Art History Final

The Final Flashcard set for Art History

Title: Las Meninas
Creator: Valazquez, Diego
Date: 1656
Location: Spain

Title: Church of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane
Creator: Borromini, Francesco
Date: 1638-41
Location: Rome

Title: David
Creator: Bernini, Gian Lorenzo
Date: 1623
Location: Rome

TItle: Still Life with Flowers, Goblet, Dried Fruit, and Pretzels
Creator: Peeters, Clara
Date: 1611 CE
Location: Belgium

Title: Malle Babbe
Creator: Hals, Frans
Date: 1633-35
Location: Netherlands

Title: Captain Frans Banning Crocq Mustering His Company
Creator: Rembrandt van Rijn
Date: 1642 CE
Location: Netherlands

Title: Jewish Cemetery
Creator: Ruisdael, Jacob van
Date: 1655-60
Location: Netherlands

Title: Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
Creator: Pala Culture
Date: 12th Century
Location: India

Title: Taj Mahal
Creator: Lahori, Ustad Ahmad Ma’mar
Date: 1532-48
Location: India

Title: Hour of Cowdust
Creator: Rajput Style
Date: 1790
Location: India

Title: Poet on a Mountain Top
Creator: Shen Zhou
Date: 1490
Location: China

Title: Landscape
Creator: Shitao
Date: 1700
Location: China

Title: Landscape
Creator: Bunsei
Date: mid 15th century
Location: Japan

Title: Dry Rock Garden at Temple of Ryoanji
Creator: Muromachi Style
Date: 1480
Location: Japan

Title: Bodhidharma Meditating
Creator: Hakuin Ekaku
Date: 18th Century
Location: Japan

Title: The Great Wave
Creator: Hokusai, Katsushika
Date: 1831
Location: Japan

Title: Akua Ba (Standing Female Figure)
Creator: Akan-Asante culture
Date: mid 20th century
Location: Ghana

Title: Chi Wara Kun
Creator: Bamana culture
Date: 19th-20th century
Location: Mali

Title: Chi Wara Kun
Creator: Bamana Culture
Date: 19th-20th century
Location: Mali

Title Mbulu Ngulu (Reliquary Figure)
Creator: Kota Culture
Date: 19th Century
Location: Gabon

Title: The Benediction
Creator: Chardin, Jean-Simeon
Date: 1740
Location: France

Title: The Marriage Contract
Creator: Greuze, Jean-Baptiste
Date: 1761
Location: France

Title: Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures
Creator: Kauffmann, Angelica
Date: 1785
Location: England

Title: The Nightmare
Creator: Fuseli, John Henry
Date: 1781
Location: England

Title: Oath of the Horatii
Creator: David, Jacques-Louis
Date: 1784-85 CE
Location: France

Title: Executions on the Third of May 1808
Creator: Goya, Francisco de
Date: 1814-15
Location: Spain

Title: The Burning of the Houses of Lords and Commons
Creator: Turner, Jospeph Mallord William
Date: 1835 CE
Location: England

Title: The Hay Wain
Creator: Constable, John
Date: 1819-21 CE
Location: England

Title: Wivenhoe Park
Creator: Constable, John
Date: 1816-17 CE
Location: England

Title: Monk by the Sea
Creator: Friedrich, Caspar David
Date: 1809-10 CE
Location: Germany

Title: Wanderer Above a Sea of Mist
Creator: Friedrich, Caspar David
Date: 1818 CE
Location: Germany

Title: The Gleaners
Creator: Millet, Jean-Francois
Date: 1857 CE
Location: France

Title: Horta Residence, interior stairway
Creator: Horta, Victor
Date: 1901 CE
Location: Belgium

Title: Le Dejeuner sur I’Herbe (Lunceon on the Grass)
Creator: Manet, Edouard
Date: 1863 CE
Location: France

Location: Impresison, Sunrise
Creator: Monet, Claude
Date: 1872 CE
Location: France

Title: Mont Saint-Victoire
Creator: Cezanne, Paul
Date: 1885-87 CE
Location: France

Title: La Orana Maria (We Hail Thee Mary)
Creator: Gauguin, Paul
Date: 1891-92 CE
Location; France

Title: Harvest at La Crau
Creator: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1888 CE
Location: France

Title: Starry Night
Creator: Vincent van Gogh
Date: 1889 CE
Location: France

Title: The Scream
Creator: Munch, Edvard
Date: 1893 CE
Location: Norway

Title: The Joy of Life
Creator: Matisse, Henri
Date: 1905-06 CE
Location: France

Title: Improvisation No. 30
Creator: Kandinsky, Vassily
Date: 1913 CE
Location: Germany

