art sylabus

• a scene is an episode or part of a story, especially one that takes place at a particular time and place
• Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Potato Eaters":

  • Painted in 1885
  • Housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
  • Depicts a group of peasants eating potatoes around a table
  • Considered one of van Gogh's most important works and an example of his early social realism style

  
• Art installation by Thomas Demand:

  • Replica of a destroyed room in a house
  • Filled with rubble and debris, walls covered in graffiti
  • Commentary on the destruction of the home during the war

  
• Photo of a bike path in the Netherlands:

  • Lit up by glow-in-the-dark stones embedded into the pavement

  
• An art installation by Thomas Demand:

  • A replica of a destroyed room in a house
  • Filled with rubble and debris, walls covered in graffiti
  • Commentary on the destruction of the home during the war

  
• The Battle of Waterloo:

  • Occurred on June 18, 1815
  • Fought between the French army of Napoleon Bonaparte and a coalition of European armies led by the Duke of Wellington and Marshal Blücher
  • Took place near Waterloo, Belgium
  • Won by the allied forces
• The Louvre Museum in Paris, France, is depicted in

  
• Image of a group of people sitting in a circle:

  • Some playing guitars, others listening

  
• The Saint Gall Plan:

  • A Carolingian plan of an ideal monastery

  
• Artistic processes and solutions:

  • Developing ideas for artistic solutions, describing them, and establishing criteria, principles, and objectives in a process report
  • Creating a work plan
  • Conducting artistic research through experiments, sketches, studies, and experiments in depth and breadth
  • Evaluating the research, making choices, and explaining them
  • Developing the chosen artistic solution and evaluating the result
  • Reporting on the work process
  • Making a presentation

  
• A problem statement serves as a starting point for one or more questions, with the candidate establishing criteria based on analysis and research for their artistic work
• The problem statement is more than just a trigger; it requires the candidate to clarify the issue for themselves and others through appropriate artistic design, including a critical selection from possible solutions and a purposeful application of specific artistic means
• The candidate describes this process in a process report, focusing on:

  • Content: describing the candidate's content-related starting point(s) and/or the goal they aim to achieve, including potential artistic effects and/or the function of the work
  • Key aspects: representation, artistic aspects, materials, and techniques, with a justification of the choices made based on the relationship between content and design
• Afterwards, the candidate reflects on:

  • The realization of their idea and the achievement of the goal
  • The choices made during the process and the reasons behind them
  • Changes in their approach
• Vincent van Gogh's painting "The Potato Eaters":

  • Painted in 1885
  • Currently housed in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam
  • Depicts a group of peasants eating potatoes around a table
  • Considered one of van Gogh's most important works and an example of his early social realism style

  
• A bike path in the Netherlands:

  • Lit up by glow-in-the-dark stones embedded into the pavement

  
• Thomas Demand's art installation:

  • A replica of a destroyed room in a house
  • Filled with rubble and debris, walls covered in graffiti
  • Commentary on the destruction of the home during the war

  
• The Saint Gall Plan is a Carolingian plan of an ideal monastery
• 1400-1600:

  • Emphasis on Northern European painting and the revival of classical art in Italy
  • Focus on patrons and rivalry, Italian city-states and Rome
• 1600-1750:

  • Counter-Reformation as a response to the Reformation
  • Civil culture in the Netherlands, Amsterdam
  • The French court during the Counter-Reformation period
• Invalshoeken:

  • Kunst en wereldbeeld:
  • Verschillende christelijke overtuigingen: protestant - katholiek
  • Calvinisme: predestinatie, deugdzaamheid en matigheid
  • Rationalisme en verlichting
  • Visies op kunst:
  • Kunst ter lering en vermaak: verborgen symboliek zoals vanitas; emblemata iconografie en iconologie; illusionisme
  • Barok: virtuositeit, inventiviteit; theatrale eenheid
  • Kunst moet imponeren, identificatie via emotie
  • Kunst als vervolmaking van de natuur (tuinen van Versailles)
  • Kunst als uitdrukking van de absolute macht
  • Classicisme: klassieke schoonheid (Gerard de Lairesse), reizen naar Italië; neoplatonisme (de tuin als parsprototo)
• Kunstenaar en opdrachtgever, politieke en economische macht:

  • Vrije markt, kooplieden en regenten; het ontstaan van genres in de Republiek der zeven Verenigde Nederlanden
  • De Kerk, zoals de Paus als opdrachtgever
  • Vorst en adel (Lodewijk XIV, academies)
• Intercultureel:

