Tuesday, January 26, 2021

Chapter 18

Photo History


Leslie Magazine
 In Print 1855 - 1922
Civil War 1861 - 1865

Print History - Printing press, Germany, 1440
Woodblock printing, China, 9th century.





John Wilkes Booth jumping from balcony after shooting Lincoln. 



Cover promoting women's voting rights. 











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Contraband = "Goods"
During Civil War, a slave who escaped or was transported across Union lines. 


Definition of Goods:
goods | ɡo͝odz | plural noun merchandise or possessions: imports of luxury goods | stolen goods | [in singular] :  the market price of an agricultural good.

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A group of African Americans aboard the USS Vermont. The United States Navy employed thousands of freed slaves during the Civil War. 






Photographers - Morse and Peaslee
Before and After the Proclamation
 1863







Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863
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Above image from Getty Images





Without Sanctuary
Photographs and postcards taken 
as souvenirs at lynchings throughout America.
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Monday, January 18, 2021

Examples for Formal Analysis Section on Visual Analysis Assignment

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Implied Line - horizontal (space between clouds, horizon, lake). This line direction dominates - visually emphasizing calmness. 
Implied Line - Diagonal (slight bend in palm trees). Not dominate, just a slight bend, perhaps suggesting a light wind. 
Implied Line - Vertical (palm tress not bending). Not dominate, suggests a bit of stability within the vast idea of a landscape. 

The Highway Men






Francisco Goya
The Executions of the Third of May, 1808
Oil on Canvas

Color is used to create an area of emphasis. The person being executed is depicted in bright, warm colors while the surrounding area contains cool colors; greens, violets. blues. 




Implied Line - Vertical

Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass was born into slavery sometime around 1818 in Talbot County, Maryland. He became one of the most famous intellectuals of his time, advising presidents and lecturing to thousands on a range of causes, including women's rights and Irish home rule. Image source link below:




Implied Line - Vertical and Diagonal
Pyramids of Giza, Egypt


Implied Line - Vertical
 Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Scandinavia
This Cathedral hosts the relics of St. Olav, a Norwegian king and a national hero. Thus is became an important pilgrimage destination. Moreover, this church is the most important in Norway and the largest medieval building in Scandinavia.


Implied Line - Vertical
Skyscrapers, New York City






Examples of elements and principles found in the grocery store. 
Left - Sleep Aid Medication. Implied and actual horizontal lines are used - visually communicates calm. The text is carefully, evenly presented in horizontal format. Bans of color contain the text. Small dots are arranged to imply horizontal lines. Violet, blue and green are cool colors -  suggest darkness, depth (night time). The package design also utilizes semiotics - the moon is a symbol for night time.

Right - Children's Cereal. Diagonal line direction implied - energy. Both cool and warm colors are used - another visual tool to imply energy as cool and warm colors visually vibrate when used together. Semiotics - an animated figure, smiling bird swinging on vine, having fun, bird is neutral object - all kids can relate.



ArtistJan van Eyck
Year1434
TypeOil on oak panel of 3 vertical boards
Dimensions82.2 cm × 60 cm (32.4 in × 23.6 in);
panel 84.5 cm × 62.5 cm (33.3 in × 24.6 in)
LocationNational GalleryLondon

National Gallery of Art discusses the painting. 
https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/jan-van-eyck-the-arnolfini-portrait

A Stitch In Time examines the clothing/fashion.

Sunday, January 17, 2021

Stereotypes









Women slaves - bodies violated. 
Mammy image perpetuates an idea. 
Enslaved peoples. Marginalized peoples. 
Caricature - features of a person exaggerated.
Stereotypes of black inferiority dominate America's landscape. 
Stereotype - a mistaken idea or belief many people have about a thing or group that is based upon how they look on the outside.


Please Mammy, ca. 1899. Photographer unknown. Courtesy the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
























Betye Saar
Assemblage
1972


Further Reading:
Southern Spaces


Article, Octavia Spencer
 



Link to Kara Walker, Artist




Tuesday, January 12, 2021

What Is Visual Culture?

  •  Anything within our culture that communicates through visual means. 
    • Advertising
    • Architecture
    • Spectator Events such as Concerts, Sporting Events, Plays. 
    • Music Videos, TV Programming, Movies. 
    • News Media
    • Social Media
    • Visual Arts
    • Fashion
    • Public Sculpture
    • Political Propaganda
    • Landscape such as Cemeteries, Neighborhoods, City Planning. 
    • Any objects or images associated with a group's belief system. 
  • The study of how visual means communicates content. 
  • Define Culture - The customs, arts, social institutions, practices, achievements of a particular nation, people or other social group.