ART midterm

What do artist do?

1. Create places for human purpose

2. Create extraordinary versions of ordinary object

3. to record and commemorate

4. To give tangible form to the unknown

5. To give tangible form to feelings and ideas

6. To refresh our vision and help us see the world in different ways

Title: “The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists.”

Artist: Fosso.

Media: Chromogenic print.

Date: 1997

Title: “Kente cloth”

Date: mid-20th century.

Media: Cotton

Title:Shiva Nataraja
Artist:
Time period: 10th century
Media: Bronze

Title:Vietnam Veteran Memorial
Artist: Maya Lin
Time period: 1900s
Media: Black Granite

Title: Marble Han River Dam
Artist: Maya Lin
Time period: 2022
Media: glass marbles

Title: Vanitas
Artist:Valdes Leal
Time period: 1660
Media:Oil on Canvas

Title: Saturn Devouring One of His Children
Artist: De Goya
Time period: 1800s
Media: Wall painting in oil on plaster

Representational Art

Descriptive of a work of art that depicts forms in the natural world

Title: “First Communion
Artist: Picasso
Time period: 1800s
Media: Oil on Canvas

Abstract Art

Descriptive of art in

which the forms of the visual world

are purposefully simplified,

fragmented, or otherwise distorted

Title: Seated Woman Holding a Fan
Artist: Picasso
Time period: 1900s
Media: Oil on Canvas

Nonrepresentational Art

nonobjective,

descriptive of art that does not represent

or otherwise refer to the visible world

outside itself

Aesthetic

The branch of

philosophy concerned with the

feelings aroused in us by sensory

experiences such as seeing and

hearing. Aesthetics examines,

among other things, the nature of

art and the nature of beauty

Wabi

embraces such concepts as

naturalness, simplicity,

understatement, and impermanence.

Sabi

adds overtones of loneliness,

old age and tranquility

Title: Teabowl
Artist: Koetsu
Time period: late 16th- early 17th
Media: Raku Ware

Installation Art

a space is presented

as a work of art that can be entered,

explored, experienced, and reflected

upon.

Title: A Subtlety
Artist: Kara Walker
Time period: 2000s
Media: Mixed Media, Sugar and Molasses

Title: Infinity Mirroed Room
Artist: Kusama
Time period: 2000s
Media: Mixed Media, mirrors

Title: Self-Portrait with Monkeys
Artist: Kahlo
Time period: 1900s
Media: Oil on canvas

Hataali

Navajo Men creating sand Painting

1900s

Bodhisattvas

enlightened beings

who have deferred their ultimate

goal of nirvana (freedom from the

cycle of birth, death, and rebirth) in

order to help others attain this goa

Title: Guernica
Artist: Picasso
Time period: 1900s
Media: Oil on canvas

Title: Stone and Gravel Garden
Artist: Unknown
Time period: 1488-1500s
Media: Earth work

Visual Elements

Line, Color, Light, Shape, Mass, Texture, and Pattern, Space, Time and Motion

Title: Hidden Relief
Artist:Sarah Sze
Time period: 2000s
Media:Mixed Media

Color Harmonies

the selective use of two or more colors in a single

composition

Monochromatic color scheme

harmonies

composed of variations on the same hue,

often with differences of value and intensity.

Title: Untitles
Artist: Kara Walker
Time period: 1900s
Media: Watercolor on paper

Complementary Colors

harmonies

involve colors directly opposite each other on

the color wheel

Title: Me
Artist: Marshall
Time period:2000s
Media:Linocut

Chiaroscuro

Italian for light/dark where

artists employ values to record contrasts

of light and shadow in the natural world,

contrasts that model mass for our eyes

Title: Untitles
Artist: White
Time period:1900s
Media:Etching

Hatching

Area of closely spaced parallel lines

Cross Hatching

Darker values achieved through additional set of parallel lines laid across the first

Stippling

Suggesting value where areas of dots average out through optical color mixing into values

Ground

The surrounding visual information that the figure stand out from, the background

Title: Chanter
Artist: Whitehorce
Time period: 1900s
Media: Oil on paper

Title: Reflection
Artist: Ho Suh
Time period:2000s
Media: Nylon and Stainless Steel Tube

Texture

the surface quality-a perception

of smooth or rough, flat or bumpy, fine or

coarse

Pattern

any decorative, repetitive motif or

design

Title: Portrait of (Alicia Keys Dean)
Artist: Wiley
Time period: 2000s
Media: Oil on Linen

Title: This Land, Shared Sky
Artist: Nick Cave and Marie Watt
Time period: 2000s
Media:Installation, hand strung, beadded shoelaces, textiles

Title: Soundsuits
Artist: Nick Cave
Time period: 2000s
Media: Mixed Media

Title: Opening Performance at Obama Presidential Center
Artist: Nick Cave
Time period:2000s
Media: Textiles and found objects

Title: City of the Big Shoulders
Artist: Bradford
Time period: 2000s
Media: Mixed Media

Balance

refers to the apparent

“heaviness” or “lightness” of the forms

arranged in a composition, as gauged by how

insistently they draw our eyes

Symmetrical balance

the forms of a

composition mirror each other across a

central axis, an imaginary straight line that

divides the composition in half.

