Art Appreciation ch 16, 17, 18, 18, 21, 22
Neo-Dada
"new Dada"; young artists mixing art with everyday life, literally and often humorously.
Renaissance
"rebirth"; following the Middle Ages, a movement that centered on the revival of interest in the classical learning of Greece and Rome
Mihrab
(Islam) a niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of Mecca
The Harvesters Pieter Bruegel
16th century, Netherlands, cycle of year
Sistine Chapel
A chapel adjoining Saint Peter's Basilica, noted for the frescoes of biblical subjects painted by Michelangelo on its walls and ceilings. The Creation is one of the notable subjects of the ceiling paintings, and the judgment day is depicted on the rear wall of the chapel. scenes from Genesis
Andy Warhol
An American commercial illustrator and artist famous for his Campbell's soup painting. He was the founder of the pop-art movement, which like all other art movements in history reflected something back on the present society.
Cubism
An Artistic movement that focused on geometric shapes, complex lines, and overlapping planes. (Picasso)
Romanticism
19th century artistic movement that appealed to emotion rather than reason. imagination, intuition, experience (rather than logic)
Buddha Preaching the First Sermon
5th century, sandstone, Archaeological Museum, Sarnath - Sitting in a yoga position, hands on a wheel in a preaching mudra - On predella: devotees listen to the sermon flanking a wheel which represent the Laws of Buddha. - Plain robe with no folds or creases - The face is smooth and ovoid and coveys a sense of elegance - The body has a narrow waist with broad shoulders - Divine beings in halo behind him
Realism
A 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than life as it should be. everyday life.
Mosque
A Muslim place of worship
Humanism
A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievements
Minaret
A distinctive feature of mosque architecture, a tower from which the faithful are called to worship.
Post-Impressionism
A late nineteenth-century style that relies on the Impressionist use of color and spontaneous brushwork but that employs these elements as expressive devices.
linear perspective
A monocular cue for perceiving depth; the more parallel lines converge, the greater their perceived distance.
Neo-Platonism
A pagan school of thought based upon the ideas of the Greek philosopher Plato that help the persistence of the Supreme Being
Mona Lisa
A painting by Leonardo da Vinci of a woman with a mysterious smile. It is now of the most readily recognized paintings in the world.
Harlem Renaissance
A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Islam
A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah), Paradise and Hell, and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims.
Pointillism
A school of painters who used a technique of painting with tiny dots of pure colors that would blend in the viewer's eye. **Developed by Georges Seurat
Neoclassicism
A style of art and architecture that emerged in the later 18th century. Part of a general revival of interest in classical cultures, Neoclassicism was characterized by the utilization of themes and styles from ancient Greece and Rome.
hard-edge painting
A style of modern art that uses even, flat colors and shapes defined with sharp, clean edges. This technique is often used in advertising art..
Taotie
A stylized animal face commonly seen in Chinese bronzes
Shikhara
A tall, curving roof, often with a parabolic profile, that rises like an artificial mountain over the garbhagriha in a Hindu temple
Leonardo da Vinci
A well known Italian Renaissance artist, architect, musician, mathemetician, engineer, and scientist. Known for the Mona Lisa.
Surrealism
An artistic movement that displayed vivid dream worlds and fantastic unreal images. developed from dada movement
Gold Marilyn Monroe
Andy Warhol, 1962. silkscreen and paint on canvas
Judith and Maidservant with the Head of Holofernes
Artemisia Gentileschi, 1625, oil on canvas. Biblical Judith beheaded assyrian general
Mannerism
Artistic movement against the Renaissance ideals of symetry, balance, and simplicity; went against the perfection the High Renaissance created in art. Used elongated proportions, twisted poese and compression of space. "style".
Appropriation
Artistic recycling of existing images. linked to Duchamp: ready made/found objects
atmospheric perspective
Creating the illusion of depth of space by fading colors and eliminating detail in objects that are further away.
Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)
Diego Velazquez, 1656. oil on canvas. princess (infanta), Baroque style
Untitled (Stack)
Donald Judd, 1967. 12 green stacked blocks on wall
St. Mark
Donatello marble clothed man, beard, holding book, placed in niche, contraapposta
Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)
Edouard Manet, 1863. oil on canvas
New York School
Group of abstract expressionists lived and worked in New York during the 1940's and 1950's
Burial at Ornans
Gustave Courbet, 1849-50. Oil on canvas. burial used as a grp portrait
Gustave Courbet
French painter noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes (1819-1877). "A Burial at Ormand
Fur Traders Descending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham. 1845. dad and son floating down river. oil on canvas.
Tanka
Highly stylized form of Japanese poetry that has been a favored means of expression for centuries. art poetry.
