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Test 1 Art Flashcards

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Examples of site specific artwork

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Handpainted architectural glass Burkhart center for autism education and research

Steel bronze lime stone sculptures and LED lights Rawls college of business

Bronze steers national ranching heritage center

Stainless steel blue sculpture biology building

Stainless steel sports performance center red

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Deborah Butterfield, wind River, 2004

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Example of abstract artwork
Site specific
Butterfield only builds horse sculptures

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Caraveneer on a camel, China, Tang Dynasty, polychrome terra-cotta figure

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Visual record of people places and events

Documents silk road trade route

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Margaret Bourke-white, flood victims Louisville Kentucky, 1937, photograph life magazine

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Documents catastrophic flood in Louisville Kentucky

Contrast between American dream advertisement and poverty stricken flood victims

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Anish Kapoor, Cloud gate, the bean, 2004, stainless steel, Chicago

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Helps see the world in new and innovative way

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Po Shu Wang, comma, 2005, stainless steel orb

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See world in new way

Site specific- music building

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Kane Kwei functional coffins- film projector, bean

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Make functional objects more beautiful and imbue them with meaning

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Nkisi nkonde power figure, Congo

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Gift form to the immaterial spiritual forces

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Jan van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece, 1432

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Good form to immaterial spiritual forces

First representation of God in human form

Symbol of pelican as self sacrificial love

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Faith Ringgold
God bless America
1964

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Passive versus active seeing

Passive: head and hand of woman, black and red bars, tired expression

Active: Image of American flag, civil rights act of 1964, depicts racism towards African-Americans

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Cai Guo-Qiang, Transient rainbow, fireworks 2002

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Active versus passive seeing

Passive: fireworks display, East River in New York, best seen at night

Active: temporary movement of MOMA, recent after 9/11, Chinese creation goddess, history of fireworks in China

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Albert Bierstadt, Puget Sound on the Pacific Coast 1870

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Representational art: Portrays natural world in recognizable form

Idealized image of puget sound

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Louise Nevelson, white vertical water

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Abstract: renders image in simplified way. Recognizable but certain aspects are emphasized

Simplified image of waterfall. White color indicates fast moving vertical falling water

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Kazimir Malevich

black square 1923

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Nonobjective art absolutely no reference to the natural world. Explores inherent expressive potential of formal elements

Black square on white square, no greater meaning

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René Magritte
The treason of images
1929

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This is not a pipe

Comment on deceptive nature of art. The viewers are not staring at a real pipe

Iconography

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Jan van Eyck
Giovanni Arnoldo and his wife giovanna cenami
1434

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Iconography: study of images

Artist signature and self portrait in background of mirror

Symbol of fertility and promise of marriage

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Buddha 1130 Japan

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Mudra: Symbolic Buddhist hand gestures

Many religious symbols present in Buddha image. Enlarged brain, prayerful position

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Jean Michel basquiat
Charles the first
1982

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Iconography

Symbols of crowns superheroes
hands Kings

References story of Charles the first as well as personal hero of the artist

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Yoshitomo Nara
Dead flower
1994

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Outline

Simple drawing

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Spider

Nazca Peru

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Geoglyph

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Ellsworth jelly
Briar
1961

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Contour line. Object appears 3-D

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Alexander Calder
Portrait of mr uhlan
1938

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Wire contour line, 3-D sculpture

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Titian
Assumption and consecration of the virgin
1516

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Implied lines through pointing fingers and Eye direction as well as subdivisions in the painting
Triangles

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Francisco goya
the third of may
1814

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Implied lines direct attention towards the figures about to be executed. Lines formed by guns mountain and lighting

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Ellsworth kelly

Three panels Orange dark gray green 1986

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Depiction of three shapes. Introduces figure ground relation

Nonobjective art

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Rubin vase

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Figure ground reversal, art and background are interchangeable

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MC Escher
Water and sky
1938

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Optical illusion, figure ground reversal birds and fish

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Shepard Fairey
Obey giant
1996

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Figure ground relationship, simple design

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FedEx logo

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Figure ground relationship, formation of Arrow, graphic design, conveys the message

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Dick Fowler posters

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Explore figure ground relationship

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Martin puryear
Self
1978
Massive bolder thing

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Self portrait, giant rock, appears heavy but is very light, example of mass, which occupies great value

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Barbara Hepworth
Two figures
1947

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Examples of negative space and mass, or intended to represent the human figure although they appear very abstract

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Menkaure with a woman

Giza 2480 BC

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Similar to Two Figures, represents two Egyptian Royals, was buried into, direct representation of their likeness

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Olafur Eliasson
Suney
1995

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Example of negative space, yellow room viewed from both sides, explores figure ground reversal, 3D space

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Hokusai

The great wave off Kanazawa 1823

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Print color wood cut, symbol of Yin and Yang, representation of Japan, powerful ways yet Mount Fuji stand strong

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Duccio
Annunciation of the death of the virgin
1308

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Failure to create linear vanishing point, non-accurate 3-D space

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Leonardo da Vinci
The last supper
1495

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Successful creation of single linear vanishing point, site specific for Monk dining hall

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Gustavo caillebotte
Place de leurope on a rainy day
1876

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Five different vanishing points successfully create several vanishing points

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Paul strand

Abstraction porch shadows

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Challenges traditional representation, mindbending shadows on the porch. Another example is photograph of geometric backyard

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Janine antoni
Touch
Video 2002

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Challenges traditional 3-D representation symbolic walking a tight rope across horizon at her home

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Michelangelo
Head of a satyr
1520

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Hatching and crosshatching used to imply 3-D surface

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Leonardo da Vinci

Madonna on the rocks

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Atmospheric perspective rocks in the background appear blue or to create the idea that they are far away

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Paul Colin
Figure of woman
1930

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Chiascuro-Light and dark creates 3-D space

Light source outside of frame

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Artemisia gentileschi

Judith and maidservant with the head of holofernes

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Tenebrism- much higher contrast than chiaroscuro, Contrast creates dramatic scene light source is in the picture

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Cara grande feather mask

Brazil 1960

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Simultaneous contrast: complementary colors appear brighter

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Frederic Edwin Church

Twilight in the wilderness 1860

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Simultaneous contrast: complementary colors appear brighter. Comment on the impending Civil War

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Frederic Edwin Church our banner in the sky

1861

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Obvious representation of American flag burning Civil War. Simultaneous contrast of complementary colors

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Jasper Johns
Flag
1965

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After image: optical illusion where viewer sees complementary color

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Mary Cassatt
The boating party
1893

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Scene created entirely with analogous colors which are from the same part of the color wheel

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