final review

art id exercises

  • connect art to chapter purpose/objectives

  • who made it?

  • title

  • when was it made?

art id will show artworks without the key info

questions for id are multiple choice

chapter 6 → reproduction and sexuality

venus of willendorf

  • we don’t know who made it

  • made 25,000-20,000 bc

  • venus has some connection to fertility, may be a charm or fetish for mothers

wedding portrait (also called wedding of arnolfini)

  • jan van eyck

  • 1434

  • is about marriage, relates to fertility, spirituality, fidelity as a result

radha and krishna in the grove

  • kangra school in india

  • no date

  • depicts relationship between a man and a woman, similar to song of solomon

mother and nursing child

  • cahokian people probably

  • 1200-1400 (mississippian period)

  • mother and child

chapter 7 → deities and places of worship

shiva as nataraja, or lord of the dance

  • don’t know who made it, it’s from a temple in punjai

  • c 1000 ad

  • depicts hindu deity

madonna of the meadow

  • raphael sanzio

  • c 1505

  • depicts mary, Jesus, john the baptist?

ceiling of the sistine chapel

  • michelangelo

  • 1508-1512

  • tells story of old testament, in a chapel

dome of the rock

  • unknown

  • 687-692

  • significant to christianity, judaism, and islam; worship space (where abraham almost sacrificed isaac, near golgotha)

chapter 10 → social protest and affirmation

shibboleth

  • doris salcedo

  • 2007-2008

  • represents the problem with in-groups and out-groups

insertions into ideological circuits: coca-cola project

  • cildo meireles

  • 1970

  • disseminates information using recycled coke bottles

the executions of may 3, 1808

  • francisco goya

  • 1814

  • “i’m still crocheting my history thinking cap”

  • tells story of may 3 while also protesting it

liberty leading the people

  • eugene delacroix

  • 1830

  • glorifies the french people fighting against the nobility

chapter 12 → race, gender, clan, and class

over vitebsk

  • marc chagall

  • 1915-1920

  • statement about treatment of jews under tsarist russia

buddha duchamp beuys

  • nam june paik

  • 1989

  • …

the kitchen maid

  • jan vermeer van delft

  • 1660

  • shows job/life of lower class people like this maid

komurasaki of the tamaya teahouse

  • kitagawa utamaro

  • 1794

  • glorifies middle/higher classes