I unfortunately will not be able to attend the Ballet on Saturday, October 3rd and therefore have an extra ticket. If anyone needs a ticket please let me know by responding to this post. Thanks!
Month: September 2009
Housekeeping
I was browsing through out Media Library and noticed that there are some duplicate images uploaded to our site. I’ve deleted any duplicates, but in the future, make sure that you only upload the image once. If you made a mistake when uploading, make sure to delete the old one before adding a new one. This will help us conserve space.
Also, while you may use the Media Library to upload your images, the NextGen gallery is a preferred method if only because it allows you to keep your images in specific folders and makes it easier to keep track of where things are. Also, if someone else had uploaded an image that you want to use, you can easily locate it and use it, rather than upload a duplicate (case in point: the Hassam images). Just follow the instructions posted here on how to upload images using NextGen: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/weinroth2009/class-site-faq/#uploadimage
I know this seems tedious (and that I’m being anal!), but I want to make sure the website is well-organized and works for all of you!
9/24 Lecture notes
American Culture From Mozart to Bernstein and back
Definition of “Great” Art
Differences and similarities between Musical Theater and Opera
Bernstein on Opera:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni0epRutZZI
Bernstein on Musical Theater:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra3zyMcTKX4
Bernstein West Side Story rehersal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-i0IXn9M6Q&feature=related
In our Book:
“STREET MUSIC” p.49 -61 Will Eisner “New York The Big City”
Assigned work:
*Check the Alvin Ailey site before our event on the 3rd. Be familiar with the history of the company.
*How to read a score (Due October 8th in class after our visit to the Jazz museum)
*Write a review to post of either the Opera or the Modern Ballet we have seen (Due October 14th)
Reminder: Sign up for Tech Fair!
Hi students,
If you haven’t done so already, please sign up for a Tech Fair session (you only need to sign up for one). You can do so at the following website: http://eportfolios.macaulay.cuny.edu/techfair/registration/
Tickets exchange
Dear Class,
If you have a ticket or need a ticket and would like to switch with your friends, please use your RSS feed to let the class know. Some of our tickets will be last minute.
Musical Experience Project
Select a short musical section from the music of the Marriage of Figaro. Either an Aria or a passage. Look through the score and see if you can match the music score to the sound recording. Be prepared to guide us on the page or on the screen. You may get into groups of up to Five to collaborate.
You can chose to use a DVD, CD, a Library score book or an on-line score library (Canadian).
The Bridge
In class now
Funny allusion to the Vitruvian Man.. i actually have a huge poster of it on my wall. Man IS THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE> Listening to this is really interesting. what is vellum?
Renaissance Art
Renaissance Art finds itself emerging between the 14th and 16th centuries A.D. Within this period the Renaissance movement itself, along with all that lead up to the actuality of the movement influences all of its art. Painters and sculptors are influenced by humanism and secularism respectively. Unlike the Middle Ages (period before it) human thought was focused away from God, heavenly saints, and it began to examine the natural aspect of living on Earth. As Greek and Roman scientific methods began to be revived, artists began to be perceived as knowledgeable, respected figures in society and no longer artisans or craftsmen. A profession in the visual arts called for knowledge of mathematical perspective, optics, geometry, and anatomy. It was this exploration of fields in science, biology, architecture, mathematics, and engineering lead art of the Renaissance to be distinct from its predecessors. By solely using “secular humanism” as a means to identify art of this period we see changes in the depiction of saints and/or individuals of religious importance where halos become to disappear and the size of such figures actually are more scaled to look like ordinary people.
During the Renaissance we also see paintings transform in their presentation. Oil paints were used for the time, and the mixing of egg yolks for pigmentsis replaced. With oil, paint became translucent and more vivid colors were used, as well as more depth in paintings. The works of art that were a result of the Renaissance were made with attention to detail, and have a natural essence to them-which is exactly what artists intended. Evidence of this lays in well-known examples from this period of time such as the “Last Supper” and the “Mona Lisa” by Leonardo Da Vinci, as well as Michelangelo’s sculptures and his artwork on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
Bibliography:
“Renaissance Art.” History Department, Hanover College. Hanover.edu. Web. 24 Sept. 2009. <http://history.hanover.edu/courses/art/111ren.html>.
“Renaissance Art Gallery.” Renaissance Art. Www.csun.edu. Web. Sept. 2009. <http://www.csun.edu/~aee52628/files/pdf/Renaissance/Ren.Art.Gallery.pdf>.
Sistine Chapel . Hanover.edu. Web. Sept. 2009. <http://history.hanover.edu/courses/art/micsis2.jpg>.
Witcombe, Prof. Christopher. “What is Art?…. What is an Artist.” Arthistory.sbc.edu. Department of Art History: SBC Virginia, Fall 1997. Web. Sept. 2009. <http://www.arthistory.sbc.edu/artartists/renaissance.html>.
Fauvism Art Movement
Fauvism was an art movement made up of 20th century artists known as Les Fauve. Their name was coined by french art critic Louis Vauxcelles who was viewing one of the groups exhibitions, headed by Henri Matisse. The wild brush strokes, bright colors, and simplified design prompted Vauxcelles to call them Fauves, or “Wild Beasts”. Fauvism tried combining impressionism with dramatic colors in the attempt to combine the straightforwardness of impressionism with vivid colors’ great capacity for evoking emotion. they had been tremendously influenced by Van Gough, who also combined impressionism with vivid colors but Fauve artists went even further in liberating color from its distinctive function and using it for both expressive and structural ends (Gardner, 2005). The colors of the paintings are non realistic and the artists use heavy amounts of paint in objects’ centers, and fade into their borders as can clearly be seen in ”Open Window, Collioure” by Henri Matisse, painted in 1905 (see below)
The movement began in Paris at the Salon d’Automne in 1905 and consisted of artists such as Vlaminck, Derain, Marquet, Rouault, Camoin, and Valtat. Matisse was the main figure though, so much so that Fauvism lasted only as long as its originator, Henri Matisse (1869-1954), fought to find the artistic freedom he needed (Pioch 2002). by 1908 many of its painters had moved on to Cubism.
Henri Matisse, Open Window, Collioure, 1905, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Collection of Mr. and Mrs. John Hay Whitney 1998.74.7
Works Sited
Helen Gardner, Fred S. Kleiner, Christin J. Mamiya, Gardner’s Art Through the Ages: The western Perspective. (Wadsworth Publishing; 12 edition, February 23, 2005), pp. 738-739
Nicolas Pioch. The Web Museum: Fauvism. 14 Oct 2002
(http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/tl/20th/fauvism.html)
