ARTS 2050 Midterm

Artist: Unknown

Title: Lion Panel

Media: Pigment

Time Period: 30,000 BCE

- There are over 300 depictions of animals, palm prints, and stenciled hands.

- In Paleolithic art, there is an emphasis on the animals, which have naturalistic detail, and humans are simplified and stylized.

Artist: Maya Lin

Title: Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Media: Black granite

Time Period: 1982/late 20th century

- This was Maya Lin's most well-known work of art.

- It was funded by the NEA.

- The purpose of the work is to bridge communities together and to contemplate the captured and dead

from the Vietnam War.

- About 58,000 names are inscribed.

NEA

National Endowment for the Arts

What do artists do?

create places for some human purpose

and to bridge communities together

Artist: Maya Lin

Title: Rosa Parks Circle

Media: Ice skating rink

Time Period: 2006/early 21st century

- The inspiration for the material was water in all three of its forms: solid, liquid, and gas.

Artist: Maya Lin

Title: The Listening Circle

Media: A section of the confluence project

Time Period: 2005/early 21st century

- The Confluence Project is a series of outdoor installations and interpretive works along the Columbia River

- Each explores the confluence of history, culture, and ecology of the Columbia River System.

- It draws on the region's history (Native American

traditional stories and entries from the Lewis and

Clark Expedition journals.

- She listened to and included the tribe's perspective.

Artist: Maya Lin

Title: Civil Rights Memorial

Media: Granite

Time Period: 1989/late 20th century

- It is a memorial in Montgomery, Alabama

that remembers the 41 people killed during the Civil Rights Movement.

- The work was sponsored by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

- to create places for some human purpose

- to create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects

- record and commemorate

- to give tangible form to the unknown

- to give tangible form to feelings

- to refresh our vision and help us to see the world in new ways

why do artists create art?

Artist: Asante people

Title: Kente cloth

Media: Cotton

Time Period: mid-20th century

- Art can be created for human purposes

- The royal Kente cloth was woven in hundreds of patterns and was used for distinguishing royalty and for ceremonial purposes.

Artist: Unknown sculptor

Title: Shiva Nataraja

Media: Bronze

Time Period: 10th century

- Art can allow us to imagine extraordinary things; Artists portray what cannot be seen with the eyes or events that can only be imagined

- This depicts the four-armed Lord of Dance, a celestial being, meaning "fear not".

Artist: Picasso

Title: First Communion

Media: Oil on canvas

Time Period: 1895-96/late 19th century

- This is an example of representational art and depicts forms in the natural world.

work of art that depicts forms in the natural world

representational art

Picasso

Seated Woman Holding a Fan

Oil on canvas

1908/early 20th century

This is an example of abstract art because it purposefully shows the visual world as simplified, fragmented, or distorted. This makes it more interesting, but also unrealistic.

art which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or distorted

abstract art

Delaunay

Electric Prisms

Oil on canvas

1913/early 20th century

This is an example of nonrepresentaional art because you can't recognize anything. However, the title gives us some information.

nonobjective, descriptive form of art that doesn't represent or refer to the visible world outside itself

nonrepresentational art

Jocho

Amida Nyorai

Gilded wood

1053/mid-11th century

This was made for the Byodo-in Temple, a Buddhist temple.

This is an example of iconography.

Amida's hands form a gesture of mediation and balance and he sits on a lotus flower, which is a symbol of purity.

"describing images" & involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art

iconography

Navajo men creating a sand painting

Photograph

1939/early 20th century

Navajo practice of sand painting is a famous instance where art is both a product and a process.

Sand painting is part of a ceremony where a religious specialist (singer, hataali) calls upon spirit powers to heal and bless someone that is ill.

Koetsu

Teabowl

Raku ware

Late 16th-early 17th century

This is an example of aesthetics.

Wabi (naturalness, simplicity) and sabi (loneliness and tranquility) are central to the asthetics of Buddhism and zen, which is connected to their tea ceremony.

branch of philosophy concerned with feelings aroused by sensory experiences, examines the nature of art and beauty

aesthetics

naturalness, simplicity, understatement, and impermanence

wabi

loneliness, old age, tranquility

sabi

central to aesthetics of Buddhism and zen, connected to tea ceremony

wabi-sabi

Walker

A Subtlety

Styroforam, resin, sugar, molasses

2014/early 21st century

This is an example of installation art.

The statue was displayed in the Domino Sugar Refinery.

