ARTD. 1010 Final Artwork Identifications
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This flashacrd set is on the first part of the Final to identifiy artwork talked about in class as well as Vocab.
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What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Lamentation
Date: 1305
Artist: Giotto
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a fresco painting done on a wall inside of a church in Italy. This artwork is one scene from “The lives of the virgin and Christ.” This artwork shows Christ death after being put on the cross.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: David
Date: ca. 1440
Artist: Donatello
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is an artwork of the biblical character of David who took down the giant known as Goliath. This artwork was paid for by an Italian politician named Cosimo de Medici to be put outside in the courtyard in front the entrance of his palace and to be seen by the public visible from the street outside the gates.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Birth of Venus
Date: ca. 1485
Artist: Botticelli
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a egg tempera painting showing the birth of the Greek Goddess Venus. This artwork was a wedding gift and would have not been commissioned by the catholic church. This painting shows us the method of chiaroscuro to define Venus’ body.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Mona Lisa
Date: ca. 1503–16
Artist: Da Vinci
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork was likely commissioned by a merchant to paint his wife. This artwork has the methods of pyramidal composition, sfumato and chiaroscuro to bring this portrait to balance, blend dark colors and show the defined form of this woman.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: The Creation and Fall of Man
Date: 1508–12
Artist: Michelangelo
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork is on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel showing the creation of a biblical character of Adam. It is also a fresco painting using chiaroscuro to make the bodies in this piece defined.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Arnolfini Wedding Portrait
Date: 1434
Artist: Van Eyck
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork is an oil painting of a couple getting married. This painting shows a lot of objects pointing to the fact that this couple is rich. The large amount of fabric that is on the woman and the fur that is on the man clothes shows this couple thriving in selling textiles.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: The Fall of Adam and Eve
Date: 1504
Artist: Dürer
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork is a printmaking piece and this can be seen with this artwork being black and white. There is the use of chiaroscuro on Adam and Eve’s bodies to give them some shape on the side and on the trees.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Hunters in the Snow
Date: ca.1565
Artist: Bruegel
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a landscape painting of a village in the deep of winter. On the left side of the painting on the top we see two hunters returning from a hunt while on the right side on the painting to the bottom we see people having fun on the ice. Having these two different things shows the life during the deep winter.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: The Garden of Earthly Delights
Date: ca.1500
Artist: Bosch
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork is an altarpiece and this is known by the painting being split up into three sections and the two sides would be able to fold to close up the painting. This painting the right side shows the God introducing Eve to Adam, the center being humans starting to become lustful and the left showing the underworld.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Calling of St. Matthew
Date: ca.1599
Artist: Caravaggio
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork is from the Baroque period in Europe where the catholic church was going against the protestant reformation with its counter-reformation. This artwork has tenebrism with a lot of deep shadows with just one light source to highlight St.Matthew.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Ecstasy of St. Teresa
Date: ca.1645-52
Artist: Bernini
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork is a bel composto which combines painting, sculpture, and architecture for one piece. This artwork shows the vision that St. Teresa had of her clothing being removed by angel before she gets stabbed by that same angel.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Las Meninas
Date: ca. 1656
Artist: Velázquez
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork can also be called “ladies in waiting” and in the middle of the painting the small girl in the white dress is the daughter of the king and queen of Spain. This artwork uses a lot of chiaroscuro to create a dramatic feel of the painting.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: The Swing
Date: 1766
Artist: Fragonard
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a rococo painting showing a young woman in a pink dress swinging above some bushes while a man is below her watching her and a man behind her helping to control the swing. This painting was used to show leisure from the French nobility class.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Oath of the Horatii
Date: 1784
Artist: David
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a neoclassical painting that was challenging the style of the rococo and was on display at the Paris salon. This artwork shows three roman brothers on the left taking an oath and their weapons from their father (in the middle) to go fight to the death into a war with another family.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: The Great Wave
Date: ca.1830
Artist: Hokusai
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This artwork is a woodblock printing from Japan. It is also called a ukiyo-e because it shows and everyday landscape of the huge waves, three boats and Mount Fuji in the background.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: The Raft of the Medusa
Date: 1816
Artist: Géricault
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a romantic painting that was on display at the Paris salon. This artwork is depicting an event that happened a few years ago of a captain of a ship that only allowed life boats for himself and other French nobility while the others that didn’t have that status were left on a raft to drift to sea. This painting has a lot of chiaroscuro to make the scene of the people on this raft horrifying as some of them try to survive while some have gave up on hope.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Monk by the Sea
Date: 1809-10
Artist: Friedrich
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a romantic painting that takes in the concept of sublime. This is seen with the vast light blue sky and dark blue sea that can overwhelm the viewer but will leave them in awe with the beautifulness of it all.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: The Stonebreakers
Date: 1849
Artist: Courbet
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a realism painting that is showing us the harsh job of stonebreakers at work paving the way for a new road. We can understand the harshness of the job with the ripped clothing that the two subjects are wearing and the fact that child labor is being used for the job.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Olympia
Date: 1863
Artist: Manet
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a realism painting showing a prostitute and her servant bringing her flowers that have come from a customer. This painting was not received well by the press due to the nude woman’s body being flat with not that many shadows to define it.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Impression: Sunrise
Date: 1877
Artist: Monet
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is an impressionist painting and this can be known by the fast brush strokes. With that kind of brush stroke it makes the painting seem like a sketch. Which is why this painting got rejected from being in the Paris salon because it was seen as “unfinished” but the reason why the painting looked like that was to capture light right at the moment while painting outside.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Sunday on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Date: 1884-86
Artist: Seurat
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This painting uses the method of pointillism to have unmixed dots of color to form the painting when far away from it. This is a post-impressionist painting because the middle class people in the painting was not painted in the moment and was painted in a studio.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Joy of Life
Date: 1905-06
Artist: Matisse
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a fauve painting where the colors are breaking free from the lines. It shows nude figures relaxing in a forest. Plus the nude figures in the forest don’t have depth on their bodies and this forest doesn’t look like a forest due to the strange colors used to show it.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: Les Demoiselle d’Avignon
Date: 1907
Artist: Picasso
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a cubism painting and this is shown with the large amount of geometric shapes to shape these figures. This was a big shift of how bodies were shown in artworks as no human would exist like this in real life. The figures shown here are supposed to be prostitutes in a brothel.
What is the title, date and artist of this artwork?
Title: L.H.O.O.Q.
Date: 1919
Artist: Duchamp
What is the context and descriptions of this artwork?
This is a readymade piece a postcard with the Mona Lisa that has a mustache and goatee drawn on her. This is a joke painting by the artist.
