Art Appreciation Comprehensive Final
True
"Low relief" means a sculpture/form projects slightly form the background, "high relief"f means the sculpture/form projects boldly from the background, and "in the round" means the sculpture/form is freestanding. Is this statement true or false?
any given time period
Artwork from _________ is often defined and categorized by similar themes found during that time
Similar themes
Artwork from any given time period is often defined and categorized by ___________ found during that time
Max Beckmann
Otto Dix, George Grosz and ________ were members of Neue Sachlichkeit.
all of these: its place in art history, and how and why it was made.
The appreciation of a work of art can be enhanced greatly by knowing
Rhythm
The architect Leon Battista used what principle of design to create the monumental faced of the church of Sant' Andrea?
FUNCTION
The basis of crafts has to be the original intention of
specific message
The goal of the Graphic Designer is, the communication of a ________ to a specific group of people.
context
The personal, social, cultural, and historical setting in which a work is created, received and interpreted.
1. To record the borders of form 2.To convey direction and motion
The primary functions of a line in art:
1. To record the borders of form 2. To convey direction and motion
The primary functions of line in art:
silica or sand
The principle ingredient for glass is usually _______________.
Pop Art
__________, derived imagery from popular, mass- produced culture. Pop artists sought to draw art closer to life, but life as it had already been transformed for them by advertising and the media
Pope Julius II
___________ commissioned Raphael to complete the work at the Vatican Palace.
Encaustic
____________ was redeveloped during the 19th century after Roman-Egyptian portraits were discovered.
Art Museums
____________ were a development of the 19th century and the first one was opened during the height of the French Revolution.
Contrapposto
or counter balance sets the body in a gentle "S" curve through a play of opposites
Iconography
(the story including symbols or references, people, events, etc.) requires knowledge of a specific time, beliefs or culture
an inert white pigment
Gouache is a watercolor medium into which ________ has been added.
brutality and darkness
In Picasso's Guernica, the artist indicated the bull represented ________.
Encaustic Fresco Tempera Oil Watercolor Gouache Acrylic
Painting Techniques and Mediums
installation & mosaics & tapestry
Painting can also encompass non-traditional media & techniques such as painting within a defined area or ________
Old Stone Age
Paleolithic simply means
China
Paper was invented in
19th century
The Arts & Crafts movements at the beginning of the ________ blurred the distinction between "fine arts" and "crafts."
Art Deco
The Chrysler Building, New York, is a masterpiece of ________.
aesthetics
The branch of philosophy that deals with natural and artistic beauty is
New York City
The center of the art world in 1945
1. Primary colors 2. Secondary colors 3. Tertiary Colors
The color wheel is made up of:
Rasmussen
This ceramicist uses the traditional coil technique to build non-representational forms in stoneware.
Italian Renaissance
We consider the frescoes of the _________________ to be the some of the greatest works in all of Western art.
Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863
What is this piece?
Bourgeois, Maman, 1999 cast 2001
What is this piece?
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, 1979 - 2005
What is this piece?
Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, c. 1503-05
What is this piece?
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982 Line
What is this piece? Example of?
Sarah Sze, Hidden Relief, 2001 Line
What is this piece? Example of?
Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights Invention and Fantasy
What is this piece? Theme?
Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty The natural world
What is this piece? Theme?
Dry
______ media include: Graphite MetalPoint Charcoal Crayon Pastel Chalk
Illustration
to make visual, the written word, ideas or products used in books, magazines, posters, and newspapers-used also to record when the camera isn't permitted
Cole
Immigrating from England, this artist became one of the pioneers American Landscape painting.
New York School
Pollock was part of the ________, while not a true movement, it was a group of artists working closely together with similar thoughts and styles...
the huge amount of mass-produced images and objects of America's popular culture.
Pop Art was a movement that focused on
in the round.
