Unit 1 Review

Aesthetics

Branch of Philosophy that deals with the nature, beauty and meaning of art and our response of it.

Megaliths

A large massive store.

Vanitas

Fleeting nature of earthy life and happiness.

Bird in Space, Constantin Brancusi

What was Brancusi searching for?

Forms that were simple, pure, and timeless.

Impulse for Art

Make and respond to art appears to be as deep-rooted as the ability to learn language.

What were use to create the Chauvet cave images?

Ochre pigments to produce the bright reds, and pads (animal fur) to daub the paint on the rock, animal fats and pigments mixed together, reed brushes, powdered pigments blown through hollow reeds.

Who said this quote: “all art is basically Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot and grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone.”

Anthony Caro

Vietnam Memorial, Maya Ying Lin

Horace Pippins. John Brown Going to his Hanging

give tangible form to the unknown, Indian sculptor of the 11th century.

What artwork did Van Gogh create a visual equivalent for his feelings?

Starry Night

What are the Traits of Creative People?

• Sensitivity

• Flexibility

• Original

• Playfulness

• Productivity

• Fluency

• Analytical

• Organizational Skill

Time Hawkinson, Emoter

What does perception suggest?

The most important key to looking at art is to become aware of the process of looking itself.

What is Selective perception?

Focusing on the visual information we need for the task at hand and relegating everything else to the background.

Audrey Flack. Wheel of Fortune(Vanitas)

Who are examples of Art Collectors?

Dorothy and Herbert Vogel

The relevance of Van Gogh’s Art

• Money

• Influence on artists of the next generation

• He plays an important role in western art.

• There is a limited number of paintings.

• We are able to feel with artist, accomplishments and story of his life.

Leonardo Da Vinci, Mona Lisa.

Andy Warhol, Thirty are better than One?

Claude Monet, Fisherman's Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville

Outsider/Folk Art

Art by nonprofessionals

James Hampton, The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly

Art and Beauty

18th Century beauty and art were discussed together because both were felt to provide pleasure, a Intellectual pleasure.

Giovanni Bellini. Pieta.

Naturalistic

A work of art  that closely resembles forms in the natural world.

Who taught Pablo Picasso how to paint and draw?

His Father

Pablo Picasso. Woman with a Fan.

What was the significance of Pablo Picasso’s Woman with a Fan ?

Introduction to Cubism

What does Trompe l’oeil?

Fool the eye

Duane Hanson, Housepainter III

Nonrepresentational Art

Art that does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside of itself.

Nonrepresentational Artists

Wassily Kandinsky & Rebecca Purdham

A characteristic or group of characteristics that we recognize as constant, recurring, or coherent.

Style

What encompasses all the visual aspects that can be isolated and discussed such as size, shape, materials , color, and composition.

Form

Henri Matisse, The Piano Lesson.

Janine Antoni, Gnaw.

What was Janine Antoni’s, Gnaw made from?

Chocolate and Chewed Lard

Iconography

it involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art.

What are the symbolic attributes that a Buddha is portrayed?

• A single cloth draped over the shoulder

• Elongated ears

• Bun

• Hand gestures

• Lotus throne

Jan van Eyck. Arnolfini Double Portrait

Three paneled painting

Triptych

Work constructed outdoors from natural materials.

Earthwork

The relationship between a shape we perceive as dominant (the figure) and the background shape we perceive it against (the ground).

Negative/Positive Space

What was the reason the Sainte-Chapelle was built?

As a private worship hall for the king and his court

What was the reason the Great Mosque was built?

For the whole community

Derived from Greek for the “image breaking”

Iconoclasm

Name of the largest pyramid

Pyramid of Khufu, c. 2570 B.C.E

The portrayal of an admired leader on horseback.

Equestrian Portrait

Eugene Delacroix. Liberty leading the People

Pablo Picasso. Guernica

What motivated Picasso to paint Guernica?

German planes supporting General Falco bombarded Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937 during Spanish Civil War.

Meaning of the Piece Pablo Picasso. Guernica

To reach a mass audience with images that support a political or social message , photography-including films, newreels, television, etc.

• Uses Photos she finds

• Uses Phots she takes herself

Barbara Kruger

Barbara Kruger. Untitled, 1985

Meta Warrick Fuller. Talking Skull

Meta Warrick Fuller. Talking Skull was an example of?

The Human Experience

• Pakistani

• Lived in a Muslim household

• Likes to explore Hindu religion in her work

Shahzia Sikander

Hieronymus Bosch. The Garden of Delights

Sandy Skoglund. Radioactive Cats

Thomas Cole. The Oxbow

Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty

Jeff Wall. A Sudden Gust of Wind

Where did Jeff Wall get the idea for A Sudden Gust of Wind

A print

Elements of Design

• Line

• Shape

• Mass

• Light

• Value

• Color

• Texture

• Space

What do Keith Haring’s Untitled and Judy Pfaff. Cirque, cirque have in common?

Uses line for direction and movement

Keith Haring. Untitled

Judy Pfaff. Cirque, cirque

Gives the illusion of three dimensional form

Contour lines

Describes only the outer edge

Outline

Thomas Eakins. The Biglin Brothers racing

Square, triangle, hexagon, circle, etc.

Geometric Shapes

Irregular & evoking living forms in nature.

Organic Shapes

Raphael. The Madonna of the Meadows

James Turrell. Skyscapes

Italian word for light/dark

Chiaroscuro

Leonardo da Vinci. The Virgin and Saint Anne with the Christ child and John the Baptist.

Charles White. Untitled

Charles White. Untitled is an example of what?

Cross-Hatching and Hatching

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Nocturne in Blue and Gold

James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Nocturne in Blue and Gold is and example of

Monochromatic

Stephen Mueller. Madrugadra 2

Stephen Mueller. Madrugadra 2 is an example of

Analogous Color

George Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte

George Seurat. A Sunday on La Grande Jatte is an example of

Pointillism

Edvard Munch. The Scream

Refers to a surface quality

Texture

Any decorative, repetitive motif or design

Pattern

Samuel Fosso. The Chief

Example of?

Pattern

Maharana Amar Sing ll

Meaning?

First work on a 2D plane to show spatial depth

Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper

Worked on restoration for The Last Supper for 20 years

Dr. Pinin Brambilla Barcilon

Applying linear perspective where form recedes into space to animals & humans

Foreshortening

Albert Durer. Draftsman Drawing a Reclining Nude, from the Art of Measurement

Example of?

Foreshortening

Based on the idea/observation that distant objects appear less distinct, paler; and bluer than nearby objects

Atmospheric Perspective

Albert Bierstadt. The Rocky Monutains Lander’s Peak