It remembers sugar's past and the slaves that were used to produce sugar.

a space is presented as a work of art that can be entered, explored, experienced, and reflected upon

installation art

Picasso

Guernica

Oil on canvas

1937/early 20th century

This is an example of the politics and social order theme of art.

The artwork condemns violence and fascism on ordinary citizens during the Spanish Civil War.

This is an example of abstract art.

Court painter

Court Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk

Handscroll, ink, colors, and gold on silk

1082-1135/late 11th- early 12th century

This is an example of the looking outward theme of art.

This artwork displays images of daily life in the imperial Chinese court.

Kahlo

Self-Portrait with Monkeys

Oil on canvas

1943/early 20th century

This is an example of the looking inward theme of art.

Kahlo describes her experiences as a woman, artist, and Mexican.

Kahlo embraces her Mexican culture.

Kusama

Love is Calling

Wood, metal, glass mirrors, tile, acrylic panel, rubber, blowers, lighting elements, speakers, sound

2013/early 21st century

This is an example of the invention and fantasy theme of art.

The space is experienced as a fantasy.

The Infinity mirrored rooms create an endless space.

Polka dots are a way to infinity.

a room lined with mirrors so that anything in it multiplies in endless reflections and creates an endless space

infinity-mirrored room

Unknown

Stone and Gravel Garden

Rocks and white gravel

c. 1488-1500/late 15th century

This is an example of the natural world theme of art.

This is a place of meditation and viewers can find their own meaning in it.

There is a desire to create landscapes for the pleasure of our eyes.

elements we perceive and respond to when we look at a work's form

visual elements

line, shape, mass, space, time, motion, light, color, texture

what are the visual elements?

Sze

Hidden Relief

Mixed media

2001-04/early 21st century

There are bits of ready-made line, mass, color, and shape.

The artwork was made from common industrial products, like measuring sticks.

Reid

The Raven and the First Men

Laminated yellow cedar

1980/late 20th century

This is an example of shape and mass.

The artwork depicts humankind as told in the creation stories of Haida, the People of the Pacific NW coast.

2D form that occupies an area with identifiable boundaries

shape

3D form that occupies a volume of space

mass

White

Untitled

Etching

1979/late 20th century

This is an example of values.

Chiaroscuro (value used to contrast light and shadow) is used.

Hatching and cross-hatching are used.

The artwork chronicles African-American related subjects.

shades of light and dark

values

the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting

chiaroscuro

colors separated out by Sir Isaac Newton's rainbow prism with additional transitional colors

color wheel

a range of colors

palette

red, yellow, blue

primary colors

orange, green, violet

secondary colors

red, orange, yellow

warm colors

blue, green, violet

cool colors

a name for particular shade of a given color

hue

harmonies involving colors directly opposite of the color wheel

complementary color schemes

red and green, orange and blue, violet and yellow

Complimentary color examples

(Crossing Cultures)

Ando Hiroshige.

Fireworks at Ryogoku.

Woodblock print.

1857.

surface quality

texture

Fosso

The Chief: He Who Sold Africa to the Colonists, from Self-Portraits

Chromogenic print

1997/late 20th century

This is an example of a pattern.

The artwork creates visual "buzz" and the spatial ambiguity produces patterns.

any decorative, repetitive motif or design

pattern

Suh

Reflection

Nylon and stainless steel tube

2004/early 21st century

This is an example of space.

The artwork has an awareness of the shaped space.

The space in and around a work of art is not void and it is there.

The artwork is about memory of the gate and time, both the present and past.

the space in and around a work of art is not void and it is there

space

Cave

Sound Suit

Knits and applique, metal armature, vintage black-faced voodoo dolls, black bugle beads, vintage mammy's cozy, hand mirrors, wiggly eyes, Felix the Cat vintage leather mask

2011/early 21st century

This is an example of time and motion.

The work depends on a performer to have its full effect.

The work purposely makes the identity of the soundsuit unknown.

One could disappear into his soundsuit.

in the moment art

time and motion

unity and variety, balance, emphasis and subordination, scale and proportion, rhythm

principles of design

guidelines of making decisions involved in designing a work of art

what are the principles of design?

Kusama

Infinity Nets

Acrylic on canvas

2013/early 21st century

This is an example of unity.

The dots repeat and continue on forever.

sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole

unity

difference, provides interest

variety

Noguchi

Red Cube

Steel painted red

1968/mid 20th century

This is an example of balance and visual weight.