Carousing Couple
Judith Leyster, 1630, OIL ON PANEL
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago. 1979. mixed medium
Bernini, David, 1623
Italian Baroque, integrated architecture, painting, sculpture, and lighting. Cornaro Chapel
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect
Caravaggio
Italian painter noted for his realistic depiction of religious subjects and his novel use of light
Number 1
Jackson Pollock. enamel and metallic paint on canvas. dripping, action
Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David, 1784-85, oil on canvas. uses a tragic Roman tale to arouse feelings of patriotism, self-sacrifice and civic virtues.
Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David, 1793 oil on canvas
Haniwa figure of a horse
Japan, earthenware
Haniwa
Japanese ceramic figures that were placed on top of burial mounds. horse.
Shinmei
Japanese shrine architecture. natural materials. simple forms.
Kondo
Japanese, "golden hall." The main hall for worship in a japanese Buddhist temple complex; contained statues of Buddha and the bodhisattvas to whom the temple was dedicated
Target with Four Faces
Jasper Johns, 1955. collage
The Pursuit
Jean -Honore Fragonard. oil on canvas, 1771-3. requested by countess du berry. from a set of 4: The progress of love. boy chases after girl, two cupids as well.
Paul Revere
John Singleton Copley, 1768-70. oil on canvas. posed as silversmith with silver teapot, neoclassical style. posed at table gazing at viewer.
Last Supper
Leonardo da Vinci, fresco, 1495-97, Milan
A Solitary Temple amid Clearing Peaks
Li Cheng. ink on silk. Mts, village, water, trees
Great Stupa at Sanchi
Madhya Pradesh, India. Buddhist; Maurya, late Sunga Dynasty. c. 300 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Stone masonry, sandstone on dome.
The Boating Party
Mary Cassatt, 1893-94. woman with a young child hires man for boating
Trinity with the Virgin, St. John, and Donors
Masaccio, fresco florence 1425 stable triangle, God, Christ dead on cross, donors on either side kneeling
Fauvism
Means "wild beast". Bold, shocking color. Joyous tone, usually. Matisse
Object (Luncheon in Fur)
Meret Oppenheim, 1936. fur-covered cup, saucer and spoon
David
Michelangelo, marble, naked. young, tension/energy, standing in readiness.
Abstract Expressionism
New York "School". Large scale. Pollock and Koonig.
Ashes of Phokion
Nicolas Poussin. oil on canvas. represents a noble and serious human act, widow buries remains
Photorealism
Paintings executed in a highly realistic fashion that look almost like photography
Louvre Museum
Paris, France. 1793. first national art museum. still open today
Roy Lichtenstein
based his imagery off of HAND DRAWN ADVERTISING.
calligraphy
bc of its connection with the act of prayer, it became the most highly regarded art in the Islamic world
The Raising of the Cross
Peter Paul Rubens, 1610. oil on canvas. diagonal, dramatic lighting, movement, Christ on cross with it being raised. muscle detail
Le Moulin de la Galette
Pierre-Auguste Renoir. 1876. Oil on canvas. friends at gathering. drinks, dancing, flirting. impressionism. chiaroscuro.
Pope Leo X with Two Cardinals
Raphael 1518 OIL ON WOOD High Renaissance
Sortie of Captain Banning Cocq's Company of the Civic Guard
Rembrandt van Rijn. oil on canvas. 1642. private elite militia. aka The Night Watch
Spiral Jetty
Robert Smithson, 1970. Land art (earth art)
Blam
Roy Lichtenstein. 1962. oil on canvas. From "All-American Men of War"
Medici Family
Ruled Florence during the Renaissance, became wealthy from banking, spent a lot of money on art, controlled Florence for about 3 centuries. sponsored Academy
The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, 1931. oil on canvas. melting clocks, face , tree, water, mt
Birth of Venus
Sandro Botticelli tempera on canvas venus floating in shell, zephyr and wife blow her to shore, where spring goddess waits. Greek and Roman gods and goddesses
Plato
Socrates' most well known pupil. Founded an academy in Athens. Greek philosopher.
art patron
Sponsors, or supporters, of an artist or art-related places and events
Head, (fragment of a larger figure) Nok.
Terra cotta, wide nose, d shaped eyes
Excavated figures from the "terra cotta army"
guarding a burial site of Shihuangdi 1st emporer of United china
Jia
chinese vessel for wine
Qur'an or Koran
The holy book of Islam
Pop Art
art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
calligraphy
art of beautiful handwriting
Confucianism
The system of ethics, education, and statesmanship taught by Confucius and his disciples, stressing love for humanity, ancestor worship, reverence for parents, and harmony in thought and conduct.
