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Landscape and Gender categories
Arts Context

1) 15th Century Florence


Artist Michelangelo: The Pieta
Sculpture
Form line (naturalistic, drapery)
Gesture, Pose
Subject matter = 2 figures (Mary carrying Jesus)
Setting St Peters Basilica, Renaissance (for Biblical purposes)
o Grandeur is overwhelming
Scene in Christian iconography (subdivisions of the life and death of Christ);
immediately follows Christ being taken off the cross
If taken out of context
E.g. put in a 1960s restroom
Without grandeur of St Peters
Comparing
Renaissance about showing skill
20th Century not about showing skill, about ideas and escaping subject
matter
Minimalism (Carl Landre)
sculpture of flat grey tiles on the floor, to be walked on
does not look out of place in the little flat
point = using industrial ready-made materials
by eliminating the hand of the artist, it can be transplanted into non-art
contexts without notice
Can it exist outside an art gallery?
o If it cant, then its a statement about the power of the museum, and
overall context.
o Context emphasis, as well as role and use of space a work is in.
Brancacci Chapel, Florence (1424-28)
The Tribute Money
A chapel off the side of a bigger church
Painted by 2 artists (look up)
Look at readings
Look up Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols of Art
Scene from the Gospel of Matthew
o In background = Peter extracts tribute money from fish.

o Follow the way the hands point


o Peter discusses with Jesus, goes left to get the money out of the fish,
then right to give it to the man.
Chronology goes from center left right.

The Temptation of Adam and Eve; The Expulsion


Downfall of human morals
Ability to show naturalism the best painter follows nature as closely as
possible
Land Art/Earth Art = 60s-70s America
Spiral Jetty Robert Smithson (1970)
o Emergence of conceptual art art was the concepts behind it; it could
be ephemeral itself.
o Minimalism rejection of subject matter; emphasize form
o Very large
o Socio-political context moon landing (1969) grandeur, huge forms
on the Earths surface, viewable from space, bleakness of space and the
Moon
Asphalt Rundown (1969) Robert Smith
Vault 77-80 Melbourne
Ron Robertson-Swann
o Very highly respected; taught and studied in London, worked with
Henry Muir in the UK
Very controversial
o Was put in City Square (on Collins & Swanston intersection)
o a lot of people angry about this
o extreme modernism
o material = steel
o shape = too many acute angles imbalanced, claustrophobic
o color = very bright (The Yellow Peril), mono-tone
o location = centrality
o perspicacity = too much
o lack of pedestal
o public ownership c.f. if it was put outside the NABs building
sense of public ownership projecting civic identity
o media attention and sense of hype
o reactions
unnatural, unnerving
ultra-futuristic, inhuman
algorithmic sculpture as an idea
was a formalist work of art use many different forms
What is it about?
Then moved to Batman Park new context, out of the way; as if to get it out
of public sight.
Now outside ACCA (still here)

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