ARA Boston Art History Lecture: Composition
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2024
- Composition - Or the arrangement of the visual space - is often a revealing/instructive characteristic in placing a painting, historically speaking. For the painter though, the composition is what the plot of a story is to an author. Leading a viewer through the pictorial space the same way a good story teller does. However like all good craftspersons, they hide their process. For the magic trick to work the viewer can’t see the trap door. There is a grammar to everything, and composition is no different. The language of composition can be broken down into ‘templates’. In this talk we will be looking at compositional templates; where they appear, and how they are interpreted through different minds and hands.
I can't stress enough how I enjoy these lectures! I always save them to "Whatch later" list to treat myself without any rush and distractions. So educational and entertaining! Please continue.
this was a gem from start to end!
If you can stick with it past the first 4 minutes about modern art then this lecture just gets better and better. There are some interesting ideas that I have not seen presented in other similar talks. Thank you for providing all this information to us for free. I found it very easy to listen to and although I didn't agree with some of the analysis I found it very refreshing and thought-provoking. Very well done
Just excellent!! Great voice for listening to and carrying us through the images. Love the structural direction. Hope to see more..
Have rewatched this lecture several times, and learned so much. Thank you Garrett!
To all the haters: why did you bother watching this video just to complain? be thankful someone so knowledgeable is being so generous with their time and sharing their insights with you for free. Clearly you aren’t deserving so just leave. 😡
Excellent! Thanks for making it public :)
really great talk. I will watch it again and again.
Amazing video! Thank you for making it available to the public. I derive a lot of value from it! Can we agree that your probunciation of Velasquez and Las Meninas are mistakes though? (As they should not be voiced as Velaskwez but Velaskez, and not Las Meniñas but Las Meninas! Spanish is a language of its own right) Apart from that, props! Really enjoyable, too!
If you don't speak a language there absolutely nothing wrong with mispornouncing words in said language since you know, you don't speak it. I'm a spanish speaker and I say no probs maestro.
I learn so much from your videos!
Vermeer did paint many interiors.
But he also painted the “View of Delft”
In 1658 Velázquez was made a Knight of Santiago. It was an honour he had always desired and his badge of office has been added to his self-portrait in 'Las Meninas'.
(Velas kez and not Vels kwez)
amazing, thank you ✨
I beg for ur pardon but ur reasonings r unsatesfying. U couldnt let ur students know how to compose, on what base. And how to choose the size of the painting.
Awe
matt damen
Using a grid should be regarded as unethical craftsmanship
Yes sir I would venture to say the painting made a few hundred years before the invention of the camera was in fact “not trying to be a photograph.” Astute observation.
Cute. But cameras obscura were in use at that time.
Thomas Thomas Jackson Cynthia Martin Donald
Did he say “ if it’s difficult to understand, it is HIGH air”?? Where did he get his education.
No, he didn’t say ‘air’, he said ‘art’… and went on to say that ‘high art’ is difficult to understand and therefore appreciate.
Art is subjective videos like this or lectures like his are not made for artists. They are for people who label things and need to be told what to do.
@@bestplayeralive I would disagree, this lecture is for everyone, but artists especially. As someone who was there IN PERSON for the lecture, I can assure you, everyone in attendance was an artist.
@@bestplayeralive
Edit.
Place a period after the word ‘subjective ‘.
I could not disagree more that representing another dimension with paint on a 2D surface is mixing painting and sculpture. It's painting and painting only. No need to complicate the concept of painting simply because Pollack painted the way he painted.
im only 3 minutes into the video, and hes done taking about Pollack already?? did you notice that the video is 1 hour & 27 minutes long!
I think he meant to suggest that this painting has sculptural elements. I have seen drawings and paintings informed by sculpture and even have sculpture-like qualities.
I often sculpt with paint when I'm painting. So I don't really see your problem.
@senglomein5766 because Stevie wonder can paint better. And this is coming from an artist.
The idea that painting it's a way to mimic sculpture it's not new nor made up by painters like Pollock, as an example, you can see southamerican religious paintings from the colonial time, they aspire volume that they do not have. Later on there is the question of "what is the "essential" thing in painting/sculpture/architecture...etc?" where the medium reaches autonomy, for example, for architecture is the configuration of space. For painting, it's two-dimensionality. These are the ideas that many painters had in their minds and they keep on searching an answer to that matter. That's why the professor talks about that concept of "painting as sculpture".
The notion that "a painting it's a painting" it´s highly biased, because our relation with images as people from the west, and as people from our time, and the fact that photography follows perspective similar to renaissance paintings. Not everyone from everywhere at any given time in history had the same perception of the image. The image as we know it it's not apriori, it has logics and ideas that certain people want to push forward. That's why it's not crazy to understand that painting was considered by a lot of people, just as something that tries to be sculpture.
I don't know if I explained myself clearly.
You can look up artist like Malevich and the suprematism movement to further explanation of this "autonomy/two-dimensionality" in painting. Hope this can give you wider understanding of why the professor said what he said in the lecture. Have a good day.
Lol half the comments here are just shitting on this guy.
I found the speaker's stammering and uhs to be very distracting. He also did not focus enough on the compositon of each painting.
poor you
Not an artist