Exam #2 | Chp 5 | Art Pieces Flashcards
- Piece:*
- *Hall of Bulls**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
Period / Movement:
Paleolithic
(15,000 - 10,000 BCE)
Lascaux, Dordogne, France
Importance:
* The current consensus on the meaning of cave paintings, such as the Hall of Bulls, is that they had a ritual purpose linked to bounty in nature and food supply.
* Hunters, gatherers, and early farmers linked art and ritual to accomplishing tasks like bringing rain for crops.
- Other Info:*
- *Info**
- Piece:*
- *Wichetty Grub Drawing**
- Artist:*
- *Paddy Carroll Tjungurrayi**
Period / Movement:
Aborignial
(Papunya, Australia)
Importance:
• In Australia, we see a similar phenomenon that links food, art, and ritual.
• Until recently, the Aboriginal people were a Stone Age culture that existed in the 20th century.
• The patterns and symbols in this painting are part of the Aboriginal belief system (“Ancestor Dreaming”) of the origin of life and the sustenance of everyday existence.
- Other Info:*
- *1980**
- Piece:*
- *Tyi Wara (or Chi Wara) Dancers with Headdresses**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Bamana, Mali**
Importance:
• Tyi Wara dancers wear headdresses of the mythical antelopes they believe first gave humans agricultural knowledge.
• Plant life (crops), animal life (antelope), and humankind (ancestors) are united in this ritual.
• Pattern and rhythm are visual elements in the headdresses, with interwoven negative and positive shapes.
- Other Info:*
- *Headdresses are generally made of wood, brass tacks, string, cowrie shells, and iron and are between 32” and 38” high.**
- Piece:*
- *Three-legged Ting with Cover**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
Period / Movement:
Zhou Dynasty, China
6th century BCE
Importance:
• Storing & Serving Food.
• Over time, there have been many types of vessels to store food, but they all combine utility with aesthetics and meaning.
• Water is essential and people have developed inventive systems for storing liquids.
• The ancient Chinese made bronze vessels for storing liquids, such as ritual wine.
• Circles are repeated, even on the ting’s cover, decorated with a quatrefoil (four- leaf clover) pattern and cleverly designed to be used as a serving bowl.
- Other Info:*
- *Cast Bronze**
Piece:
Basket,
Pomo Tribe
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Native American**
Importance:
• Storing & Serving Food.
• A well-woven container made of natural materials can also hold liquid.
• Watertight baskets were used for boiling acorns.
• Intricate weaving, precious feathers, and beads mark this vessel, often made by mothers for their daughters.
Other Info:
1890-1910
Clamshell, woodpecker feathers, quail, tree materials
Piece:
Heinz 57 Tomato Ketchup
&
Del Monte Freestone Peach Halves
- Artist:*
- *Andy Warhol**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Pop Art**
Importance:
• Art that glorifies food.
• These Warhol works are silk-screened wooden sculptures that resemble mass- produced cardboard packing cartons.
• The work blurs the distinction between art and commercial packaging, celebrates simple colors, bold graphics, and clean layout of advertisement.
• Warhol created these during the Pop Art movement, noted for glorifying popular culture items into art icons.
Other Info:
1964
Silkscreen
- Piece:*
- *A Table of Desserts**
- Artist:*
- *Jan Davidsz de Heem**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Netherlandish**
Importance:
• Art that glorifies Food.
• In Europe during the Baroque era, still-life paintings were often lavish displays
boasting of wealth and abundance.
• Paintings of food took on a fetish quality, detailed and lovingly painted, like de Heem’s sumptuous fruits and sweets on silver platters laid on velvet.
• The trays of half-eaten, soon-to-spoil food refer to vanitas—the impermanence of all earthly things and the inevitability of death.
Other Info:
1640.
Oil on canvas
Louvre, Paris
- Piece:*
- *Last Supper**
- Artist:*
- *Leonardo da Vinci**
- Period / Movement:*
- *High Renaissance**
Importance:
• Art and the Act of Eating
• We eat for nourishment, but how we eat is filled with meaning.
• Some meals are very formal, like those for holidays or religious rituals, others are very casual.
• Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper depicts a meal as a religious ceremony.
• The composition is very formal and symmetrical with Jesus at the center and
framed by a distant doorway.
• The one-point perspective lines in the ceiling and wall radiate from Jesus’ head.
• All are on one side of a long table, implying that many unseen witnesses were also present.
Other Info:
1495–1498
Experimental oil/tempera/fresco paint on plaster
Milan
- Piece:*
- *The Dinner Party**
- Artist:*
- *Judy Chicago**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Feminist art**
Importance:
• Art and the Act of Eating
• Some artwork references a ritual meal although no food is shown.
• The Dinner Party contains 39 place settings, each with a painted plate and runner containing symbols and text that honor a woman in Western history.
• With 13 settings per side, the design references Leonardo’s Last Supper reinterpreted in feminist terms.
• The triangle is a female symbol and the symbol of the ancient goddess thought to have brought forth all of life.
• The “Heritage Floor” beneath the table is covered with triangular tiles inscribed with the names of 999 significant women.
Other Info:
1974–1979
Painted porcelain and needlework
- Piece:*
- *Gnaw**
- Artist:*
- *Janine Antoni**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Post-modern**
Importance:
• Art and the Act of Eating
• Contemporary art represents a break with traditional approaches to depicting eating.
• Replacing the traditional hammer and chisel with her mouth, Antoni transformed the act of eating into an artistic process in her installation Gnaw.
• Using materials and objects socially defined as female fetishes, Antoni recast them in this context to raise questions about the position of women in art.
Other Info:
1992.
Three- part installation:
(1) Chocolate:
600 lbs. of chocolate gnawed by the artist;
(2) Lard:
600 lbs. of lard gnawed by the artist;
(3) Display:
130 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax, and chewed lard removed from the lard cube;
27 heart-shaped packaging trays filled with chewed chocolate removed from the chocolate cube, dimensions variable.
- Piece:*
- *Pueblo Bonito**
- Artist:*
- *Unknown**
Period / Movement:
Anasazi
New Mexico
Importance:
• Group and community living
• This Anasazi compound featured high-quality masonry work and originally had beamed ceilings.
- Other Info:*
- *11th Century**
- Piece:*
- *Carson Pirie Scott and Co.**
- Artist:*
- *Louis Sullivan**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Modern Architecture**
Importance:
• Commercial architecture
• Provides shelter for the needs of business and trade
• One of the first innovative tall buildings in the 20th century
• Here, the architect exploited the design possibilities of steel frame construction coupled with the invention of the elevator.
- Other Info:*
- *1904**
- Piece:*
- *Bank of China, Hong Kong**
- Artist:*
- *I.M. Pei and Partners**
- Period / Movement:*
- *Postmodern Architecture**
Importance:
• Commercial architecture
• Late 20th- and 21st-Century Public Structures
• This era is notable for amazing building complexes.
• Dense urban areas have been constructed across the world from Singapore to Dubai, occupying vast amounts of land.
• This era has also seen debate about the lack of public spaces as big developments crowd out uncontrolled spaces, limit access to the public, or have commercial interest only.
• Seen as sterile and oppressive, there was a resistance to the bare rectangles featured in International Style.
• Architect I. M. Pei evolved the rectangle into triangles and diagonals in the Bank of China building.
- Other Info:*
- *1989**
