Psy of Art
Required book “the Structure of paintings” By Michael Leyton
Easier to get an A by reading the book.
The Final will be the only exam of the course.
The final tests both the book and lectures notes
The book will read by homework assignments. Homework assignments will be reading the book.
IMPORTANT, never use ratemyprofessors.com for this class, because it damages the marking cm
The course = The book
Main Topics
1. How to read the composition of a painting
2. How the composition relates to the emotional expression. The Composition pulls the emotions out of the viewer.
1/28/12
Composition
-The composition is an organization created by shapes
The shape structure produces a tension
The tension gives the emotion stored in the artwork
We will go deeply into how the artist achieves this.
-How does a shape store the emotional tension?
-Consider for example Picasso
-The shapes give us dynamic information. i.e. information about movement.
The word emotion means E = outward, Motion = Movement
So the shapes in the painting give us information about the:
E-Motions = outward movements of the artist.
So the shapes have acted as a STORE for those movements.
Based on the shapes in the painting and the shapes give tension in the paint. While the tension makes the emotion in the painting.
So, to understand how an art-work functions, we have to understand how the viewer can RECOVER, from the shapes, the E-MOTIONS of the artist
The shapes are acting liking a memory store of an artist E-MOTIONS
Leyton/s books have developed new foundations for geometry in which the fundamental claim is: Shape = Memory Storage
1/30/13 Section 1.3 The world as History
We will define: • Memory = Information about the past. • Consequently, define: • Memory Stored = Any object that yields information about the past
Claim: The entire world around us is memory storage.
i.e. Each object around us is memory of the history of process that form
Easier to get an A by reading the book.
The Final will be the only exam of the course.
The final tests both the book and lectures notes
The book will read by homework assignments. Homework assignments will be reading the book.
IMPORTANT, never use ratemyprofessors.com for this class, because it damages the marking cm
The course = The book
Main Topics
1. How to read the composition of a painting
2. How the composition relates to the emotional expression. The Composition pulls the emotions out of the viewer.
1/28/12
Composition
-The composition is an organization created by shapes
The shape structure produces a tension
The tension gives the emotion stored in the artwork
We will go deeply into how the artist achieves this.
-How does a shape store the emotional tension?
-Consider for example Picasso
-The shapes give us dynamic information. i.e. information about movement.
The word emotion means E = outward, Motion = Movement
So the shapes in the painting give us information about the:
E-Motions = outward movements of the artist.
So the shapes have acted as a STORE for those movements.
Based on the shapes in the painting and the shapes give tension in the paint. While the tension makes the emotion in the painting.
So, to understand how an art-work functions, we have to understand how the viewer can RECOVER, from the shapes, the E-MOTIONS of the artist
The shapes are acting liking a memory store of an artist E-MOTIONS
Leyton/s books have developed new foundations for geometry in which the fundamental claim is: Shape = Memory Storage
1/30/13 Section 1.3 The world as History
We will define: • Memory = Information about the past. • Consequently, define: • Memory Stored = Any object that yields information about the past
Claim: The entire world around us is memory storage.
i.e. Each object around us is memory of the history of process that form