FINAL world art Flashcards
BICHITIR
Indian Painter during the MUGAL DYNASTY where he painted “JANHANGIR SITS ON ALLEGORICAL THRONE” where he painted himself into the painting providing a changed view of a personal experience.
NAME ANOTHER MUGAL PERIOD PAINTING
TIMUR HANDS BABUR THE CROWN
Artist Unknown
AKBAR
Known as AKBAR the great, succeeded by JANHANGIR. Star of the MUGAL DYNASTY where he sponsored arts and created an International Art Style. He created a school of painting. There is a painting called “AKBAR RESTRAINS HAWA’I” in honor of his rule painted in the indian miniatures/persian miniatures style with obscured perspective
JANHANGIR
Suceeded Akbar in MOGUL DYNASTY. He was a static emperor and preferred life at court. He is portrait includes filtered place, no horizon line for max view, golden Halo “light of the earth”. His painting, “JANHANGIR SITS ON ALLEGORICAL THRONE” portrays a political propaganda where BICHITIR presents himself in the artwork.
FAN KUAN
Chinese landscape painter during the SOUTHER SONG DYNASTY. Gained most prestige. He believed in being one with nature (TAOISM). his paintings have ISOMETRIC SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE. He believes paintings should show what the HEART HAS SEEN. His painting all consist of the 3M TECHNIQUE: Mountain, massive, mastiff. He painted “TRAVELERS AMONG STREAMS AND MOUNTAINS” with ink on silk.
MUGAL DYNASTY
Northern India
WHAT IS THE 3M TECHNIQUE
Mountain, massive, Mastif
ISOMETRIC SHIFTING PERSPECTIVE
A perspective where a 3D object does not have a converging or vanishing point. Offers a birds eye view and is encouraged to visually travel through the work.
TRAVELERS AMONG STREAMS AND MOUNTAIN
ISOMETRIC PERSPECTIVE, HANGING SCROLL, FAN KAUN IS THE ARTIST, DURING SONG DYNASTY
SONG DYNASTY
FAN KUAN’s “TRAVELER AMONG STREAMS AND MOUNTAIN”, WEN-REN
WEN-REN
Literati, an exclusive and elite group of highly educated, upper-class scholar-officials. They believed that art should go beyond replicating the physical likeness of the subject but rather attempt to capture the essence. Therefore, they privileged a more EXPRESS AND ABSTRACT STYLE over the representational naturalistic style of painting
HIROSHIGE
UKIYO-E artist. He influenced Van Gogh. He crated, “THE PLUM GARDEN IN KAMEIDO” and “GREAT BRIDGE: SUDDEN RAIN”
UKIYO-E
a genre style of painting and printmaking developed in Japan from the 17th to the 19th centuries and marked by the depiction of the leisure activities of ordinary people.
HOKUSAI
Created the color woodcut, “THE GREAT WVE OFF KANAGAWA” and the “36 VIEWS OF MT FUJI”. One of the most prominent UKIYO-E artists from JAPAN. His work symbolized man’s relation to nature. Unification and in unisone with nature’s metaphor.
FRIDA KAHLO
Mexican Artist (indigenous). Married to DIEGO RIVIERA. Part of the MEXICAN REVOLUTION. . Her work has themes of GENDER and SEXUALITY. She created, “MOST FRANK PORTRAIT OF HERSELF” and “BROKEN COLUMNS”.
BYRON KIM
Created SYNECDOCHE. His works have themes of identity and confronts racism and the judging of people based on race color. His work uses panels of colors which represent skin color. Each panel is a portrait for a multi-ethnic beauty. His work is both ABSTRACT and REPRESENTATIONAL. There is a rhetorical and metaphorical symbolism. There is also a futility to capture and individual.
NIKKI S. LEE
A multi-media photographer that created, “IDENTITY PROJECT”, “LAYERS” and “PARTS”. Identity Project questions whether we chose our ethnic groups and subcultures. It shows a relevance of cultural boundaries. Persona and identities. Mixing realities and non-realities. her project is a series of snapshots which help convince the viewers of its authenticity. The main focal point is the transformation of our psyche next to clothes and appearance.
GLENN LIGON
BLACK SOCIALIST. Challenges racial injustices by using text on the body of his works. He created, “RUNAWAYS” which is a pictorial, textual portraits of slaves. He incorporates self into art. All his work is monochromatic. He refuses to use “color” into his work. “NOTES ON THE MARGIN OF THE BLACK BOOK” was influenced by ROBERT MAPLE THORPE. It is a still life-objectivication. In the margins are Ligon’s Identity in text. It forces us to pay attention to our sidelines of cultural racism.
NOTES ON THE MARGIN OF THE BLACK BOOK
Photographs and text - by GLENN LIGON, influenced by ROBERT MAPLE THORPE
SYNEDOCHE
the parts in for whole. Each skin color panel is a portrait for a multi-ethnic beauty. Confronts racism and judging people on the color of their skin. Both abstract and representational.
YASUMA MORIMURA
MITATE-E artist. Iconic images of celebrities. Inserts himself dressed as celebrities in their most iconic images/scenes. From JAPAN. Self portraits with impersonation of famous FEMALE identities. Male as female and female as Male concepts. Disrupts familiar perceptions of Gender, Race and Social
“DAUGHTER OF ART HISTORY” impersonates Manet’s original painting.
The destabilization of sexual desire and gender.
Breaking the pre-concieved images of male and female body
“FUTAGO” = twin
