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Jacques-Louis David, "Intervention of the Sabine Women", 1799

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very complicated painting

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very large, almost cinematic in its scale

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tells of a complicated story drawn from Roman history

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observe the feet of the figures

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animators could learn a great deal from Jacques-Louis David since one of the difficulties for artists and animators is to make figures and characters that are weighted believably and move through space believably because they have the illusion of weight and substance

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David's feet inform the lifelikeness of the character all the way to the tops of their heads, the toes are ready, the flesh has a life in it

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we think of these paintings almost like movies before movies were made almost because you can sense what is next to happen because of the weight and the embodied sense of the figures

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Piero della Francesca, "Flagellatin of Christ" 1455

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painted when perspective and linear perspective were just beginning to be refined

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a way of imagining three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface

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used the convergence of othagonal lines to create the illusion of depth

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it has a theatrical space, it's a picture that is better at rendering architecture than the figures which look flat in comparison

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Nidha Mal, "Prince and Ladies in a Garden"

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mid 18th century in India

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all of the figures and background seem to occupy the same plane

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some artists are not concerned with the illusion of three-dimensionality at all, some cultures aren't either

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artists work in particular times and contexts

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according to the skills, techniques and conventions of those times and contexts

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what is interesting is when artists attempt to represent the context between different cultures

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here you feel the stress of those conventions

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Utagawa Sadahide, "English, Dutch, and Russians enjoying a stroll on a rest-day in Yokohama", 1861

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port in Yokohama was just being open to foreign trade

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an artist who was used to representing a world of people who looked just like him, was now representing a contemporary world of people who did not look like him

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people who were caucasion and had different organization of their facial features

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Alfred H. Barr, "Cubism and Abstract Art", 1936

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flow chart of the history of modern art

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first curator of Museun of Modern Art in New York

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facing a very skeptical public that things modern art might be a big joke

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shows that modern art has a history that is linear and progressive

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modern art is posed on two different paths:

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1. non-geometrical abstract art

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2. geometrical abtract art

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a noble attempt to make sense of the art of his times

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today's situation in art

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contemporary artists are global

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through the virtues of fairly easy travel, the Internet, and amazing digital archive at our fingertips

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you can feel as if all of art history is available to you and you can do whatever you will with it

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Huang Yong Ping, "The History of Chinese Painting and the History of Modern Western Art Washed in the Washing Machine for 2 Minutes" 1987

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if you put two histories of art through the washing machine uncritically and you run them through the wash cycle, what you get is not something better, or clearer, what you get is a greyed down mass of pulp

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artwork:

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Intervention of the Sabine Women

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Jacques-Louis David, 1799

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represents in Roman history, the Sabine women interposing themselves to separate the Romans and Sabines, as a sequel to Poussin's The Rape of the Sabine Women

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very complicated painting of Roman

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very large, almost cinematic in its scale

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observe the feet of the figures: animators could learn a great deal from Jacques-Louis David since one of the difficulties for artists and animators is to make figures and characters that are weighted believably and move through space believably because they have the illusion of weight and substance

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artist: jacqueslouisdavid

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Flagellation of Christ

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Piero della Francesca, 1455

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painted when perspective and linear perspective were just beginning to be refined

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a way of imagining three dimensional space on a two dimensional surface

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used the convergence of othagonal lines to create the illusion of depth

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it has a theatrical space, it's a picture that is better at rendering architecture than the figures which look flat in comparison

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artist: pierodellafrancesca