Title: Large Blue Horses
Creator: Marc, Franz
Date: 1911 CE
Location: Germany

Title: Les Demoiselles d’Avignon
Creator: Picasso, Pablo
Date: 1907 CE
Location: France

Title: Fountain
Creator: Duchamp, Marcel
Date: 1917 CE
Location: France

Title: Fallingwater
Creator: Wright, Frank Lloyd
Date: 1937 CE
Location: Pennsylvania

Title: Homage to Matisse
Creator: Rothko, Mark
Date: 1953 CE
Location: New York

Title: Babel of the Millennium
Creator: Gu, Wenda
Date: 1999 CE
Location: San Francisco

staffage

to discern and describe the mood, tone, nature, personality, or affect conveyed, evoked, or represented in a work of art, literature, poetry, or architecture, either in the work considered as a whole or in particular features

staffage

Figures in a painting that set the mood, tone, character, or theme of a painting, used especially in relation to landscapes

tenebrismo  (tenebroso)

The use of strong chiaroscuro and artificially illuminated areas to create a dramatic contrast of light and dark in a painting.

engraving

An intaglio printmaking process of inscribing an image, design, or letters onto a metal or wood surface from which a print is made. An engraving is usually drawn with a sharp implement (burin) directly onto the surface of the plate.

etching

Printmaking process in which a metal plate is coated with an acid-resistant resin, then inscribed with a stylus to reveal the plate beneath. The plate is then immersed in acid, eating away at the exposed metal. Resin is removed, leaving the design etched permanently into the metal and plate ready to be inked, wiped, and printed.

vanitas

Images that refer to the transience of life, to its brevity, and the vanity of engagement with things of this world.

Memento mori

An object, often found in vanitas paintings, referring to the transience of life, such as a skull, watch, hourglass, extinguished candle, flower in full bloom, etc.

Genre painting

A term used to loosely categorize paintings depicting scenes of everyday life.

mudra

A symbolic hand gesture in Buddhist art that denotes certain behaviors, actions, or feelings.

moksha

Escape from samsara (Hindu)

Nirvana

Escape from samsara (Buddhist)

Bodhisattva

Someone who has reached enlightenment and delays entry into nirvana to help others reach nirvana.

gopura

The towering gateway to an Indian Hindu temple complex

gopis

Cowherd-women

bhakti

Path of union with god (or universal truth) by means of total, selfless devotion to Krishna. Devotional practices of bhakti include traditions, rituals, festivals, image worship, and pilgrimages.

dao

The Way and process of the universe.

qi

Life force in Chinese philosophy

qi yün

Cosmic consonance

shunya

Emptiness

mono-no-aware

Acute sense of melancholy

porcelain

A type of extremely hard and fine white ceramic first made by Chinese potters in the eighth century

ukiyo-e

Japanese term for a type of popular art that was favored from the sixteenth century, particularly in the form of color woodblock

prints. Ukiyo-e prints often depicted the world of the common people in Japan, such as courtesans and actors, as well as landscapes and myths.

japonisme

A style in French and American nineteenth-century art that was highly influenced by Japanese art, especially prints.

avant-garde

Denotes those artists or concepts of a strikingly new, experimental, or radical nature for their time.

picturesque

The taste for the familiar, the pleasant, and the agreeable was popular in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Europe.

Originally used to describe the “picturelike” qualities of some landscape scenes. When contrasted with the sublime, the picturesque stood for the interesting but ordinary domestic landscape.

veduta

Italian for “vista.” Paintings, drawings, or prints, often of expansive city scenes or harbors.

capriccio

A painting or print of a fantastic, imaginary landscape, usually with architecture.

sublime

Of a concept, thing, or state of greatness or vastness with high spiritual, moral, intellectual, or emotional value; or something awe-inspiring. The sublime was a goal to which many nineteenth-century artists aspired in their artworks.

Fête galante

A subject in painting depicting

well-dressed people at leisure in a park or country setting.

Grand Tour

An extended tour of cultural sites in France and Italy intended to finish the education of a young upper-class person primarily from Britain or North America.

impasto

Thick applications of paint that give a painting a palpable surface texture.

Realism

A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be/

expresisionism

Artistic styles in which aspects of works of art are exaggerated to evoke subjective emotions rather than to portray objective reality or elicit a rational response.

Complementary color

The primary and secondary colors across from each other on the color wheel (red and green, blue and orange, yellow and purple). When juxtaposed, the intensity of both colors increases. When mixed together, they negate each other to make a neutral gray–brown.

painterly

A style of painting that emphasizes the techniques and surface effects of brushwork

primativisim

The borrowing of subjects or forms, usually from non-European or prehistoric sources, by Western artists to infuse their work with expressive qualities attributed to other cultures, especially colonized cultures.