Ch. 14 Flashcards
Art History
Explores how art has evolved with historical events
How do Art Historians approach art?
What are we looking at?
Form (theme, subject matter, composition, background, foreground, texture, space, proportions)
How was it done?
Technique (perspective, one-point, multi-point, linear, brush strokes, chiaroscuro, material)
When and Where was it made?
Social, cultural, historical context, stylistic characteristics)
Why was it made?
Analysis of meaning
Chiaroscuro
the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting
Cimabue
- Artist
- Medevial period
- used gold tempera (egg yolk based) in art pieces
- communicating the divine
WORKS
- Madonna Enthroned with Angels & prophets
Italy in 14th Century
- 1300s
- Independent city-states often at war with each other
- Distribution center for great silk trade from China & Middle East
- Outbreak of Black Death in late 1340s
- Latin was official language of Church
Renaissance
Rebirth of interest in classical culture, of art and architecture
EX. Columns, mosaics depict battles, arches, statues of emperors
Humanism
- 14th Century
- center also aspect of art & culture in Italy
- Growing concern with natural world, the individual & humanity’s worldly existence
- acceptance of nudity (dignity of individual)
- classical culture provided a model of human focus derived from reason
Giotto
Marks end of Medieval painting in Italy & the beginning of a new naturalistic approach to art
Arena Chapel
- Giotto
- fresco
- ceiling is Heaven with medillians and stars
- over the alter is God the Father
- top/middle tiers (scene 1 - youth & ministry of Christ) (scene 2 - events of passion)
Fresco
Try of art work done on plaster
Buon fresco
- fresh
- have to work in patches and quickly
- plaster dries quickly
- can last centuries because the fresco has time to set into the rock
Fresco secco
- dry
- can take your time
- does not last peels off
Foreshortening
- pictorial tool artists use to convey a sense of depth on a 2 dimension plane
- creates a sense of movement/angle
