Art appreciation- final

Female Figurine from Willendorf. 23,000 BCE. Limestone

Less than 5 inches tall. Fertility object

Nanna Ziggurat. Ur. 2100-2050 BCE

Temple or shrine raised on a pediment

Queen Nefertiti. 1345 BCE. Limestone

Sandro Botticelli. The Birth of Venus. 1480. Tempera

Southern/Italian Renaissance

Interior, Sistine Chapel. 1473-1480

Called by Pope Julius II. 128 feet long and 44 feet wide

Michelangelo. The Sistine Chapel Ceiling. 1508-12. Fresco

Portrayed the Old Testament prophets Greek Sybil- woman prophet. 9 pictorial spaces depicting scenes from Genesis

Gianlorenzo Bernini. St. Teresa in Ecstasy. 1645-52. Marble and gilt bronze

Baroque period. Full of emotion, energy, and movement favoring ornamentation as rich and complex as possible. Colors are more vivid with greater contrast

Velazquez. Las Meninas. 1656. Oil

example of Baroque

Ahmad Al-Suhrawardi. Page from a copy of the Qur'an. 1307. Ink, colors, and gold on paper

Book Arts: Interlacing plant forms ornament, contains Arabic script, process of writing on the page is an act of prayer

Geometric pattern, stylized plant forms, decorative script are important as Islamic doctrine forbids images of animate beings in religious context

Head. Nok. 500 BCE-200 CE. Terra Cotta

A lot of African art is perishable. Smooth surfaces and D-shaped eyes are characteristic of works from the culture known as Nok

Nkondi figure. Before 1878

A Nkondi figure begins its life as a plain carved figure.

Great Stupa. 3rd century BCE- 1st century

Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) strove to extinguish desire by cultivating nonattachment. After death his cremated remains were spread amongst 8 stupas (solid earthen mound faced with stone). Pilgrims walk around it to feel his energy

Detail of east gate of Yakshi. Great Stupa. 3rd century BCE- 1st century

Yakshi: nature spirit embodying ideas of fertility and abundance. In Indian thought, it was held that women were able to cause trees to blossom or bear fruit.

Yakshi enlaces her arms in a mango tree that has blossomed at the sound of her laughter. She showers blessings of abundance on the site and all who enter

Buddha Preaching the First Sermon. 465-85. Sandstone

The hand gestures of the Buddha- mudras

Excavated Figures from the "Terra cotta Army". 210 BCE

First Qin emperor Shihuangdi commissioned. All of the figures face East, where the danger was though to come from

Guanyin. 1100. Painted wood

Thought to reside high on a mountain, and offer protection fro those who travel end by sea. Pose of royal ease

Sesshu Toyo. Landscape (in the haboku technique). 1495. Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Haboku- "Splashed ink" used as a metaphor for enlightenment

Katsushika Hokusai. The Great Wave of Kanagawa. 1830-32. Woodblock print, ink and color on paper

Samuel Lipundja. Djalambu. 1964. Earth pigments on bark

Aboriginal Art concerned with the idea of "Dreamtime". Includes when ancestors emerged from the Earth. Their actions shaped the landscape, and gave rise to all life from within.

Inhabitants of the Island of Nuku Hiva. 1813. Hand colored copperplate engraving

Marquesan culture surrounding tattooing. Viewed as sacred, performed by a specialist, tukuka, who invoked the protective spirit of certain deities.

Machu Pichu. 15th-16th century

Inca believed stones and people to be equally alive and able to change into one another

Hide painted with scenes of warfare. 1880. Hide and pigments

Plains culture. Depicts battle between the Lakota and the Crow people

Kachina Doll. Zuni. Before 1903. Wood, pigment, hair...

Zuni/Pueblo culture. Supernatural beings called Kachina enter the community at important times to bring blessings. Tamtam Kushokta is portrayed in this doll

Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Jupiter and Thetis. 1811. Oil on cavas

Neoclassicism: great art can only be made from great subject matter like history, which includes mythology and biblical scenes. Highly polished style

Eugene Delacroix. The Women of Algiers. 1834. Oil on canvas

Romanticism: emphasized emotion, intuition, individual experience, and the imagination. Modern World: 1800-1945.

Edouard Manet. Luncheon on the Grass. 1863. Oil painting.

Realism: everyday people and subjects are meant for art too. Sensational and controversial piece, Mid 19th century

Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d'Avignon. 1907. Oil on cavas

Cubism: abstracted the forms of the visible world into fragments or facets drawn from multiple points of view.

Marcel Duchamp. Fountain. 1917

Dada: "anti-art". Post war art movement. Ready mades: a work of art the artist has not made but has designated as art

Salvador Dali. The Persistence of Memory. 1931. Oil on canvas

Surrealism: emphasizes dreams and fantasies

Aaron Douglas. From Slavery Through Reconstruction from Aspects of Negro Life. 1934. Oil on canvas

“Geometric symbolism”

Harlem Renaissance. Three experiences: Heritage of Africa, ugliness of slavery, and realities of modern urban life

Judy Chicago. The Dinner Party. 1979. Mixed media. 39 place settings honoring important figures like Hatshepsut and Virginia Wolfe

Feminist Art

Basquiat. Hollywood Africans. 1983. Acrylic and oil stick on canvas. SAMO

Post-modernism: emphasized other, equally human qualities such as playfulness, curiosity, and eccentricity

Kerry James Marshall. Better Homes Better Gardens. 1994. Acrylic and collage on cavas

Illinois housing projects. Challenging the stereotypes of the housing projects

Yinka Shonibare. Cake Man. 2013. Mixed media

About greed and the burden of wealth and never having enough

Kohei Nawa. PixCell-Deer #24. 2011. Stuffed deer and artificial crystal glass

Deer are messengers of the Kami nature spirits and natural phenomena that are worshipped as sacred beings. Also associated with Buddha, who gave his sermon in Deer Park

Neoclassicism 

new classism. Became the official style of the revolution 

Galanin. “Things are Looking Native, Natives Looking Whiter”

Impressionism

arose in opposition to the academic art of the day. Originated in the 1860’s in France. Portrayed daily life and culture. 

Art Nouveau

international style of art, architecture and design that flourished from 1890’s to 1910 characterized by it’s historical rejection

Fauvism

short lived but influential art movement in France in the early 20th century

Expressionism

art movement of the early 20th century, prevalent in Germany, claimed the right to distort visual

Color field painting

style of nonrepresentational painting featuring broad fields or areas of color. Evokes feeling

Photorealism

movement in painting that imitated the impersonal precision and detail associated with photography