Art 1300 Ch 3 Quiz
Invention and Fantasy
Art that springs from the imagination is represented through the theme of invention and fantasy. It is the product of dreams, fantasy, and daydreaming.
The Natural World
Earth, space, and all living things not created by humans.
A Sudden Gust of Wind shows
Jeff Wall thinking about Hokusai's Ejiri in Suruga Province
The most important and honored subject in the Chinese painting tradition
Landscape, for viewers to wander through in the mind's eye ex. White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang by Wang Jian
Politics and Social Order
Political art and social statements are often intertwined and reflect the nature of a society.
The largest panel of a triptych
The Garden of Earthly Delights by Hieronymus Bosch
A structure which followed the theme of politics and the social order
The Great Pyramids at Giza which reflect the immense power of the pharaohs but also the beliefs underlying the social order that granted its rulers such power in the first place
8 themes of art
The sacred realm, politics and social order, stories and histories, looking outward: The here and now, looking inward: the human experience, invention and fantasy, the natural world, and art and art
Looking Inward: The Human Experience
This theme addresses what it is like to be human and questions that many humans ask like "Who am I?".
Art and Art
This theme explores the use of art being pursued for its own sake as artists often make art about itself about learning, making, and viewing it; about its nature and social setting; about specific movements, styles, or works Art referring to older art
Triptych
a composition consisting of three panels side by side, generally hinged in such a way that the outer two panels can close like shutters over the central one
As art transitioned into the modern era it remained deeply involved with politics and the social order but
art now took sides in the debates of the day ex. Liberty Leading the People (which supported the 1830 revolution and glorified violence) Guernica by Picasso (which condemns the violence that fascism unleashed)
Before modern mass media
art served to project the presence and authority of rulers to the people throughout their lands
Issues gently touched on in Woman Holding a Balance
birth, death, the decisions we must weigh on our journey through life, the temptations of vanity, the problem of self-knowledge, the question of life after death
The Sacred Realm
cannot be seen with human eyes; religious images help to give concrete form to abstract ideas
Stories and Histories
deeds of heroes, lives of saints, folktales passed through generations, shared stories are one of the ways we create a sense of community, artists often turn to stories for subject matter
Nature is also used as a material for art as the desire to portray landscapes has been matched by the
desire to create them for the pleasure of our eyes ex. The Buddhist temple of Ryoan-ji in Kyoto, Japan Spiral Jetty by Robert Smithson
Talking Skull by Meta Warrick Fuller
embodies a universal message about the desire for communion beyond the boundaries of our brief lifetime but is also an african-american work that addresses the traumatic rupture with ancestral culture that slavery produced
History has furnished artists with many stories
for history itself is nothing more than a story we tell ourselves about the past, a story we write an rewrite
Art has played an important role in our relationship to the sacred by
helping us to envision it, to honor it, and to communicate with it
In many early societies earthly order and cosmic order were viewed as
interrelated and mutually dependent ex. pharaoh was viewed as link between the divine and earthly realms
Jeff Wall's photograph links back to a specific work of art while John Baldessari's video Six Colorful Inside Jobs
playfully addresses the idea of art itself, and slyly refers to biblical creation as on the 7th day we can presume the painter rests
Renaissance theorists likened painting to
poetry, the idea that painting was comparable to it is one of the factors that led to paintings being considered an art as well
Looking Outward: The Here and Now
sometimes it is enough to look around ourselves and notice what our life is like here, now, in this place, at this time
"Painting within a painting" areas are called
space cells, and artists in many cultures have used them for narration ex. Story of Rama
Among the earliest images of daily life
survived in tombs of ancient egypt
Part of our pleasure as viewers lies in
teasing out visual and conceptual connections
During the 19th century many american painters set themselves
the American landscape as a subject, one of the first was Thomas Cole, his most famous painting The Oxbow which depicts the great looping bend of the Connecticut river
Six Colorful Inside Jobs is about
work as art and art as work