Showing posts with label alberti. Show all posts
Showing posts with label alberti. Show all posts

Friday, January 18, 2008

Alberti I

Paul Klee, Structural II (1934)
Select one of the paintings posted and review it according to Alberti's criteria for painting. First, decide how you understand Alberti's criteria. Then, talk about the painting and the ways that it appeals to its viewers.

Alberti II

Jan van Eyck, The Betrothal of Arnolfini (1434)
Select one of the paintings posted and review it according to Alberti's criteria for painting. First, decide how you understand Alberti's criteria. Then, talk about the painting and the ways that it appeals to its viewers.

Alberti III

Hieronymous Bosch, detail from Garden of Earthly Delights (1504)
Select one of the paintings posted and review it according to Alberti's criteria for painting. First, decide how you understand Alberti's criteria. Then, talk about the painting and the ways that it appeals to its viewers.

Thursday, January 17, 2008

Celibate dilletante talks about Painting

Leon Basista Alberti, portrait

searchable Web Gallery of Art website--find images of art from 1100-1850:
http://www.wga.hu/

Link to "Women in Art" by Philip Scott Johnson. 500 years of Female Portraits in Western Art History:
http://videos.emule.com/play/women-in-art-(nUDIoN-_Hxs