There is a separate post concerning my sketchbook, which I have used as one long chronological entry which I am editing as I go along. However I am putting this post here, at the end of part 4, before I tackle the assignment. John Berger says (in The Shape of a Pocket, 2002) “The history …
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Exercise 4.5 Dialectic
Apply the Dialectic diagram to Barr’s chart. Refer to art works. I made my own dialectic diagram to reflect modernism. I’m finding it very hard to find a way into this exercise: I have flicked through books and magazines, thought and thought, referred to books: in the end the conclusion that I have come to …
Exercise 4.4 Giotto’s “The Kiss of Judas”
To what extent can Giotto’s painting serve to illustrate Deleuze’s quote? “Let us imagine something which is distinguished- and yet that from which it is distinguished is not distinguished from it. The flash of lightning for example, is distinguished from the black sky, but must carry the sky along with it… one would say that …
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Exercise 4.3: Creation and Affirmation
How are they linked? “Affirmation: a statement or sign that something is true” (dictionary.cambridge.org). Our UVC manual uses this example to illustrate difference: “those cats look the same, but one has blue eyes, the other green, that is the difference”. So: in the everyday then, “difference” denotes an absence of something: that is the “thing” …
Exercise 4.2: The First Man was an Artist.
Write a short summary of Newman’s essay in 200 words. The link supplied for us to find Newman’s essay does not exist. Luckily there are plenty of ways to find it, I have a copy in Herschel B Chipp’s “Theories of Modern Art” (University of California Press, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London 1968). Basically, this …
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Exercise 4.1 Charles Minard, and Alfred Barr Revisited.
How might Alfred Barr’s Cubism and Abstract Art be understood as “information in a system”? Compare this to Charles Minard’s 1812 data-map of French losses in Russia. Minard created his map in 1869 to illustrate Napoleon’s march to Moscow in 1812. The chart plots army size, location and temperature. The script at the top of …
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Exercise 4.0 Two Sowers: Millet and Van Gogh.
Look at Millet’s “The Sower” (1850) and Van Gogh’s “The Sower” (1889) and account for their similarities and differences. These two paintings were made 39 years apart, are obviously of the same subject matter and obviously (unless we were sure that one artist had dramatically changed his/her style) by two different hands. Rather than use …
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Understanding Visual Culture with the Open College of the Arts 