Sculpture that is freestanding and completely finished on all sides is called
Claes Oldenburg
The sculptor ________ is known for re-creating ordinary objects on an heroic scale.
Pollcok
This artist considered himself a "machine", to be devoid of emotion or feeling, just a machine that produced a product.
Olowe
This great sculptor used the wood medium to carve commissions as the court sculptor for the King of Ise.
height, width, and depth negative and positive space
Three dimensional space has ______. In it, there exists both __________
Picasso, First Communion, 1896
What is this piece?
Picasso, Guernica, 1937
What is this piece?
Picasso, Le Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
What is this piece?
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
What is this piece?
Picasso, Seated Woman Holding a Fan, 1908
What is this piece?
Raphael, The School of Athens, 1509 - 11
What is this piece?
Romare Bearden, Mysteries, 1964
What is this piece?
Salvador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
What is this piece?
Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 1819
What is this piece?
Vincent van Gogh's The Starry Night from 1889?
What is this piece?
Warhol, Thirty Are Better than One, 1963
What is this piece?
Maharana Amar Singh II, Prince Sangram Singh...c. 1705-08 Implied space
What is this piece? Example of?
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907 Cubanism
What is this piece? The first glimpse the world had into ________
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936-1939.
What piece is this?
Georges Braque, Still Life on Table: Gillete, 1914
What piece is this?
Guernica, Pablo Picasso, 1937
What piece is this?
Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, before 1911 finished 1915
What piece is this?
India, The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, 12th Century
What piece is this?
Jan van Eyck, Man in a Red Turban (Self Portrait?), 1433
What piece is this?
Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson & Bubbles, 1988
What piece is this?
Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495 - 97
What piece is this?
Vitruvius
Which ancient Roman's writings on architecture related the human body to geometric shapes?
metalpoint
Which medium involves drawing with a fine wire onto a coated surface?
Symbols
______ These convey information or ideas for all languages.
Wet
______ media include: Pen and ink Brush and ink
Monet's
_______ work was of the Impressionist style (Impressionism)
Andy Warhol
____________was Pop Art...he embodied the movement.
Ancient wood pieces
are few, as this material is not very durable (cold, heat, water, and insects are some of the factors which cause its decay).
CRAFT
Expert work done by hand, not machine.
sprits.
In traditional African sculpture, the human figure most often represents
Seine River.
Monet painted the work above from a small rowboat in the middle of the_______ Impressionism
Gutenberg
_________ created the first type set was "Blackletter" that was replaced by "Roman Type" created by Jenson in the 15th century.
Two dimensional
_________ space has only height and width. There exists the picture plane and the illusion of a negative (ground) and positive (figure) space.
Expression
used solely as the artist's method of expression, the end result
Postmodernism
ushers in a return to imagery, introduces the use of words, and embraces pluralistic approaches, including abstraction.
*Egypt, Chair of Hetepheres, 2575-2551 B.C.E
what piece is this?
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981
what piece is this?
Plato & Aristotle
*Raphael, The School of Athens, 1510-11 Featuring Greek philosophers __________, the work is a testament to the two philosophers individual "schools" of thought. Plato's abstract and metaphysical school and Aristotle's earthly & physical school.
collage
A French word for pasting or gluing; _________, refers to the practice of attaching actual objects to the surface.
Pollock
A quintessential Abstract Expressionist, ___________________ worked in the "action painting" technique which records the act of the creation.
subject
A theme is not the same as the _______ of a work. For example, the subject of the movies Star Wars is a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, whereas the themes might be moral ambiguity or the conflict between technology and nature.
Subject
A theme is not the same as the________ of a work. For example, the subject of the movie Star Wars is a battle between the Galactic Empire and the Rebel Alliance, whereas the themes might be moral ambiguity or the conflict between technology and nature.
graphite and metal point
According to our notes the Dry Media include: 1. Pastel 2. Crayon 3. Charcoal 4. Chalk 5. ___________ & 6. ___________
Plato is holding his book the Timaeus
According to the Raphael, School of Athens article in the modules area; the two great philosophers Plato & Aristotle are at the center... we can tell Plato from Aristotle, but how?
