Week 4

Question 1

What is Art History?

Answer 1

The study of human expression through history

Question 2

Who coined and what is “Artist as Genius”?

Answer 2

Coined by Georgio Vasari; He wrote about artists life in an attempt to convert society’s perspective onto the artists instead of the commissioners

Question 3

Humanism

Answer 3

The unique value in each person; appeared during the Renaissance

Question 4

What is the hierarchy of genres?

Answer 4

1. Historical Art
2. Portraiture
3. Genre Painting
4. Landscape Painting
5. Animal Painting
6. Still life

Question 5

What are the traditional genre’s of art?

Answer 5

1. Portraiture
2. Still life
3. Figure
4. Landscape

Question 6

What is impasto?

Answer 6

Paint so thick it has its own physicality; paint becomes synonymous for the human body

Question 7

Fauvism

Answer 7

“wild” in French; eccentric colours and style

Question 8

Cubism

Answer 8

Triangles and cubes; depictions of 3d life into a 2d canvas through emphasis on 2d shapes

Question 9

Baroque

Answer 9

depictions of biblical scenarios in realistic light

Question 10

Traditional Themes of art

Answer 10

1. Beauty
2. Spirituality
3. Political power

Question 11

Contemporary themes of art

Answer 11

1. the body
2. identity and subjectivity
3. pop culture and consumerism
4. mass media
5. postmoderism
6. history
7. technology
8. art and social engagement