Test 2 Flashcards
Transfer from a surface to paper, surface usually destroyed
Albrech Durer- “The Four Horsemen”
Printmaking
The illusion of distance or depth
Perspective
Pigments added to wet plaster, fries and makes the paint part of the walls
Fresco
Basic building block
Line
Balancing of forms and colors
Symmetry
Uses a vanishing pint aka foreshortening
Linear perspective
A work attached to a background, 2D quality, whole scenes, one angle, outside of buildings
Relief Sculpture
No separation between artistic and functional qualities, but a balance
The art of sheltering as well as the design of 3D space to create a practical enclosure
Architecture
Ability to resist gravity
Tensile strength
Cantilever
Overhang
Bearing wall
Supports itself
Skyscrapers, steel framework and rooms and exterior fits over it like a skin
Skeleton frame
Facade
Fake front of a building
Size relative to human form
Scale
The environment of a building
Context
The design relative to function
Space
Violent distortion of form, color, and proportion
Fauvism
Discards all concepts of perspective, doesn’t show and object, but it’s space
Multiple points of view
Cubism
Tried to regain an audience following while maintains artistic innovation, , freedom from the traditional use of the brushstroke
Abstract expressionism
- confluence of line
- encirclement
- color
3 types of focal points
- full round
- linear
- relief
3 types of sculpture genres
- iconic
- Doric
- Corinthian and Roman
3 types of posts
- 2D quality
- static
- no perspective
- no background
Qualities of Classical Vases
- massive, static buildings
- floor plan in shape of cross
- emphasis on fresco
- wooden structures
Qualities of Romanesque Architecture
- pointed arch
- flying buttress
- slinder ribbing on post
- clevestory windows
- stained glass replaced fresco
- flying buttress reinforce weak walls
Qualities of Gothic Architecture
- concerned with high verisimilitude, but also had idealized forms like classical sculptures
- full of action (dynamic)
- full-round nudes dominate
Renaissance Sculpture
Albrecht Durer
The Four Horsemen
The Parthenon
Mathematical perfection
The Coloseum
- The Flavian Amphitheater
- Rounded arches
- The arch is the main structural unit
The Pantheon
Temple to the Roman gods
Polyclitus
- The Canon
- The Lane Bearer
Alexandros of Antioch
Venus de Milo
Greek Sculpture
Oscott Psalter
David Harping
Gothic Painting
Giotto
The Miracle of Spring
Beginning of perspective
Notre Dame in Paris
Cathedral
Gothic Architecture
Massacio
Tribute Money
Early period
Sandro Botticelli
The Birth of Venus
Leonardo de Vinci
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
High Period
Michelangelo
Sistine Chapel
High Period
Raphael
The School of Athens
High Period
Jan van Eyck
The Arnolfini
The mirror and the graffiti, master of perspective
Donatello
David
Ranaissance
Full-round with contrapposto stance
First freestanding nude since classical period
Parmigianino
Madonna with the Long Neck
Michalangleo
David
Full round nude
Angle of viewing changes proportion
Michelangelo
The Pieta
Aka the Pity Madonna
Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
Dynamic, dramatic, and emotional
Complexity if fully realized and proportional
Monticello
Thomas Jefferson
An appeal to the intellect, serious & moral
William Thornton
Capital Building
Auguste Rodin
The Thinker
Romantic Sculpture
Edouard Manet
The Picnic
Impressionists
Claude Monet
Impression: Sunrise
Vincent Van Gogh
Starry Night
Edcard Munch
The Scream
Frank Lloyd Wright
Falling Water
Frank Gehry
Bilbao Guggenheim
Pablo Picasso
Guernica
Jackson Pollack
Autumn Rhythm
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe
Duane Hanson
Supermarket Lady
Piet Mondrian
Composition in Red, Black, & White
Caravaggio
The Calling of St. Matthew
Rembrandt can Rijn
The Night Watch
Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Swing
Jacques-Louis David
The Oath of the Horati
King Louis XIV of France
Versailles
A pictorial Period of events of antiquity
Photojournalism
Amstel Adams
-Photographic artist
The use of light and shadow
Chiaroscuro
Weight is on one primary leg, more stable
Contrapposto
Designed to teach a lesson
Didactic
Near ceilings added a lot of light
Clerestory windows
Legitimized the vision and purpose of the aristocracy
Aristocratic Baroque
Reflects the ideals of the new middle class: hard work, duty, and honor
Bourgeois Baroque
Adding point dit by dot rather than brush strokes
Pointillism
Using and incorporating the environment into the structure of the building
Prairie Style
3 qualities of Neo-classical architecture
- embrace philosophical ideals of the enlightenment
- electicism
- modernism
The technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another
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