Test 2 Art Flashcards
Taj Mahal
India
Mughal period 1632
Communicate a sense of the eternal
symmetrical balance
Tomb for wife
Frida Kahlo
Las Dos Fridas
1939
Show two sides of her identity at the same time, as both connected yet in conflict with one another
Symmetrical balance
Childe Hassam
Boston Common At Twilight
1885
Highlight the tension between the natural serenity of the common (the park) and human activity of the street
Asymmetrical balance
Anna Vallayer-Coster
Still life with lobster
1781
Create a feast for the eyes through the feast on the table, painting as an exercise in good taste
Emphasis
Georges de La Tour
Joseph the Carpenter
1645
Candlelight as divine light, foreshadow the eventual crucifixion of Christ upon a cross, here Christ shown as a young boy
Focal point
Lucas Samaras
Room No. 2 (mirrored room)
1966
Sensation of being an essential part of the work as a viewer, disorientation and loss of singular identity
Afocal
Do-Ho Suh
Public Figures
1998
Acknowledge that heroic nature of the many people who support a hero or help facilitate victory
Scale
Leonardo da Vinci
Vitruvian Man
1492
Demonstrate beauty as perfect mathematically derived proportion
Proportion
Unity and variety
Jacob Lawrence
barber shop
1946
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
Ghislaine Fremaux
Drawing
Example of the use of charcoal drawing
Guillermo Del Toro
Pan’s Labyrinth sketches
Give form to ideas existing in the mind, plan for later finished product
Leonardo da Vinci
Sketches 1400s:
Drawing for wing of a flying machine
Anatomical
Give form to ideas existing in the mind, plan for a later finished work
Workshop of maso finiguerra
Youth drawing
transition of drawing as a student practice to professional medium
due to the increased accessibility of paper
Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna and Child Saint Anne and infant Saint John the Baptist
1499
Cartoon as preparation for fresco
Michelangelo
Study for the Libyan sibyl
Preparation for Sistine Chapel,
works out the details before committing to final product
Leonardo da Vinci
Study of a woman’s Head or the of the angel of the virgine delle roche
1743
Silverpoint drawing
Vija celmins
Untitled ocean
1970
Graphite
less graphite = lighter tones, harder pencil
more graphite = darker tones, softer pencil
Georgia Okeefe
Banana Flower
1933
Charcoal and black chalk- charcoal can create details or vague shading
Käthe Kollwitz
Self portrait, drawing
1933
Charcoal
Some areas detailed, others unfinished
Liang Kai
The poet Li Bo walking and chanting a poem
1200
Ink on paper
Early access to paper in China
Yooah Park
Movement II
1993
Ink on paper
Shows motion of dancers
Henri Matisse
Woman seated in an armchair
1942
Pen and ink
Contour line- suggest 3D
Henri Matisse
Icarus
(From Jazz… collection book)
1943
Paper cuttings
Form of drawing
Henri Matisse
Venus
1952
Paper collage cuttings on canvas
Form of drawing
Whitfield Lovell
Whispers from the walls
1999
Mixed media installation
Charcoal drawings on walls
Remember lost African American community of early 1900s
Wall painting with horses
Chauvet cave France
30000 BC
Example of long history of painting, similarities to modern banksy
Banksy
Rage the flower thrower
2005
Bethlehem
Example of modern painting, similarities to ancient cave wall painting
Mummy portrait of a man
Egypt
160 AD
Encaustic
Intended to preserve facial features and likeness of dead person for the after life since mummification failed to accomplish this
The toreador
Palace of Knossos (Crete)
1500 BC
Oldest surviving example of fresco
Restored portions are shown in a lighter color, women are light color and men are dark color
Giotto
Lamentation
1305
Fresco from series done in Italian chapel, focus is Christ, demonstrate gironata
Fra Andrea Pozzo
The glorification of Saint ignatius
1691
Ceiling fresco
Appears to continue from ceiling of the church
Sandro Botticelli
Primavera
1482
Tempera
Painting of Roman gods in springtime
Andrew Wyeth
Christina’s world
1948
Tempera
Demonstrate isolation of Christina due to muscular disease, also discuss the importance of the frame used to hold the artwork
Winslow Homer
A wall, Nassau
