper or type in Word what you see happening and what makes you say that. You’ll have one minute per image so write whatever comes to mind. Don’t worry if it isn’t well thought out. If you occasionally can’t think of anything to write, just look at the image as carefully as you can and then try to describe in a few words what you see in the image. Pablo Picasso, oil painting, Les demoiselles d’Avignon, 1907 Pablo Picasso, oil painting, La vie, 1903 Pablo Picasso, oil painting, Family Of Saltimbanques, 1905 Saul Leiter, Color Photograph, Taxi, 1957 Saul Leiter, Color Photograph, Walk with Soames, 1958 Saul Leiter, B&W Photograph, Untitled, n.d. Saul Leiter, Color Photograph, Through Boards, ca. 1957 Saul Leiter, B&W Photograph, Hat, ca 1952 More about Saul Leiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Leiter http://time.com/3797042/a-casual-conversation-with-saul-leiter/ http://www.howardgreenberg.com/artists/saul-leiter/series/color?view=slider#8 https://themangolab.co.uk/2016/03/28/review-saul-leiter-retrospective-the-photographers- gallery-london/ https://www.theguardian.com/travel/gallery/2016/jan/22/saul-leiters-new-york-city- welcome-to-a-kodachrome-world http://www.gallery51.com/index.php?navigatieid=9&fotograafid=15 William Eggleston, Color Photograph, Untitled (Sumner, Mississippi, Cassidy Bayou in background), 1971 William Eggleston, Untitled, 1965/ 1968 William Eggleston, Untitled, 1971/ 1974 William Eggleston, Untitled, from Troubled Waters Portfolio, 1980 Jim Chuchu, from the Pagan series, 2013 Ayana V. Jackson, Archival Pigment Print, Does the Brown Paper Bag Test Really Exist?/Will My Father Be Proud, 2013 Ayana V. Jackson, Archival Pigment Print, Cimarron, 2015 Maïmouna Guerresi, Color Photograph, M-Eating, Teacher and Students, 2014 http://marianeibrahim.com/artists http://www.jimchuchu.com/ http://www.ayanavjackson.com/ http://www.maimounaguerresi.com/ Ai Weiwei, Photography, To Fight with Crossed Arms, 2007 https://paddle8.com/work/ai-weiwei/56191-to-fight-with-crossed-arms https://news.artnet.com/market/ai-weiwei-one-worlds-famous-artists-366872 https://www.facebook.com/Ai-Weiwei-Camps-1529936073966084/ Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Oil Painting, Hunters in the Snow, 1565 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Oil Painting, Census at Bethlehem, 1566 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Oil Painting, The Blue Cloak, 1559 More about The Blue Cloak: http://www.afanews.com/articles/item/1166-the-key-to-an-old-master-painting?tmpl=component&print=1#.WCqLqS0rLmE https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlandish_Proverbs Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Oil Painting, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, ca. 1562 More info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_of_the_Rebel_Angels_(Bruegel) Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Oil Painting, The Fall of the Rebel Angels, ca. 1562 More info: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/19.164/ Seymour Joseph Guy, Oil Painting, The Conquest of the Bouquet: The Family of Robert Gordon in their New York Living Room, 1866 More info: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1992.128/ Ambrose Andrews, Oil Painting, The Children of Nathan Starr, 1835 More info: http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10077 Norman Rockwell, Painting, April Fools Cover for the Saturday Evening Post, 1948 (There are 57 April Fools ‘mistakes’ in the painting.) Edward Hopper, Oil Painting, Nighthawks, 1942 More info: http://www.artic.edu/aic/collections/artwork/111628 Picasso African Period In 1907, after numerous studies and variations Picasso painted his first Cubist picture - “Les demoiselles d’Avignon”. Impressed with African sculptures at an ethnographic museum he tried to combine the angular structures of the “primitive art” and his new ideas about cubism. The critics immediately dubbed this stage in his work the African Period, seeing in it only an imitation of African ethnic art. “In the Demoiselles d’Avignon I painted a profile nose into a frontal view of a face. I had to depict it sideways so that I could give it a name, so that I could call it ‘nose’. And so they started talking about Negro art. Have you ever seen a single African sculpture -- just one -- where a face mask has a profile nose in it?” Picasso wrote. Picasso’s new experiments were received very differently by his friends, some of whom were sincerely disappointed, and even horrified, while others were interested. The art dealer Kahnweiler loved the Demoiselles and took it for sale. Picasso’s new friend, the artist Georges Braque (1882-1963), was so enthusiastic about Picasso’s new works that the two painters came together to explore the possibilities of cubism over several of the following years. In the summer of 1908, the two began their experiments by going on holidays in the countryside. Afterwards, they found that they had painted very similar pictures completely independently of each other. The Blue and Rose periods: 1901-1906 In February 1901 Picasso’s friend Casagemas committed suicide: he shot himself in a Parisian café because a girl he loved had refused him. His death was a great shock to Picasso, and the painter would return to it again and again in his art: he painted the Death of Casagemas in color, the Death of Casagemas again in blue and then “Evocation – The Burial of Casagemas”. In this latter canvas the compositional and stylistic influence of El Greco’s “The Burial of Count Orgaz” can be traced. Picasso began to use blue and green almost exclusively. “I began to paint in blue, when I realized that Casademas had died” Picasso later wrote. Restless and lonely, the arist moved constantly between Paris and Barcelona, depicting isolation, unhappiness, despair, misery of physical weakness, old age, and poverty; all of it in shades of blue. In the allegorical La Vie (1903), in monochrome blue, the man has the face of his deceased friend. In 1904 Picasso finally settled in Paris, at 13 Rue Ravignan, called “Bateau-Lavoir”.