unit 2 Flashcards
three basic functions of a drawing
-notation
-study
-to serve as a complete work of art
Rodin
“cambodian dancers”
-notation
madonna and child with st. anne
-By Leonardo
-cartoon: a large drawing intended to become a painting
-pouncing: poking small holes into a drawing in order to transfer the design
study of drapery
-By Leonardo
-Heightening: adding white highlights to a drawing
study for the libyan sybil
-Michelangelo
Guernica
-by Picasso
-guernica= a spanish town that the nazi’s bombed
-most famous anti-war painting
-horse= human creativity/spirit
self portrait
-by kollwitz
-made from charcoal
-fixative: thin varnish sprayed to adhere loose charcoal to paper
-key to being a good artist is to have good hand-eye coordination
Architecture
-topography: distinct landscape characteristics of the building site
adobe
sun-dried bricks of clay
stonehenge neolithic
-calender of some sort
-no wheel
-the uk
megalith
-a large stone
post and lintel
-the most basic and earliest for
of building
Great pyramids at Giza
-located in egypt
-they were tombs for the kings
Ziggurat at Ur
-ziggurat: a stepped temple
-nanna: the moon goddess
-sumerians invented the wheel and an alphabet
ben-ben
-egyptian concept of the world’s first mountain
tensile strength
-the ability of a building material to span horizontally without without support and without buckling
Lion Gate at Mycenae
-Relieving triangle: empty triangular void above a doorway
-meant to intimidate
greek
-colonnade: a row of columns
-entasis: a bulge in a column
-doric: square shape
-ionic: shaped like a scroll
-corinthian: flower shaped
the parthenon
-by iktinos and kallikrates
-greece is the world’s first democracy
-athena: goddess of war
rome
-the roman arch
-voussoirs: wedge shaped stores that makeup the sides of the arch
-keystone: the stone at the very top of the arch
pont du gard
-located in nimes, france
-“arcade”
roman colosseum
-barrel vault (tunnel)
-up to 50,000 spectators could come and watch
notre dame
-in paris
-flying buttresses: gothic support system
eiffel tower
-gutave eiffel
-cast iron structure
-without this we would not have skyscrapers
falling water
-by wright
-the point of it is to destress
-called an organic architecture
guggenheim museum
-by wright
-point is to stand out
