Art (Semester 1)

The Supper at Emmaus

Task 1

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 15:01pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: Giuseppe Bonnici (1834-1900)

Title of work: The Supper at Emmaus

Techniques used: Paint

Formal elements: The colours he uses are very soothing to help with the eye. The way he used the colours is by matching the colours with certain colour so that way it comes out more vivid; as seen in the picture he matches red with blue, yellow with purple and green with orange that way the colours come out more. Tone is very soothing.

Martydrom

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:41pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: Lazzaro Pisani (1854-1932)

Title of work: Martydrom

Techniques used: Paint

Formal elements: The way the painting is painted is to show a victory of a battle; showing the person in the middle in the light to show his victory and beheading the guy. The colours are relaxed and the tone is very soothing.

St Paul curing the sick people at Malta

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:42pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: Giuseppe Cali’ (1846-1930)

Title of work: St Paul curing the sick people at Malta

Techniques used: Ink

Formal elements: The way this piece of art is created is by just drawing lines to shade and create the figures. As it can be seen the people in the piece of art are very well detailed to be recognized. The piece of art is well explained and can easily tell what it is.

Apotheosis of St Paul

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:58pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: Giuseppe Cali’ (1846-1930)

Title of work: Apotheosis of St Paul

Techniques used: Chalk and Charcoal

Formal elements: As you can see the way this piece of art is created is that the artist himself used chalk to make the light parts and used the charcoal to make the shadow and details. The piece work is very clean and smooth.

Madonna and child with Saints Anne and Lawrence

Date and time visited: Nov 7, 2016, 14:59pm

Place/Exhibition visited: Wignacourt Museum

Name of practitioner: Vincenzo Hyzler (1813-1849)

Title of work: Madonna and child with Saints Anne and Lawrence

Techniques used: Pencil

Formal elements: This piece of art is a portrait. The art work consists of lines to create the different shapes. The artist darkens certain areas to make the work more vivid and realistic with a 3d aspect.

Task 2

Cubism

            Cubism came alive thx to Pablo Picasso since he was the one to start this movement. It was the first style of art to evolve from abstract art. Cubism was believed to be to be an art revitalised by the tired traditions on Western art in which they believed to run their course. Cubists challenge the forms of conventional representations, such as the perspective in which has been a rule since the Renaissance. Their main purpose was to make a new way of seeing modern age.

Figure 9 Cubism Painting

            In the four decades from 1870-1910, western culture saw more innovative advance than in the past four centuries. Amid this period, creations, for example, photography, cinematography, sound recording, the phone, the engine auto and the plane proclaimed the beginning of another age. The issue for craftsmen as of now was how to mirror the advancement of the time utilizing the drained and trusted customs that had served workmanship throughout the previous four centuries. Photography had started to swap painting as the instrument for archiving the age and for craftsmen to sit outlining autos, planes and pictures of the new innovations was not precisely adapting to present circumstances. Specialists required a more radical approach - 'another method for seeing' that extended the conceivable outcomes of workmanship similarly that innovation was broadening the limits of correspondence and travel. This better approach for seeing was called Cubism - the main conceptual style of present day workmanship. Picasso and Braque built up their thoughts on Cubism around 1907 in Paris and their beginning stage was a typical enthusiasm for the later works of art of Paul Cézanne.

            This era mostly affected in the artists’ paintings as can be seen in figure 9.

            For me this movement was a huge impact since a lot of art works and designs and I don’t see why not it would not inspire me to make an art work in the future.

Primitivism

            Primitive art was born a long time ago but was not discovered immediately. When this movement was discovered caught the eye of many artists in which they were amazed by the art since it shows history and shows that art was born in ancient times and continued over till nowadays.

Figure 10 Primitive Rock African Art

            At first primitive art was a way of communication to show how they used to communicate and show history that happened long ago. This movement is still used to communicate in certain parts of earth since there are still tribes that communicate thanks to this art although for them this is not art and for us it is they sometimes are shocked the way we are amazed by this art. The expression "Primitivism", which rose in compelling artwork amid the late nineteenth century, is utilized to portray any craftsmanship described by symbolism and themes connected with such primitive workmanship. Set apart by ethnographic structures, frequently of extraordinary visual power, this imaginative primitivism dates from the 1890s when it showed up in the Tahitian compositions of Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), and immediately prompted to a pattern among French and German specialists of the Expressionist vanguard. Without a doubt, a few started to visit accumulations of ethnological curios: in 1902, the British-American artist Jacob Epstein went to the Trocadero Museum in Paris, as did Derain and Vlaminck in 1904-5, and Picasso in 1907; in 1903 and 1906, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner went by the ethnological gathering in Dresden; in 1907, Kandinsky saw the new accumulation of primitive shows in Berlin, which was additionally gone to by Schmidt-Rottluff, Franz Marc and others.

Figure 13 Primitive Rock American Art

            This art describes many different cultures. One ought to note however that the expression "primitive workmanship" is not regularly used to portray Chinese, Indian or Islamic fine arts, or works from any of the significant societies including Egyptian, Greek or Roman Civilizations. This art movement includes African Art (sub-Saharan)(Figure 10), Oceanic Art (Pacific islands), Aboriginal Art (Australia) and additionally different sorts of Rock Art from ancient times and furthermore Tribal Art from America and South-East Asia(Figure 11).

            The way I would see that primitive would inspire me is in the creation of creatures since that is the most thing I draw.