Shinto
The traditional religion of Japan
Diego Velazquez
This artist was the artist of Philip IV's court in the 17th century. He is known for his realistic portraits of the royal family in Spain's Golden Age.
Qibla Iwan
This wall in a mosque always faces Mecca. rectangle hall orspace, vaulted, walled in 3 sudes,
the last supper
Tintoretto 1594 oil on canvas
Rococo
Very elaborate and ornate (in decorating or metaphorically, as in speech and writing); relating to a highly ornate style of art and architecture in 18th-century France
Marie Antoinette and Her Children
Vigee-Lebrun (Rococo), oil on canvas, 1787. portrayed as devoted and beloved mom, who knows her place in the home and not in politics.
Pablo Picasso
artist, innovator. cubism (w/ Georges Braque): avant-garde movement that changed European art and culture. periods: blue, rose, neoclassical
Genji
Who is the main character of Murasaki Shikibu's novel? japanese
Stupas
a dome-shaped structure erected as a Buddhist shrine.
Muqarnas
a honeycomb-like decoration often applied in Islamic buildings to domes, niches, capitals, or vaults. The surface resembles intricate stalactites
Muqarnas
a honeycomb-like decoration often applied in Islamic buildings to domes, niches, capitals... these scoop like structures are one of the most characteristics of Islamic architectural ornaments.
Haboku
a monochrome Japanese ink painting done in a free style in which ink seems to be splashed on a surface
drip technique
a painting technique in which paint is dripped from a brush or stick onto a horizontal canvas or another ground
Bodhisattva
a person who has attained enlightenment but who has postponed nirvana in order to help others achieve enlightenment
Color Field Painting
a style of abstract painting characterized by simple shapes and monochromatic color.
Impressionism
a style of art where painters try to catch visual impressions made by color, light, and shadows. **Focused on light
Expressionism
a style of painting, music, or drama in which the artist or writer seeks to express emotional experience rather than impressions of the external world.
Ready Mades/Found Objects
a work of art that has not been made, but designated at art. Marcel Champ
Action Painting
an abstract painting in which the artist drips and splatters paint onto a surface like a canvas in order to create his or her work.* this new type of painting
Palace altar to king Ovonramwen
an altar to the current rulers father. large king with smaller servants to right and left. brass bells, elephant tusks in large brass heads of rulers .nigeria
Garbhagriha
from the sanskrit word meaning "womb chamber" a small room or shrine in a hindu temple containing a holy image
Baroque Art
full of emotion, energy and movement. vivid colors, stark contrast, dynamic, theatrical, ornamation
Isenheim Altarpiece
gruesome, Jesus on cross, in hospital, panel
Chattri
in Indian architecture, a decorative pavilion with an umbrella-shaped dome
Minkisi
medicine containers. kongo. also used to hold materials that aid in rituals for harnessing the powers of the dead.
Ijele
most honored mask of the Igbo people of Nigeria. large, dome like,
Installations
interior or exterior settings of media created by artists to heighten the viewers' awareness of the environmental space. minimalists. surrealists.
koan
irrational questions designed to short circuit logical thought patterns (zen)
Neo-Expressionism
is an art movement which emerged in the 1980's and reflects the artist's interest in expressing feeling in a new way.
Yakshi
nature spirit w/ ideas of fertility and abundance. not a part of Buddhist faith. older and more widespread Indian belief. SANDSTONE
genre painting
painting in which scenes of everyday life are depicted
Daoism
philosophical system developed by of Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
academy
school of philosophy founded by Plato, sponsored by Medici. discussion grp where humanistic scholars and artists met to discuss classical culture and Christianity
Nkondi
spiritual figure. hunts down and punishes witches and wrongdoers
Court if Lions, Alhambra Palace
stone lions supporting the fountain. water flows thru, muqarnas
Seated Couple
subject: complementary gender roles/unity of Dogon people of Africa medium wood and metal
zen
the practice of meditation; a school of Buddhism in Japan
Nok (town in Nigeria)
the smooth surfaces and d-shaoed eyes are characteristics of works from this culture
Sfumato
the technique of allowing tones and colors to shade gradually into one another, producing softened outlines or hazy forms. "smoke "
Chiaroscuro
the treatment of light and shade in drawing and painting
Pluralism
there is no longer any single leading artistic center.
masquerade
to wear a disguise; to put on a false appearance
Robert Rauschenberg
was a pop artist who made "combines" by interspersing painted passages with sculptural elements. used "found" materials and images.
entry portal, Shah mosque
with muqarnas, mosiac glazed blue tile, pointed arch, sunburst motif
