First Thursday Extra Credit

FIRST THURSDAY is when all of the galleries in portland's Pearl District stay open late and 'preview' their show for the upcoming month.

It is a great opportunity to browse the art and people watch.
Most galleries are open until 10pm (or even later)...

It is a cheap date- see art and be entertained all night for the price of a coffee!
You don't really even need a map, just follow the people!!!

More info can be found at:
www.FirstThursdayPortland.com

and a map at:

http://www.artofgeography.com/maps/pearl-gallery-map.html

If you are going for EXTRA CREDIT, you need to prove you've hit these places- take cell phone pics, collect postcards of the shows, do sketches of work, write reviews of the galleries you visit- just prove to me that you went and don't forget to get the NAMES of the galleries you went to and the ARTISTs that were showing there!!!!!

Museums of the Future

With the economy sinking down, Museum and Gallery attendance is going up! Why? Maybe because it is relatively cheap and easy to go see art. It is also, in part, due to the efforts made by museums in the past 10 years to 'outreach' to their communities with cooler, more modern rotating exhibits and interactive shows.

The Leonardo DaVinci exhibit at Omsi last year was amazing.
Did anyone see Body Worlds? The exhibit with the 'real' human skeleteons with all that exposed muscle?
Last month the Portland Art Museum did a feature show on the work of Robert Crumb- a 1970's hippie-era cartoonist!
Has anyone been to the Experience Music Project in Seattle?

Well, the BLOGscussion (blog discussion) this week revolves around the future of museums... Since this is an easy, written format, you have to make at least 2 INTELLIGENT posts to get the 5 points this week... One can be a response to one of the questions, and the other should be a reply to the post of one of your classmates.
KEEP IT MATURE, please.

Possible discussion questions:
1) If all of your plans pay off and you wind up a ga-zillionaire, what KIND of museum would you finance? AND WHY???

Based on your personal obsessions... So, a baseball history museum already exists, try to be -original-

For example- My museum would be dedicated to preserving the cartoons and merchandise (toys) from 1980's cartoons. It was a high point in American animation and commerce that led to what we now nationally know as the tradition of ""Saturday Morning cartoons"". Happily warping the minds, but expanding the creativity, of millions of anxiously watching youths.

2) Do you have any (logical, reasonable) ideas that could improve the attendance of museums and galleries?

What would make even more people attracted to the idea of spending some time in a museum? Maybe start answering this question by looking at why YOU don't go to them now, and how would they get YOU in the door?

3) What is a cool museum that exists already that WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT?

Maybe you've been to one when you were on a family trip two years ago... If you would be so kind, maybe put a LINK in your answer, so we can go check this place out online...

4)Would you be more likely to visit a museum if you were on a vacation in Europe? in Argentina? in China? Why do you think people would rather explore museums in other countries than in their OWN? Where do you stand on this tendency?

Don't forget to comment as ANONYMOUS, but END YOUR POST with your first name and last initial for credit!!!!

MID TERM review

So... Any of the terms below are fair game for MULTIPLE CHOICE, or TRUE/FALSE questions on the midterm- And don't forget, the meanings may be different on DICTIONARY.COM than what they mean when applied specifically TO ART...

Venus of Willendorf = Fertility Idol
LASCAUX = Cave paintings
Hieroglyphics
Idealized
Androgynous
Contrapposto
Iconoclasts
Equestrian Statue
BUST
Androgynous
Cannon of Human Proportions
mosaic
RELIEF
PERSPECTIVE
Frescoe
Chiaroscurro
SFUMATO
non-finito
camera obscura
heretic
Triptych
Diptych
MONOGRAM
Patron
What does it mean when art is-
-representational?
-expressive?
-formalist?
-Idealized?
-Exaggerated?
-functional?
-Aesthetic?

Mid Term Images Study List
This is a list of every possible image you may be tested on for the MIDTERM.
Remember- I am only looking for the ARTIST'S NAME.
Supplying the title of the piece will be extra credit.



Madonna in Majesty - Giotto pg.94
Feast of Herod - Donatello Pg. 100
Portrait of Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife - Jan Van Eyck pg. 106
David- Donatello pg. 108
Equestrian Monument to Gattamelatta - Donatello pg. 109
Saint Mary Magdelene - Donatello pg. 113
Primavera- Boticelli pg.120
Birth of Venus- Boticelli pg. 121
Drunken Bacchus- Michaelangelo pg. 123
Last Supper- Lenardo da Vinci- pg.123
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - Albrecht Durer pg. 124
Portrait of Oswalt Krel - Albrecht Durer pg. 126
Self Portrait With a Fur Coat- Durer pr. 126
Pieta- Michaelangelo pg. 130
David- Michaelangelo pg. 131
Holy Family- Michaelangelo pg. 131
Creation of Adam (from the ceiling of the Sistine chapel)- Michaelangelo pg. 132
The Mona Lisa (la giaconda) - Leonardo da Vinci pg. 132
Ceiling of the Sistine Chapel- Michaelangelo pg.133
Triptych of the Epiphany- Heironymus Bosch pg. 133
Triptych of the Garden of Earthly Delights- Bosch pg.134
School of Athens- Raphael pg. 136
Triumph of Galatea - Raphael pg.138
The Sistine Madonna- Raphael pg.138
Moses- Michaelangelo pg.138
Madonna of the Chair- Raphael pg. 139
Melancholia- Durer pg. 139
Christ Carrying the Cross- Bosch pg. 141
Transfiguration- Raphael pg. 142
Tomb of Giuliano- Michaelangelo pg. 143
Last Judgement- Michaelangelo pg. 148
Hare- Durer pg.151
Spring-
Summer-
Autumn-
Winter- ACRIMBOLDO pg. 158
The Vegetable Gardener- Acrimboldo pg.163
St. Catherine- Caravaggio pg.164
Conversion of St. Paul- Caravaggio pg.166
Entombment of Christ- Caravaggio pg.168
Judith Beheading Holofernes- Artemesia Gentilleschi pg.169
The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp- Rembrandt pg. 177
Danae- Rembrandt pg. 179
Bathsheba with David's Letter- Rembrandt pg. 185
View of the Delf- Jan Vermeer pg.186
Head of a Young Woman- Vermeer pg. 189
The Lacemaker- Vermeer pg. 190
Return of the Prodigal Son- Rembrandt pg. 192
Portrait of the Painter Hubert Robert- Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun pg. 218
Self Portrait- Lebrun pg. 218
Self Portrait- Lebrun pg. 225