Ideological shifts
You are to select 5 objects from the list of required works provided and analyze the way each of these objects articulate a maturing sense of aesthetic purpose framed within the American construct. You should be sure to include proper terminology in your assignment and descriptions related to each of the works and then illustrate how they are linked to a thesis, concept, ideology, practice etc...
The objects must include different media, for example: 2 buildings, one sacred and a secular building, a sculpture, 2 paintings or a painting and/or a print or photograph from all periods of American culture They should illustrate different styles and come from different times and places (north and south) throughout American history
First, you are to discuss the overall artistic importance of each object historically and define the ways in which these objects express a set of values pertaining to the period in American culture within which these objects were developed.
Finally, you should link these objects together by a theme, concept, subject or set of ideas developed over time. How and why do these objects relate to each other under the umbrella of your thesis?
Some of the questions you might consider and discuss are the following:
What kinds of intellectual or ideological shifts are exemplified in these works?
What kinds of innovations are developed whether technically or aesthetically?
What kind of symbolic or iconographic elements contribute to a maturing aesthetic sensibility in America?
How effective are these objects in communicating specific sensibilities to their respective audiences? Are they private objects or objects for the public?
What principles of originality exist in the work as exemplified by the series of object’s visual properties?
The paper should be, approximately 3 to 6 pages, double- spaced and
you must properly cite sources either from the textbook
Terminology:
Formal elements: line, shape, form, color, texture, light, shade and shadow(chiaroscuro),volume, illusionism ,space, size, scale, proportions
Composition
Representational art
Abstraction
Non representational/non objective art
iconography
Pictorial plane
Complementary colors/ analogous colors
Saturation/intensity
Warm colors
Cool colors
Visual rhythm
Visual unity
Visual variety
Style
Geometric linear perspective,
Atmospheric perspective,
Overlapping and Foreshortening
Post And lintel system (Post and Beam)
Trebeation
pendril
Column/ colonnade
Classical orders: Doric, Ionic and Corinthian
Column base,
shaft,
capital,
entablature,
cornice,
pediment
Arch
Arcade
Barrel Vault
Groin vault
Dome
Portico
Buttress
Flying buttress
American Southern Gothic church architecture > narthex, nave, aisle, transept, apse, radiating chapels,
arch
Additive method
Subtractive method
lost wax method / cire perdue
Free standing sculpture Bas relief and haut relief Installations
Junk art
Kinetic art = Mobile stabile
Site specific objects Assemblage Earth/environmental art pigment
polychrome and monochrome fresco secco
buon fresco
Egg tempera