Midterm Flashcards
The Manner of Their Fishing
John White
1585
(Medieval Style)
Was an artist explorer
Done in Roanoke Island, North Carolina
The groups he was with wanted to find new land
Is a watercolor painting
Painted things wrong in the painting (people standing on water, fish seen at side view, fish seen on top of water, Cannon writen on boat, shows horseshoe crab and hammerhead from top)
Indian Village of Secoton
John White
1585/86
medieval style
Was a watercolor
Was painted on a hill
Scene of arigants by looking down on the people
Shows people eating
Shows corn in multiple stages of growth
Adam Thoroughgood House
Don’t Know Artist
1685
medieval style
Has casement windows (imported)
Two-room floor plan (parlor room- on left, smaller, where people were entertained/ hall room- on right, bigger, where parents slept/ kids slept in attic)
When food spoiled it was moved to the Hall room.
Located in Virginia
Single-family home was part of the American dream
Vertical enfis is important in medival style
Right isn’t identical to left
Door isn’t centered
St. Luke’s Church
Don’t Know Artist
1632 (later additions dating to 1657)
medieval style
Made with Virgina purduced bricks
Was for settlers coming from England
Windows are stained glass with a pointed arch
Vertical of the church makes you think of God
Tower is to big for the building
Can see the beams of the ceiling
Parson Capen House
Don’t Know Artist
July 8 1683
medieval style
Only 17th century house that we have a date for
Made for the clergy men
Parlor room is the larger of the two rooms so they can entertain the town
Chimney in the middle of the home with gives central heating
Is a wood framed house
Low ceilings
Parson Capen House (parlor room)
Don’t Know Artist
1683
medieval style
Had an open fireplace
17th century furniture
Pertions loved painting the beams different colors (some might have been polka dots)
Stanley-Whitman House
Don’t Know Artist
1720
medieval style
Central fireplace
People started to add a kitchen space
Roof now has a lean-to
Frederick Robie House
Frank Lloyd Wright
1908-10
medieval style
Had to walk around the house to find the door
Wanted to see neighbors but not be seen
Is in Chicago
3 bay garage
Central chimney
Plants watered themselves
Bricks were used to show flatness
Casemen windows
Fallingwater (Edgar Kaufmann) House
Frank Lloyd Wright
1935-39
medieval style
Built during the Great Depression
House is built on the waterfall
Kaufmann owned department stores in PA
Has a concreat balcony
Made built in couches so they could never be moved
Old Ship Meeting House
Don’t Know Artist
1681
medieval style
Was a new type of building
Oldest surviving Puritian meeting house
Doorway isn’t part of the original design
Puritians didn’t want it to look like a church
No alter in the original design
Still has the original seeling
Built in a ship building community
Ceiling beams look like a boat
Joseph Tapping Stone
Don’t Know Artist
Charlestown Stonecutter
1678
King’s Chapel Burial Ground, Boston
medieval style
Is one of the most elaborate
Slate stone
Wing & skull (suggested soul rising up)
An hourglass is resting on the skull
The image in the center represents father time holding the hour glass holding the father of death holding a candle scuffer (the father of death is extinguishing life father time is trying to stop him)
John Freake
Don’t Know Artist (think it is Samuel Clement)
1671-74
Medieval Style
Worcester Art Museum
Very little shading and value
Has dark background (characteristic of male portraits)
Signs of wealth (lace collar, jewels, fur)
Male holding gloves meant marrital status(joining hands at marriage)
Peratants believed if you did well God rewarded you
dont see full body (3/4 body seen)
Standing shows dominance
Mrs. Elizabeth Freake and Baby Mary
Don’t Know Artist (think maybe be Samuel Clement)
1671-74
medieval style
Artist had problems showing 3D figures
Sitter 29 yrs old, baby Mary 6 months old
Baby Mary is to big and shouldn’t be able to hold herself up
Artist flattered their custumers so they got more busisness
Can tell the Freake’s have money (the lace, the braclete and necklace on Mrs. Freake, having an artist do a portrait of them)
Self-portrait
Thomas Smith
1690
baroque style
last portrait with a signature from 17 century
avante-garde - was advanced for its time
was done for himself
looks like a painting in the back of fort & gunsmoke
memento-mori - has hand on top of skull
very detailed clothing and face
skull has no lower gaw
poem under skull (death talking to us)
poem talks about all the evils in the world including war
signature on poem (signing painting and poem
College of William and Mary (Wren Building)
Don’t Know Artist
1695-98
baroque style
was made to train men for ministry
is the oldest academic building still in use
a symetric building
front & back doors are aligned
two main floors and attic (dinning hall, students slept in attic, lecture halls)
now is Ren building and is admistrative building
has a pediment around the building
house of burges met here till the capital building was built
windows were symmetric and in the middle of wall
Governor’s Palace
Henry Cary
1706-20
Was in Williamsburg
baroque style
symetrically organized
side structures not connected (summer kitchen, didn’t want house to get hot in summer)(slaves lived in the other dependency)
2 main floors
