art appreciation

list all purposed and functions of art (6)

daily use

visual delight

communicating information

public and personal expression

for the spirit

political purpose

list al categories of art (14)

  portrait/self portrait

landscape/seascape/cityscape

still life

fantasy art

abstract

nonobjective

nude

religious

genre

outsider art

folk art

Romare Bearden

photomontage

exaggerated sizes

inspired by music

Pablo picasso

represntation art

did the blue period- blue and abstract because of his friend dying

did the rose period- rosier (pinks and creams)

started cubisim

Georgia O’Keeffe

listened to music and would hear what color the sounds were

paintings of ny, flowers, and new mexico, skulls

Vincent Van Gogh

thick brush strokes

famous for still lifes and landscapes

Wassily Kandinsky

abstract artist used a lot of black

then did nonobjective

Rembrandt van Rijn

genre scenes that were biblical

interested in strong light source

showed action in his paintings

primarily brown

Salvador dali

surrealism artist

made art of the subconscous and unconscious mind

work of art

 what the artist makes or puts in front of us for viewing 

medium/media

a particular material along with its accompanying technique 

media is the plural form

photomontage

the process of combining parts of various

photographs in one photograph

folk art

 art of people who have had no formal, academic training, but whose words are part of an established tradition of style and craftsmanship 

outsider art

art produced by those with no formal training, outside the established channels of art exhibition 

represetnational

art that recognizably represents or depicts a particular subject

abstract

art that depicts natural objects simplified or exaggerated ways which may not be recognizable at first

nonrepresentational

presents visuals forms with no specific references to anything outside themselves 

figurative art

 representational art in which the human form

(rather than the natural world) plays a pnndpal role

subjects

in representational art, what the artist chooses to depict

trompe i’oeil

painting made to fool the eye 

form and content

Form is the total effect of the combined visual qualities within a work.

Content is the meaning or message communicated by a work of art 

iconography

the symbolic meaning of subjects and signs used to convey ideas important to particular culture or religions

aesthetics

the philosophy of art focusing on questions regarding what art is, how It is evaluated, the concept of beauty, and the relationship between the idea of beauty and the concept of art

classical

live art of ancient Greece and Rome, particularly the style of Greek art that flourished during the fifth-century bce; emphasizes rational simplicity, order, and restrained emotion