Quiz 2

1. Camera Obscura
2. Albrecht Durer
3. Vitruvius Man
4. Leonardo Da Vinci
5. Renaissance Humanism
6. Fresco
7. Petrarch
8. Jan Van Eyck
9. One Point Perspective
10. Modernism
11. Wealthy Merchants
12. Avant-Garde
13. Giotto
14. Fauvism
15. Picasso
16. Cubism?
17. Abstract Painting
18. Greenberg
19. Photographers
20. Marey
21. Etienne Jules
22. Muybridge
23. Semiotics 
24. Gutenberg

Post #13 - Reading, GRQ, and Discussion - Margot Lovejoy - The Camera as Artificial Eye and the Influence of Tools

Guided Reading Questions:

1. Camera Obscura, Camera Obscura
2. Light-Sensitive Chemistry
3. Daguerreotype
4. Negative/Positive
5. "Aura"
6. Commodity
7. Exhibition
8. Cult Value, Cult Value
9. Photo Montage
10. Elements
11. Cinematography
12. Photomechanical Reproduction
13. Eadweard Muybridge
14. Jules-Étienne Marey
15. The Dadaists
16. Raoul Hausmann, John Heartfield, and George Grosz
17. Pablo Picasso

Discussion:

In the photo below, I see a barber shop underground and a restaurant right next to it. The prices for both are way cheaper than we are used to and it is also in black in white. There are a couple subjects and once looks to be a barber. There is a barber shop pole and the other subject is to the right of it. To me, this photograph reminds me of Boston Massachusetts, a place that I visit from time to time and a place where I walk in the Jimmy Fun walk. While on that walk, I see a lot of businesses either at ground level or underground like that barber shop. Although I see Boston in color, this picture brings back memories because when I was younger I used to walk by and say how I wanted to live in one of the underground apartments there. With that it makes me reminisce. 

 

Post #12 – Lecture – Photography and Printed Media

We started with the cave paintings on the walls, then a jump to 500-1500 AD and Monks were copying manuscripts by hand. In 1450, the Gutenberg Printing Press was invented which allowed for copies to be made more easily. In 1800, the first major newspaper was printed The London Times (no pictures). 1804 led to the creation of the first steam powered railway. The Offset press of 1853 made printing and copies more efficient and cost effective. In 1989 the digital press was born which made low-volume printing affordable. Photography went through many processes, it started with the Camera Obscurer which left an upside down picture that could be traced on a wall of a dark room through a hole. The fist photo was taken in 1826, but no subjects yet due to 8 hour exposure. Daguerrotype reduced the exposure time to 15 minutes in 1939. The collodion or wet plate from 1951 left the exposure time to 5 minutes and was a more inexpensive way for a photo since it was printed on glass. It allowed for photography to be shared, like the civil war in 1962. Chronophotography was pictures that captured movement for study and created by Marey. He then created the photographic gun to shoot 12 frames a second. Muybridge captured time on film with the Zoopraxiscope - predecessor of modern cinema. Louis Le Prince is the father of Cinematography and the first to create moving pictures with his 1 lens and 16 lens camera. Dickson experimented with sound film and created the Kinetograph, Kinetoscope, and Kinetophone. Cinematographe was a way to project film. George Melies is the father of special effects. Kodak camera was easiest way for average people to take photos. Semiotics is a study of meaning and how it is communicated. There are 3 types: Iconic Signs, Indexical Signs,, and Symbolic Signs. 

Midterm Discussion in Order to Receive a Grade [for the Midterm]

While working on this project, we all collaborated to create the outcome that we will be submitting. Working through and texting the group and talking (quietly) in class during the work time. We each decided to focus on 2 parts of out art history timeline between Madonna and Child and the Scream. we wanted to talk about each of the art movements in between to explain how we went from one place to another. Personally, I worked on the information from the Renaissance and the Byzantine art movements. I mentioned how the Mona Lisa was the most significant and more well-known pieces of art from the time. Then how Madonna and Child were important to the Byzantine era. Through the process of this project, it has furthered my knowledge of art history which is important from then to now. 

My Contribution to the Presentation:

Link to entire Presentation:

Evolution of Art.pptx