Art And Architecture Hartford Pdf

Prepared by William C. Spaulding, Bloomfield High School.

Images are subject to copyright and used with permission for this student-notebook.

If this booklet is used by a non-BHS group the images should be deleted or individual permission requested.

Some small portions of descriptive text are from the Wadsworth web-site.

This is a non-proofread edition!

Selected Sources:

http://hartford.omaxfield.com/ancient.htmlhttp://www.connectthedots.org/civiclinks.htmlhttp://www.ctosh.org/history_vintphotos/osh_hist_architecture.htmhttp://hartford.omaxfield.com/bushnellpk.htmlWadsworth site

Name____________________________date______

Assessment

10 15 18 21 22 23 24 25

Details for each assigned section include art-analysis terms and reflect evidence

from the art being examined

* Note: Not all sections should be complete!

5 8 10 12 13 14 15Evaluation questions are complete and

substantive

/40 Total

Art and Architecture in Hartford

contents

● Map of Downtown Hartford

● Tour Schedule and Information.

● Architecture tour photos & note pages

● Wadsworth Atheneum note pages

● Reflection Assignment

May 30, 2008

Name________________________________________

Downtown Hartford Map

Contact Phone NumbersBHS: 286-2630

Wadsworth Atheneum: 278-2670

Other _____________________________

Lunch Possibilities

Join Mr. Spaulding and others in front of the State House and enjoy your packed lunch and the noon-time crowds.

Eat at the Food Court just to the North of the Old State House to get something.

Cross the street (obey all traffic signals and watch for city drivers) for Burger King at the corner of Asylum and Main.

Eat at Dunkin’ Donuts, in the base of the Travelers’ Tower building at the corner of Central Row and Prospect

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Reflection and EvaluationPlease complete this reflection of your experience and evaluation of the trip. This is one of the most important portions of the trip.

1. What has been the most useful aspect of today’s field-trip?

2. What has surprised you?

3. What has not surprised you?

4.What objects or places would you visit again and why?

5. What would you do differently for this field trip?

6. What have you learned today? —>

Humanities Art and Architecture Tour

Our Goals:Use local architectural and artistic examples to apply knowledge of architecture and composition.View and interact with paintings and architecture from ancient to contemporary origin.

Our Program in and about Downtown Hartford

I. 9:15-10:15 State Capitol Building Tour.

II. 10:15-10:45 Walking Tour: Bushnell Park features, ar-chitecture about the park, First Church and stained glass windows, Old State House exterior.

III. 10:45-11:15 Lunch: You can eat your own bag lunch or purchase lunch from vendors or shops in the court area around the Old State House.

IV. 11:15 Walk to the Wadsworth Athenaeum: interact with art from ancient to modern periods in the oldest public museum in the United States of America!

V. 1:45 Board Bus from Wadsworth to return to BHS

Please RememberAppropriate school behavior is necessary and expected!

Valuables At the Wadsworth you will be required to check your bags and all electronics. Don’t bring anything valuable! Also you may not take photographs inside the museum without the per-mission of the Wadsworth.Decorum in a museum indicates a whispers for communication, no running, never touch or get too close to the art or walls. Never point at art with pencils or other objects. Please, pause and examine the art — don’t rapidly dismiss it simply because it is different!

11: 15 ** Please Be Prompt! Meet in front of the Old State House

Main Street Side of the building

Please create notes for each image in the space provided.

We enter from the south side of the capitol building but the building was designed to be entered from the north side which faces Bushnell Park.

What are your first impressions of this building?

One function of this building is as the meeting place for both houses of the state legislature and the office of the governor. Is the form of the building related to these functions? Explain your answer in point format.

Architecture of the Connecticut State Capitol &

museum

Some key terms:

Niche with statue

tympanum

column 1

Extra pages for sketching or notes or questions:

State Capitol Exterior 1878

What shapes do you notice repeating themselves on the exterior?

Statuary of the Dome:Why would these statutes be chosen?

6 Aspects of Humanity:Agriculture (wheat), Commerce (eyes covered holding anchor/triangle)Education/law (scroll)Force/War (spear)Science (cadeuceus paddle &globe)Music (lyre)

Left (west) end statue of the south façade:Ella Grasso

Who would you add in the right side niche? Why?