Germany and Italy
According to the Youtube video on Guernica in the modules section; what two allies of General Franco attacked Guernica?
Ludovico Sforza
According to the article on Leonardo & His Drawings in the modules section; while working in Milan he created a number of sheet drawings and designs on instruments of war. Who employed him while he created these drawings?
Woodhenge
According to the linked video on Stonehenge in our modules; what is the name of the nearby settlement that was the starting point for human burial to Stonehenge?
South of England
According to the linked video on Stonehenge in our modules; where is Stonehenge located?
3,000 BC, unknown
According to the linked video on Stonehenge in our modules; work began on Stonehenge around what time? Also, according to the video, what was it's purpose?
Early Classical Period
According to the linked video on contrapposto; only one of the sculptures exhibit contrapposto...from what period is this sculpture from?
Frankenthaler & Rothko
According to the text these two artists downplayed the forceful gestures of Action Painting and instead focused on broad areas or "fields" of color.
Stories and Histories
According to the text, Alter to the Chases High School by Boltanski is part of what theme of art?
Here and Now
According to the text, Edward Hopper's, Gas depicts what theme of art?
National Gallery
According to the video on Van Eyck in the modules section; what institution, which is the most authoritative and widely accepted view on the subject, states that the van Eyck Arnolfini Double Portrait painting is not of a wedding ceremony but a simple double portrait of a couple already married?
The branch of philosophy that deals with the nature, beauty and meaning of art, and our response to it. Our sensory experiences aroused by what we see, hear, taste or touch or smell.
Aesthetics
Kaprow & Happenings
After a suggestion by John Cage that art look to theatre for more lively art, this artist _______________________ began to remove the art object and stage spontaneous events called __________________.
Earthwork
Art made from natural materials from and for a specific place
Earthwork
Art made from natural materials from and for a specific place
To Give Tangible Form to Feeling Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night, 1889.
Artists Role of Van Gogh's Starry Night is What is the information on this piece?
charcoal drawings
Artists use charred wood in order to produce
3rd millennium B.C.E.
Casting - The lost-wax process dates back to the
"field" or area of color Mark Rothko
Color Field painting is imagery reduced to a large ______________. One of it's main contributors was _________.
Sir Isaac Newton's 1666
Color wheel: made up of the colors refracted by ___________________ prism in ________
Clay Glass Metal Wood Fiber Ivory, jade, and lacquer
Craft includes:
melting away
Dali's art suggest that time may be _______, and nothing survives but the frenetic activity of the insects, who may outlive man. Surrealism
geometric elements
De Stijl artists reduced their artistic vocabulary to simple ________.
analogous
Diana Cooper's, The Site is an example of what color harmony?
Pointillism
Dots of pure color that tend to mix in our eyes to produce the illusion of color mixtures
Perspective Visual
During the Renaissance, ________ became a vehicle for _______ just like any other visual element
time and motion
During the twentieth century, ________ were added to the visual elements used by artists.
primitive time
Earthwork art has been documented since ________ in all cultures, as is the case with Serpent Mound in Ohio Its purpose is unknown to us, as are the original creators......but scientists think it may have been done in reference to Haley's Comet.
He committed suicide
How did Vincent van Gogh die?
Frank Lloyd Wright
In America, architect _________ had a great impact on the architecture of the twentieth century.
Frank Lloyd Wright
In America, architect ______________ had a great impact on the architecture of the twentieth century, especially in the house called Fallingwater.
jade
In China ____________ was believed to have magical properties and was prized and carved for six thousand years.
American Midwest farmer
In Grant Wood's American Gothic 1930, the artist has sought to embody in the portrait the strength of the _________
chocolate and lard
In Janine Antoni's Gnaw, two 600-pound cubes of which materials were gnawed on by the artist?
posed with the weight of the body shifted onto one foot.