  • Reizen-handel-VOC (Chinees porselein en Delfts aardewerk)
  • Exotische invloeden in de Europese tuinarchitectuur
• Wetenschap en techniek:

  • Empirisch onderzoek, camera obscura
  • Encyclopedisch verzamelen
• Accenten 1750-1900:

  • Herleving van de klassieken
  • Aandacht voor het eigen nationale verleden
  • Vlucht in het exotische, de eigen geschiedenis, de mystiek en de natuur
  • De romantiek: verhevigd gevoel
  • Realisme: heroïek van het alledaagse, de harde werkelijkheid
• Invalshoeken:

  • Kunst en wereldbeeld:
  • Gevoel tegenover rede (rationalisme, verlichting tegenover het loslaten van de ratio)
  • Vooruitgangsidee, socialisme
  • Visies op geschiedenis: een voortgaand lineair proces met verschillende uitkomsten
  • Darwinisme
  • Visies op kunst:
  • Kunst moet authentiek en origineel zijn
  • Kunst moet van zijn tijd zijn
  • L’art pour l’art; de bohémien
  • Arts and crafts
  • Kunst moet het goede, het ware en het schone tonen, kunst moet verheffen
  • Schoonheid is relatief (afhankelijk van tijd en plaats); neostijlen; eclecticisme
• Kunstenaar en opdrachtgever, politieke en economische macht:

  • Opleiding: de rol van de academie; op zoek naar eigen leermeesters (historische voorbeelden of ‘de natuur zelf’)
  • Opdrachtgevers: de vrije markt, de staat koopt kunst
  • Verzamelingen: systematiseren van collecties naar soort en tijd / plaats; verzameling gekoppeld aan prestige van de staat
  • Organisatie van de samenleving: nationaal bewustzijn; naties - staat - burgers > streven naar vrije wereldhandel
• The 1900-1945 period in art history includes:

  • Abstract art
  • Avant-garde movements and manifestos
  • Utopian visions for a new society
  • Emphasis on functionalism and the principle "form follows function"
• In the 1945-1990 period in art history:

  • The United States leading post-World War II
  • Europe's reevaluation in art from the 1970s
  • Distinction between modern and postmodern art
  • Blurring of boundaries between disciplines, high and low culture, art and reality
• Invalshoeken hedendaagse kunst (1990 - heden):

  • Globalisering, het Westen als centrum verdwijnt, hybriditeit
  • Young British Artists
  • Grote internationale kunstmanifestaties
  • Reacties op het postmodernisme: engagement, hypermodernisme, herwaardering ambacht
  • Nieuwe media
• Kunst en wereldbeeld in hedendaagse kunst:

  • Globalisering; nieuwe wereldmachten en botsing van beschavingen; migratie
  • Individualisering en identiteit in een geglobaliseerde samenleving
  • Nieuwe vormen van spiritualiteit
  • Internet, digitalisering (grote hoeveelheden data, Big Brother, (schijn)werkelijkheid)
  • Kleinschalig en duurzaam als reactie op economische groei; klimaat-vraagstuk
• Visies op kunst in hedendaagse kunst:

  • Reacties op het postmodernisme (weg van relativisme): rol van kunst in
• An art installation by Thomas Demand:

  • A replica of a destroyed room in a house filled with rubble and debris, walls covered in graffiti
  • Commentary on the destruction of the home during the war

  
• Visions on art include reactions to postmodernism, engagement in society, artistic research, and the role of the artist in a globalized world
• Artists and commissioners interact within political and economic power dynamics, including the free market, government, and collectors
• Intercultural aspects of art involve global influences, the impact of non-Western art on Western art, and the mix of cultural influences in art (hybridity)
• Science and technology in art encompass digital techniques, artificial intelligence, the relationship between humans, nature, and machines, and the artist as a scientist
• An art installation by Thomas Demand:

  • A replica of a destroyed room in a house, filled with rubble and debris, walls covered in graffiti
  • Commentary on the destruction of the home during the war

  
• Art composition and organization:

  • Asymmetry, diagonal, dynamic, harmony, repetition, symmetry, direction, rhythm, depth/space are aspects studied
• Depth/space in art:

  • Includes concepts like perspective, atmospheric perspective, overlapping, vanishing point, and spatial effects