The big question:
David, by Michelangelo, 1501-1504 CE
No Limit, by Pichiavo, 2015 CE
The Fetus in the Womb, by Leonardo, c. 1510 CE
Timbuktu Manuscript (Qur'an), c. 1200 CE
United States Capitol Building, by William Thornton, 1793-1800 CE
Walt Disney Concert Hall, by Frank Gehry, 2003 CE
Stonehenge, c. 2000 BCE
Campbell's Tomato Soup
Campbell's Soup Cans, by Andy Warhol, 1962 CE
Blazer Skateboarding Shoe, by Nike, early 21st cent. CE
D-100, by Larry Robinson and the Martin Custom Shop, 2002 CE
Rubber Duck, by Florentijn Hofman, 2007-Present CE
Nobody Likes Me, by iHeart, 2014 CE
Mona Lisa
by Leonardo da Vinci
1503 CE*
Subject, Context, & Content
Form
Iconography
Basic visual elements
Style
The actual visual/physical elements that make up an artwork.
x
t:The conditions of the artwork's creation.
n
t:The intangible aspects of an artwork; the meaning behind the piece.
Portrait Bust Of Cardinal Richelieu,
by Kehinde Wiley, 2009
Portrait Bust of Cardinal Richelieu,
by Gian Lorenzo Bernini,
1640-41 CE
Napoleon Crossing the Alps,
by Jacques-Louis David,
1801 CE
The actual visual/physical elements that make up an artwork.
x
t:The conditions of the artwork's creation.
n
t:The intangible aspects of an artwork; the meaning behind the piece.
Bull-Leaping Fresco, 1450 BCE
Sculptural
Pictoral
Readymade / Performance
Asinas, Jennifer Townley, 2015
Byzantine Mosaic of Empress Theodora, San Vitale, Italy
Byzantine Mosaic of Emperor Justinian, San Vitale, Italy
Composition VIII (The Cow), Theo Van Doesburg, 1917 CE
The visual artist can leave the repetition of stories, fairy-tales, etc, to poets and writers.
The only way in which visual art can be developed and deployed is by revaluing and purifying the formative means. Painterly means are: colours, forms, lines and planes
-Theo van Doesburg, Principles of Neo-Plastic Art, 1919
Styles & How They Relate
Lines
Types, Function, Effect
Shapes
As they relate to Lines
Mass, Form, Volume, etc.
Untitled, Banksy, 2007 CE
Whaam!, Roy Lichtenstein, 1963 CE
Hackney Rabbit, Roa, 2010 CE
Cloud Gate, Anish Kapoor, 2004 CE
Cube XIX, David Smith, 1964CE
Open Form
Closed Form
Open Form
Closed Form
Large Bathers, Paul Cézanne , 1898 CE
Raft of the Medusa, Théodore Géricault, 1819 CE
Color Theory
Light & Pigment
Psychology of Color
Pigment / Subtractive  Color
Light / Additive Color
Actual Texture
Visual Texture
Subversive Texture
The Effects of Patterns
L'Homme au doigt (Pointing Man)
by Giacometti, 1947 CE
Woman Figurine
24,000 - 22,000 BCE
Wheat Fields with Crows
by Vincent van Gogh, 1890 CE
The Sower
by Vincent van Gogh, 1888 CE
Morisse
by Lynda Benglis
1985-1987 CE
Eridanus
by Lynda Benglis
1984 CE
A work from the Illusion Museum Prague
Object (Le Déjeuner en fourrure)
[a.k.a "Breakfast in Fur"]
by Méret Oppenheim, 1936 CE
Doormat II
by Mona Hatoum, 2000-2001 CE
Implied Motion
Illusionistic Motion
Stroboscopic Motion
Actual Movement
Apollo and Daphne, Bernini, 1622-1625 CE
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, Giacomo Balla, 1912 CE
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, Umberto Boccioni, 1913 CE
For the Guggenheim, Jenny Holzer, 2008 CE
Example of Illusory Motion via an LED Sign
Close-up of the "Wagon Wheel Effect"
Optical Illusion through Color and Composition
Example of a Zoetrope and its mechanics
Flipbook illustrating stroboscopic motion
Colibri, Juan Fontanive, 2011 CE
One of the First Public Commercial Films
The Invention of Movies
The Artist is Present, Marina Abramović, 2010 CE
Shindahiku
by Anthony Howe
2017 CE
About Face III
by Anthony Howe
2017 CE
Mums the Word
by Anthony Howe, 2020 CE
Kinetic sculptures by Anthony Howe
Background
Foreground
Midground
The Embarkation for Cythera by Jean-Antoine Watteau
Ghent, Evening by Albert Baertsoen
Basics of Proportion