roof is pitched then cut off
symetric windows
destroyed in a fire
John D Rockephellar recreated the governors recidence where it origanally was in 1830’s
1740 ballroom wing was added
Henry Cary
Capitol
1705
baroque style
Replaced governor’s palace
general court and bergages met here
was 2 stories
no open flames were aloud (no candles, no fireplaces, no pipes)
tobacco virginias main crop
1723 chimneys were added, smoking aloud
1747 building burned down
naked walls only left standing (interior badly damaged)
1800’s destroyed again (didn’t build again
John D Rockephellar 1930 rebuilt the capitol building on original plot with no chimneys
Westover(Plantation)
William Byrd
1730-34
baroque style
where thomas jefferson was introduced to artechure
front of house faced James River
Was meant to out due the Governor’s Palace
roof was pitched and cut off at the top
2 main floors and attic with stringcord
pyrimad starcase with three sides
molding around front door cut stone (expensive)
pineapple in the center of door (sign of welcome and hospitality)(very embracing)
sash windows
flemish bond brick laying (long and short bricks alternating, short bricks darker)
back door has simple pediment
back door is now front door
MacPhaedris-Warner House
Don’t Know Artist
1718-23
baroque style
was on the Atlantic
today is not where it was originally located (easy to move 18 century homes)
flatten roof
multiple chimney
windows go triangle to round
Old North (Christ) Church
William Price
1723
baroque style
was a gentleman arcitech (sold books in boston)
tiered steeple on top of the tower
Christophew Ren was the most segnifigant influence on religious arcitechure
1666 London had a fire “Great fire of 1666” (destroyed medieval churches)(over 80 parish churches destroyed)
Christophew Ren rebuilt all of them
Pennsylvania Colony House (Independence Hall)
Andrew Hamiltion
1731
baroque style
flat roof
balistry across roof
tower was put after behind building
doorway centered
felmished brick laying
pyramid staircase
Armchair (Queen Anne)
Don’t Know Artist
1740-60
baroque style
baroque loved curves (sign of refinments)
looks like greater refiner of medival chair
cushion is built into the seat
cabriol legs- front legs have curves
splat - main support on the back
great use of negative and possitve space
birds in the negative space in the back
Pau de Wandelaer
Pieter Vanderlyn
1730-40
lived along the Hudson valley
No 3D dementions
Don’t know the material of clothing
has a bird in his hand (means don’t be greaty dont always want more) (bird in the hand don’t worry about the other two in tree)
Henry Darnall III
J. Kuhn
1710
baroque style
addresses issues of class and race
class (bejewled bucks)(amazing estates)(elaborate jacket)
a young boy presented as a man
is hunting showing sign of class
shows first black man in american art who isnt identified
are separated by the balester
black kid looking up at henry
was a slave and is wearing a collar
darnell family had many slaves
Lapowinsa/Tishcohan
G. Hesselius
1735
baroque style
didn’t commission the painting william peen’s son did
was meant to be documentation for the penn family
very detailed face but less detail body since the painter tryed to memorize the face so much by memory
Lapowinsa is written on the left of the painting
Chipmink pouch around his neck
Looks troubled (penn is trying to take his land)
The Bermuda Group (Dean George Berkeley and His Family)
John Smibert
1729
baroque style
first signifigant group portrait in American art
guy on the right is the main figure (see most of the body)(holding a book-educated)(George Burkly)(is a clergyman)(looking at god)
almost 8 ft wide by 6 ft tall
in protestant europe group portrait was very important
landscape background
was a dean, education was important to him
Smibert is in the painting (all the way to left)(hold sketches)
person writing was secertary who commissioned painting
turkey rug - from turkey (never on floor)(hand wooven)
important that people are around table in baroque style
Isaac Royall and His Famoly
Robert Feke
1741
Royall was wealthy and in his early 20’s
has turkey rug and landscape background
wealthiest family in massechuests
has almost same exact composition as Bermuda Group
Portrait of Mrs. William Bowdoin
Robert Feke
1748
baroque style
clothing shows she is wealthy
holding a book (well educated)
seated (common for woman)
landscape background
anatomicly incorrect (large boobs)(very small stomach - male artists couldn’t look at stomach for to long)
face is a lot larger then it should be for stomach
Brigadier General Samuel Waldo
Robert Feke
1748
baroque style
First military portrait in american painting
didn’t commission portrait
citizens asked Feke to do it to honor Waldo
was in French & Indian War
didn’t have uniforms just dressed well
fort under attack in background
holding a spyglass
in a kimbow pose
full length pose
Michael Graves
Teapot #9093 (Whistling Bird)
1985
In post-modernism style
Manufactured by Alessi
Refers back to teakettle on stand (decorated spout, has a knob)
Geometry is important
color - red,white,blue (patriotic)
red - where you don’t touch
blue - cool so you can touch
High Chest
Don’t Know Artist
1760-1770
Looks nice for decor and shows you have a lot of things
made with mehogony appreciated for deep red color
90 in high and 40 in wide
if you put fabric in draws they would be better preserved since it is raised
