Art History Final Flashcards
Over Vitebsk
Figure represents eastern european Jewish refugees fleeing form Russia
Jewish Artist
Elements from cubism
Colors from Fauvism
Liberatino of Aunt Jemima
Aunt was a term used for servants
Implies that she is more attractive if she looks less black.
The modern one on the box de-emphasizes her blackness
The Artifact Piece
Challenges the way that American culture has presented his race as “vanished”
He was surrounded by items from a “lost race”
Shows that the culture is still alive
Painting from a Cult House
Rituals performed in cult houses were seen as creating men from infants, usurping women’s procreative power
Men believed thier spirits could be passed on to younger men through the art
Tambaran
Abduction of the Daughters of Leucippus
All body types are ideal here - the women’s soft fleshiness was a sign of health and wealth
Gender Roles - men had privelage over women’s bodies
Oath of the Horatii
Three brothers vow to represent the Roman army in a fight to the death
Emphasizes women’s passivity
Heroic actions are a mark of masculinity
Hall of Mirrors
In the same way that Louis XIV dominated the French church, nobility, and peasants, he also controlled arts, fashion, and manners.
This hall was a sign of Louis’s power
He established The French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
Trauma
Dead person is a chinese studen killed by the gov
Bowl represents China and the artist herself, being emptied and refilled by the cycles of history
Interior House Post
Part of a lineage house, built when a new lineage appeared because of death or marraige
Potlaches
Carvings might represent ancestors
eyes - power
Epa Headdress Called “Orangun”
50 pounds
Contains image of clan founder
Used in rituals to promote fertility and clan well being
The Swing
Frivolous sexual escapades of the French aristocracy
Shortly after, this class was brutally eliminated in the French revolution
The Kitchen Maid
Genre Painting
Working class elevated with dignity
La Grand Jatte
Pointillism
Reflects a growing awareness of science
Composed and orderly, details of middle class life are carefully recorded
Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley
Documentary Photography
Migrant Camp in California
Watts Towers
Working class artist in a working class neighborhood
30 years
Many consider it folk, or naive art
Temple of Ramses II
Egyptian nobility was considered Semi-divine, and all people of this class were depicted in highly standarized ways.
His image is repeated many times
Seated Scribe
Lower class, thus result is more lifelike and less Ideal than Ramses II
Las Meninas
Infant Margarita
She is in an exalted position, shows class
Use of mirrors
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Newly powerful middle class was able to enjoy new lesiure activities, such as this pleasurable outing in nature
Unicorn in Captivity
The last of sixe Netherlandish tapestries
May symbolize Jesus
May also symbolize men during the age of chivalry
Monkey Magic - Sex, Money, and Drugs
Monkey tries to catch three powerful elements of life, money, sex, and drugs. These are actual elephant dung, representing the African ritual use of it.
Monkey is a stand in for human behavior
Vessel in the form of a monkey
Rocks inside mimic the sound of the monkey’s chatter
Monkeys were kept as pets
Grasps the energy of the monkey
The Haywain
Casual, direct, natural
Particular emphasis on clouds
Landscape paintings were very desired due to new industrialism
Painted indoors
Beyond the Solitary Bamboo Grove
Reaction to city life
This made pristine nature available again
Painted indoors
The Japanese Footbridge
Captured subtle qualities of light and reflection.
Painted outdoors
These paintings imply the presence of humans(same with the other artists)
Clearing Winter Storm
Doesn’t imply any presence of humans, just pristine nature.
Filters used while shooting
Raised public support for national parks
A Stoneware vase of Flowers
His arrangement would not be able to exist in real life
Flower paintings were very popular in China and Japan
The meaning often came from the flowers’ symbolism
The Lightning Field
A bit of a conceptual piece. Much of the beauty is in the mind of the viewer
Spiral Jetty
The spiral represents and incredible potential force
Often invisible because of the tides
Serpent Mount
Cermonial site constructed by Native Americans
These sites often resembled animals in the Americas
Carolina Paroquet
Scientific detail
Meant to be informative, still used for research today
Hunter and Kangaroo
Meant to be an educational aid
X-Ray style
Kangaroo is bigger because it is the subject
The Persistence of Memory
Surrealism
Watches typically help to keep order, but here they are reduced to disorder.
Surrealists posited that the dream world is just as real and important as the external world
Breaking of the Vessels
Human knowledge is limited and sagging under its own weight
These book hide knowledge instead of exposing it
All human endeavor is cycle in nature
Title symbolizes the introduction of evil into the world
The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up
Highlights the difference between innovation and progress - the tugboat is useful, but not beautiful
A sense of loss of this old, beautiful technology
Forever Bicycles
Icon of a nation and a class of people
Forever is a common bicycle brand in china
These bicycles are a sign of the working class
We may eventually become to be defined by that which we build
Opera House
Organic Architecture
Based on work of Frank Loyd Wright
Thought of as a functional sculpture
Guggenheim Musuem
Organic Architecture
Only one route through
Bad for displaying artwork
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Deconstructivist
Abstract Forms
There is no single focal point in the entire structure
Colosseum
Free admission for all
Seating reserved by class
The Great Ball Court
A player or team would be sacrificed at the end of the game. The soccer game was looked at as a metaphor for a journey through the underworld by the sun and the moon
Boy Playing a Flute
Women artist in a male time period
Genre painting
Harp Player
Sculptures like this of male musicians were buried in graves.
Musicians and Dancers
Reflects the cultures fixation with funerary rituals and the afterlife
Levity and pleasure
A much more relaxed scene
Jane Avril
Artist liked to draw scene of the night life in paris and the people he met there. This particular portrait is of a singer and dancer at the cabaret.
Snake emphasizes the curves and suggest her tempting nature
Bunraku
Doll drama
one half life size
Each puppet is controlled by several different people
Household
Happening
Artists thought that are should mess with life instead of interpreting life experience
Here, gender roles were examined as the women built a nest and then licked the strawberry jam of the car hood that the men brought back
Lyre
Gold and Lapis Lazuli
Bearded bull was symbol of royalty
Contains 4 painted mythical scenes
Open Circle Dance
Suggests unity across the universe as well as individual growth, and metamorphosis
I Love Lucy
Humor was communicated visually
Spirited Away
Creator is know for his elaborate hand drawn architectural interiors and diverse characters.
Lush Landscapes
A coming of age story of a young girl
Parlor, Monticello
Filled with art
The British Museum
Greco-Roman Facade, in that time Greco Roman and Renaissane art were considered supreme human acheivements
Herakles or Dionysus
Guggenheim Bilbao
Modern outside surfaces tell you to expect modern art on the inside
Millennium Park
Worlds largest green roof project
Cloud Gate
Meant for touching, flips the traditional do not touch script
Public Art
Banksy Graffiti Art
Shows that street art should be as valuable as art in museums
Street art emphasizes imagery, unlike tagging or text heavy graffiti
Cathedral of Saint Basil the Blessed
Communist government threatened to destroy it
Kuba
Dandelion Line
Create a special moment in nature, very impermanent
Landscape at Aix
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum
