Exam 3: Pictures Flashcards
Typography: location, relating to architecture
Technology: camera, chisel, stick, etc., relative to whatever culture
Stonehenge
Post and Lintel (Greek and Roman architecture)
Load building: pyramids
Roman Aqueduct: Arches
Very durable and functional
Concrete was invented by the Romans
Roman Colosseum: Arches, barrel vaulting, groined vaults and concrete
Arches: made possible by keystones holding together at top
Chartres Cathedral
Flying buttresses
Cathedral for Christianity
France, Gothic Era, Middle Ages
Barrel vaulting (lining arches up to make one long hallway).
Doric: masculine columns
Ionic: more feminine, circular colomns
Corinthian: decorative columns
Dome: rotate an arch 360 degrees with a keystone at the top holding it together
Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright
Cantilever, reinforced concrete
Cantilever is an overhanging ledge made from reinforced concrete
Eiffel Tower, Gustav Eiffel
Lattice cast iron
Paris landmark and a radio tower
Initially people hated it and thought it was ugly
Chrysler Building
Art Deco (geometric shapes)
Guggenheim Museum, Bilabo Spain
Frank Gehry
(New York Guggenheim is Frank Lloyd Wright)
Daguerreotype
Made portraiture affordable. Now painters didn’t have to paint you but these portraits took forever to expose.
Photojournalism
Or Documentary photography (documenting historic moments)
Snow White and 7 Dwarfs
Photography leads to animation and film
Sudden Gust of Wind (after Hokusai), Jeff Wall
Digital Photography
Interpretation of a Japanese print
Andy Goldsworthy uses photography to document his work because it’s not meant to last forever (installation art)
Migrant Mother California
Dorothea Lange
Designer: appeals to a client or public, mass produced, functional
While a craftsperson: actually makes object themselves
Red and Blue Chair, Jerrit Rietveld
De Stijl art movement
Bauhaus school
Avant Garde
Water Lily Table Lamp
Louis Comfort Tiffany
Art Nouveau
Graphic Design: communication, branding, product recognition, packaging, etc.
Information design
How people get from one place to another
Universal icons
Keith Haring, “Untitled (Dogs Dancing)”
First exhibited his work in Westbeth Painters Space in 1981. But when riding the subway, he noticed the black paper rectangles of empty advertising panels on station walls; using white chalk, he began filling these black panels with simple, quickly drawn pictures. His signature images included dancing figures, a “radiant baby” (a crawling infant emitting rays of light), a barking dog, a flying saucer, large hearts, and figures with televisions for heads. These graffiti drawings attracted the attention of New York commuters, as well as the city authorities: Haring was arrested for vandalism on numerous occasions.
Armchair, model B3
Marcel Breuer
Bauhaus Design
Your body is a battleground, Barbara Kruger
She uses text to critique society on economy, politics, gender, and culture. Rather than selling her work, she tries to sell ideas through her work to make a viewer think. She takes images from other magazines and uses them as a background while she places bold text on top for confrontational purposes. It’s an artistic expression and a protest against facets of postmodern life.
This specific piece is to signify the struggle of good vs. evil within oneself. She has the subject staring right ahead through the viewer in a political and social statement. It shows the feminist struggle.
