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what is art for name 9 things

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  • portraits
  • record a scene
  • record an event
  • illustrate a story
  • magical or spiritual purpose
  • symbolism
  • decorative
  • express your opinion / felling
  • experiment / have fun
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what types of pictures are there name 8 of them

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  • life-drawing
  • portraiture (self + group)
  • landscape … seascape … cityscape
  • still-life
  • decoration
  • graffiti
  • technical
  • cartoon
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what happened during the renaissance and when and where was it

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‘rebirth’ search for knowledge in everything: maths; medical; botanical, astronomical, architectural
- for art new: techniques + materials developed ; painting & sculpting more realistic
it was in Italy 15th C

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Describe Leonardo Da Vinci

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Paintings:

  • Mona lisa (la Gianconda)
  • The Last Supper
  • Virtruvian man

Style:

  • used lighting & shadows to create 3D
  • colour realistic
  • background, colour fades for feeling of space & depth
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Describe Michelangelo

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Paintings:

  • David
  • painting of the Sistine Chapel (creation of Adam)

Style:
He perfected portrayal details of muscles, veins, bones
} human body

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Describe Botticelli

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Paintings:
- The Birth of Venus

Style:
- beautiful people, themes of myths

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Describe Rembrandt Van Rhijn

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he was Dutch in the 1600 s (1606)

Paintings:

  • Belshazzar’s feast
  • The Nightwatch

Style:
-used dramatic lighting, light and dark to change emotions

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Describe Francisco Goya

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he was Spanish from 1746 - 1828 (political + social upheaval)

Paintings:
- 3RD May 1808
grim reality of war / violence

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Describe Eugene Delacroix

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he was French 1798 - 1863

Paintings:
- Liberty leading the people (1830 revolution) symbolism + drama

Style:
- passion + violence

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what happened in the 19th century

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many new art movements

- because of new materials + scientific theories, also worked together in groups

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what happened in the late 1800’s

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trend to paint outdoors

  • effect of sunlight
  • ‘sketchy’ effect
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Who were the Impressionism artists and describe them

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1 - Renoir: French 1841 - 1919

Paintings:

  • Boating Party (landscapes)
  • Boat on Seine

2 - Monet: French 1840 - 1926

Paintings:
- Waterlilies (painted reflections + dappled light on pond)

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who were the post-impressionism artists and describe them

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1 - Paul Cezanne: French 1839 - 1906

Style:

  • applied colour in shapes- squares, triangles, cylinders (geometric shapes)
  • started breaking up colour
  • painted still-lifes + landscapes

2 - Paul Gauguin: French 1848 - 1903

Style:

  • Tahiti ‘primitive’ themes, often used symbols
  • strong bold colour, flowing rhythms to shapes

3 - Vincent Van Gogh: Dutch 1853 - 1890

Paintings:

  • Starry night
  • Crows over the wheatfield
  • Sunflowers

Style:
- Strong, bright colour + thick brushstrokes

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when and what was expressionism

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during / towards the end of Vincent Van Gogh life. after post impressionism.
Expressionism was expressing feelings / state of mind through use of colour, paint application etc.

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describe Pablo Picasso, include his different periods, paintings in those periods and the styles

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he was Spanish 1881 - 1973 (he was known as the ‘Father of Cubism’

Blue Period: 1901 - 1904
- used blue + grey shades, doleful subject matter - poor, lonely people

Paintings:
- ‘poor people on seashore.’

Rose Period: 1904 - 1906

  • more optimistic feel - used warmer shades of pinks, yellow, reds
  • painted family scenes, circus people

African influence: 1907
- use of masks, 2D figures

IN 1907 he painted painting called ‘Les Demoiselles d’Avignon’
NB:- Broke with convention
- breaks myth of feminine beauty
- flattened shapes, 2D, no perspective
- figures - made up geometric distortion

THIS LEADS TO NEW STYLE, CUBISM

  • abstract
  • show multiple angles at same time
  • made up of geometric shapes (broken up and put together again)
  • often distorted

IN 1937 he painted painting called Guernica

  • it expressed the pain + horror of war
  • distortion of bodies, sharp, jagged shapes - add to pain + violence
  • white, black, grey (absence of colour = absence of life); also, contrast of sharp white shapes = explosions

composition made up of JUMBLED-UP shapes - emphasizes the chaos + violence - use symbolic images (bull, eye, horse, broken sword…)

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what and when was Baroque and which artist were involved in it

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after Renaissance, 17th C Europe … style = ‘BAROQUE’ - dramatic & emotional scenes

