Visuals(2) Flashcards
Who is this?
Demeter
What quote is this painting depicting?
“Love grows cold without Ceres and Bacchus”
What is the context behind this painting?
Demeter is searching for her daughter Persephone
Who is this?
Artemis
Who is this and what is she doing?
Leto; turning farmers into frogs for dirtying her clean drinking water
What is the context of this scene?
Leto sent her children Apollo and Artemis to kill all 14 children of Niobe because she made a hubristic statement towards “The Great Mother” aka Leto
Who is this?
Leto pregnant with Apollo and Artemis
What is the story behind this sculpture?
Diana (Artemis) is punishing Actaeon for seeing her nudity while she was bathing by turning him into a deer and his own dogs kill him
Who is pictured?
Niobe and her dying children
Who is this?
Apollo
Who is this?
Apollo
What is this scene depicting?
The death of Laocoon and his two children
Who is this?
Asclepius
Who are the group of women attending to Apollo?
The Muses
Who is this?
Sibyl
Who is this?
Athena
What is the context of this scene?
Athena is beating Arachne for out performing her in their weaving contest
Who is pictured?
Athena inspecting Arachne after turning her into a spider
What might this statue have been holding in her hand?
A crown to award her victor
Who is this?
Nike
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Classical
- Unrealistic proportions
- Very dull hues & value contrast
- No facial expressions
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Renaissance
- Balanced composition & long slender proportions for human body
- Still weak value contrast but multiple monochromatic hues
- Still expressionless
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Baroque
- Highly exaggerated proportions, chunky figures
- Chaotic & dense arrangements
- Highly emotional
- Strong value contrast & polychromatic hues
What is happening in this artwork?
Phaethon is struggling to drive his father Helios’s chariot
Who is pictured in this artwork and how is it a diachronic scene?
Philemon and Baucis are welcoming Zeus and Hermes into their home even though they are disguised as mortals. In the background you can see the old couple transforming into trees, which doesn’t happen until the end of the story.
Who is pictured?
Aphrodite and Hephaestus
Who is this?
Hephaestus
Who is this?
Hermes
Who is this?
Hermes
Who is pictured?
Europa and Zeus as a bull
Who is this?
Icarus
Who is this?
Ares
Who is this?
Ares
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Mannerism
- strange and uncommon stories depicted
- odd composition with hidden Easter eggs
- distorted human bodies (stretched torso, contorted features etc)
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Rococo
- whimsical composition with flora and fauna
- pastel colors
- depictions focused on love and happiness
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Neoclassicism
- paintings look like a photo, very realistic
- simple and static composition, each figure very defined
- architecture incorporated to help tell the story
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Romanticism
- intentionally loose brush stroke
- faces in shadow, expressions and emotions left to interpretation of the viewer
- intense multiple hues of color
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Pre-Raphaelites
- intense focus on nature
- moved back to realism and attention to detail
- vibrant and bright colors
- even lighting with few shadows
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Symbolism
- unrealistic dream-like depictions
- bold/exaggerated light and color
- dark themes to appeal to the viewers emotion/imagination
- metallic hues
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Cubism
- complete rejection of naturalism/realism
- fractured and angular figures
- 2D flat depictions
- limited hues
What time period would these pieces of art belong to? How do you know?
Surrealism
- enough detail to be recognizable but not realistic in nature
- unnerving and disturbing depictions/themes
- not always a deeper meaning just a bizarre nature
- attempt at subconscious expression
Who is this?
Dionysus
Who is this?
Dionysus
Who is this?
Pan
Who’s pictured?
Zeus and Semele
