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Test 2 Art Flashcards

1
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Taj Mahal
India
Mughal period 1632

A

Communicate a sense of the eternal

symmetrical balance

Tomb for wife

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Frida Kahlo
Las Dos Fridas
1939

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Show two sides of her identity at the same time, as both connected yet in conflict with one another

Symmetrical balance

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Childe Hassam
Boston Common At Twilight
1885

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Highlight the tension between the natural serenity of the common (the park) and human activity of the street

Asymmetrical balance

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Anna Vallayer-Coster
Still life with lobster
1781

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Create a feast for the eyes through the feast on the table, painting as an exercise in good taste

Emphasis

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Georges de La Tour
Joseph the Carpenter
1645

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Candlelight as divine light, foreshadow the eventual crucifixion of Christ upon a cross, here Christ shown as a young boy

Focal point

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Lucas Samaras
Room No. 2 (mirrored room)
1966

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Sensation of being an essential part of the work as a viewer, disorientation and loss of singular identity

Afocal

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Do-Ho Suh
Public Figures
1998

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Acknowledge that heroic nature of the many people who support a hero or help facilitate victory

Scale

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Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian Man
1492

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Demonstrate beauty as perfect mathematically derived proportion

Proportion

Unity and variety

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Jacob Lawrence
barber shop
1946

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Capture the rhythm of life in Harlem with the artist grew up in the 1930s, create a sense of connection between the people and the spaces of the community

Rhythm

Repetition

Unity and variety

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Ghislaine Fremaux

Drawing

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Example of the use of charcoal drawing

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Guillermo Del Toro

Pan’s Labyrinth sketches

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Give form to ideas existing in the mind, plan for later finished product

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12
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Leonardo da Vinci
Sketches 1400s:
Drawing for wing of a flying machine
Anatomical

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Give form to ideas existing in the mind, plan for a later finished work

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13
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Workshop of maso finiguerra

Youth drawing

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transition of drawing as a student practice to professional medium
due to the increased accessibility of paper

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Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna and Child Saint Anne and infant Saint John the Baptist
1499

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Cartoon as preparation for fresco

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Michelangelo

Study for the Libyan sibyl

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Preparation for Sistine Chapel,

works out the details before committing to final product

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Leonardo da Vinci
Study of a woman’s Head or the of the angel of the virgine delle roche
1743

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Silverpoint drawing

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Vija celmins
Untitled ocean
1970

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Graphite
less graphite = lighter tones, harder pencil
more graphite = darker tones, softer pencil

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Georgia Okeefe
Banana Flower
1933

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Charcoal and black chalk- charcoal can create details or vague shading

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Käthe Kollwitz
Self portrait, drawing
1933

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Charcoal

Some areas detailed, others unfinished

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Liang Kai
The poet Li Bo walking and chanting a poem
1200

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Ink on paper

Early access to paper in China

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21
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Yooah Park
Movement II
1993

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Ink on paper

Shows motion of dancers

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22
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Henri Matisse
Woman seated in an armchair
1942

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Pen and ink

Contour line- suggest 3D

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23
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Henri Matisse
Icarus
(From Jazz… collection book)
1943

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Paper cuttings

Form of drawing

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Henri Matisse
Venus
1952

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Paper collage cuttings on canvas

Form of drawing

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Whitfield Lovell
Whispers from the walls
1999

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Mixed media installation
Charcoal drawings on walls
Remember lost African American community of early 1900s

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26
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Wall painting with horses
Chauvet cave France
30000 BC

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Example of long history of painting, similarities to modern banksy

27
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Banksy
Rage the flower thrower
2005
Bethlehem

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Example of modern painting, similarities to ancient cave wall painting

28
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Mummy portrait of a man
Egypt
160 AD

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Encaustic
Intended to preserve facial features and likeness of dead person for the after life since mummification failed to accomplish this

29
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The toreador
Palace of Knossos (Crete)
1500 BC

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Oldest surviving example of fresco

Restored portions are shown in a lighter color, women are light color and men are dark color

30
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Giotto
Lamentation
1305

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Fresco from series done in Italian chapel, focus is Christ, demonstrate gironata

31
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Fra Andrea Pozzo
The glorification of Saint ignatius
1691

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Ceiling fresco

Appears to continue from ceiling of the church

32
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Sandro Botticelli
Primavera
1482

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Tempera

Painting of Roman gods in springtime

33
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Andrew Wyeth
Christina’s world
1948

