Cultural Diversity

Manohar

"Jahangir Receives a cup from Khusrau"

17th century

Opaque Watercolor on Paper

Artist Unknown

"Shiva Nataraja"

10th Century

Bronze

Asante

"Kente Cloth"

20th Century

Cotton

NEA

National Endowment for the Arts

Artist Unknown

"Lion Panel"

30,000 BCE

pigment

Basquiat

"Hollywood Africans"

20th century

Acrylic and oil stick on canvas

True or false, In Paleolithic art, animals are represented with naturalistic detail while humans are simplified and stylized

True

Fosso

"The chief: He who sold Africa to the colonists"

20th century

chromogenic print

true or false, beauty is not a requirement for art

true

Representational Art

descriptive of a work of art that depicts FORMS in the natural world

Picasso

"First Communion"

1895-96

Oil on Canvas

Picasso

"Seated Woman Holding a Fan"

1908

Oil on canvas

Abstract Art

Descriptive of art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or otherwise distorted.

Stylized Art

representational art that conforms to a present style or set of conventions for depicting the world

Nonrepresentational art

nonobjective, descriptive of art that does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside itself

Jocho

"Amida Nyorai"

1053

Gilded wood.

Iconography

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

Navajo men creating a sand painting

Photograph

1939

Hataali

a religious specialist/singer that calls upon spirit powers to heal and bless someone

Koetsu

"Tea Bowl"

late 16th/early 17th century

Raku Ware

Aesthetics

The branch of philosophy concerned with the feelings aroused in us by sensory experiences such as seeing and hearing.

wabi

embraces such concepts as naturalness, simplicity, understatement, and impermanence

sabi

adds overtones of loneliness, old age, and tranquility

installation art

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

Bodhisattva

enlightened beings who have differed their ultimate goal of nirvana in order to help others attain this goal

nirvana

freedom from the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth

Picasso

"Guernica"

1937

oil on canvas

Artist unknown- possibly a court painter

Chinese Ladies Preparing Newly Woven Silk

1082-1135

Hand scroll, ink, colors, and gold on silk

four Chinese women with a long cloth being folded

Kahlo

"Self-Portrait with Monkeys"

1943

Oil on canvas.

Kusama

"Love is Calling"

2013

Mixed Media: Wood, metal, glass mirrors, tile, acrylic panel, rubber, blowers, lighting element, speakers and sound.

polkadot lookin world

Stone and Gravel Garden

Ryan-ji Temple, Kyoto

1488-1500

with subsequent modifications

zen stones arranged in patterns on the ground

Sze

"Hidden Relief"

2001

mixed media.

visual elements

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

Reid

"The Raven and the First Men"

1980

Laminated yellow cedar

shape

a two-dimensional form that occupies an area with identifiable boundaries

mass

a three-dimensional form that occupies a volume of space

Positive Shapes

shapes we perceive as figures

Negative shapes

shapes on the ground

values

shades of light and dark

Chiaroscuro

Italian for light and dark, where artists employ values to record contrasts of light and shadow in the natural world, contrasts that model mass for our eyes

White

"Untitled"

1979

Etching

color wheel

the colors separated out by Sir Isaac Newton's rainbow prism (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet) with the additional of transitional shades

palette

refers to the wooden board on which artists traditionally set out their pigments, but it also refers to the range of pigments they select either from a particular painting or characteristically

primary colors

red, blue, and yellow