Untitled Deck Flashcards
What is the order of the description of an artwork?
artist-name of the work-year -medium and material- dimension-location (gallery)
What is a lightbox?
A box with a translucent white surface fitted with an internal light source, used for examining transparencies and negatives and tracing work made with a variety of techniques and materials.
Used since the late twenties.
What does ‘Japanisme’ refer to?
A French term coined in the late nineteenth century to describe the craze for Japanese art and design in the West.
What is public art?
Art that is in the public realm, whether it is situated on public or private property or whether it has been purchased with public or private money.
What is street art?
Related to graffiti art, created in public locations and usually unsanctioned, covering a wider range of media and more connected with graphic design.
What is graffiti?
A transgressive act of property crime, often involving risk-laden behavior.
Includes subcultures like post-graffiti worlds of street art, ‘lowbrow’ contemporary art, reverse graffiti, cup-rocking, stickers, paste-ups, and posters.
What are the wars on graffiti?
Anti-graffiti technologies backed by explicit anti-graffiti policies and laws.
What is artialization?
Describes how humans change or shape nature to make it look more like art, such as arranging flowers in a garden.
What is appropriation art?
The practice of artists using pre-existing objects or images in their art with little transformation of the original.
Notable American artists include Sherrie Levine, Neo-Group, and Jeff Koons.
What questions does appropriation art raise?
Questions of originality, authenticity, and authorship.
art History as a historical & social science: ( A,E,H,S,R)
Archeology: explores material remains
Epigraphy: study of inscriptions
Heralde : study of escutcheons
Sphragistic: study of seals
Realia: study of daily objects ( furniture , tools, etc.)
what include in art history as a historical descriptive discipline ?
- descriğtion of the artefects ,2. technique, 3.provenance, 4. douce criticism , 5. style , 6. iconography,7. artist’s biography, 8.attributions
