Exam #1 | Chp 3 | Art Pieces Flashcards
- Piece:*
- *For the Love of God**
- Artist:*
- *Damien Hirst**
Post-modern
**• Hirst is known for shocking or controversial works, for example this platinum cast of an 18th century human skull covered with 8,601 diamonds with human teeth.
- Skulls often symbolize mortality as well as vanitas, or the ultimate emptiness and impermanence of earthly things.
- The materials used to make this work of art add to its sensationalism.**
2007, Platinum, human skull, diamonds
- Piece:*
- *Royal Profile**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
Egypt
painted limestone
- Piece:*
- *At the Milliner’s**
- Artist:*
- *Edgar Degas**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Impressionism**
**• Chalk and Pastels: colored materials held together by wax or glue and
shaped into sticks.
• Can be used both precisely and expressively.**
pastel on paper, 1882
- Piece:*
- *Puffy girl/Screen memory**
- Artist:*
- *Yoshitomo Nara**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Postmodern**
• Technology provides new ways to produce drawings.
• Artists can use computers to produce raster-based drawings composed of millions of dots of color.
• The computer is a very helpful tool for creating images of things that do not yet exist. Many artists use software that aids in design, animation, or drawing and painting.
1992-2000, pen on postcard
- Piece:*
- *Drawing for Transient Rainbow**
- Artist:*
- *Cai Guo-Qiang**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Postmodern**
• Artists can choose just about any material as a medium in their artwork.
• Cai Guo-Qiang’s Drawing for Transient Rainbow is made with gunpowder on two pieces of paper.
2003, gunpowder on two sheets of paper
- Piece:*
- *The Printmaker’s Workshop**
- Artist:*
- *Unkown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Japan, Edo period**
Importance:
• Woodblock prints are examples of relief printmaking.
• In relief printing:
• nonprinting areas are cut away
• printed areas are left higher
• ink is applied to the higher areas
• the surface is then sent through a press
Other Info:
color woodblock print
- Piece:*
- *Marilyn Monroe**
- Artist:*
- *Andy Warhol**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Pop Art**
- Importance:*
- *• A monotype makes only one impression of an image, a drawing is rendered in oil or water-soluble paint on a sheet of Plexiglas or metal.
- Paper is placed on top of the rendering and hand rubbed or put through a press.
- Some artists produce a second ghost image from an inked monotype plate, but usually the ghost image needs to be finished in some other medium.**
Other Info:
1967
synthetic polymer paint
- Piece:*
- *Red Figure Kylix**
- Artist:*
- *Douris**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Greek Classical**
- Importance:*
- *• Paintings need some kind of support, usually stone, clay, plaster, wood panel, paper, fabric, found objects.**
• Some of the oldest surviving paintings were made on clay vessels.
• SLIP, a liquid clay, is applied to the clay vessel before firing to create both the black background and the delicate black details.
Other Info:
490 bce
slip on clay
- Piece:*
- *Flag**
- Artist:*
- *Jasper Johns**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Proto-Pop**
- Importance:*
- *• Encaustic: one of the most ancient forms of painting media**
• Pigments are mixed into hot beeswax and blended until cool.
Other Info:
1954-55
encaustic
- Piece:*
- *Glass Bowl with Fruit**
- Artist:*
- *Unkown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Roman**
- Importance:*
- *• Fresco: used for large murals painted directly on walls.**
• Fresco Secco: paint is applied to a dry plaster wall
• Buon Fresco: true fresco, pigment is suspended in water and applied to wet plaster which, when soaked into the surface, results in a very durable paintingInfo
Other Info:
1st century
fresco
- Piece:*
- *One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack**
- Artist:*
- *Wangechi Mutu**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Afrofuturist**
- Importance:*
- *• Watercolors are pigments suspended in a gum arabic binder, a natural water- soluble glue.**
• Watercolors are usually applied to paper in transparent layers of thin stains and are distinct because of their flowing quality.
• Both watercolor and gouache are ideal for mixed-media work. Mutu’s One Hundred Lavish Months of Bushwhack is a mix of collage and watercolor.
