ARTS & HUMANITIES Flashcards
focused on the almost impossible task of capturing fleeting moments of light and colour; introduced non-naturalist colour schemes, and loose
-often highly textured - brushwork.
Impressionism
Demonstrate the independent power of colour.
Highly subjective approach to art was in contrast to the classical content-oriented outlook of the academies.
Fauvism
An austere and challenging style of painting.
flat splintered planes as an alternative to
Renaissance-inspired linear perspective and
rounded volumes.
Cubism
What is Futurism?
Glorified speed, technology, the automobile,
the airplane and scientific achievement.
The main contribution of Futurism to modern art:
was to introduce movement into the
canvas, and to link beauty with scientific
advancement.
What is Expressionism main contri?
was to popularize the idea of
subjectivity in painting and sculpture, and
to show that representational art may
legitimately include subjective distortion.
One of the revolutionary art movements in the early twentieth century.
Dadaist celebrated luck in place of logic and irrationality instead of calculated intent.
Dadaism
Fashionable art movement of the inter-war years.
✓Composed of abstract and figurative wings
Surrealism
Term applied to new forms of abstract art developed by
American painters such as Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning in the 1940s and 1950s.
It is often characterized by gestural brush-strokes or mark-making, and the impression of spontaneity.
Abstract Expressionism
The main contribution of abstract expressionism?
was to popularize abstraction.
A style of art whose images reflected the popular culture
and mass consumerism of 1960s America.
Using bold, easy to recognize imagery, and vibrant block colours;
Pop Art
sculpture beginning with the
work of Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) and ending
with the advent of Pop Art and Minimalism in the
1960s.
Sculptors during this period also placed
emphasis on design, form, and volume over the
representation of a specific subject.
Modern Sculpture
Depended on utilizing novel construction techniques and materials like reinforced concrete, steel, and glass.
Modern Architecture
It was the Product of a hunting society.
Cro-Magnon art was widely diffused in France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland and Yugoslavia.
Prehistoric Art
The subject matter of this art were
animals like bulls and bisons.
PRE-HISTORIC ART
refers to the art of ancient Greece and Rome, as well as the art of the Etruscan and Roman provinces
Classical Art
This period of art is considered to be
the pinnacle of human civilization
CLASSICAL ART
reflects the cultural values and beliefs
of the ancient societies that produced
it.
CLASSICAL ART
A clear example of how they idealized the representation of human figures is the taste developed for athleticism
ARCHAIC PERIOD
subject matter of Archaic Period
Young nude males, draped females, slaves, wounded soldiers, and scenes from everyday life.
sm of Roman Art
Commemorative statues, roman senators, equestrian statues, sarcophagi, frescoes, and design with vine motifs.
a stone coffin
Roman Sarcophagi
a technique of mural painting
Frescoe
sm of Medieval Art
SYMBOLS: cross, fish, lamb, alpha & omega, triumphal wreaths, grapes, doves, and peacocks. Later, Haloed Christ, Christ with Lamb, Saints and the Virgen Mary, and Martyrs.
sm of Gothic Art
co-mingling with the religious and the grotesque.
serve as a water spout
Gargoyles
a skeleton of arches/ribs
Rib Vault
a supportive arch
Flying buttress
tallest cathedral
Cologne Cathedral
oldest form of visual art.
Art of applying paints to surfaces to convey msg/info: beliefs, traditions, hopes, and aspirations
Asian Painting