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Tempera
Demonstrate isolation of Christina due to muscular disease, also discuss the importance of the frame used to hold the artwork

34
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Winslow Homer
A wall, Nassau
1898

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Water color

No white water color, use white paper to show white

Barrier between local citizens and wealthy tourist resorts

35
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Jan de heem
Still life with lobster
1640

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Oil paint
Vanitas
Extremely realistic, comment on frivolous nature of life

36
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Jacques-Louis David
Napoleon crossing the St. Bernard
1800

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Oil paint

Historically inaccurate, popular for Napoleon

37
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Kehinde Wiley
Napoleon leading the army over the Alps
2005

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regular people are models
prevalence of white males as traditional leaders and power figures
Visually similar to the other Napoleon painting

38
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Abelard Morella

Multiple works

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Camera Obscura

Landscapes, color and black and white, portable camera obscura

39
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Joseph Niepce
View from the Window at Le Gras
1826

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Heliograph, first photograph

40
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Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Le Boulevard su Temple
1839

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Daguerreotype
Improved version of heliograph, exposure time is so long that all moving people are invisible except for single man getting his shoes shined

41
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Anna Atkins
Halydrys Siliquosa
1843

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Cyanotype, first book of “photos”

Scientific documentation of various plant specimens

42
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Richard Beard
Portrait of Maria Edgeworth
1841

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Portrait

Daguerreotype

43
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Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
1863

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Portrait

Amateur photographer, faces in light and shadow

44
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Ansel Adams
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1941

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Landscape, known for manipulating his photos in the dark room to achieve desired effects, also zone system

45
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Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg Pennsylvania, July 1863
1866

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Photojournalism, shows the aftermath of battle since exposure times are still long, ethics of journalism since photographers moved the bodies

46
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Lewis Wicked Hine
Ten Year Old spinner, whitnel cotton mill
1908

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Photo journalism, call attention to child labor

47
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Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother
1937

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Iconic image of dust bowl and great depression, photo journalism, edited thumb

48
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Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun
Multiple works

Johnathan Traviesa

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Old pieces transformed by hurricane Katrina can be seen as a new form of art

Shows progress from during the storm and after the storm

49
Q

Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra

868

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Wood block handscroll print
Buddhist imagery
Earliest example of printmaking

50
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Elizabeth Catlett
Sharecropper
1952

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Linocut
Registration
Relief

51
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Hokusai
The great wave off kanagawa
1823

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Color woodcut
Thousands of copies made
Symbolizes eternity of Japan

52
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Albrecht Durer
The knight the death and the devil
1513

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Engraving
Intaglio
Christian symbolism, ignore the devil

53
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Rembrandt van Rijn
The angel appearing to the shepherds
1634

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Etching
Intaglio
Christian scene of angels appearing to shepherds, night scene

54
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Honoré Daumier
Rue Transnonain April 15 1834
1834

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Lithograph, political cartoon speaking out against the monarchy and authority. Resulted in speech against the monarchy being banned

55
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Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe/ four marilyns
1967

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Emphasize disconnect between Marilyn Monroe’s outward image of perfection and inward turmoil that ultimately resulted in her suicide

silkscreen

56
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Michelangelo
Atlas slave
1513

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Marble carving, unfinished work, Michelangelo viewed his sculptures as releasing figures who are trapped in stone

57
Q

Menkaure and his queen

2480 BC

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Schist carving, Not meant to be seen, burial purposes for ancient Egyptians, preserve figure

Ka

58
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Pyramids of Giza

2500 BC

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Tombs for Egyptian royalty

59
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Tomb of Qin Shihuangdi

221 BC

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Casting, ceramic figures, right size, figures are all individually distinguishable, meant to protect the emperor in the afterlife

60
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Head of an Oba
Nigeria, Court of Benin
18th century

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Brass and iron casting, Lost wax casting process, tribute to leader, often had ivory tusk sculptures on top

61
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Maidens and stewards
Parthenon
447 BC

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Marble low relief, rare representation of common figures in stone artwork

62
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Warriors and attendants
Nigeria, Court of Benin
16th century

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High relief, central warrior figure most important

63
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Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
1623

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Marble sculpture, freestanding in the round, view changes from all perspectives

64
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Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
1970
Great Salt Lake Utah

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Earthwork, spiral taken from images in nature, was invisible for many decades and was revealed changed many years later

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