Interior: Use of color, materials and designs. Interior floors are inlaid with white marble and red slate from Connecticut and colored marble from Italy.

What are your first impressions of the interior of this building?

Which seems more important, form or function, or are the both in concert with each other in this building? Explain.

Sketch any one symbol or pattern that you notice in the floor, ceiling, or walls.

Your Choice: In Depth Analysis and EvalulationChoose any one painting or object to look at and evaluate in depth. You should aim to spend about 10 minutes for each of these in-depth evaluations. **Make your examination from 10-15 feet away then again from 3-5 feet.

Artist:________________________________

Gallery:_________________________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________

Date of Piece_____________

I. What are my first impressions?

II. What can I guess about the history of this piece from the date it was made?

III. How can I describe the content of this piece?A. subject ? B. color, line, and textures? C. composition?

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Your Choice

Please choose any ONE piece to evaluate using the next page—>

In the space below sketch the piece or part of the piece.

Bushnell Park: 1850-1870In what way can a park be considered architecture?

In what ways does a park serve a city?

Bushnell Park AreaChoose a photo: Title of Piece________________________________________Date of Piece______________Impressions:

Describe how the photographers uses light and arranges objects

Choose a photo: Title of Piece________________________________________Date of Piece______________

Sketch (or make outline figures of) the objects contained photo or write a brief story about the person or bird that is the subject!

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Pop to the Present: New Questions, New Responses(Gallery B, Adjacent to Avery Court)

Choose a photo: Title of Piece________________________________________Date of Piece______________Impressions:

Describe how the photographer uses light and arranges objects

Photography, especially portrait photography, was not consid-ered art for many years. Do you consider these photographs to be art? Explain your answer.

Buildings Around the ParkNotice how many of the buildings that surround the park have distinctive facades. Describe one façade!

Soldiers and Sailors Arch: 1885This arch memorializes Civil War veterans. It is the first permanent triumphal arch in America. It is a combination of Medieval towers, Gothic arch style, and classical friezes. Materials are local brownstone and terra cotta.

If you were to create a memorial for soldiers returning from war would you consider a memorial arch like this one? List 3 or more reasons for your answer

Please create notes for each image in the space provided. Use the blank pages in the back of the book for sketching!

First Congregational Church (left) Compare this structure to that of the Old State House. In what ways are the two buildings similar, in what ways are they different?

Old State House (right) Designed in 1796 by Charles Bulfinch this is one of the most historically important buildings in Hartford. The front is facing the Connecticut River not the Main Street.

Label these pictures with names of the architectural elements you can identify.

First Congregational Church,

Old State House & Other Surprises

Choose a piece that you DO NOT like very much.Artist_______________________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________

Date of Piece______________Why don’t you like this piece very much

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Avery CourtSurrealism and Other Pieces

List 8 words to describe the pieces you see in these galleries. They are a very diverse collection so you may have contradictory descriptive words!

How are these pieces similar or different from pieces you have already seen?

Choose a piece to analyze:Artist_______________________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________

Date of Piece______________Impressions:

Focus on ONE of the following to describe: materials, subject, use of color, composition of objects

Ancient Burial GroundThe only site from the 1600’s that has survived in close to original form. The headstones exhibit sophisticated carving and sentiments of the time.

Mark an X where the African-American Burial Monument is located.

Locate the markers of three individuals. Name them and their dates. Can you find Thomas Hooker or a member of the Wadsworth family?

Phoenix BuildingIf you stand with your back to the eastern side of the Old State House and look towards the Connecticut River you will see a bridge across the road that has glass railings. Straight-ahead and to the right is the Phoenix building.

Sketch or describe this building in the space below.

Municipal Building

I like it!Choose a piece that you DO NOT like very much.Artist_______________________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________

Date of Piece______________Why don’t you like this piece very much

It tells me a storyChoose a picture or object that tells a story to you.Artist_______________________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________

Date of Piece______________What story does this piece tell?

