Art History Flashcards
What were the rules about representing humans in Ancient Egyptian art?
All parts of the body must be made visible
What was the purpose of art in Ancient Egyptian culture?
To represent the deceased in the most presentable light possible
The only Greek painting remaining is in what form?
Vases
Ancient Greeks thought what was the height of beauty?
The human body
What was the subject of most Greek art?
Heroism and human passion
Painting during the Dark Ages took what physical form?
Illustrated manuscripts
What is an example of Dark Ages art?
The Book of Kells
What was the subject of almost all paintings during the Dark Ages?
Religious subjects
What are two examples of Middle Ages painting?
The Wilton Diptych and the Book of Hours.
What is a Book of Hours?
A book illustrating the bible man’s wealth, society of the court, and the peasants in the realm.
Why was art of the Middle Ages said to have an “international style”?
Artists we’re more widely traveled and learned from each other.
In what way did art from the Middle Ages differ from art from the Dark Ages?
Middle Ages art focused less on religious themes.
What is a diptych?
A painting in two panels
Who was the artist hero of the Gothic period?
Giotto
How does Giotto’s art differ from Duccio’s?
Giotto have people individual faces while Duccio prevented heaven and earth from mixing.
How did Hieronymus Bosch view humanity?
Ugly, evil, lazy, needing the teachings of the church to reach salvation
How is Roger van der Weyden’s painting of The Last Judgement more like a Renaissance painting than a gothic one?
It shows people taking responsible for their actions.
The Renaissance begins with which artist and which painting?
Massacio’s painting Expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden
Which artist painted Mars and Venus and Birth of Venus?
Bottecelli
What two major Renaissance inventions drastically improved painting?
Oil paint and patrons
Who were the major patrons of Renaissance art in Florence and in Rome?
The Medici family
What three artists represented the High Renaissance?
Leonarda da Vinci, Michaelangelo, and Rafael
What was the relationship between science and art?
Both meant making sense of the world
Who were the three artists in the Venice school?
Titian, Bellini, and Giorgione
What was Titian’s The Flaying of Marsyas about?
The stages of being an artist
What quality did Giorgione bring to painting?
Mystery
Who raised the status of the artists of Northern Europe with his self portrait?
Albrecht Durer
What made Caravaggio unique?
His use of light and shadow
What is Caravaggio’s most famous painting?
Calling of St. Matthew
Who was Artemisia Gentileschi?
The first female painter; painted Judith and Her Maidservant
What made El Greco unique?
Stretched his figures toward heaven; Burial of Count Orgaz
Who was Peter Paul Rubens?
King of the Baroque painters; Peace and War, Portrait of Helena
What made Jan Vermeer unique?
He painted individual women in silence and stillness and light
What made Rembrandt special?
Painted a bunch of self-portraits; showed the strength and vulnerability of being human; Bathseba
What French painting was done during the Rococo period and represents a transition from Rococo to Neoclacissicism?
Chardin’s House of Cards
Who are two famous artists who painted Neoclassicist works?
Jacques Louis David and Dominique Ingres
What was emphasized in impressionist paintings?
The effects of light
What two inventions enabled impressionists to paint outside more easily?
Portable easels and paint tubes
Which impressionist artist did a painting called Impression Sunrise?
Claude Monet
Which artist was considered to be a catalyst for Impressionism, but didn’t really paint in that style?
Eduard Manet
Which Impressionist artist painted the Waterlilies series?
Claude Monet
Which artist painted a behind the scene perspective of dancers?
Edgar Degas
What American female artist painted in Paris?
Mary Cassatt
Who painted the Luncheon of the Boating Party?
Pierre Auguste Renoir
George Seurat and Vincent Van Gogh we’re considered to be what type of artists?
Post-impressionist
Who are the three Giants of 20th century art?
Paul Cezanne, Pablo Picasso, and Henri Matisse
Who was considered the first modern painter?
Paul Cezanne
Which two artists invented Cubism?
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
What are characteristics of Cubism?
Cubists painted multiple views of objects.
Which painter “painted with scissors” and “painted joy, light, and color”?
Henri Matisse
Who were two artists who were part of the Surrealist movement?
Salvador Dali and Paul Klee
Which artist from the New York School created drip paintings and painted Lavender Mist?
Jackson Pollack
Which artist from the New York School painted brightly colored abstract paintings of women?
Willem deKooning
Which artist from the New York School created colorful paintings with no subject mater that were intended to express lasting emotions and invoke a spiritual experience?
Mark Rothko
Who painted the Marilyn Series and the Marilyn Diptych?
Andy Warhol
Who was Agnes Martin and what was her style of painting called?
Agnes Martin painted simple paintings about beauty, happiness, and innocence; this was known as minimalism.
What were paintings from the London School like?
Paintings were a little more classical.
Who painted the Screaming Popes series?
Francis Bacon
Who was a descendant of Sigmund Freud and painted Painter Working: Reflection?
Lucien Freud
Who created a classical-looking painting of the artist and his adolescent model?
Balthus
Who painted the Birth of Adam?
Renais
Who painted the Sistine Chapel?
Michaelangelo
Who painted the Calling of St. Matthews?
Carravagio
Who painted Maids of Honor?
Diego Velasquez
What made Diego Velasquez’s Maids of Honor special?
He included the viewer in the scene.
Who painted Fish Magic?
Paul Klee
What surrealist painter was considered to be a “degenerate” by the Nazi government?
Paul Klee
Who painted Les Demoiselles D’Avignon?
Pablo Picasso
Who painted The Last Judgement?
Rogier van der Weyden
Who painted for Henry VIII?
Hans Holbein
Who painted the Feast at the House of Levi?
Veranase
Which artist made completed works in the medium of cut paper?
Henri Matisse
