Four Specific Roles of an Artist
Part one:
The four specific roles of an artist: 1- Artist helps us to see the world in new or innovative ways: they create new way to us to see and think about the world around us. For example Impression—Sunrise for Claude Monte, it resembles the world of natural appearance to create a new way of thinking about this works. Claude Monte, Impression—Sunrise, 1872.
Oil on canvas, 19.50x25.50 in. Musee Marmottan, Paris. Page 506. Fig.20-24
2- Artist makes a visual record of the people, places, and event of their time and place. For example the Mona Lisa painting, it reflects the visual record of her which painted by Vinci for certain reasons.
Leonardo de Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1505. Oil on Wood, 30.25x21 in. Musee du Louvre, Paris. Page 468. Fig 19-8 3- Artist makes functional objects and structure more pleasurable and elevates them or imbues them with meaning. For example, the Guernica painting for Picasso, it’s one of the greatest political paintings of the era. It presents an event in the Spanish civil war that occurred on April 26, 1937 and what had happened to the Guernica town in Spain by German and Italy.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.
Oil on canvas, 11 ft. 5.50 in. x25 ft. 5.25 in. Museo Nacional Centrro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid page 522. Fig. 21-14 4- Artist gives form to the immaterial- hidden or universal truths, spiritual force, and personal feelings. For example the Christ painting, from deesis mosaic, thirteen century, which presents the truths and spiritual feeling of existence of the Christ around us. Christ, from Deesis Mosaic, thirteen century.
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Page 443. Fig 18-8
Part two:
• Animism: the belief in the existence of souls and conviction that nonhuman things also be endowed with a soul.
Abu temple ,Tell Asmar, Iraq,c.2900-2600 bce. Limestone, alabaster, height of tallest figure 30 in. excavated by the Iraq expedition of the oriental institute of university of Chicago, Feb 13,
The four specific roles of an artist: 1- Artist helps us to see the world in new or innovative ways: they create new way to us to see and think about the world around us. For example Impression—Sunrise for Claude Monte, it resembles the world of natural appearance to create a new way of thinking about this works. Claude Monte, Impression—Sunrise, 1872.
Oil on canvas, 19.50x25.50 in. Musee Marmottan, Paris. Page 506. Fig.20-24
2- Artist makes a visual record of the people, places, and event of their time and place. For example the Mona Lisa painting, it reflects the visual record of her which painted by Vinci for certain reasons.
Leonardo de Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-1505. Oil on Wood, 30.25x21 in. Musee du Louvre, Paris. Page 468. Fig 19-8 3- Artist makes functional objects and structure more pleasurable and elevates them or imbues them with meaning. For example, the Guernica painting for Picasso, it’s one of the greatest political paintings of the era. It presents an event in the Spanish civil war that occurred on April 26, 1937 and what had happened to the Guernica town in Spain by German and Italy.
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937.
Oil on canvas, 11 ft. 5.50 in. x25 ft. 5.25 in. Museo Nacional Centrro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid page 522. Fig. 21-14 4- Artist gives form to the immaterial- hidden or universal truths, spiritual force, and personal feelings. For example the Christ painting, from deesis mosaic, thirteen century, which presents the truths and spiritual feeling of existence of the Christ around us. Christ, from Deesis Mosaic, thirteen century.
Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. Page 443. Fig 18-8
Part two:
• Animism: the belief in the existence of souls and conviction that nonhuman things also be endowed with a soul.
Abu temple ,Tell Asmar, Iraq,c.2900-2600 bce. Limestone, alabaster, height of tallest figure 30 in. excavated by the Iraq expedition of the oriental institute of university of Chicago, Feb 13,