Exam 2 Flashcards
How do you read a painting?
1) Identify the figures and objects in the picture
2) Identify symbolic meanings behind each figure
3) Combine separate meanings into coherent statements
Displays the dead and the fight between angels and devils for a soul
- Grandes Heures de Ronan
- “A dead man before God”
What was Brunolesky known for?
-Vanishing points in painting
- The study of math and geometry to do art
Perspective drawing of a chalice
Poalo Vccello
Why are biblical events used so often in art?
It is present in contemporary art to show politics
What does a cedar represent? (Half man half goat)
Represents animalistic tendencies, drunkenness’ and lust
A winged baby (Venus accompanied by cupid)
A Putto
Describe a medieval painting vs Renaissance
They were sectioned with no interactions in altarpieces and ren had interactions and perspectives in one space
For the Medacci family, Zephyrus blows on Chloris who becomes flora, displays 9 figures of greek gods, three woment dancing, hermes waving a wand, mary in the center, cupid.
-Zephorus
-Chlorus
-Flora
-Primavera
-The three graces
-Murcery
- Cupid
Primavera
The first milky way painted in art
Rest on the flight into Egypt
The outline of one body over another
- Mucery passing in front of Venus
Transit
Ludovivo Cigoli
- A friend of Galileo
-Painted “Immaculata” , which displays moon as cratered
-Madona on a more realistic moon
Describe the Baroch period
Covers every single with decoration and fru fru
Woman weighing gold, the astronomer, the geographer
Jan Vermeer
Renaissance vs Baroque
Renaissance art: Idealistic, light, nice land scape
Baroque art: Expressional, sinical, drama and tension.
-Exaggerated motion, appeals to pathos
-Should communicate religious themes
- Grandiosity and opulence
-Architecture should express power, triumph and control
Gian-Lorenzo Bernini
“Larger than life”
-Sculptures of David
- Ecstacy of st thersa
-Daphne and apollo
Bernard de Fontenelle
-Wrote “Conversation of the plurality of world”
Deism
God creates universe but it runs under law
Pantheism
Gods existence in all things
Satire
Humor, irony to criticize or attack an idea
Voltaire
- defender of religious freedom, social reform, limitations in censorship
- Influenced french and american revolutions
Micromegas
- What is out position in the universe?
-Look at images in notes
Hentri Matisse
The Dance
What does Neo-Classical mean?
New classical
Neoclassicism
- Draws inspiration from the classical art and culture
- Balance, Harmony, formal design, symmetry
- Not giving way to uncontrolled emotional expression
- Remind us of things that we are taught
Jaques-Louis David
-Most popular in neoclassicism
- The death of Socrates
- The oath of Horatii
Angelica Kauffmann
Look at slides
What important building was made during this time
The palace of Versalies
Storm clouds, naked mother and a baby sickling, man looking over, division down the center.
Giorgione, the tempest
A drunk cedar on green grass with storm clouds, A baby with a compass and a shield, a hill leading into heavens
Lorenzo Lotto, Allegory
Two cedars, a sleeping women on a stump, and a putto pouring powder on the women
Allegory of vice and virtue
Two women sitting on a well, a putto, one is clothed very nicely, the other is half naked with a candle, landscape in the background
Sacred and profane love
Wise and foolish virgins
Aphrodite pandemos and urania
laura bargoratto and truth
Mary and other saint talking together and interacting
The sacred conversation
Displays a realistic moon with craters and shape
Jan Van Eyck - The crucifixion
Judith cutting off the head of Holofernes
Caravaggio , Judith and Holofernes
Simplistic paintings and straight lines
Piet Mondrian
Portrait of Bianca Maria Sforza
Claimed to be Leonardo
La Bella Principessa
Newton is ?
Alec Jasper Kilton
Einstein is?
Joseph Eisler of the Eisler effect
