This lecture explores the final five universal themes in art: "Looking Outward: The Here and Now," "Looking Inward: The Human Experience," "Invention and Fantasy," "The Natural World," and "Art and Art." It examines how these themes are represented through various artworks, highlighting their cultural and historical contexts.
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hi class in today's lecture video we're
going to be
continuing our discussion with the
so of the eight themes that we're going
to be discussing in this class we
already have discussed the sacred realm
politics and social order and stories in history
history
so today's lecture is going to be
looking at our five remaining themes
looking outward the here and now
looking inward the human experience
invention and fantasy
the natural world and an art and art
looking outward in the here and now so
this is the idea
of kind of living in the moment you only have
have
you only live once you only have one
life so becoming more aware of the world
around us not just passing through it
or kind of like looking ahead
so one artwork that we see that
represents this idea
is called gas by edward hopper so this
would have been
everyday world of the mid 20th century america
america
first time in which we have a car that
is accessible to the majority
this idea of the open road being able to
hop on a road
and just kind of take off and be able to
go wherever you want live in the moment
and not really have to focus on certain responsibilities
responsibilities
the road here is a symbol of travel time
that continues essentially beyond the
frame of the composition
we're also seeing the use of some great
complimentary colors throughout
the green with the red as well as the
blue and the orange that are being
represented here really kind of pop and
make the
um the painting um
kind of stand out to the viewer be
aesthetically pleasing
inward the human experience so this has
to do with the consequence of the human condition
condition
so all of us doesn't matter where you
grew up how much money you have
any of those ideas we as humans all have these
these
uh specific feelings and emotions so
doubt wonder happiness sorrow loneliness
despair these are concepts that we can
all relate to
because we are all men the image that
we're looking at here is called talking skull
skull
so this is a sculpture made of bronze
the idea that's being represented here
is this wish to speak to those who have
came before
us that have passed on so
the desire for communication beyond the
boundaries of our lifetime
and that's what's being represented here so
so
um the boy that we're seeing here we
notice that he is
almost completely nude we just have a
little cloth that's covering him
and so this idea of uh being nude
and being vulnerable is something that's
oftentimes associated together
in art so because he's nude we're
getting the sense of vulnerability
um him being trying to open up to
someone who has passed away
frida kahlo is another figure
in art that we can associate with this concept
concept
this is a self-portrait with monkeys by
her from 1943
and essentially here frida kahlo or a
little context on her
she was in a tragic streetcar accident
she had to undergo several surgeries
throughout her life
she was in constant crippling pain
unable to bear children
so all of these different ideas of her
kind of being taken away from this world
that she was in
is being represented in this particular piece
piece
so this affirmative that she still exists
exists
that she still is very much here she is
very proud
she we have the bird of paradise in the
background this idea of
being exotic proud very desirable
and that is all represented in this
particular painting
invention fantasy so bringing the
imaginary world to life before our eyes
one of the most famous artists to
represent this concept
is an individual by the name of
hieronymus basque and this can be seen
in his very puzzling piece which is
referred to as garden of earthly delight
so this is representing
the garden of eden the world before the flood
flood
as well as hell and some of the imagery
throughout here obviously is not
imagery that is naturalistic to the
world around us this is
all imaginative um and that's what's
being represented within this piece
the natural world so this is the idea that
that
nature and our relationship to nature so
we essentially kind of are making the world
world
the environment around us we're shaping
that world and sometimes this is viewed
as a good thing sometimes it's not
necessarily viewed as kind of this
awesome concept because we are changing
the world to kind of
make our fit our needs is that
really something that is productive or not
not
so one artwork that represents this concept
concept
is referred to as the oxbow by thomas cole
cole
so this is a painting in which we have
two very different sides here so the
right side of the composition
is very serene calm sunlit this is a
settled community
so what's happening at this time in
america is we have the settlers that are coming
coming
they're traveling from the east to the
west and so that's what's being
represented by the right side of the
composition that's our east
our west is still the unknown this is
the untraveled territory that we haven't necessarily
