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The title of the sculpture above by Bernini is
St. Teresa in Ecstasy
The Escorial Palace (above) was commissioned by
Philip II, the king of Spain
Which of the following do not describe techniques used by El Greco in the paintings from the textbook
The use of jaguar blood for red pigment
The work above was painted by
El Greco
Define ‘Militant Mysticism’ and what it entailed in the Baroque period.
Militant Mysticism was a counter-reformation against Protestants, a time of combining ideas from the active life and the contemplative life. This was a time where Protestantism and scientific discoveries were threatening the counter-reformation,, so this way of life tried to ignite the faith of members of the church, future saints and people active in worldly affairs.
Many Enlightenment philosophers believed
In the innate goodness of humanity
This artist did portrait busts of Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and Voltaire:
Houdon
This was a common motif in rococo design:
Shells
Watteau’s The Music Party draws on this great baroque artist’s Garden of Love:
Rubens
Rococo art was oriented more towards
The aristocracy
Who were the Sensibility artists? Discuss some of their works, styles, and themes.
Claudia Matzko, Rachel Whiteread, Andrea Zittel. Their art made you respond to the emotion displayed in their paintings. They were large scale, tasteful, and a modernist abstraction. The expressions of the art were very different and were things that you didn’t see everyday. It made your mind react to what you saw and each person gained something different by the different way that they viewed the painting. The art really tried to go back to simple natural and nature inspired. They were tired of the mythological gods and all the glory the art brought. They just wanted it simple, yet beautiful again.
The painting above was created by
David
The painting above was created by
Ingres
The revolutionary and neoclassical city planners and architects of Paris wanted their city to be the new
Rome
Beethoven initially dedicated his 3rd symphony to
Napoleon Bonaparte
The painting above was created by
West
Interpret this print (what are its possible meanings, how would you describe it?)
“The sleep of reason produces monsters.” It can be understood both as an endorsement of rationalism and as a warning that the surrender of reason can result in disorder and misery. It can also be read as a sign that the faith in reason to solve human problems had ended only in nightmare. To me, I see the picture as the man looking very tired and putting his down while owls and other birds (the world) is on our backs in a sense that it seems like everything is waiting for us to wake up.
Give two examples of Romantic Individualism and/or Romantic Nationalism and explain.
Before the 18th Century, few Europeans concerned themselves with discovering their own individual identities. They were what they had been born: nobles, peasants, or merchants. As mercantalism and capitalism gradually transformed Europe, however, it destablized the old patterns. The new industrialists naturally liked to credit themselves for having built their large fortunes and rejected the right of society to regulate and tax their enterprises. Sometimes they tried to fit into the traditional patterns by buying noble titles; but more and more often they developed their own tastes in the arts and created new social and artistic movements alien to the old aristocracy. This process can be seen operating as early as the Renaissance in the Netherlands.
Discuss Romantic style (e.g. some of the following: time and region, key/common features, representative artists)
The Romantic style was prominent in the early 1800s in Europe. It was a time when artists such as Joshua Reynolds and Hector Berlioz, created a dramatized effect to art. The artists during this time period claimed that emotion was better than intellect, freedom over rules, and passion should fuel the art. They did not care so much as to if their art was historically accurate, as long as it was from the heart.
This woman represents…
Liberty
The subject of this painting was
Passengers set adrift from a crashed French frigate
Who painted this?
Daumier
A daguerreotype was
An early type of photography that couldn’t be easily reproduced
Who painted this?
Manet
Which of the following is not true about Impressionist painters?
Their method typically included impressing high relief into their canvases with mechanical implements
Who painted this?
Millais
Who painted this?
Monet
List a couple of ‘Post-Impressionist’ painters and tell me how they were distinguished from their predecessors…
OR
Describe to me the connection between Art and Science in this period.
Vincent Van Gogh painted “Starry Night” and it was a personal statement he tried to capture the spirit of life and religion,
Paul Gauguin painted pictures with a mixture of the natural form and the artistic feeling. He used texture and colors and shapes for a purposeful effect.
Paul Cezanne painted pictures that were not easily interpreted by the eye and required some thought. He was not excessive with his paintings, but only did the bare minimum so that someone would have to do a thorough analysis to understand.
Leonardo da Vinci, painter and draftsman of the High Renaissance, is best known as an artist whose works were informed by scientific investigation. Leonardo observed the world closely, studying physiology and anatomy in order to create convincing images of the human form. He believed that the moral and ethical meanings of his narrative paintings would emerge only through the accurate representation of human gesture and expression. There has long been a connection between art and science, one that can be traced back to the Egyptian pyramids. History proves that the two disciplines cannot exist without each other, enduring in constantly changing and evolving relationships.
Who painted this woman?
Henri Matisse
This was painted by:
Edvard Munch
This woman was painted by
Amadeo Modigliani
Primitivism was
The conscious imitation of non-western art by European and American artists
Define Expressionism as a style, using specific examples from its artists.
Expressionism was a movement in which artists attempted to express emotional feelings towards an event. Amadeo Modigliani and Henri Matisse were some expressionist artists who used their talents to describe emotion felt at the time of the event.
In your own words, please interpret this painting. Tell me about the artist, the style, and what you think it means.
The creator of this painting is Pablo Picasso who is also one of the originators for Cubism. Everything is very shaped opposed to several paintings done in earlier days it was all blended into each other. In this painting every thing you look at stands out strongly. Cubism brought a new way to see things in the twentieth century. Cubistic paintings have a lot of shapes including cylinders, spheres, and cones. It was a sort of play of planes and angles that were on a flat surface which was different than what the human eye was accustomed to seeing.
This was painted by?
Blake
This was painted by?
Van Gogh
This was painted by?
Boticelli?
This was painted by?
Turner
This was painted by?
Friedrich
This was painted by?
Munch
This was painted by?
David
This was painted by?
Picasso
This was painted by?
Manet
This was painted by?
Botticelli
This was painted by?
Rembrandt
This was painted by?
Monet
This was painted by?
Goya
This was painted by?
El Greco
This was painted by?
Manet
This wanted painted by?
Banksy
This was painted by?
Caravaggio
This was painted by?
Bruegel
This was painted by?
Munch
This was painted by?
Picasso
This was painted by?
Bosch
This was painted by?
Wood
This was painted by?
Matisse
This was painted by?
Pollock
Describe to me the connection between Art and Science in this period.
Example: Leonardo da Vinci, painter and draftsman of the High Renaissance, is best known as an artist whose works were informed by scientific investigation. Leonardo observed the world closely, studying physiology and anatomy in order to create convincing images of the human form.
Describe how ‘neoclassical’ meant different things to different groups (“The Archaeological Ideal”)
Neoclassicalism was referred to as the true style. People considered the Racoco to be shallow, so neoclassicalism took art to be more down to earth and real. So it meant different things to different people because each person had their own way of interpreting everyday life. David, for example painted art to be a reaction to the Racoco.