In sculpture, the term contrapposto means that the figure is
history, classical mythology, and Biblical scenes.
Ingres felt that the greatest subject matters of all were _________ Neoclassicism
photography and the camera
It developed from the search for arts essence in the wave of the challenge presented by _______
additive, subtractive, casting and assembling processes.
It is also the act or practice of shaping figures or designs "in the round" or in "relief", by using the four basic methods for making sculpture that include
Bradford
Makes paintings from posters and papers found in their neighborhood and travels.
1. modern life. 2. eternal subjects
Manet seems to have wanted to accomplish 2 goals with his work. 1. The first was to join Courbet and other artists in painting ________ 2.The other was to prove that modern life could produce ________worthy of the great masters of the museums.
coil method
Martinez created her works by using the ____________, and they are almost geometrically perfect.*
containing large stones, but generally encompass anything built of stones and large-graves, tombs Stonehenge, c. 2000-1500B.C.E., Salisbury Plain, England
Megalith What is the information on this piece?
Abstract Expressionism: Action Painting Abstract Expressionism: Color Field Painting Into the Sixties: Assemblages Art of the Sixties and Seventies: Pop Art Art of the Eighties and Nineties: Postmodernism
Modern to Post-Modern: Movements in order
light as well as modern life.
Monet's work was of the Impressionist style (Impressionism) and now that painting had moved outdoors because of the miraculous invention of portable tube paint, their aim was to capture the transient effect of Impressionism
portable tube paint
Monet's work was of the Impressionist style (Impressionism) and now that painting had moved outdoors because of the miraculous invention of_________, their aim was to capture the transient effect of light as well as modern life.
Constructivism Fauvism Harlem Renaissance Romanticism Bauhaus
Movements in the Modern World
Neo-Dada
Moving into the mid 1950s, with _________ artists looked to the European influences from Dada concepts, as Marcel Duchamp now lived in New York..
political statement
Picasso has memorialized this event and has created an effective _________ on the Spanish Civil War
architecture
Postmodernism - The term was first used to describe _________
architecture
Postmodernism ushers in a return to imagery, introduces the use of words, and embraces pluralistic approaches, including abstraction. The term was first used to describe ____________.
Greeks
Roman Copy of Apoxyomenos, c. 320 B.C.E....the practice of Contrapposto was invented by the
Collage
Romare Bearden carried on the _______________ technique, and worked with bits of photographic magazine illustrations to evoke his life as an African American growing up in rural North Carolina.
Themes of art
Sacred Realism Politics and the Social Order Stories and Histories Looking Outward: The Here and Now Looking Inward: The Human Experience Invention and Fantasy The Natural World Art for Art
the art establishment's unequal treatment of women and minority artists.
Since 1985 the activities of the Guerilla Girls have focused on
ushnisha
Symbolizing enlightenment, the form on top of the head of the sculpture of Amida Nyorai is called a ___________.
Fauvism
The (wild beasts) gained their name through the use of wild, subjective colors and were part of this movement.
1. Primary Colors 2. Secondary Colors 3. Tertiary Colors
The Color Wheel is made up of:
False
The Industrial Revolution was praised for helping the small workshops create objects on a mass scale and defined the Westerns idea that more objects should be made by machines and not skilled hands to increase economic revenue.
Visual & Conceptual
The Principle of Design Unity has two Unifying Concepts, they are ____________ & ____________.*
1. Unity and Variety 2. Balance 3. Emphasis/Subordination 4. Proportion/Scale 5. Rhythm
The Principles of Design
Line Shape and Mass Light Color Texture and Pattern Space TIme and Motion
The Visual Elements
Surrealists
The ________ used methods such as automatism to provoke reactions closely related to subconscious experience.
rhythm
The design principle that is based on repetition is called
sub-conscious dreams
The intuitive and __________, the world of fantasy, of ________, of the psyche, these are the environments the Surrealists investigated and painted.
