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Form + Theme + Context… FTC Palette for Decoding and Encoding Visual Art

ART = FORM + THEME + CONTEXT How the work “is” What the work is about When, where, by/for whom and WHY the work was created/valued

How does a balance of formal, thematic, and contextual qualities reveal layers of meaning?

FORMAL +

THEMATIC +

CONTEXTUAL

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Art Elements:

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2D&3D Qualities:

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Style:

Other:

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BY/FOR WHOM:

WHY: Intention/Purpose(s)

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Form + Theme + Context… FTC Palette for Decoding and Encoding Visual Art

ART = FORM + THEME + CONTEXT How the work “is” What the work is about When, where, by/for whom and WHY the work was created/valued

The Great Wave Off Kanagawa, From the Series: "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji”

How does a balance of formal, thematic, and contextual qualities reveal layers of meaning?

FORMAL + THEMATIC + CONTEXTUAL

Actual Composition: Asymmetrical, horizontal organization

Art Elements: Lines (curves, dots), textures, values, warm/cool colors

Design Principles: Dominance, asymmetry, repetition, contrast, patterns, rhythm, +/- space, unity, variety, scale

2D&3D Qualities: 2D, break-up of boats/waves, depth created by distant mountain –white caps on waves & mountain

Size/Scale: Approximately 12 x 15 inches

Media/ Materials: Color wood block print

Processes/Methods: Relief printing, multiple layers of color, registration, collaborative approach

Skills: Drawing, wood engraving, design

Style: Ukiyo-e “Pictures of the

Floating World”

Other: Part of series: “36 Views of Mt. Fuji”; Created 15+ volumes/ thousands of “random sketches,” called Manga in Japanese

Broad Subject/BIG IDEA: High Drama, Human Struggle/ Turbulence, Man’s Power vs. Nature, Earth vs. Sea

Subject Matter: Seascape (landscape)

“Viewpoint”/ Perspective: dramatic scale: tiny humans vs. sea

Visual Sources: Ocean, boats, mountains

Art Historical References: Japanese woodblock prints,, U-kiyoe, Gericault, Turner, Copley, Homer, Kandinsky, Bartlett, Sugimoto, Maya Lin

Literary Sources: Bible (Noah’s Ark, Jonah), Moby Dick, The Odyssey, Old Man and the Sea…

Other Arts Connections:

Music: La Mer, Scheherezade, Handel’s Water Music

Theater: Kabuki, Noh, Metamorphoses, The Tempest

Dance: Cirque du Soleil “O”

Film: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea, Poseidon Adventure, Jaws, Perfect Storm, Endless Summer, Fantasia, Inconvenient Truth

Other Subjects: Math: balance Language Arts: epic stories/ legends Science: oceanography, global warming, weather patterns Social Studies: battles at sea, collaboration against odds Physical Education: endurance, physical strength, surfing

Vocational Education: collaboration

WHEN: 1826-33

WHERE: Japan, a set of islands

BY/FOR WHOM: Hokusai, painter and wood engraver who at 83 wanted to be known as 'The Old Man Mad About Drawing”

WHY: Intention/Purpose(s) Series for in-depth artistic exploration of everyday life—multiple viewpoints

Significance/Relevance:

• Personal: turbulence in life, passion for sustained problem solving, multiple viewpoints

• Social: environmental disasters and human survival: 12/04 Tsunami, 8/06 Hurricanes Katrina & Rita, Haiti earthquake, Chile miners rescue

• Cultural: Japanese authority, values and rituals reflected in its artforms

• Historical: Japonism--Japanese prints imported to Paris, influence on Impressionism

• Artistic: intense study/series, printmaking, contour lines, limited color, Manga--comic narratives

• Educational: multicultural understanding, Manga

• Political: global warming, overwhelm, facelessness=powerlessness, political crises

• Spiritual: hope /stability (in the distance), letting go, dealing with reality, “facing it”

• Other: icon in visual culture?

 2011 Renee Sandell, Ph.D.

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