Below is a list of artists to choose from. Students will form groups of 4-5. Each group will choose a single MOVEMENT or time period. Each student will choose an artist from that period.
- Look over the list of TIME PERIODS and ARTISTS below. Be sure to explore any links. Note some of your favorites.
- Go to the on-line library catalog for the SAN JOSE STATE LIBRARY. Search for the artists you liked and note the call # and location of the artist's catalogue in the library. (Look for books which seem to have lots of images)
Be sure to have a current library card. - Each groups will choose one time period from the list below by this Thursday.
- Visit the SAN JOSE STATE LIBRARY (class time is provided Nov. 4) to check out an artist catalog for one of the painters in your group's time period. A catalog is a VISUAL record of an artist's work. It is usually a large book with lots of high quality, full page, color reproductions. There may be biographical information along with essays but the bulk of a good catalog should be pictures of work.
Check out one or more catalogs on this artist and become familiar with his/her work.
FLEMISH PAINTERS (1400-1500)
ITALIAN RENAISSANCE PAINTERS (1400-1500)
DUTCH PAINTERS (1600-1700)
BAROQUE (circa 1600-1700)
Caravaggio 1573 (also see this link: http://www.caravaggio.rai.it/index_en.htm and zoom into paintings)
EIGHTEENTH CENTURY (French Revolution)
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres 1780
ROMANTICISM
IMPRESSIONISM:
FAUVISM: (wild beasts)
POINTILISM
(for project, group may include Chuck Close b.1940 )
EXPRESSIONISM
Vincent Van Gogh (movies: Lust for Life, 1956 \ Vincent & Theo, 1990 )
RUSSIAN CONSTRUCTIVISM:
MEXICAN MODERNISM
ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM:
Joan Mitchell (Here is a discussion of Joan Mitchell on Charlie Rose - starts at 22 minutes)
BAY AREA FIGURATIVES
POP ART
Robert Rauschenberg (Charlie Rose interview of Chuck Close and Robert Rauschenberg)
GRAFFITI / graffiti influenced
MISSION SCHOOL (San Francisco)
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS:
Thomas Hirschhorn (click on his name when you get to the site)
Pierre Huyghe (see Art: 21)
CONTEMPORARY - LOCAL ARTISTS
For these artists you should plan to visit the gallery (and ask to see their work if it is not up front). Or visit one of the musuems that has their work on display.Hung Liu (Rena Bransten, San Francisco)
Christopher Brown (John Berggruen, San Francisco)
Enrique Chagoya (Gallery Paule Anglim also currently at Berkeley Art Museum )
Chester Arnold (Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco)
Raymond Saunders (Stephen Wirtz Gallery)