ART EXAM 2023 Flashcards
What is a narrative?
Art that tells a story
Artist: Norman Rockwell
What is idealize?
Making proportions more perfect than they exist in real life
Artist: Tamara De Limpica
What is Aesthetics?
Formal principles of judging beauty socially taught and accepted concept within a culture that changes over time
Exp: tattoos
What is socially conscious?
A message about society and culture
Artist: Norman Rockwell
What is satirical?
Making fun of a situation
Artist: Pawel Kuczynski
What is forgery?
A copy of an original art work by a other person that isn’t the original artist
What is iconography?
Symbols in art work, example candles and fish
Artist Chardin
Who was Leonardo da Vinci?
He was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci
He painted the Mona Lisa in 1503
The last supper was painted in 1495 and took 3 years
He studied nature, light, shade, birds, water, and the human body
Who was Michelangelo
Michaelangelo was the greatest master of the renaissance (1400-1550)
Lorenzo Medici sponsored him for art training when he was 14 years old
Michelangelo was commissioned for the pieta at 23. There he was know as a great sculptor.
What is contemporary?
The art of today, method, styles and techniques of living artist.
Artist Robert bateman
What is Impressionism?
A style of painting which depicts a candid glimpse of a subject, with an emphasis on the momentary effects of light and colour.
Artist: Edgar degas
What is futurism?
Art which emphasizes the industrial, machine like quality of modern time speeds, energy
Artist emberto boccioni
What is constructivism?
A translated of cubism into 3 dimensional sculpture, using a variety of materials (wood, glass, steel) rather than using modelling or subtraction of mass (clay) there was an additional of linear materials.
Artist: naum Gabo
What is expressionism?
Art which distortions of form and colour are a used to communicate strong emotional effects on the viewer
Artist Paul Klee
What are the 5 principles of aesthetics?
Commitment, aptitude, medium, context and experiential
What is commitment?
How much an artist spends on their art. More adds value.
What is aptitude?
An artists talent can be measured by the speed of the artist and how much they complete.
What is medium?
Medium that take years to master add more value, example when working with iron there is no room for error so it adds more value.
What is context?
The time and circumstances where the art was made.
What is experiential?
The experience of the artist.
What is conceptual art?
Art wherein the concept of the idea of replaces with the actual price of work
What is abstract expressionism?
An expression from the individual and not the reflection of the external world or environment they lived in. It is characterized by gestural brush strokes or mark making and the impression of spontaneity.
When and where were the 2 movements of conceptual and abstract expressionism given birth to and marketed to the public?
New York City 1946-1965
What is the difference between an art academy degree and university art program?
An art academy teaches anatomy with sculpture, paintings and drawing
University art program teaches theory, conceptual, historical and idea base using writing.
The 20th century artist who created something new, why was their art creditable?
Artist that masted old realism before going into new territory, as a result they carried with them the commitment, mediums and abilities into there new visual realms.
What is Market driven art?
Art marketed to sell fast and at a high price by media manipulation
What is shock art?
Art made to horrified, disgusted or offended the viewer. This can include; urine, pornography, dead animals etc
What is the difference between private art galleries and public art galleries?
Private art galleries exist to make money and they are capitalistic enterprise
Public art galleries charge admission were rich people will leave their art in these galleries for the world to see
