ARTH 300 - Exam #1 Identification

Artist’s Role: Recorder.

Function: To illustrate.

Style: Naturalistic.

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Illustration (bliblical) and spiritual sustenance

Style: Naturalistic.

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Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808; oil on

canvas.

Artist Role: Social/political activist and recorder.

Function: (social/political purposes and historical illustration) Spanish peasants being killed by French soldiers.

Style: Realism.

Artist’s Role: Recorder

Function: Illustrate

Style: Naturalistic

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Spiritual sustenance

Style: Naturalistic

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Marc Chagall, I and the Village, 1911; oil painting.

Artist’s Role: Experience individual; personal perspective/expression.

Function: Personal expression of missing his farm in Russia.

Style: Abstract.

Artist’s Role: Experienced individual

Function: Functional usage (carry/hold items) while remaining beautiful.

Artist’s Role: Experienced individual

Function: Self-expression (fur coat = wealth; gold painter’s stick = authority gift; noble)

Style: Naturalistic

Artist’s Role: Reporter; city view.

Function: To share information.

Style: Naturalistic.

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Spiritual belief/sustenance

Style: Abstract

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Spiritual belief/sustenance

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Spiritual belief/sustenance

Stele inscribed with the Law Code of Hammurabi, from Susa (c. 1780)

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Illustrate the god-granted authroity of rulership from Shamash to Hammurabi

Style: Abstract with a try at naturalism

Artist’s Role: Recorder/Reporter

Function: To communicate information

Style: Abstract

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Palette of King Narmar, Old Kingdom, Egypt, 3000 BCE

Artist’s Role: Reporter/Recorder

Function: Functional item (+illustrates king’s grasp of power and defeating enemies)

Style: Abstract

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Spiritual sustenance (fear of gods) and illustrate power of the queen.

Artist’s Role: Analyst

Function: Spiritual beliefs of warning from gods

Style: Abstract

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Emily Mary Osborne, Nameless and Friendless, 1857, oil on canvas

Artist’s Role: Reporter/Recorder

Function: Illustrates three main figures in a gallery.

Style: Naturalism

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Style: Non-objective

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Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-6; oil on canvas

Artist’s Role: Recorder/Reporter

Function: To illustrate and visually delight

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Artist’s Role: Experienced individual

Function: To visually delight

Style: Abstract

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Massacio, The Tribute Money, c. 1427

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