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
ORLAN
Photography and Surgery as media.
Uses her body as a canvas of art.
Applies cosmetic surgery for self-transformation.
The reconstruction of herself symbolizes the international idea of women idealized.
Her art is a performance of the process.
Literal deconstruction = objectivation
Selected most ideal facial features of women in history, then included it int her own.
Theme is how unideal the ideal is in reality Ideal beauty is unattainable.
DIEGO RIVERA
Mexican Artist. Part of the Mexican Revolution in 1910-1930. He is a fresco artist and muralist with themes of purpose and pride. He is a Mexicanidad. AKA native pre-coloian Mexico. He is from an indigenous native of Tecochituan. married FRIDO KHALO
“FLOWER CARRIER”
Tres Grandes
RACHEL RUYSCH
Dutch Still life painter from the 17th century.
Netherlands:Holland
Baroque Period
“STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS ON A MARBLE TABLETOP”
VINCENT VAN GOGH
Created a self portrait with a UKIYO-E painting in the background in the back. He also created Hiroshima’s “THE PLUM GARDEN” calling it “JAPANASARIE” using similar style. He was influenced by Hiroshige
KARA WALKER
created controversial artwork based on African American slavery
large life size wall silhouettes, figurative tables
her work has themes of slavery, rape, violence and sex
EL LISSITZKY
Russian CONSTRUCTIVIST during the Bolshivik period
Created “PRAUN” - PROJECT IN AFFIRMATION OF THE NEW
Artwork is NON-REPRESENTATIONAL
Work is ANGULAR and GEOMETRIC
Rejected classical work
graphic designer
DAMIEN HIRST
English artist. His patron was advertising mogul CHARLES SAATCHI
work has a lot of DEATH themes in it
TE PEHI KUPE
Lead of MAORI people in NEW ZEALAND
Tattoos all over face is a way to distinguish their real identity
JOHN SYLVESTER gave him a “new” identity when he engraved his portrait with hair and wardrobe.
“THE BROKEN COLUMN”
Frida Kahlo
“IRE IBEJI”
Mother of Twins, Africa
Twins share single soul
Twins is like a blessing
Yoruba term for a memorial figure of a deceased twin in sculpture form.
“FLOWER CARRIER”
Diego Rivera. Fresco. Mexican Revolution
“FUTAGO”
Yasumasa Mormimura. means TWINS
“THE GREAT WAVE OFF KANAGAWA”
Men’s relationship to nature. HOKUSAI
“MOKO”
Male Artist. MAORI people. New Zealand
MAORI traditional tattoo art
“NDOP”
KUBA people, Zaire. Represents king seated on throne.
Cuba term for a royal portrait in sculpture form that is believed to house the king’s divine spirit.
Divine.
Kuba Kings
No physical likeness. Spiritual likeness
Abstract Facial/Form
Head is BIGGER than Body
IBOL = identifying ICON (or attribute)
“NOTES ON THE MARGIN OF THE BLACK BOOK”
Ligon. Influenced by Robert Maple Thorpe. Photographs with text in margin. Themes of slavery and racism
“PACIFIC SISTERS”
Group members. Use Film, stills, performance art, dance to challenge the tranquil dancing girl of Taupo Dance. Based in New Zealand.
Honored tradition and innovative materials
“STILL LIFE WITH FLOWERS ON A MARBLE TABLETOP”
Rachel Rusch. Dutch. Painting
“ET THE WHITES WITH THE RED WEDGE”
1920 soviet propoganda poster created by EL LISSITZKY.
Symbolic of RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR
RED represents Bolshiveks
“TRAVELERS AMONG STREAMS AND MOUNTAINS”
FAN KUAN
“VALVIDIA FIGURE”
small figurines made of limestone
abstrated
sometimes both gender characteristics included
ECUADOR/CHILE
“WALKING ON A MOUNTAIN PATH”
MA YUAN. SONG DYNASTY. INK On SILK. POEM inscribed on upper right hand corner
“WOMEN GATHERING FOR AN AWELYE”
Annual Celebration of Dreaming Rituals for Twins
“BIIGA DOLLS”
MOSSI term for Dolls. Literally means child.
DIASPORA
Any group or migration or flight from a country or region; dispersion. Any group that has been dispersed outside its traditional homeland.
SOCIAL REALISM
a style of painting that includes stylized, two-dimensional yet monumental forms, bold expressive color, large scale format (e.g. murals) especially in the 1930s in the US, in which the scenes depicted typically convey a message of social or political protest. Subject matter and messages often focused on elevating the humble worker or the oppressed.
- elevating realistic societies of life
- large scale murals
example. Mexican 3
SOCIALIST REALISM
a state-approved artistic or literary style in some socialist countries, as the USSR that characteristically celebrates an idealized vision of the life and industriousness of the workers. In addition, subject matter and messages reflect socialist ideals. Visual imagery focused on more of a representational style such as figuration as opposed to abstraction.
- proproganda
- recognizable
- hyper realism
- paintings and posters
MEXICANIDAD
The philosophy that was a push for the return of a native pre-columbian Mexico, and along with it the social, cultural, and artist practices that existed before Western colonization.
The destroyed mural featuring Vladimir Lenin in NYC was created by which artist?
Diego Riviera
The TRES GRANDES
Riviera, Orozco, Siqueiros
CONSTRUCTIVIST
Allied their art with industrial production.
A group of Russian artists principally in the early 20th century who work in a non representational style of art characterized chiefly y a severely formal organization of mass, volume, and space, and by the employment of modern industrial materials.
DREAMING
refers to the moment when the spiritual ancestors rose up from the earth and traveled across the land creating people, animals and the landscape.
Supernatural realm
ABORIGINAL PAINTINGS
representational style
