ART1107 week 1: identifiers + vocab

representational art

contains entities from world in recognizable form

naturalistic

recognizable nature imagery

visual culture

imagery that humans create; found in all kinds of media, important in everyday life

fine art

refined; high cultural achievements of humanity; transcend average human works

content

artwork’s themes or messages, conveyed through subject matter, symbols, or iconography

expressionism

heightened emotions; urgency, spontaneous; bold, distorted, textured

Renaissance

rebirth of learning and the arts in the 14th — 17th centuries in Europe, along w/ revival + study of ancient Greek/Roman cultures

aesthetics

branch of Western philosophies concerned with the critical reflections on art, on beauty, and on taste

Cubism

multiple viewpoints or facets are within one POV

Analytical Cubism: broke down forms

Synthetic Cubism: used collage & assemblage to represent parts of objects in order to visually play with illusions and reality

representational

presents nature, people, and objects from the world in a recognizable form

masquerades

ceremony or a festive gathering in which masks and costumes are worn

idealized

natural imagery is modified in a way that strives for perfection according to the values and aesthetics of a particular culture

Surrealism

early 20th Europe; influenced by Freud

fantastic/dreamlike imagery drawn from the subconscious; psychoanalysis

abstracted

distortion, a simplification, or an exaggeration of an actual texture

nonobjective

no imagery that resembles the natural world

style

recognizable attributes and characteristics that are consistent and coherent in the artwork within a historical period, within a cultural tradition, or of an individual artist

cultural style

recurring and distinctive features in many works of art emanating from a particular place and era, which allow them to be seen as a distinct and coherent group

culture

totality of ideas, customs, skills, and arts that belong to a people or group; or a particular people or group, with their own ideas, customs, and arts

civilization

highly structured society, with a written language or a very developed system of communication, organized government, and advances in the arts and sciences

visual culture

art criticism that integrates and studies all of the visual components of contemporary culture, including fine art, television, advertising, and so on

kitsch

works that are done in what is considered to be poor taste

animé

contemporary style of animation that originates in Japan

craft

category of art that requires special manual skills and is often functional in origin

mihrab

niche in the wall that faces Mecca in a mosque

kitab khana

Ottoman Empire, a royal atelier of artists and craftspersons who copied and illuminated books; also a library for storing books

academies

institution developed in various cultures to educate artists and to set strict standards and guidelines for art works

guilds

organizations of merchants, artisans, and craftsmen that developed in medieval Europe

Porch of the Caryatids, Erechtheum, Acropolis, Athens

c. 421–405 BCE

Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian Figure, Yoruba — Olowe of Ise

Before 1938 — Wood, pigment

Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius, Rome

c. 175 CE — Bronze

The Birth of Venus — Sandro Botticelli

c. 1482 — Tempera on canvas

Les Demoiselles d'Avignon — Pablo Picasso

1907 — Oil on canvas

Ceremonial Mask Known as a Mboom or Bwoom, Kuba, Central Africa

c. nineteenth–twentieth centuries — Wood, beads, shells, and cloth

Grand Mosque, Djenne, Mali

1906–1907

Badshahi Mosque, main entrance, Lahore, Pakistan

672–1674

Portrait of Mme. Ginoux (L'Arlesienne) — Vincent van Gogh

1889 — Oil on canvas

Woman in a Coffeehouse, Madame Ginoux in the Cafe de la Gare in Arles — Paul Gauguin

1888 — Oil on canvas

Sculpture Gallery in the Musee des Beaux-Arts, Lyon, France

exhibition at the Pinakothek Der Modern in Munich, Germany's largest museum of modern art

example of street art in San Juan, Puerto Rico, referring to the popular culture of cock fighting

2013

Interior of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, with permanent installations of the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Las bravisimas calaveras guatemaltecas de Mora y de Morales — José Guadalupe Posada

1907 — Pictorial broadside verse, full sheet, printed recto and verso, lavender paper, zinc etching

Kiki — Takashi Murakami

2010

The Smithsonian Institution's 150th Anniversary Float

1996

Bear — Tim Hawkinson

2005

Gheordez Prayer Rug

Eighteenth century — Wool

Stepped Pyramid of Djoser (right) and Tomb Complex, Saqqarah, Egypt — Imhotep

2650–2631 BCE

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

c. 1950–1964 — Gold and silver aluminum foil, kraft paper, and plastic over wood furniture, paperboard, and glass, 180 pieces in all.

Basket Ferry, Kagowatashi, Hida Province — Ando or Utagawa Hiroshige

Nineteenth century — Woodblock print

Displaying the AIDS Memorial Quilt, Washington, D.C.

1992

Genesis — Jaune Quick-to-See Smith

1993 — Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas

Sarad offering

c. 1990 — Dyed rice dough

Baule Seated Female Figure

Wood

Proportions of the Human Figure (Vitruvian Man) — Leonardo da Vinci

c. 1492 — Pen and ink on paper

display from the exhibition Savage Beauty — Lee Alexander McQueen

2015 — photograph

street art

public settings; commissioned murals

graffiti: nontraditional audience