One Last Lecture

"Every time someone tries to be like someone else they help form a category."

Samuel Carter

Humans like to categorize. Categories help us form paradigms, and they help us remember where to find things. Art is about categories. Media, theme, style, period...categoria ad nauseum. Aristotle lists ten categories in Organon, the first being substance or essence. Art is inherently prophetic- the maker imparts to the thing made substance. The viewer interprets. A conversation begins. Conversation abounds in the Art Room at Trinity (see below for examples).

Pieta

1498-99

Michelangelo

One last lecture.

This week, students viewed ten works of art that have survived humankind, in spite of physical abuse (intentional and unintentional). Here is the list:

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

Night Watch

Rembrandt van Rijn

Danae

Rembrandt van Rijn

Rokeby Venus

Diego Velazquez

The Virgin and Child With St. Anne and St. John the Baptist

Leonardo da Vinci

Portland Vase

Maker Unknown

The Little Mermaid

Edvard Eriksen

Pieta

Michelangelo Buonarroti

The Actor

Pablo Picasso

Le Reve

Pablo Picasso 

To download the powerpoint, Ten Famous Works of Art (damaged and abused), click here.

New work from the students

Photo Serigraph

Madeline Keller

Serigraph

Mechal Harward

Serigraph

Tori Barbee

Watercolor

Samuel Carter

Serigraph
Alli Meyer

Acrylic on Canvas
CiCi Culp

Photo Serigraph on t-shirt from pinhole photo
Davis Martinec

Charcoal and Latex on paper
Michelle Berry

It's Not Lupus
Serigraph
Jack Traynor

Give Peace A Chance
Photo Serigraph
Izak Gainor




Photo of the Week

One Last Thing
A Short Film by Matt Deitch