Unit 2 Art Notes - Chapter 2 Flashcards
Quiz
- What does The Garden of Love tell you about Rubens as a person and artist? How are Rubens and Titian similar in their artistic styles and careers?
It tells me about Rubens is that his ability to create images of a joyful way of being in the world related to love.
Both Rubens’ and Titian’s artistic styles/careers have real-life characters that merged with mythology, like Venus, natural setting, bold colors, sensuous atmosphere, and presence of music.
- Who created the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture? What were the goals of the French Royal Academy?
King Louis XIV is the one who created the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in France.
The goals of the French Royal Academy were to train artists to develop a French style of art and promote their culture throughout Europe.
- How did Louis XIV use Versailles to emphasize his status and political power? How did it relate to his title the Sun King?
King Louis XIV use Versailles to increase his power by using the palace itself as a theatrical stage to promote his role as the Sun King
and ruler of France.
Louis XIV’s title, the Sun King, related to Versailles as a symbolism in its architecture because it provided the elaborate Baroque theatrical environment to emphasize the King’s authority and symbolize Louis as the center of the universe.
- What are the three rules of Maniera Magnifica? How were they applied in the art of Poussin?
Rule 1: Subject matter of art should be noble, serious, elevated, lofty themes.
Rule 2: Based paintings on very precise compositional formula must be calm, intellectual, and natural looking, not overly emotional.
Rule 3: Do not include insignificant detail on images.
They’re all applied in Poussin’s art by carefully constructed an idealized setting to symbolism. In the Landscape with St. John on Patmos, for example, Poussin make his paintings (with a grand subject matter) look inspiring, not put too much emotions, and eliminate all evidences of insignificant details.
- Why is Las Meninas a unique work of art? Why is it called an autobiographical work of art?
Las Meninas was so unique because it is an example of asymmetrical balance in art, it packs a wealth of action, and its composition raises questions about illusionism.
Las Meninas was an autobiographical work of art because Velazquez’s work provides a self portrait into an intensely private scene of royal subjects as one who is allowed to glimpse moments of intimacy.
- What kind of subjects would you see in a genre painting?
I find subjects in a genre paintings as peasant life or in taverns.
- What descriptive terms would you use to describe a Baroque style of painting?
Some descriptive terms are most frequently associated with the Baroque style of painting that uses embellished motion and clear: grandeur, drama, tension, richness, movement, theatrical, energetic, sensual, and often made on a huge scale.
