Unit 2 Art Notes - Chapter 3 Flashcards
Quiz
- Which Dutch artists specialized in painting -still lifes, landscapes, and portraits?
Kalf was specialized in still lifes.
Van Ruisdael was specialized in landscapes.
Rembrandt was specialized in portraits.
- How was van Ruisdael’s View of Haarlem a typical example of a Dutch landscape?
Van Ruisdael’s View of Haarlem demonstrates several critical characteristics of a Dutch landscape painting, including a low horizon line, expressions of Dutch pride of place, and disguised religious symbolism.
- Why was Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp popular for a group portrait?
Rembrandt’s Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp was popular for a group portrait because his work consolidated his reputation by earned the highest esteem with this particular group portrait, received many similar commissions of this type, and it helped document and honor the officers of a guild or members of an organization.
- What event influenced Rembrandt’s setting for The Night Watch?
In the Night Watch, it seems that Rembrandt was influenced by weapons manuals of the period by producing more active group portrait of many people involved in a public event and even adding random figures to create a little chaos at the event.
- How was the career of Dutch artists different from the careers of artists in other countries at this time? How did Dutch artists attract patrons?
The only difference from all from the other countries at this Baroquism was the average income of those Dutch artists who were registered with the guild exceeded that of other craftsman.
Dutch artists attract some patrons by specialized in subjects for art.
- What details are typical for the design of Chinese architecture?
Some typical characteristics of Chinese architecture were included an wood construction with a heavy terracotta tiled roof, a wide overhang, and upturned corners that not only designed to protect the building from weathering since wood rots much faster
when it is wet, but also provided shade in the summer as well.
In addition, the design is symmetrical with a door in the center flanked by openings on each side, and it is elevated off the ground on a stone base to keep the wooden walls dry and safe from insects.
- Explain the difference between the styles of a Chinese Literati painter vs. a Professional painter. Which one would you have been?
The Literati painters were scholar, but amateur artists with higher education based on poetry and literature that tended their art to follow traditional subjects and style, while the Professionals were trained artists, not amateurs, who worked for patrons for both money and commercial purposes.
In Literati, they painted personal and emotional subjects that were considered inspirational and uplifting, and preferred landscapes. In Professional, on the other hand, painted subjects to show luxury and status, based on the desire of their patron.
Literati also included poems on their scrolls, the evidence of their literary education in strict ideals. However, they saw Professional artists as impure and contrary to the purpose of art.
In opinion for these differences, I rather have choose Literati.
- Literati paintings were created with just black ink. Describe Shen Chou’s ‘wet-brush’ technique.
In Poet on a Mountaintop, Shen Chou creating ‘wet-brush’ technique with rapid, thick strokes of black ink by helding the brush over the
paper and letting drops of ink form part of the landscape.
