8.11.10

Art Matters • Ideas & Themes Illustrated

by Mariano Akerman


MIMESIS • William Mason Brown: Still Life


OBSERVATION • Image by Caloi


EXPRESSION • Portrait by David Hockney


REALISM • Karl Edouard Biermann: Berlin


POSE • Hyacinthe Rigaud: Louis XIV


CRITICISM • Francisco de Goya: Capricho #41


INVENTIVENESS • Max Ernst: "She looked slightly like a horse"


SIMPLIFICATION • Pablo Picasso: Self-Portrait


STYLIZATION • Portrait by Amedeo Modigliani


DEFORMATION • Francis Bacon: Self-Portrait


DOT • Pointillism by Georges Seurat


LINE • Informalism by Hans Hartung


TEXTURE • Innerscape


COLOR • Fauvist painting by André Derain


COMPOSITION • Three Figures by a Window


VIEWPOINT • Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida: Fifth Avenue, New York


BEAUTY • Albrecht Dürer: The Hare


UGLINESS • Basil Wolverton: Lena the Hyena


GROTESQUENESS • Xul Solar: To Be


ART HISTORY • ANTIQUITY • Assyrian-Babylonian Demon


ART HISTORY • MIDDLE AGES • French Gothic Gargoyle


ART HISTORY • RENAISSANCE • Albrecht Dürer: Self-Portrait


ART HISTORY • MODERN ART • René Magritte: The Betrayal of Images


PREWAR PERIOD • Pieter Paul Rubens: The Garden of Love


POSTWAR PERIOD • Alberto Giacometti: Walking Man


SOURCE OF INSPIRATION • Surreal Neoclassicism or Neoclassical Surrealism?


METAMORPHOSIS • Hybrid Collection Wallpaper by Matt & Sophie Nice


HISTORICAL CONTEXT • Karl Schwesig: Schlegelkeller


THE IMAGINARY • Then Lilies turned to Tigers


NARRATIVE • Recurrent motif tends to suggest a story


ABSTRACTION • Painting by Mark Rothko


COMPASSION • Käthe Kollwitz: The Mothers


PROVOCATION • Marcel Duchamp: The Fountain


MANNERISM • Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Water


SUGGESTION • Meret Oppenheim: Object


AMBIGUITY • Francis Bacon: Lying Figure in a Mirror


CAMOUFLAGE • Just don't expect it to roar


TACT • Homo sapiens by Quino


DECORUM • The Way Things Should Always Be


SYMBOLS • Gold and Ashes


SYMBOLISM • Georges Lacombe: Blue Seascape


ALLEGORY • Death playing with Soap Bubbles


ABSURDITY • Quino: Waiting for Godot?


VANITAS • Still Life by Justus Junker


MEMENTO MORI • Julia DeVille: Cinerarium


PATHOS • George Frederic Watts: Hope


HOPE • Both Eyes and Heart

4 comments:

  1. Henrik Nielsen8:08 AM

    Nice pictures, good news from you.

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  2. Romah Samuel12:06 PM

    Hello, I just want to thank you for your amazing lecture. I really got a chance to learn a lot from you and appretiate the way you deliver the lecture. Take care and may God bless you. Thank you

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  3. Babur Kamal11:12 AM

    It was good meeting last Saturday. I continue to enjoy immensely, the elaborate and very informative lectures. This was the fourth lecture I attended and each time, I have the pleasure of learning more about international art and its trends. I am delighted to experience your capacities and would like matters to remain this way for much of an extended period of time.

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  4. Lynley Ruth Butt12:12 AM

    Thanks. Most enjoyable interlude in the world you had collated.

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