Exam #1 | Chpt 1 | Art Pieces Flashcards
- Piece:*
- *Veranda Post: Female Caryatid and Equestrian**
- Artist*:
- *Olowe of Ise**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Yoruba, African**
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
before 1938.
Wood, pigment
- Piece:*
- *Equestrian Statue of Marcus Aurelius**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Rome**
This statue reinforces the King’s power.
c. 175 CE.
Bronze,
approx. 11’ 6” high.
Musei Capitolini, Rome
- Piece:*
- *The Birth of Venus**
Artist:
Sandro Botticelli
- Period / Movement:*
- *Early Italian Renaissance (1482)**
Tempera on canvas
- Piece:*
- *Les Demoiselles D’Avignon**
- Artist*:
- *Pablo Picasso**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Pre-Cubist** (1907)
Reflects the Cultural moment in which it was made
oil
- Piece:*
- *Lotus Flower and Ducks**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *China**
HISTORY
(note: not in PowerPoint…)
13th century
hanging scroll
paint on silk
- Piece:*
- *Badshahi Mosque**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Islamic Architecture**
Lahore, Pakistan, 1672-1674
- Piece:*
- *Portrait of Mme. Ginoux (L’Arleisenne)**
- Artist:*
- *Vincent van Gogh**
- Period / Movement:*
- *???**
Style can also refer to the work of an individual artist, a unique, personal style.
Vincent van Gogh is famous for expressive paintings using thick paint with broad areas of strong colors.
1889
oil on canvas
Piece:
Woman in a Coffeehouse,
Madame Ginoux in the Cafe de la Gare in Arle
- Artist:*
- *Paul Gauguin**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Post-Impresisonism**
1888
oil
- Period / Movement:*
- *Name??? (Street Art)**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Street Art | San Juan, Puerto Rico, 2013**
Possibly referring to the popular culture of cock fighting.
Street art is also a potent force in communities:
- commissioned murals
- unsanctioned graffiti and paintings
- Piece:*
- *Las Las bravisimas calaveras guatemaltecas de Mora y de Morales**
- Artist:*
- *Jose Guadalupe Posada**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Mexican Modernism**
1907
Popular art is often perceived as being more.
- accessible
- inexpensive
- entertaining
- commercial
- political
- naive
- colorful
- Piece:*
- *The Throne of the Third Heaven**
- Artist:*
- *James Hampton**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Folk Art**
1950-64, mixed media
- Piece:*
- *Basket Ferry, Kagowatashi, Hida Province**
- Artist:*
- *Ando or Utagawa Hiroshige**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Japan (???)**
Nineteenth-century Japanese prints were products of collaborations among skilled professionals.
- artist
- block carver
- paper maker
- printer
19th century
woodblock print
- Piece:*
- *Genesis**
- Artist:*
- *Jaune Quick-to-See Smith**
- Period / Movement:*
- *???**
Quick-to-See Smith’s Genesis contains aspects of innovation and self-expression, but at the same time she is preserving old forms.
She blended traditional native imagery and mythology into late-20th-century art styles.
Oil, collage, mixed media on canvas
1993