Title: Reflectwo
Artist: Kojin
Time period: 2000s
Media: Artificial flower petals, acrylic, string

Asymmetrical Balance

a composition has two sides

that do not match

Emphasis

our attention is drawn

more to certain parts of a composition than to

others

Subordination

certain areas of the

composition are purposefully made less

visually interesting, so that the areas of

emphasis stand out

Title: The Banjo Lesson
Artist: Ossawa Tanner
Time period: 1800s
Media: Oil on Canvas

Title: Execution of the Third of May
Artist: de Goya
Time period: 1800s
Media: Oil on Canvas

Scale

size in relation to a standard or “normal”

size

Proportion

size relationships between parts of

a whole

Title: Benin Royal Altar to the Hand
Artist: Unknown
Time period: 18th Century
Media: Brass

Rhythmn

is based in repetition, and

it is a basic part of the world we find

ourselves in

Title: Storm King Wavefield
Artist: Maya Lin
Time period: 2000s
Media: Earth and Grass

Title: 1, from 51 Ways of Looking
Artist: Sikander
Time period: 2000s
Media:Graphite on paper

Title: “Untitied”
Artist: Mehretu
Time period: 2000s
Media: Ink, colored pencil, and cut paper on Mylar

Title: Hide and Seek, Kill or Speak
Artist: Mutu
Time period: 2000s
Media: Paint, ink, collage, and mixed media

Fresco

a wall painting technique and has been used for

large scale murals since ancient times. Pigments are

mixed with water and applied to a plaster support,

usually a wall or ceiling coated in plaster

Title: Mixtec Culture
Artist: Rivera
Time period: 1900s
Media: Fresco

Tempera

Dries very quick

Oil paint

Pigments with oil that dries very slow

Gouache

Watercolor with inert white pigment. Dries quickly

Title: Self-Portrait
Artist: Lawrence
Time period: 1900s
Media: Gouache on paper

Title: Nut
Artist: Sillman
Time period: 2000s
Media: Oil on canvas

Acrylic

synthetic artist’s colors that

are strong, weatherproof and

industrial. They can be layered into a

heavy “impasto”

“My belief is that it is most important for an artist to develop an approach and philosophy about life- if he has developed this philosophy he does not put paint on canvas, he put himself on canvas

Lawrence

Title: Mariposa
Artist: Milhazes
Time period: 2000s
Media: Acrylic on canvas

Impasto

from the italian for “paste” or thick application of paint

Title: Black Venus
Artist: Bradford
Time period: 2000s
Media:Mixed Media

3 historical printmaking methods

1. Print Relief

2. Intaglio

3. Lithography

Print Relief

Image is raised from a background

Title: Preface to the Diamond Sutra
Artist: Unknown
Time period: 800s
Media:Woodblock Handscroll

Intaglio

Italian word for to cut, the areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate

Title: Asta su Abuelo
Artist: De Goya
Time period: 1700s
Media:Aquatint

Lithography

planographic process, which

means that the printing surface is flat-not

raised as in relief or depressed as in intaglio

Title: Singing Their Songs
Artist: Catlett
Time period: 1900s
Media: Color Lithography

Screenprinting

he image

is transferred to paper by forcing ink through a fine mesh in which the areas

not meant to print have been blocked; a stencil technique.

Title: Standard Station
Artist: Rusha
Time period: 1900s
Media: Screen print

Title: You’re Never ready
Artist: Osorio
Time period: 2000s
Media: Inkjet on Confetti

Memento Mori

Latin word for remember that you must die

Title: Untitied
Artist: Swoon
Time period: 2000s
Media: Hand-colored linocut

“For me pasting is about many things and one of them is about declaring the walls of the city a public sounding board for our dreams, desires, and collective identity”

Swoon

Title: Camera Obscura
Artist: ??
Time period: 1600s
Media:Engraving

“This is how we see ourselves; this is what is important to us”

Throssel

Title: Crow Camp
Artist: Throssel
Time period: 1900s
Media: Modern Print from a negative

Video

A video camera converts a moving

image into electronic signals. The signals

are transmitted to a monitor, which

decodes them and reconstitutes the image

for display.

Title: TV Buddha
Artist: Paik
Time period: 1900s
Media:Installation with bronze sculpture

Yin Yang

Embodies the worldview expressed in ancient Chinese philosophy. Gives ideas about the dynamic balance opposites that are believed to make up the universe and explain existence

Title: Poster for X Exhibition 07

Artist: Yiyang

Time period: 2000s

Media:Graphic Design

Title: Red Green Blue

Artist: Pfeiffer

Time period: 2000s

Media:Installation

Maman

French word for mommy or mother, a tribute to her mother

Title: Mamam

Artist: Bourgeois

Time period: 1900s

Media: Bronze, stainless steel and marble

Title: Forever Free

Artist: Lewis

Time period: 1800s

Media: Carrara marble

Meaning behind Forever Free

celebrates the Emanciption Proclamation, capturing the Black figures at the very moment of their liberation from enslavement