Chapter 11 Flashcards
action painting
Jackson Pollock’s technique coined this term. A process used in creating a non-objective painting whereby the artist makes gestural movements to produce expressive brush strokes, drips and splashes.
Armana Period
i.e. Nefertiti 11.3
Note the change in aesthetics in her portrait which is more natural and symmetrical in comparison to the females depicted in the “Fowling Scene” from Chapter 8.
Baroque
A style of architecture and art in 17thc and 18th century Western cultures characterized by exaggeration, overstatement and a flare for artifice and the theatrical.
Classical
The art of ancient Greece during the fifth century BCE, based on ideal proportions grounded in the human figure. The term also refers to a style that is clear and rational. Western art aesthetics are heavily influenced by Classical Greek art, seen in Roman, Romanesque, Renaissance, and neoclassical styles.
contrapposto (counterbalanced)
A standing position where the weight of the body rests on the standing leg, with the other leg resting in a bent position. Sometimes the upper body will be slightly turned at the waist as well. You’ll notice an s-shape curve to the spine.
Enlightenment
Enlightenment – Descartes “I think, therefore I am” or Cogito ergo sum
1640 - 1789
As knowledge of subjects in philosophy, math, the sciences and human rights became more wide-spread, attitudes towards liberty, the pursuit of happiness, individual rights and property ownership became more important. The founding priniciple of Enlightenment was that human reason was the primary authority in science and in politics.
Epicureanism
An Ancient Greek philosophhy that advocated intelligent pleasure-seeking in life, because death was the end to existence.
Futurism
An art movement in Italy around 1910 that celebrated the speed, energy, change, and upheaval of the machine age.
Hellenistic Greece
Good example is “Lacoon” The culture that flourished around Greece, Macedonia and some areas bordering the Mediterranean Sea from around 323 to 31 BCE.
Renaissance
A rebirth of learning and the arts in the 14th through the 17th centuries in Europe, along with the revival and study of ancient Greek and Roman cultures.
Mughal Empire
Mughal artists excelled at miniature painting.
Pop Art
An art movement in thhe mid-20th century that used common commercial items as subject matter, including Campbell’s soup cans, and Coco-Cola bottles., usually created as a satire, these artworks glorified the products of a mass popular culture and elevated them to 20th c icons. Warhol was very good at doing this.
portrait
A portrait is the subject of a person usually from the shoulders up. Disciplines often used are photography, printmaking, drawing and painting.
self-portrait
An artist creating a portrait of themself.
Stoicism
Indifference to pleasure or pain.
