Media Arts: History and Theory

 Reading- The reading provided was very inspirational through the eyes of the past. When photography and cameras were invented, they came with positive and negative reactions. Those reactions came from those who believed in art bring art no matter what and others who thought art was done by hand and by those who can only do it. The negatives were thought that "painting was dead." With this idea, many thought that art was only paintings and drawings and could not be any other form. The positives thought "photographs as references for their large formal paintings." This can be true through many different perspectives. Art can be viewed in many different ways. People can see art differently; it doesn't have to be through a photograph or even a painting or drawing.  Discussion- 1.) What do I see in the photograph? The picture looks like past New York City, and the photographer got there at the right moment as a person was walking up the stairs from what could be the...

 lecture- photography and printed media History of media began 40,000 years ago. Ancestors painted walls on caves to leave a mark. Monks copied manuscripts. Did the bible by hand and took 15 months to do each bible. The printing press was created in 1450. In the 17th century the first newspaper was created. In 1804, the first steam powered railway was invented, and it circulated reading material. The offset press was created in 1853 and it printed large amounts of paper. Larger volume prints were more expensive. The digital press was invented in 1989 and it was very inexpensive. The first picture taken was in 1826 or 1827 by Joseph Miepce which was very blurry and grainy. The Daguerreotype was invented in 1839 and it had 15 mins of exposure time, and there the first people were captured in a picture. Calotype was created in 1840 and used paper covered with silver iodide. Collodion was created in 1851. It was a wet plate process that revolutionized photography. It was 20 times faste...

Abstract Art  "A walk in the park" This piece of abstract art represents a walk in the park. Mother nature at her best. The meaning of the center indicates chaos, but also brings a bit of piece in the idea that not only is nature peaceful, but it can bring chaos to our world. We have many natural disasters in our world, and we always know that mother nature works at its best while the disasters happen. We cannot control nature. That is why it is chaos. The swirls make you got through the painting itself. It takes you on a journey of trying to figure out what the painting actually means. Every part of the lines of the painting takes you to a different detail on the page. No part of the art gives you a break to think. You can only see things. Like the abstract art in our lecture, we have displayed a very messy but meaningful piece of art. Nothing specific, but it's there to make you doubt and wonder even though you want really to answer the questions you have in your head. ...

 The industrial revolution brought rapid changes in transportation, manufacturing, and the best of all technology. The Rennaissance had rules, but during the 19th century the rules could be broken and there was free expression in art. Avant Garde brought pieces of art that were ahead of their time, very out of the box. Modernism was a revolutionary way to break from the past and bring news forms of expressionism. Out with the old in with the new. Impressionism was a look that was "unfinished" or "sketchy." Painters were interested in capturing subject matters, everyday life. Post impressionist era brought subject matters and structure back and thought that was lost. They favored symbolic content and structure. Symbolism was a literary movement that should represent emotion instead of the real world. Fauvism was an avant-garde movement that brought non-naturalistic colors and simplifies forms. They didn't want to mimic nature or re-create the impression of light....

 Discussion, Reading, and GRQs Discussion Why is the Mona Lisa Famous? She was an ordinary woman, where many who were painted were wealthy and had power or authority. Very revolutionary through the "rules being broken." Mona depicts da Vinci's mastery of the human anatomy and natural realism. Mona was believed to be a man, but she maybe also was a woman called Lisa Gherardini, a wife of Florentine silk Merchant Francesco del Gioconda. The painting stayed with da Vinci until his death then it was property of King Francois, hanging around the palaces and museums. Now its incased in glass because of vandalism and theft cases. Da Vinci also used subtle techniques of lighting and blending to create gradients of light and shadows to also create the look of real skin and the different tones of skin colors.  Reading- Rennaissance architecture to modern architecture has evolved in new ways. Ever since da Vinci, Raphael, Michaelangelo and many more were alive there have been advanc...

 Lecture-Rennaissance The Rennaissance started in Florence, Italy. The paintings were muted, the colors were muted, and there were rules to what classified an artist as an Artist. The biggest rule was to add black to paintings to make everything stand out. They also used white to create movement in the paintings. Something called the Humanist Philosophy means people have the worth.   The Rennaissance means "rebirth", and it introduced the idea of "Humanism." Humanism came through more realistic, more 3-D, background perspectives, and more color. Byzantine art mimicked more symbolism over reality. Backgrounds were typically Gold, and they had large person in the center of the painting because they were important.  Early Rennaissance brought many painting techniques, and very famous painters and sculptors. Three painting techniques were: Fresca, Oils, and Tempera. Oils were the most preferred in the Early Rennaissance. Brunelleschi did the Duomo. He had rediscovered l...

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