Thomas Chippendale
The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker’s Director
1754
Was a best selling book
Was very well illistrated
Chippendale was the most famous furniture maker in English speaking world
Phillip Johnson
Sony Building
1978
Post-modern Highrise
Was origanly the AT&T building
Is on Madison Ave in Manhatten (very presidshes place to have building)
Was most discussed unbuilt building
Looks like a high chest
Has a pediment on the top
Windows look like drawers
Phillip Johnson, Miles Van Der Rohe
Seagram Building
1954-1958
International Style
On Park ave in New York
Becomes cooprate landmark
Frank Lloyd Wright hated this building (called the Whiskey Building)
Doesn’t take up the whole lot
Every floor is exactly the same
Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson House (The Glass House)
1948-1949
International Style
Was done in the early part of his career
Can see the whole interior from the outside
47 acres
Said it was like going camping
Was one floor and had one bedroom
Refured to it as 50 yr old diary
used moderist furniture
no walls to hang paints (painting on easel, one sculpture)
has guest house (haft size of main house) (no windows)
1960 added picture gallery (looked like micenian tomb walking in) (walls rotated)
Port Royal Parlor
Don’t Know Artist
176-1780
Was in West Philadelphia (country house)
Had a high chest
Would be the house of a sucessful merchant(would want to show success)
What is on the right side is on the left side
Influenced by Chipendale’s design
Christal chandelear
Pediment above fireplace
Carpet is on the floor instead of table (bugs could eat it)
Thomas Gainsborough
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Andrews
1748
Rococo Style
Husband hunts (does it because of social status)
Are looking at viewer
Showing off their land in background (goes back miles)
Dog included (common in portraits of husband & wife) (symbol of marriage fedelity) (wife faithful to husband, dog faithful to master)
rococo style (man stands relaxed with legs crossed leaning, woman seated)
soft pasteled colors (rococo styles, hard for English painters)
Charles Wilson Peale (was a visual artist, scientist, inventor, dentist, and had 17 kids)
John and Elizabeth Cadwalader and Their Daughter Anne
1772
in rococo style
Looks like John walked into the painting
Prominident Philadelphia family
John was fat (shows wealth) and was bring food to daughter
wife looks wealthy (a lot of jewels, well done hair, detailed dress)
wife was looking at husband
Charles Wilson Peale
General George Washington before Princeton
1779
In rococo style
Shown in military uniform
Lifesize presentation
Shown leaning on cannon
In the horizon is Nasal Hall the original college of NJ
Is on Princeton Battle Field
Not commissioned by George Washington
William Williams
Debrah Hall
1766
Made for one of Benjamin Franklins head printers
Father comissioned so gentlemen could see when entering the Hall home
Is very delicate (touching a rose, rose [shows she smells good], terricata pot [rose has been taking care of [shows she is responsible], american flying squirrel [popular][shows she can take care of a pet]
Arrow holding up roses (cupids arrow)
First female portrait full length in PA colony
Tiara and background shows wealth
Joseph Blackburn
Isaac Winslow and his Family
1755
Trained in England then came to Boston (England-drapery painter)
Well painted fabric very detialed
Isaac legs crossed and pointing down which bring us to the mothers arm which bring us to daughters arm
Bright colors for rococo style
All people have rosey cheeks, lips curl up (blackburn smurk)
shows landscape in background
black background behind main focus so they don’t get lost
daughter using dress to carry still life figures
John Copley
Mary and Elizabeth Royall
1758
Mary (blue dress) Elizabeth (gold dress)
Mary has hand on Elizabeth’s shoulder to show protection and sign of being older
Hand looks disconnected
King Charles Spanal in painting (popular lap dog)(poor people couldn’t own one)
hummingbird (was important)(did buisness in Caribean where they got the bird)
R. Smith
Mount Pleasant
1762-1765
In gibbsian style
Would be a country house
In Fairmont Park
2 main floors raised basement
Brick raps around (stringcorse)
Balistrade
Is symetrical
whole center comes foward (self defined by own pediment (triangle on top)
James Gibbs
Book of Architecture
1728
Was published in London
Influenced what happens in America
Vassall-Longfellow House
Don’t Know Artist
1759
In gibbsian style
John Vassal was origanal owner 1759
warm yellow paint
whole front comes forward
1800’s Longfellow lived there and built side porches
perfectly symetrical
has ballistrade
has a pediment
George and Martha Washington lived there for awhile
Doesn’t have offical polatian window, but looks like one was cut up around house
St. Michael’s Church
Don’t Know Artist
1752-1761
In gibbisan style
In Charleston, South Carolina
Has a portico
Has teered steaples
no entrance tower but tower on top of church
inspired by Gibb’s Saint Martin-in-the-field
has pilaster
Christ Church
1727-1754
gibbsian style
T McBean
St. Paul’s Chapel
1764-1766
gibbsian style
J Brown
First Baptist Meetinghouse
1774-1775
gibbsian style
Peter Harrison
Redwood Library
1748-1750
gibbsian style
Peter Harrison
King’s Chapel
1749-1755
gibbisian style
