Exam 2: Pictures Flashcards
Name: Zeeg
Artist: Nancy Graves
Medium: Bronze with polychrome patina
Importance: Asymmetrical balance.
Name: Chartres Cathedral
Location: France
Era: Gothic Era, Middle Ages
Importance: RADIAL balance.
Name: Still Life with Lobster
Artist: Vallayer-Coster
Medium: Oil on canvas
Importance: Glazing (very few brush strokes and a glow to the piece) as well as emphasis being a lobster (complementary colors being used -red and green, and location of lobster).
Name: Self Portrait
Artist: Kathe Kollwitz
Medium: Charcoal on brown paper
Importance: Drawing was considered a student medium/a practice, but soon became its own art form. Mark making on hands and face is harder to show they were more important. Her work was inspired by son’s death in army.
Name: The Third of May, 1802
Artist: Francisco Goya
Medium: Oil on canvas
Importance: The emphasis is the white/his breaking away from royalty. Not a glorification of soldiers but making them seem mean.
Name: School of Athens
Artist: Raphael
Medium: True Fresco
Era: Italian Renaissance
Importance: was painted on a wet wall. Renaissance fresco.
Name: Sugar Cane
Artist: Diego Rivera
Medium: True fresco
Importance: subject matter and content are everday people/workers. Diego had a socialist commentary.
Name: Autumn Rhythm
Artist: Jackson Pollack
Medium: Paint and canvas
Importance: Jackson used a technique called action painting (his movement is painting the piece). The thick application of paint is known as impasto. ACRYLIC.
Name: The Starry Night
Artist: Vincent Van Gogh
Medium: Oil on canvas
Era: Post-impressionist
Location: Museum of Modern Art, New York
Importance: Impasto -thick brush strokes. Painting symbolized life and death (church symbolized life, Cyprus tree symbolized death). Van Gogh was seen as a troubled man suffering from epileptic seizures.
Name: A Wall, Nassau
Artist: Winslow Homer
Medium: Watercolor and pencil on paper
Importance: White is created by just not painting over the paper. A GOUACHE is opaque and used hand-in-hand to paint out mistakes in watercolor while WATERCOLOR is transparent.
Name: The Prophet
Artist: Emil Nolde
Medium: Wood block
Importance: Relief carving/wood print. Engraving: wood engraved rather than metal plate because it’s more durable but not as fine as metal plate engraving. A balance of whites, blacks, and grays.
Name: The Great Wave, from the thirty-six views of Mount Fuji, Japan
Artist: Katsushika Hokusai
Medium: Wood block print
Importance: Japanese wood block. Same idea as Emil Nolde but different process (paper).
Name: Race Riot
Artist: Andy Warhol
Medium: Silkscreen
Importance: Encaustic painting (hot wax with pigment). Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol had same content (America/patriotism).
Name: Le Rue Transnonain
Artist: Daumier
Medium: Lithography
Importance: The only printing process that actually looks like drawing. LITHOGRAPHY depends on the fact that grease and water don’t mix.
Name: Memorial To Idea Of A Man If He Was An Idea
Artist: H.C. Westermann
Medium: Wood assemblage
Importance: Sculpture-in-the-round. Additive method.
Name: Draped Reclining Figure
Artist: Henry Moore
Medium: Bronze
Importance: Casting. Abstraction (figure is recongizable but no defined features because it’s been abstracted).
Name: Head of an Oba
Artist: Court of Benin
Medium: Cast brass
Location: Nigeria
Name: Pieta
Artist: Michelangelo
Medium: Marble
Location: Rome
Importance: Mary is restrained and calm. In rage, Michelangelo took a chisel and signed Mary’s breast. It was the only work he signed and he regretted it.
Name: Lotto Rug
Artist: Anatolia Konya
Medium: Textile
Era: 16th century
Name: Number 29
Artist: Jackson Pollock
Medium: Oil on canvas, steel, string, glass and pebbles