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American Art of the 19th and 20th Centuries

(3rd Floor)

OBJECTS!This gallery contains many objects of art in addition to the many fine paintings. Choose an object to evaluate

Object______________________________________________

Artist_______________________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________

Date of Piece______________

Sketch:

List 8 words to describe the pieces you see in these galleries. They are a very diverse collection so you may have contradictory descriptive words! OR: sketch one of the pieces you see.

How are these pieces similar or different from pieces you have already seen?

Directions: 1. This notebook is organized by sections. Each section has a

different set of questions and a unique set of pieces to view. You will see all sections, but not necessarily in the order in which they are published.

2. Stay with your group. Your chaperone will guide you to the galleries that we will focus on today. In each gallery you will have 15-20 minutes for a specific assignment.

3. Remember the museum rules:Keep away from the art and walls.Do not use objects to point at art.Use quiet voices please.

3. Record your work in the space provided.Use terms that we have used yesterday and earlier this

year in analyzing pizza and art.

Wadsworth Atheneum: Exploring Art

Selected Terms to Describe and Evaluate Art

Three General Questions to Ask:I. What is my first impression?

II. What is the history of this piece?How old is it? Who made it? Who paid for it?What materials and techniques [processes] were used?Does it represent a particular period, place or person?

III. How can I describe the content of this piece? A. subject ?

B. color, line, and textures? color: What colors and color-shades are used?

Do the colors symbolize or represent something? What effects are sought?

texture: how the viewer may believe the surface feels

C. composition? forms: objects, shapes, and structures; composition: is organization of forms in an artworksymmetry and balance use of shapes forms and lines

use of proportion and scaleperspective (the creation of illusion of depth) foreshortening reduction of figure sizeblurring of distant forms convergence of diagonal lines

How is space used?

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A MessageChoose one piece that conveys a message.

Artist:________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________Date of Piece________________________________________What message does this piece convey?

Does this message resonate (make sense) with your own experience? Explain.

Ask the ArtistChoose one piece that provokes questions for you.

Artist:________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________Date of Piece________________________________________What questions does this piece provoke in you? Do you think the artist has answers?

African-American Art(2nd Floor , close to the Elevator and area labeled “Open to Helen and Harry Gray Court Gallery I)

Media and MessageWhat types of media (materials) are found in these pieces? Name as many as you can.

What factors encourage an artist to use particular materials?

Is the media (materials) part of the message? Explain

What media do you find most interesting, least interesting, most desir-able, least desirable, most or least unusual?

Most of the paintings and objects in this section are from the 1800’s. This collection of paintings and objects is titled, Reflections and Shadows: Impressionism and Nineteenth Century Style.

Paintings by some of the most famous artists of this time period are displayed in this gallery: Renoir, Klimt, Degas, Gauguin, Pissarro, and a self-portrait by van Gogh; sun-dappled landscapes by Corot, Pissarro, Monet, and Cézanne; interior scenes by Bonnard, Vuillard, Armstrong, and Tissot; and Paris at night as depicted by Lautrec.

A. Scene: Choose any one painting of a scene (not a portrait of an individual).

Artist____________________________________

Title_____________________________________

Do you see movement or does it seem still?

How does the artist use colors, lines, shapes, or techniques to evoke (create in you) this feeling?Note that the Impressionists were given this name because they sought to create an impression rather than create a photo-like image. They were known for their unique use of brush strokes, paint and color.

Describe the space that you see created by this art.

Does this space remind you of a place in your own life?

Continued —>

Gallery C: Huntington Gallery

B. Portrait: Choose a portrait of an individual. One of my favorites is the self-portrait of Van Gogh, but you are free to choose any painting that focuses on a single person or a small group of people.

Artist____________________________________

Title_____________________________________

If the person portrayed could speak to you from the portrait what would he/she say?

What mood or attitude does this person seem to have?

How does the artist use paint, color, or technique to convey a particular attitude or expression?

C. Your Choice: Choose any object or painting in this gallery and do one or more of the following:* Sketch the image or object.* Write an advertisement for this object as if you were going to sell it.* What do you feel that this object reveals about the artist who made it?

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LandscapeFind any landscape painting in the F galleries.

If you were to enter into this scene where would you go? Mark an x in the box below to show where you would go.

Why would you go there?

What would you expect to see?

What might this painting suggest about the artist’s attitudes towards the land and the relationship of people to the land?