Visual weight is the apparent "heaviness" or "lightness" of the forms arranged in a composition as gauged by how insitenetly they draw our eyes.

apparent "heaviness" or "lightness" of the forms arranged in a composition, gauged by how much a shape draws our attention

visual weight

Sotatsu

The Zen Priest Choka

Hanging scroll, ink on paper

Late 16th-early 17th century

This is an example of balance and asymmetrical balance.

We naturally raise our eyes to look at the priest in the tree and see nothing on the other side.

Meditation on emptiness is one of the exercises prescribed by Zen Buddhism.

composition has two sides that don't match

asymmetrical balance

Tanner

The Banjo Lesson

Oil on canvas

1893/late 19th century

This is an example of emphasis and subordination.

The emphasis is on the figures.

Emphasis and Subordination

complimentary concepts

de Goya

Executions of the Third of May

Oil on canvas

1814-15/early 19th century

This is an example of emphasis and subordination.

The emphasis is on the man in white or the bleeding people.

Goya uses psychological forces to direct our attention and sympathy.

The artwork depicts the invasion of Spain by Napoleon.

certain areas of a composition are purposefully made less visually interesting so the emphasis can stand out

subordination

our attention is drawn to certain parts of a composition more than others

emphasis

size in relation to a standard/normal size

scale

Userwer

Stela

Limestone

1800 BCE

This is an example of scale and proportion.

Ancient Egyptian artists relied on a square grid to govern the proportions to depict "perfect" human form.

size relationships between parts of a whole

proportion

use of scale to indicate relative importance

hierarchal scale

From Benin

A royal altar to the hand (ikegobo)

Brass

18th century

This is an example of proportion and hierarchical scale.

Composition expresses a social hierarchy with the king at the center.

Lin

Storm King Wavefield

Earth and grass

2007-08/early 21st century

This is an example of rhythm and repetition.

The work is based on a naturally occurring water-wave formation (Stokes wave).

based on repetition

rhythm

graphite, metal point, charcoal, crayon, pastel and chalk

dry media

Sikander

1, from 51 Ways of Looking

Graphite on paper

2004/early 21st century

This is an example of dry drawing media.

pen and ink, brush and ink

liquid media

Mehrutu

Untitled

Ink, colored pencil, and cut paper on Mylar

2001/early 21st century

This is an example of liquid drawing media.

Mutu

Hide and Seek, Kill or Speak

Paint, ink, collage and mixed media on mylar

2004/early 21st century

This is an example of collage.

The work links her work to the larger world of photographic images used in media.

The work displays a woman crouching in the African grasslands and symbolizes the deadly conflicts that occurred in African societies.

wall painting technique for large scale murals, pigments mixed with water and applied to plaster support

fresco

Rivera

Mixtec Culture

Fresco

1942/mid 20th century

This is an example of fresco painting.

Fresco is a wall painting technique for large-scale murals that involves pigments mixed with water and is applied to plaster support.

Mexico's frescos were widely celebrated.

Mexican artists were commissioned by the revolutionary government after 1921 to create murals celebrating Mexico.

The work displays the community of artists in Mexico.

Lawrence

The Migration Series

Tempera on composition board

1940/mid 20th century

This is an example of tempera painting.

Tempera has the qualities of watercolor and oil paint. It dries quickly so the colors can't be blended easily once set down.

The work depicts the Great Migration of African Americans from the South to the North beginning in 1910.

qualities of watercolor and oil paint, dries quickly, colors can't be blended easily once set down

tempera

watercolor with inert white pigment added, dries quickly and uniformly, well suited for large, flat saturated colors

goauche

pigment compounded with oil

oil paint

one of the oldest painting medium in continuous use

ink

Milhazes

Mariposa

Acrylic on canvas

2004/early 21st century

This is an example of acrylic painting.

Acrylic paint is synthetic paint that is strong, weatherproof, and industrial and dries quickly and permanently.

Impasto is the technique for the thick application of paint.

synthetic artist's colors that are strong, waterproof, and industrial

acrylic paint

relief, intaglio, lithography

what are the 3 methods of printing?

printing method where image to be printed is raised from a background

relief

Unknown

Preface to the Diamond Sutra

Woodblock handscroll

868/late 1st century

This is an example of relief printing.

Italian for "to cut", reverse of relief, areas meant to print are below the surface of the printing plate

intaglio

de Goya

Asta su Abuelo (And so was his Grandfather)

Aquatint

1799/late 18th century

This is an example of intaglio printing.

engraving, drypoint, mezzotint, etching,aquatint, and photogravure

The six basic types of intaglio printing

planographic process, printing surface is flat

lithography