Artists Flashcards
Who is this and what kind of art do they do?
Marina Abramovic - Serbian Conceptual and Performance Artist
What is this piece called and who is it by? What kind of art did they do?
Maybe She’s Born With It (2022) - Flora Yukhnovich - Known for contemporary interpretation of the Rococo painting style
Who is this artist, what did they win, and who
Veronica Ryan - Works primarily in sculpture and assemblage - work investigates how everyday objects, having been cast in various materials, elicit a wealth of histories and meanings - Won the Turner Prize 2022
When was the Renaissance and where?
It began it Italy in the 14th century (Naples, Florence and Rome) - did not reach England until the sixteenth century - by the early 17th century had ended
Whose is this art?
Richard Orlinski - French sculptor and visual neo-pop artist
Simone Leigh - auto-ethnographic work employing materials, forms and sculptural traditions of West and South African
‘Paintings are not born on walls’ - Sonia Boyce - a British Afro-Caribbean artist
Self Portrait (after Rembrandt) - Jenny Saville
What is the highest selling price for a living male artist? And what piece was it?
David Hockney - Portrait of an artist (Pool with Two Figures) - sold for $90 million
What is the highest selling work by a living female artist? What percentage is it of the male artist equivalent?
Jenny Saville - Propped - 12%
Méret Oppenheim - Swiss Surrealist artist and photographer
What was Neoclassicism?
a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity - clarity of form, sober colors, shallow space, strong horizontal and verticals that render that subject matter timeless
Properzia de’ Rozzi - Joseph and Potiphar’s Wife
Fra Bartolomeo - Italian Renaissance Painter - ‘Presentation of Christ in the Temple’
‘The Chess Match’ - Sofonisba Anguisola - Italian Renaissance Painter
Bernardino Campi Painting Sofonisba Anguissola - Sofonisba Anguissola (1559)
Allegory of Patience - Giorgio Vasari - Italian Renaissance
What is Mannerist Art?
Mannerism is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520, spreading by about 1530 and lasting until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style largely replaced it.
distortion of the human figure, a flattening of pictorial space, and a cultivated intellectual sophistication.
Vanitas meaning? And applied to what art form?
Still life. Word derived from the Bible, to remind the viewer of their own mortality; the fragility and temporality of life; the worthlessness of material goods in the eyes of God.
What painting is this? What is interesting about it?
1612, Still Life with a Vase of Flowers, Goblets and Shells - Clara Peeters
The artist has painted 10 self portraits in the goblet’s reflection
Self-portrait (1548) - Flemish Renaissance artist Caterina van Hemessen - first work by an artist of a self-portrait in front of an easel
Monster Chetwynd
Mars and Venus (1595) - Lavinia Fontana, a Bolognase Mannerist painter