1898
Water color
No white water color, use white paper to show white
Barrier between local citizens and wealthy tourist resorts
Jan de heem
Still life with lobster
1640
Oil paint
Vanitas
Extremely realistic, comment on frivolous nature of life
Jacques-Louis David
Napoleon crossing the St. Bernard
1800
Oil paint
Historically inaccurate, popular for Napoleon
Kehinde Wiley
Napoleon leading the army over the Alps
2005
regular people are models
prevalence of white males as traditional leaders and power figures
Visually similar to the other Napoleon painting
Abelard Morella
Multiple works
Camera Obscura
Landscapes, color and black and white, portable camera obscura
Joseph Niepce
View from the Window at Le Gras
1826
Heliograph, first photograph
Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre
Le Boulevard su Temple
1839
Daguerreotype
Improved version of heliograph, exposure time is so long that all moving people are invisible except for single man getting his shoes shined
Anna Atkins
Halydrys Siliquosa
1843
Cyanotype, first book of “photos”
Scientific documentation of various plant specimens
Richard Beard
Portrait of Maria Edgeworth
1841
Portrait
Daguerreotype
Julia Margaret Cameron
Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
1863
Portrait
Amateur photographer, faces in light and shadow
Ansel Adams
Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico
1941
Landscape, known for manipulating his photos in the dark room to achieve desired effects, also zone system
Timothy O’Sullivan and Alexander Gardner
A Harvest of Death, Gettysburg Pennsylvania, July 1863
1866
Photojournalism, shows the aftermath of battle since exposure times are still long, ethics of journalism since photographers moved the bodies
Lewis Wicked Hine
Ten Year Old spinner, whitnel cotton mill
1908
Photo journalism, call attention to child labor
Dorothea Lange
Migrant Mother
1937
Iconic image of dust bowl and great depression, photo journalism, edited thumb
Chandra McCormick and Keith Calhoun
Multiple works
Johnathan Traviesa
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
Frontispiece, Diamond Sutra
868
Wood block handscroll print
Buddhist imagery
Earliest example of printmaking
Elizabeth Catlett
Sharecropper
1952
Linocut
Registration
Relief
Hokusai
The great wave off kanagawa
1823
Color woodcut
Thousands of copies made
Symbolizes eternity of Japan
Albrecht Durer
The knight the death and the devil
1513
Engraving
Intaglio
Christian symbolism, ignore the devil
Rembrandt van Rijn
The angel appearing to the shepherds
1634
Etching
Intaglio
Christian scene of angels appearing to shepherds, night scene
Honoré Daumier
Rue Transnonain April 15 1834
1834
Lithograph, political cartoon speaking out against the monarchy and authority. Resulted in speech against the monarchy being banned
Andy Warhol
Marilyn Monroe/ four marilyns
1967
Emphasize disconnect between Marilyn Monroe’s outward image of perfection and inward turmoil that ultimately resulted in her suicide
silkscreen
Michelangelo
Atlas slave
1513
Marble carving, unfinished work, Michelangelo viewed his sculptures as releasing figures who are trapped in stone
Menkaure and his queen
2480 BC
Schist carving, Not meant to be seen, burial purposes for ancient Egyptians, preserve figure
Ka
Pyramids of Giza
2500 BC
Tombs for Egyptian royalty
Tomb of Qin Shihuangdi
221 BC
Casting, ceramic figures, right size, figures are all individually distinguishable, meant to protect the emperor in the afterlife
Head of an Oba
Nigeria, Court of Benin
18th century
Brass and iron casting, Lost wax casting process, tribute to leader, often had ivory tusk sculptures on top
Maidens and stewards
Parthenon
447 BC
Marble low relief, rare representation of common figures in stone artwork
Warriors and attendants
Nigeria, Court of Benin
16th century
High relief, central warrior figure most important
Gianlorenzo Bernini
David
1623
Marble sculpture, freestanding in the round, view changes from all perspectives
Robert Smithson
Spiral Jetty
1970
Great Salt Lake Utah
Earthwork, spiral taken from images in nature, was invisible for many decades and was revealed changed many years later
