A 20,00 Year Non Linear History of the Image

This lecture was presented to feature a variety of work that ranged in visual communication from different cultures contexts and epochs, demonstrating both how creative and tangential connections and continues to be traced between these diverse examples aiding us with many resources to be used in the future to tackle any creative briefs and show the importance of visual communication.

Mankind has always composed ways of communicating, the first example of any sort of visual communication was documented in France inside the Lascaux Caves, the importance of these drawings gives us a glimpse into that part of history in a form of storytelling, without them we might not have as good of an understanding of that period of time.

Inside the Lascaux caves

Images have the power to evoke strong emotions

Walter Benjamin - communication with gods, sprit of animals, fear

Mark making hallucinations unconcious - physcological

abstract expressionism, Cy Twombly, Lepanto resembe cave painting

controversial - Richard long, 'Red Earth circle' conceptual artist similarities between past and furure art- possiblt cultural appropriation

Rothko Chapel: cult chapel 'the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction'
flat monochrome muted became black more sombre falling into the void - cosmos, many said to become emotional to this.

Papel Alter and Frescoes interior of the Basilla of San Fran cesco d'assi, c 1240 spiritual also dominant money + spirituality


Mona Lisa - domesticated to western media culture.

Marcel Duchamp : conceptual dadism - attack on cultural authority.

Notes (To explore at later date):

Banksy - Mona Lisa outsider art Mujahideen


Black underclass made own art unequal oppertunity

Jackson Pollock - giant canvases, trance like state unconcious channeling, records of the physce artist seemed more other

Roy Litchenstein - mocking abstract art popular culture - pretencious

Vladamir - roses for stalin - socialist realism, innovative avant garde

progress - in 1920's banned expressionism

China - art creating icons of leaders,

Alberto Korda western imperialism - revolutionary recontextual (mona lisa)

image making - immortal transends journey of images,

Gillary "Maniac ravings, or little boney..."

Steve Bell - political

Disney - donald duck c in Nutzi land power of image making

Guerrilla girls - 1985 history has been dominated by white wester culture

L'Artelier populaire sold as artworks (shouldnt be)

post modern synaasusm

Nick ut - power of communication - human suffering of war,

rewrite hisory - biased
constable (1821) the Hayworn' representation of englishness image commissioned