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Jane
Artists throughout time have been fascinated with capturing the visual imagery of the people who surround them.
I choose human portrait as my project to see what the change is through different art movements.
PART 1 OUTLINE
10 Objects:
PART 2 INTRODUCTION
PART 2.1
Title: Standing female worshiper.
Date: Early Dynastic IIIa (ca. 2600–2500 B.C.)
Culture: Sumerian
Medium: inlaid with shell and lapis lazuli
Dimensions: H. 9 15/16 x W. 3 3/8 x D. 2 1/16 in. (25.2 x 8.5 x 5.2 cm)
Classification: Ancient
Citations:Metmuseum.org, 2021, www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2020/art-for-resilience.
This worn, fragile-looking statue of a Sumerian woman from 2600 B.C. Excavated at the site of Nippur, in Iraq, the statue was one among many sculptures discovered in a temple dedicated to Inanna, the Sumerian goddess of love, abundance, and war. The statues all represented mortal beings—most likely the elite citizens of Nippur—who commissioned images of themselves to stand in perpetual prayer before the deity.
Sources:(Bibliography/Works Cited/References/Works Consulted page after the essay)
PART 2.2
Title: Madonna and Child
Artist: Simone Martini
Date: 1326
Culture: Miedival
Medium: Tempera on wood, gold ground
Dimensions: Overall 23 1/8 x 15 1/2 in. (58.7 x 39.4 cm); painted surface 22 1/2 x 15 1/8 in. (57.2 x 38.4 cm)Classification: Paintings
Citations:Metmuseum.org, 2020, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459136.
The Madonna and Child is understood to be an intimate, devotional image. Some evocations of this understanding come from the burnt edges on the bottom of the original engaged frame caused by burning candles that likely would have sat just beneath
For example, the parapet that sits at the bottom of the painting works as a visual enticement for the viewer to look past and into the moment that is captured between the Virgin and Christ Child. At the same time, the parapet also acts as a barrier between the vernacular world and the sacred
PART 2.3
Title: Fragment of a Floor Mosaic with a Personification of Ktisis
Artist: unknown
Date: 500–550
Culture: Byzantine Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 59 1/2 x 78 5/8 x 1 in. (151.1 x 199.7 x 2.5 cm)
Citations:Metmuseum.org, 2019, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/469960..
The bejeweled woman, holding the measuring tool for the Roman foot, is identified by the restored Greek inscription as Ktisis, a figure personifying the act of generous donation or foundation. The man with a cornucopia, originally one of a pair flanking her, has the Greek inscription “good” by his head, half of a text that probably said, “good wishes.” The fragment, made of marble and glass tesserae (small pieces of colored material), is typical of the exceptional mosaics created throughout the Byzantine world in the 500s.
PART 2.4
Title: Portrait of a Woman
Artist: Agnolo Bronzino
Date: 1550
Medium: Oil on wood
Dimensions: Framed: 81.5 x 68.5 x 5 cm (32 1/16 x 26 15/16 x 1 15/16 in.); Unframed: 60 x 48.8 cm (23 5/8 x 19 3/16 in.)
Classification: Renasaince
Citations:Anonymous. “Portrait of a Woman.” Cleveland Museum of Art, 31 Oct. 2018, www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.121.
Bronzino was court painter to Cosimo I de’Medici, the Duke of Florence. Though the woman cannot be definitively identified, she was likely affiliated with the Medici court. As in most of the portraits in this gallery, Bronzino emphasizes wealth, status, and courtly refinement above personality or individualized expression. The plain background further accentuates the work’s monumentality and grandeur, despite its small scale. The hand placed against the chest with elegantly spread fingers extends back to an ancient Greek pose of modesty, here emphasizing the proper comportment of a woman of high status. The sitter wears a linen partlet (collar) delicately embroidered in matt stitch, part of which is, like her cuffs, trimmed in fine lace.
PART 2.5
Full title: Allegory of Patience
Artist: Giorgio Vasari
Artist dates: 1511 - 1574
Date made: 1552
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions 197.8 × 108.8 cm
Citations:
“Giorgio Vasari | Allegory of Patience | L1270 | National Gallery, www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giorgio-vasari-allegory-of-patience.
The woman, huddling in the cold, personifies the virtue of patience. She waits as drops from the water clock, ever so slowly, wear out the stone, while the inscribed motto translates as 'enduring patience'. The monumentality of the figure and iridescent colours are indebted to Michelangelo, who likely provided its design.
PART 2.6
Title: Madame Roulin and Her Baby
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1888
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 x 20 1/8 in.
Classification: Paintings
Classification: Impressionism
Citations:
Metmuseum.org, 2021, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459123. Accessed 19 Jan. 2021.