Faith and Fortune, continued

Choose One: Artist:________________________________

Title of Piece________________________________________Date of Piece________________________________________Impressions:

Artistic Description (Use appropriate artistic terms (see page 8 for a brief list of terms and concepts.)

Choose One: Artist:________________________________


Artistic Description (Use appropriate artistic terms (see page 8 for a brief list of terms and concepts.)

This gallery contains art created by Hartford youth.Please identify two pieces of art that appeal to you.

A. Your Choice:

Artist____________________________________

Title_____________________________________

Your First Reactions:

Techniques used by the artist:

B. Your Choice:

Artist____________________________________

Title_____________________________________

If this object could speak to you what words would it use?

Techniques used by the artist:

Gallery E: Hartford Youth Art Renaissance

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A ConversationHave a conversation with any painting in this collection. What

Timeline of Art

To get a sense of the development of art and to complete this chart. Choose a painting in the

Faith and Fortune(2nd Floor, Galleries marked F)

This exhibition is focused on the theme “Faith and Fortune” as ex-pressed in European art from the middle ages and through the Renais-sance. You should be able to discern some similarities in art you see in the Wadsworth with art you have studied in class.

Century Title & Artist Topic

1000-1099

1100-1199

1200-1299

1300-1399

1400-1499

1500-1599

1600-1699

1700-1799

C. Talk Back! Choose another piece of art to “talk back” to on this page.

Artist____________________________________

Title_____________________________________

Ask three or more questions for the artist (or the subjects —people—portrayed or photographed in the art)?

What comments do you have for the artist?

D. Your Art: If you were going to prepare a piece of art to include in this exhibition what would you create?

Media you would use: (type of materials)

Subjects: people, places, actions, activities, ideas:

Colors, Lines, Textures you would employ:

In this gallery you will examine three large paintings and make stick figures to indicate

A) the position of the body and the handsB) the attention of the face

Circle one of the following questions that you have pondered (thought about deeply) .

How do hands and expressions direct the viewer’s attention?How do hands and expressions influence our reaction to the scene?How do your own hand movements and expressions reflect you?Do you consciously use hand expression and facial direction to communicate?

Morgan Great Hall: Main Gallery

Hand and Facial Attention Sketch:

The Fish Market Jan de Bondt, Dutch, d. 1653

Choose one of the Medieval to Early Renaissance Paintings

Artist:________________________________


Observations: (Use appropriate artistic terms)

Side Gallery: Medieval and Early Renaissance

Examine the piece titled Madonna and Child with Angels by A. Della Robbia. This is a very important piece. Why?

Impressions:

Observations: (Use appropriate artistic terms)

Make a set of brief notes about each of the following items.

Mummy: What surprises you or impresses you?

Relief of an Assyrian Deity: Compare this image to Mesopotamian gods described in Gilgamesh.

Compare these statues and pieces of statues

Sketch similar parts of each statue, or create a T chart of comparisons or contrasts in the space below:

—>Egyptian statue: and —> Greek Statues Standing Man (#8) (#8, 10, and foot #8)

Morgan Great Hall: Side Galleries

Architecture of the Great Hall What features of color or architec-tural detail define this hall?

Side Gallery: Ancient Art and Artifacts:,

Great Hall Continued —>

Hand and Facial Attention Sketch:Note the use of light and the facial expressions.Note the clothing! This is European clothing!

The Summer at Emmaus Circle of Gerrit von Hornhurst , Dutch, 1690-1656

Hand and Facial Attention Sketch:Add lines indicating the source of light.Sketch two or more of the figures around the table.The Declaration of Independence John Trumball, American

Hand and Facial Attention Sketch

Sketch the position of hands and facial direction of Jesus and two or more people close to him.

The Rising of Lazarus Benjamin West, 1790

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Exploration of Perspective

Find the painting titled The Men’s Bath by Viviano Godazzi and Domenico Gargiulo.

Stand about 25 feet away from this painting.

Look into the painting and walk towards it., keeping your eyes in the painting.

Be careful not to touch the stone tub in front of the painting!

What do you notice? Do you feel like you are walking into the painting?

How does the artist create this feeling?

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