Other Info:
2004
- Piece:*
- *Venus of Urbino**
- Artist:*
- *Titian**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Venctian Renaissance**
- Importance:*
- *• Oil paint has been in use since the 15th century. Powdered pigments are ground into a slow drying oil (usually linseed).**
• Acrylic paint is made with pigment that has been ground with a water-soluble synthetic polymer liquid binder that quickly dries into a flexible film.
• Both oil and acrylic paints are notable for their wide range of intense colors.
• Oils and acrylics are most often applied to paper, wood, or stretched canvas.
• Both paints can be applied as:
• glazes: transparent layers of paint
• alla prima: a technique of painting in direct style without layers, often in one sitting
Other Info:
1538
- Piece:*
- *A Bigger Splash**
- Artist:*
- *David Hockney**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Pop**
- Importance:*
- *Another Example of an OIL work**
Other Info:
Info
- Piece:*
- *The Bitter Nest, Part II The Harlem Renaissance Party**
- Artist:*
- *Faith Ringgold**
- Period / Movement:*
- *???**
- Importance:*
- *Sprayed Paint**
• AIRBRUSH: small spray gun about the size of a pen, which compresses air through the airbrush and atomizes the liquid paint, allowing it to be sprayed onto a surface.
• AEROSOL CANS: Spray paint is sold commercially in cans containing compressed air and quick-drying permanent paint; often used by graffiti artists.
• Spray paint allows for broad areas of color and gradual transitions but will not do fine detail work.Info
Other Info:
1988
acrylic on canvas
- Piece:*
- *Relief Carving (un-named??)**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown…?**
Period / Movement:
Hindu
Banteay Srei, Cambodia
- Importance:*
- *• RELIEF SCULPTURES are meant to be seen only from the front.**
• They are usually carved out of a single stone or wood block.
Other Info:
second half of the 12th century
- Piece:*
- *Native American Bowl**
- Artist:*
- *Maria Martinez**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Native American**
- Importance:*
- *• Functional ceramics are made with the additive process using clay.**
• Functional pieces are vessels, platters, cups, pitchers, etc. which can be hand molded or pinched, made out of coils or slabs of clay, or thrown on a wheel.
Other Info:
Blackware
- Piece:*
- *The Marathon Boy**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Greek Classical**
- Importance:*
- *Assembling**
• Assembled artworks: made of various parts that are then put together.
• Assembled artworks are often mixed media, which means mixing up methods and various media.
• Mixed-media works may contain natural materials like stone or wood, but may also use manufactured goods, photographs, industrial fixtures, etc.
• When found objects or ready-mades (already existing objects) are incorporated into pieces and the resulting works are referred to as assemblages.
Other Info:
330 bce
bronze
- Piece:*
- *First Landing Jump**
- Artist:*
- *Robert Rauschenberg**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Proto-Pop**
- Importance:*
- *Combined (???)**
• Rauschenberg coined the term “combines” for works that are both painting and sculpture.
• He combined oil painting with various found objects.Info
Other Info:
1961
combine, cloth, metal, leather, electic fixture, cable, oil
- Piece:*
- *Tree of Life**
- Artist:*
- *Henri Matisse**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Modern**
- Importance:*
- *• Churches are often designed like INSTALLATIONS which create a spiritual
environment. **
• Matisse designed the interior of the Chapel of the Rosary for the Sisters who cared for him while he was ill.
Other Info:
1950-51
- Piece:*
- *Seaform Pavilion**
- Artist:*
- *Dale Chihuly**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Contemporary**
- Importance:*
- *• Chiluly’s Seaform Pavilion is installed in the ceiling of a bridge between two buildings.**
• The installation is composed of hundreds of pieces of glass combined to create a work that references the world of a floating coral reef.
Other Info:
2002
- Piece:*
- *Running Fence**
- Artist:*
- *Christo and Jeanne Claude**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Environmental**
- Importance:*
- *• Christo and Jeanne-Claude install various materials at specific sites enhancing its natural beauty.**
• The fabric fence visually emphasized the undulating contours of the land.
Other Info:
Info
- Piece:*
- *Easy to Remember**
- Artist:*
- *Lorna Simpson**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Post-modern**
- Importance:*
- *The Moving Image**
• The digital revolution transformed the moving image.
• Simpson combines black-and-white film (which has been digitized and now plays as a DVD) with an audio song, Easy to Remember.
Other Info:
2001
16mm film to DVD
