Art Flashcards
Pop art - words and numbers on paintings (Word Paintings) e.g HONK, Twentysix Gasoline stations
strongly influenced by the Hollywood film industry: the mountain in his Mountain Series is a play on the Paramount Pictures logo; Large Trademark with Eight Spotlights (1962) depicts the 20th Century Fox logo, while the dimensions of this work are reminiscent of a movie screen
Ed Ruscha
In 1962 Ruscha’s work was included, along with Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Dowd, Phillip Hefferton, Joe Goode, Jim Dine, and Wayne Thiebaud, in the historically important and ground-breaking “New Painting of Common Objects,” curated by Walter Hopps at the Pasadena Art Museum. This exhibition is historically considered one of the first “Pop Art” exhibitions in America.
Which portrait is often described as Ingres’s Mona Lisa: so visually available and yet so mysterious.
picasso came upon Ingres’s painting in 1921, in an epochal retrospective where the portrait was on public display for the first time since its completion in 1856. A student of Ingres from first to last, always drawing from his classical perfection, Picasso held the image in mind for more than 10 years. His Woman With a Book was painted in 1932. Who was his sitter?
Madame Moitessier .
sitter in Woman With a Book is Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s secret lover during the last years of his marriage to the Russian ballerina Olga Khokhlova.
A ____ house is a vault or building where human skeletal remains are stored. They are often built near churches for depositing bones that are unearthed while digging graves. The term can also be used more generally as a description of a place filled with death and destruction.
The term is borrowed from Middle French ____, (“graveyard”), from Latin carnālis
Picasso 1945 anti nazi holocaust painting less famous than guernica
Charnel house
another less known work -1950 - Korean massacre -like manet’s execution of maximillien and 3rd of may 1808 by goya
Ukiyo-e images were almost exclusively images of urban life; the vast majority that were not landscapes were devoted to depicting courtesans, sumo, or kabuki.
What are often referred to as “actor prints” in English, - Japanese woodblock prints or, rarely, paintings, of kabuki actors, particularly those done in the ukiyo-e style popular through the Edo period
yakusha -e
She belonged to a group called “The Five”, comprising a circle of women inspired by Theosophy, who shared a belief in the importance of trying to contact the so-called “High Masters”—often by way of séances.
Swedish artist and mystic whose paintings are considered among the first abstract works known in Western art history. A considerable body of her work predates the first purely abstract compositions by Kandinsky, Malevich and Mondrian
Hilma af Klint . Kandinsky’s 1911 Composition IV is considered first abstract art work. Hilma’s work dates to 1907
Portrait Heads - Yeats, Joyce, Beckett etc- artist? irish
Louis le broquoy
He is regarded as the “father of the Japanese short story”, and Japan’s premier literary award, the _______ Prize, is named after him. He committed suicide at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital.
Published 13 pager Roshomon in 1914
Ryonosuke Akutagawa Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.
“les trois grandes dames” of impressionism
marie bracquemond, berthe morisot (w/of eugene manet -brother of eduard). mary casatt
name ukiyo e artists . influenced impressionists who collected their work -japonisme began
Hiroshige (considered the last great master ukiyo e), Utamaro (large head beautiful women) Hokusai - off kanagawa
Golden ratio named after sculptor of zeus - one of the 7 wonders. also 40 ft athena of chryselephantine (gold -ivory)
Pericles commissioned several works from Phidias, including sculptures to celebrate the Greek victory at the Battle of Marathon.
Phidias - phi for golden ratio
first to sculpt the human female form in a life-sized statue
Two examples of his work are Aphrodite of Knidos (Cnidos) and Hermes with the Infant Dionysus.
Praxiteles
official sculptor to Alexander the Great.
Lysippus
bronze heifer, discobolus sculptor
Myron
sculpted Hera. Doryphorus statue (Spear-bearer), which illustrated his book named canon (kanon), a theoretical work on ideal mathematical proportions for human body parts and on the balance between tension and movement, known as symmetry. He sculpted Astragalizontes (Boys Playing at Knuckle Bones)
Polykleitos
