Exam #1 | Chp 3 | Art Pieces Flashcards

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  • 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

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  • Piece:*
  • *Royal Profile**
  • Artist:*
  • *Unknown**

Egypt

painted limestone

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  • Piece:​*
  • *At the Milliner’s**
  • Artist:*
  • *Edgar Degas**
  • Period / Movement:​*
  • *Impressionism**

HISTORY

**• 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • Piece:*
  • *A Bigger Splash**
  • Artist:*
  • *David Hockney**
  • Period / Movement:*
  • *Pop**
  • Importance:*
  • *Another Example of an OIL work**

Other Info:
Info

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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

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  • 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