This vigorously painted portrait of Augustine Roulin and her infant daughter, Marcelle, is one of Van Gogh’s many evocative renderings of the Roulin family, undertaken some six months after the artist relocated from Paris to Arles. Van Gogh painted the entire family of the local postman Joseph Roulin. Here, the chubbycheeked infant is the focus of the enterprise. Her heightened expression in thickly painted brushwork suggests that the baby may have posed for van Gogh, swaddled in her mother’s embrace. Augustine Roulin, by contrast, is an abbreviated presence.
PART 2.7
Title: Woman with a Rake
Artist:Jean-François
Date: probably 1856
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 15 5/8 x 13 1/2 in. (39.7 x 34.3 cm)
Classification:Realism Paintings
Citations:
Metmuseum.org, 2021, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437099. Accessed 19 Jan. 2021.
Millet first treated this subject in a woodcut, one of ten in the series Labors of the Fields that were published in a popular periodical in 1853. The art dealer Martinet, in whose gallery such avant-garde artists as Courbet and Manet exhibited, included this painting in a show in 1860.
PART 2.8
Title: Maria
Artist: Kees van Dongen (Dutch, Delfshaven, The Netherlands 1877–1968 Monte Carlo)
Date: 1907–10
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (64.8 x 54.3 cm.)
Classification:Fauvism Paintings
Citations:
Metmuseum.org, 2020, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/461689.
This portrait entitled Maria, presumably after the model who sat for the picture, captures the direct gaze of the sitter. The painting was quickly rendered with a large brush and intense, unblended color. Van Dongen’s use of unblended color reflects his exposure to and general association with Fauvism and Expressionism, two artistic movements in Paris characterized by bold, sometimes violent use of color. Painted with a certain stylization, Van Dongen’s female sitters often resemble one another with their large, blackened eyes and pale white flesh tones.
PART 2.9
Title: Self-Portrait with a Cigar
Artist: Edvard Munch (Norwegian, Løten 1863–1944 Ekely)
Date: 1908–9
Medium: Lithograph
Dimensions: plate: 22 5/16 x 17 15/16 inches (56.7 x 45.6 cm)
Classification:Expressionism Prints
Citations:
Metmuseum.org, 2020, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/352328.
Self-Portrait with a CigarSelf-Portrait with Cigarette is loaded with subtle contradictions. Lacking an identifiable environment and depicting the artist viewed frontally and slightly from below, the self-portrait represents Munch as a man directly engaging his viewer yet distanced from the world.
PART 2.10
Title: Marilyn
Artist: Andy Warhol
Printer: Aetna Silkscreen Products, Inc.
Printer: Du-Art Displays
Date: 1967
Medium: Screenprint
Dimensions: Sheet: 6 x 6 in. (15.2 x 15.2 cm)
Classification: Pop Art Prints
Citations:Metmuseum.org, 2020, www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/352328.
Around 1962, Warhol adopted a more graphic and detached style comprising bold and often contrasting colors, crisp outlines, and commercial imagery. Screenprinting was well suited for his art as it enabled him to repeat images derived from photographic sources multiple times—even within the same painting or print—in a variety of media and colors. It also allowed him to highlight both the detached quality of the process and the imperfections (such uneven tone, smudges, gaps, and signs of irregular printing) often found in commercial production.
Part 3. references
1.Benzel, K., 2020. Art For Resilience: Sumerian Standing Female Worshipper And More. [online] Metmuseum.org. Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/blogs/collection-insights/2020/art-for-resilience>
2.Martini, S., 2019. Madonna And Child. [online] Metmuseum.org. Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459136>
3.Metmuseum.org. 2020. Fragment Of A Floor Mosaic With A Personification Of Ktisis500–550, With Modern Restoration. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/469960?searchField=All&sortBy=Relevance&ft=Byzantine+art++collection&offset=0&rpp=20&pos=20>
4.Cleveland Museum of Art. 2021. Portrait Of A Woman. [online] Available at: <https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1972.121> [Accessed 20 January 2021].
The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. Reproduced: p. 112 archive.org
The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. Mentioned: p. 310-312; Reproduced: p. 311
5.The National Gallery, L., n.d. Giorgio Vasari | Allegory Of Patience | L1270 | National Gallery, London. [online] Nationalgallery.org.uk. Available at: <https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/giorgio-vasari-allegory-of-patience>
6.Metmuseum.org. n.d. Madame Roulin And Her Baby. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/459123>
7. Metmuseum.org. n.d. Woman With A Rake. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/437099>
8.Metmuseum.org. n.d. Maria. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/461689>
9. Metmuseum.org. n.d. Self-Portrait With A Cigar. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/360176>3
10.Metmuseum.org. n.d. Marilyn. [online] Available at: <https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/352328> [Accessed 20 January 2021].