Topic 2 - Genre and subjects Flashcards
What does Genre mean?
Scenes of everyday life - a type or category of subject matter and applies both to painting and sculpture.
What does Prevalence mean?
The ownership history of an artwork.
What does Iconography mean?
The study of signs and symbols used in art to create deeper meaning e.g. the presence of a dog to indicate loyalty.
What is an Allegorical figure?
A figure that represents an abstract quality.
In 1667 André Félibien of the French Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture formalised the Academic hierarchy of traditional painting into what?
A hierarchy of five: the most important was historical painting, followed by portraiture, genre, landscape and still life.
Painting as a way of telling a story or narrative became significant in what period?
The fifteenth century during the Renaissance
What does istoria mean?
Telling a story through a painting.
Literature became increasingly popular as a subject for what in the nineteenth century?
Narrative painting.
What did Renaissance narrative painting focused on?
Stories from ancient Greece and Rome, or on Christian narratives.
Black Art Movement emerged in Britain in the 1980s. It encompassed specific groups such as…
The Blk Art Group alongside looser groupings of individual artists including Sonia Boyce (b.1962).
What does Quadriptych mean?
Refers to the number of panels in the work (four).
What does Diptych mean?
Refers to the number of panels in the work (two).
What does Triptych mean?
Refers to the number of panels in the work (three).
