Seeing and Knowing

Samenvatting over: 1.Introduction to course Formal analysis. 2. Iconography, iconology, and Panofsky, 3. Italian Renaissance iconography, 4. Early Netherlandish Painting and ‘Disguised Symbolism’, 5. 19th-c. Art: Becoming Modern, 6. 20th-c. Art: Towards Abstraction, 7. 20th-c. Art: Opposite movements in the Dutch art scene from the 1930s and 1940s: Hendrik Werkman and Pyke Koch

Notes from the course Seeing and Knowing, first year, first semester from the bachelor Arthistory, University of Groningen (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen). Almost everything is in English, a few words in dutch. The notes are from medieval art to modern art and how every time period has its own iconography and formal aspects.

Summary PART 1 Fundamentals with the ten elements of art and the ten principles for art needed for formal/visual analysis 1.1 Art in Two Dimensions: Line, Shape and the Principle of Contrast 1.2 Three-Dimensional Art: Form, Volume, Mass and Texture 1.3 Implied Depth: Value and Space 1.4 Colour 1.5 Time and Motion 1.6 Unity, Variety and Balance 1.7 Scale and Proportion 1.8 Emphasis and Focal Point 1.9 Pattern and Rhythm 1.10 Content and Analysis