Exam 1: Pictures Flashcards
Name: Brushfire and Corroborree Dreaming
Artist: Erna Mota
Medium: Acrylic painting
Importance: Folk art and aboriginal painting. (Folk artist’s aren’t trained, they paint traditions that are handed down).
Name: David
Artist: Michelangelo
Medium: Marble
Period: Italian Renaissance
Importance: Symbol for Republic Florence (David and Goliath)
Name: Spiral Jetty
Artist: Robert Smithson
Medium: Earth work
Location: Great Salt Lake, Utah
Name: Umbrella Project Japan
Artist: Christo and Jean Claude Javacheff
Importance: Wife and husband team. People died taking it down. Took years to create, tried to make it safe, and people died. In Japan and Cali.
Name: Three Flags
Artist: Jasper Johns
Mdium: Encaustic on canvas
Importance: Flag is subject matter, but the content is based on personal perception; America’s power is weak or growing stronger.
Name: The Heart of the Andes
Artist: Fredric Edwin Church
Medium: Oil on canvas
Period: Romanticism
Importance: Romanticising a landscape and naturalistic color.
Name: Baby Girl
Artist: Marisol Escobar
Medium: Wood and mixed media
Importance: Non-representational abstract wood sculpture.
Name: Luncheon on the Grass
Artist: Edouard Manet
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 7’ x 8’10”
Location: Musee d’Orsay
Importance: Reinterpretation of earlier painting. This newer version was made from taking the previous version and turning it into a controversial piece; people were used to a different type of painting back then and large brush strokes/nudes were BAD.
Name: Fountain
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Location: Philadelphia Museum of Art
Importance: Ready-made. Making a statement that art could be anything. Opened the way for modern art. R. Mutt signature is so curators didn’t know it was a Duchamp.
Name: Vietnam Memorial
Artist: Maya Lin
Medium: Polished black granite
Location: Washington, D.C.
Length: 246’ each wing
Importance: Went down in the ground and people found that offensive. She was just a graduate student. Wasn’t alphabetical either.
Name: Column of Trajan
Artist: (Attributed to) Apollodorus of Damascus
Medium: Marble
Importance: The scroll depicts campaigns of Emperor Trajan conquering Dakia. Basically a war memorial/triumphal memorial.
Name: Giant Trowel
Artist: Claes Oldenburg
Medium: Steel sculpture painted blue
Location: Netherlands
Dimensions: 144x46 in
Importance: Pop/public art.
Name: Titled Arc
Artist: Richard Serra
Medium: Cor-ten steel
Location: Federal Plaza, New York City
Dimensions: 12 x 120 feet
Importance: It’s removal. Thought it would attract terrorists and graffiti. Basically was a sculpture to show how American’s are so separated from the government.
Name: The Dead Christ
Artist: Andrea Mantegna
Medium: Tempera on canvas
Importance: Forshortening is way off. Feet should be larger than head.
Name: The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Medium: Oil and tempera on plaster
Period: Italian Renaissance
Location: Refectory Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy
Importance: Christ’s head is the vanishing point.
Name: The Wedding Dance
Artist: Pieter Brueghel the Elder
Dimensions: 46 7/8 x 61 in.
Importance: Triangular composition.
Name: Madonna on the Rocks
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Medium: Oil on panel
Period: Italian Renaissance
Dimensions: 75 x 47 in.
Importance: Atmospheric perspective (Da Vinci created this).
Name: The Two Fridas
Artist: Frida Kahlo
Importance: Subject matter is the two Frida’s while the content is the rejection of Frida from Diego, or more broadly, heart break.
Name: The Oxbow (Connecticut River near Northhampton)
Artist: Thomas Cole
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 51 x 76 in.
Importance: Value/key (light to dark); either sun is coming out or storm is brewing.
Name: The Art Critic
Artist: Mark Tansey
Importance: Monochromatic.
Name: Orange Yellow
Artist: Mark Rothko
Importance: Analogous (2 colors next to each other on the color wheel).
Name: The Night Cafe
Artist: Vincent van Gogh
Medium: Oil on canvas
Importance: Complementary colors/red and green (artist’s palette).
Name: The Snail
Artist: Henri Matisse
Importance: Polychromatic. Arbitrary color usage. Matisse was the father of the Wild Beasts and the Fauve (abstraction and expressionism) movement.
