Art Final Flashcards by Annie Carlson

Lion Man

-prehistoric
-possible link to religion

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Venus of Willendorf

-Willendorf in Germany
-goddess of fertility

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Horse

-made of horn
-decorative only
-(prehistoric?)

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Thinker

-made of clay
-decorative only

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Ram

-possible deity
-Mesopotamian, NOT European

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Abu Simbel

-Egyptian
-moved due to dam construction

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Discobulus

-human athlete
-original sport of Olympic games

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Laocoon

-gods punishing humans
-physically exceptional

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Venus de Milo

-female beauty formula
-reconstructed digitally and held an apple

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Resting Boxer

-beat up human form
-bronze sculpture

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Notre Dame Paris

-spire burned down
-home of Quasimodo

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Chimera

-diverts water
-NOT gargoyle

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Gargoyle

-ornamental only
-not a chimera

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Donatello’s David

-young boy
-peacefully resting after the battle

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Michelangelo’s David

-large sculpture
-replica on the square original in museum

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Michelangelo’s Pieta

-marble sculpture
-called a deposition as well

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Bernini’s David

-full of action
-marble sculpture

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Bernini’s ecstasy of St. Teresa

-too physical
-gold light behind and above the piece

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Trevi Fountain

-over-the-top structure
-not allowed to swim in it

Rodin’s The Thinker

-many copies
-large and small copies abound

Rodin’s Burgher of Calais

-regular merchants from the town
-heroic offer to save town

Object 1935

-fur-covered cup and saucer
-dada art

Duchamp’s “Fountain”

-challenges what art is
-ceramic piece

Man Ray “present”

-challenges form and function
-breaks symbol of oppression

Picasso's Chicago Picasso

-large public sculpture -steel construction

Brancusi "Bird in Space"

-rejected when shown because it did not look like a "sculpture" -one of the first modern works shown in USA

Calder's Mobile

-kinetic art -small to huge examples exist

Robert Indiana's love

-pop art -very intentional use of type

Shuttle Rocks

-large installation -bigger than life

"Cloud Gate"

-hollow structure -stainless steel

Smithson's "Spiral Jetty"

-not permanent -huge scale

Cristo's Running fence

-24 miles -lasted only 18 days

Butterfield's Horse

-in Wausau -bronze sculpture

Lewis Hine "Mill Worker"

-Hine from Wisconsin -labor laws were challenged

Lewis Hine "Worker at the Steam Pump"

-recreation of Greek pose -not spontaneous

Margaret Burke - White "The Soup Line"

-not the American Dream -Shows social divide

Dorothea Lange's "Migrant Mother"

-during dustbowl -shows resilience

Alfred Einstaed V J celebration in Times Square

-victory over Japan -names unknown of people in shot

Eugene Smith's "A country Doctor"

-shows compassion -is all real

Cartiere Bresson's image of little boy with bottles

-example of street photography -involves everyone in picture

"Napalm Girl"

-brought home horrors of war in Vietnam -changed many perspectives of the war

Execution of Vietcong man

-showed war brutally -would never be published today

"Kent State massacre" image

-brought war to USA -commemorated in song

Raising of the Flag over Iwo Jima

-claims to be unposed -turned into sculpture

Image correctly named, "Falling Man"

-represents all the people lost -copy owned by Elton John