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| Van Gogh . Two Cut Sunflowers . Aug - Sept. 1887 |
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| Van Gogh . 12 Sunflowers . 1888 . the artist painted it numerous times |
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Van Gogh "Twins", 1887
Van Gogh painted the sunflowers at a critical point in his life while living with Gauguin. He intended to 'decorate' the room with them. He painted many series of sunflowers. There are 3 paintings with fifteen sunflowers in the vase. Also a set of 2 paintings with twelve sun flowers in the vase. He first painted the twelve series. There is also a painting with 3 sunflowers in vase and one of 5 sunflowers in vase. The 5 sunflowers in vase was destroyed in the second world war by a fire on the 6th August 1945.
Vincent Van Gogh seemed to have quite a personal attachment to the sunflower. In the year before his death he wrote to his brother Theo, "It is a kind of a painting that rather changes in character, and takes on a richness the longer you look at it.. You know the peony is Jeannis, the hollyhock belongs to Quost, but the sunflower is somewhat my own." In many letters to his brother, he spoke glowingly of the richness of color that he saw in the Sunflowers, and his own desire to paint them before they quickly faded. (Quoted originally by Marc Eldo Tralbaut)
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Monet . Water Lilies (The Clouds) . 1903
Water Lilies is a
series of approximately 250 oil paintings by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The paintings depict Monet's flower garden at Giverny and were the main focus of Monet's artistic production. |
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| Monet . Water Lilies . 1917 |
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| Monet . Water Lilies at Sunset . 1919 |
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| Monet . Water Lilies . 1916 |
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| Monet's Water Lilies installed at Musee de l'Orangerie in Paris, France |
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| Andy Warhol . Campbell Soup Cans . 1962 |
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| Andy Warhol . Marilyn diptych . serigraph . 1962 |
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| Warhol inspired . Gianni Versace jacket and leggings |
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| Jasper Johns . Ballantine Ale . painted bronze . 1958-61 |
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| Jasper Johns . According to What . 1964 |
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| Jasper Johns .The Seasons (Spring) . encaustic on canvas . 1987 |
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| Jasper Johns . The Seasons (Summer), 1987 Encaustic |
Johns' colored intaglio print
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| Jasper Johns . The Seasons (Winter ). encaustic on canvas . 1985 |
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| Cy Twombly . Untitled (Black Board painting) . 1970 |
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| Cy Twombly . Untitled (Analysis of the Rose as Sentimental Despair), panel V Bassano in Teverina . 1985 |
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| Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009 |
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| Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009 |
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| Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009 |
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| Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009 |
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| Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009 |
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| Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009 |
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| Cy Twombly . Roses . 2008 - 2009 |
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| Cy Twombly . installation view |
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| Pat Steir . The Brueghel Series (A Vanitas of Style) . 1985 |
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| Pat Steir . Yellow (Light) Tree Series . 1985 |
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| Pat Steir in action . Waterfalls . latest works |
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| Jennifer Bartlett . In the Garden Series . 1980 - 1985 |
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| Jennifer Bartlett . In the Garden Series . water color |
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| Jennifer Bartlett . Amagansett Diptych #2, 2007 |
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| Jennifer Bartlett . installation |
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| Jennifer Bartlett . Installation view . MoMA |
assignment
This is an opportunity to combine what you have completed in your outside paintings and what you have learned and developed in our assignments.
It is an opportunity to develop in a formal area of the visual language, painting application you want to refine.
Serial themes may comprise of
- Subject matter
- Paint application
- Formal elements of design
- Break down of the subject over time
- Tracking the subject over time
- Subject is expressed through various painting styles
- Subject that the painter has a passion towards and wishes to explore thoroughly
Your subject matter may be placed on a single canvas or on a group of separate canvases.
However composed, a series will conceptually and visually 'hang together' as an exploration of subject matter, expressing the painter's evolution in concept and paint application and will express the painter's intentions, ideas and perceptions.
You must complete minimum of 6 in the series. You may make more.
Prior to delving into paint, you need to organize your thoughts.
Write a one page proposal about why you have chosen to paint, how you intend to interpret it, the size and quantity of panels.
Written proposals will be accompanied by 8 thumbnail drawings and copies (with details) of your art historical influences.
This is your FINAL PROJECT for the course and will be completed, discussed and critiqued on THUR. MAY 5th at 10:15 am - 12:15 pm
During our final critique, you will be presenting a deconstructive analysis of your final work.
Make sure to write down your thoughts in order to organize them and deliver them accurately and thoroughly to your audience.
- speak about your inspirations that helped you evolve your work
- speak about your theme and your choice of it and why you decided to use it as the basis for your series
- speak about the overall composition of the work and why you ultimately chose it
- speak about the formal elements of design including everything learned via: COLOR SPACE TEXTURE VALUE SCALE LINE WEIGHT BALANCE et al.
- speak about other assignments in our class together that influenced you in the evolution of this work.