Artists:

  • Rembrandt Van Rijn
  • Francisco Goya
  • Eugene Delacroix
17
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who were the renaissance artists

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  • Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Michelangelo (Buonarotti)
  • Botticelli
18
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what was surrealism and describe the 2 artists that were involved in it

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surrealism:

  • dream like images from the subconscious
  • confused reality

Artists:

1 - Frida Kahlo - Mexican 1907 - 1954

Paintings:

  • Self-portrait with Torn Necklace
  • The Broken Column

2 - Salvador Dalí - Spanish 1904 - 1989

Paintings:
- Persistence of memory

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Name the 5 South African artists and describe them

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1 - Gerard Sekoto 1913 - 1993
born in Transvaal, died in France

  • painted scenes of ordinary, everyday life - his life in the SA of the time ( showed people struggling under terrible conditions)

Style: Social realism

  • he used colour expressively especially yellow.
  • he made many pencil and charcoal sketches that he later developed into paintings

1942 - lived in District 6, Cape Town
1947 - left for Paris (first played jazz piano to make a living)

Paintings:

  • Self Portrait
  • Song of the pickaxe
  • Houses District 6, 1943

2 - George Pemba 1912 - 2001
born in Port Elizabeth, Xhosa heritage

  • trained as a teacher
  • 1950’s apartheid era… saw daily struggles of his people, living conditions
  • painted township scenes, also funerals, political gatherings, murders.
  • 1980’s - got artistic recognition - due to his talent and determination

Paintings:

  • Street scene in township
  • Woman in Fields
  • Terror

3 - Irma Stern 1894 - 1966
born in Transvaal, of Jewish-German parents
Anglo-Boer war, father took family back to Germany, Irma educated there, exposed to trends there

1920 - returned to SA

  • Anti-Germany (horrors of war)
  • Romanticised Africa, travelled to Congo, Zanzibar
  • Had a fresh outlook on different cultures (unconventional)
  • Not accepted by SA public (govt) … why?

Subject:

  • people - all complexions and occupations
  • fruit, flowers, landscapes of different places in Africa

Style:

  • Expressionist (Van Gogh brushstrokes, intense, bold colour)
  • Cubist - unusual angle, stylized figures

4 - Vladimir Tretchikoff 1913 - 2006
born in Russia, died in Cape Town

Very CONTROVERSIAL… good business man - he gave the public what they wanted

  • self-taught
  • painted realistic figures, often with greenish-blue… Fantasy element to picture?
  • Art critics - ‘King of Kitsch’ ie not unique, a “worn-out” image, sentimental, not original…
  • his technique was refined, practised, but his subject matter?

Paintings

  • Chinese Girl
  • Dying Swan

5 - Peter Clarke
born 1929 in Simonstown, died 2014 in Cape Town

Son of dock-worker and domestic worker, from a young boy always drawing people around him and seascapes

left school early, Apartheid system did not provide for art education in non-White schools.

forced removals to apartheid township of Oceanview

his work focusses on the segregation and harsh life of the Cape Flats. he was very community-minded
“my art is about people…”

he studied at:

  • Michaelis (UCT)
  • Amsterdam
  • Norway
  • USA
20
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what is art for, give 7 examples and with each one indicate a painting that falls under this category

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to record an event - Guernica, Last Supper, 3RD of May, Creation of Adam

for portraits - Mona Lisa

Illustrate a story - Sistine Chapel, Birth of Venus, cartoons, comics

recording a scene - any landscape scene / pictures

magical or spiritual purposes - Last Supper, San rock art, religious paintings

Decoration - Ndabele pictures, art in homes, graffiti

Have fun, experiment with media - schools, Jackson Pollock - Action paining

21
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what is art for, give 7 examples and with each one indicate a painting that falls under this category

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to record an event - Guernica, Last Supper, 3RD of May, Creation of Adam

for portraits - Mona Lisa

Illustrate a story - Sistine Chapel, Birth of Venus, cartoons, comics

recording a scene - any landscape scene / pictures

magical or spiritual purposes - Last Supper, San rock art, religious paintings

Decoration - Ndabele pictures, art in homes, graffiti

Have fun, experiment with media - schools, Jackson Pollock - Action paining

22
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name 10 crafts made locally and what are crafts

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crafts - handmade objects

  • wire works
  • woodwork
  • bead work
  • recycled things
  • clay work
  • mosaics
  • jewellery
  • sewing
  • crocheting
  • metalwork

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