Exam 3 Slides Flashcards

Jacopo da Pontormo
Entombment of Christ
MANNERISM
(1520-1600)
Primitivism
The incorporation in early-20th- century Western art of stylistic elements from the artifacts of Africa, Oceania, and the native peoples of the Americas.
Used to describe art that not developed by a culture.

Hugo Ball
Cabaret Voltaire
Zurich, Switzerland
Readymades
found object

Carolee Schneemann
Meat Joy
Orgy with raw meat.
Excessive, indulgent, celebrating flesh.
Compared to Pollock - stepping into the work without boundaries.
Still working within traditions.
CONTEMPORARY ART (1970-present)

Hannah Wilke
S.O.S.—Starification Object Series
Chewing gum formed to be vaginas
Objectified and confronting
Pulls from typical female fashion poses
CONTEMPORARY ART (1970-present)
Cubism
Influenced by post-impressionism and primitivism.
An early-20th-century art movement that rejected naturalistic depictions, preferring compositions of shapes and forms abstracted from the conventionally perceived world.
Showing multiple angles at once.

CindySherman
Untitled Film Still #35
Gaze - viewers become objectifying and typically masculine
Addressing a genre - appears to be a generic character, addressing cliches
CONTEMPORARY ART (1970-present)
Baroque
Means “mis-shapen”
- Theatrical, dramatic art that provokes viewer to feel engaged
- Tenebrism
- Ordinary people / plebian
Carvaggio
Rich golds, blues, reds
Tenebroso
Diagonal compositions
Caracci
Idealic
Tranquil
1600-1700

Parmigianino
Madonna with the Long Neck
MANNERISM
(1520-1600)

Bronzino
Portrait of a Young Man
MANNERISM (1520-1600)

Bernini, Ecstasy of Saint Teresa in the Coronaro Chapel, Rome, Italy
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)
ITALIAN BAROQUE
Flâneur
Stroll
A person who walks the city in order to experience it.
Modernity
The fleeting, ephemeral experience of being in an industrialized, modernized setting.

Bernini, David
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)
ITALIAN BAROQUE

Carracci, Loves of the Gods in the Palazzo Farnese, Rome, Italy
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)
ITALIAN BAROQUE
Plein-Air
An approach to painting much popular among the Impressionists, in which an artist sketches outdoors to achieve a quick impression of light, air, and color. The artist then takes the sketches to the studio for reworking into more fin-
ished works of art.

Caravaggio, Conversion of Saint Paul
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)
ITALIAN BAROQUE

Caravaggio, Entombment
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)
ITALIAN BAROQUE

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying Holofernes
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)
ITALIAN BAROQUE

Peter Paul Rubens, Elevation of the Cross
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)
FLEMISH BAROQUE

Peter Paul Rubens, Arrival of Marie de’ Medici at Marseilles
FLEMISH BAROQUE
BAROQUE ART
(1600-1700)