Mexico
The most celebrated frescoes of the 20th century were from
clay
The most common modeling material in most parts of the world is?
egg yolk
The most famous vehicle for the tempera medium is ____________.
30,000 B.C.E.
The oldest cave paintings known today were made around
medium.
The substance in which the paint is suspended without dissolving them is the ____________.
how well that message is conveyed
The success of a design is measured by
fool of the eye
The term "trompe l'oeil" is French for
hue, value, and intensity
The three physical properties of color are
1. Modeling form through value 2. Linear perspective 3. Atmospheric perspective
The three techniques Renaissance painters developed to depict the naturalism of the world:
dry and liquid media.
The two broad categories into which traditional drawing materials are typically divided are
1. Overlapping 2. Position
The two ways we imply space on a 2D surface
Naturalistic and Stylized
The two ways we look at art in nature:
Warhol
The work Thirty Are Better Than One was created by which Pop artist?
the Golden Age of the Renaissance
The work represents Raphael's vision of __________and connects it with the Gold Age of Greece two thousand years earlier.
vanitas
The works in this chapter by Valdés and Flack are examples of ________ paintings.
Surrealism
The_______movement expressed itself by using the inner reality; it was all experience.
Grosse
This artist stated about their work, "We continually remake this surrounding just as we do when we perceive the world. To see the installation as a coherent unit is an illusion"
Kusama
This artist suffers from hallucinations that become their work stating.."I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings..."
Hansen
This artist writes computer codes that become the basis for his "paintings"...they state,"...takes my subjectivity out of the equation and tells me what to do - including the mistakes".
Goldsworthy
This earthwork artist makes work that may only last a few minutes or hours out of materials such as ice, leaves or branches.
Dada
This movement, embodied by Marcel Duchamp, originated in Zurich, Switzerland in the early 20th century.
aquamanile
This object is used for ritualistic hand washing and was used by Roman Catholic priests before celebrating Mass.
Cubism Movement
This painting is the first glimpse of the
outline
This term defines a two dimensional shape.
relief
This type of sculpture is meant to be viewed frontally, as in how we would view a painting.
academic art
This viewpoint and its style became known as _________ and was encouraged by institutions and schools of the 19th century. Neoclassicism
Dinner Party
This work by Judy Chicago was executed with the help of hundreds of men and women and is one of the foremost works of the Feminist movement.
Regionalism
This work is part of a developing movement Wood described as ________, which focused on American subjects and stood in reaction against the modernist abstraction of Europe and New York.
-Printing press -Industrial Revolution -Travel, communication, & technology
Three historical changes created the high demand for this industry:
True
Three Dimensional Space has height, width, and depth. In it, there exists both negative and positive space.*
Preliminary study Illustration Expression
Three Purposes for Drawing
vanitas
Titian's work "Venus with a Mirror" and Picasso's work "Girl Before a Mirror" call upon the classic tradition of ____________ paintings.
true
True or False: Part of the "to give tangible form to feelings & ideas" role of the artist, van Gogh used his view of death as inspiration for this night landscape. Van Gogh said, "Just as we take the train to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to Reach a star"
False
True or False: The French artist Le Corbusier related the golden figure to human proportions in a tool he called the Modulor.
True
True or False: We have an understanding of what Greek paintings looked like because they drew on their pottery.
Conceptual
Unity based in ideas, themes and theory
Visual
Unity based in the elements of shape, line, color, mass, etc.
"Vanity", generic term for numerous works done during the 17th century the passage of time, & the meaning of life and death.
Vanitas are Latin for______ Both messages speak to _______
image
Warhol is inviting commentary on the _________ as celebrity itself
warp and weft.
Weaving is created with two interlaced sets of fibers that form a grid-like pattern called
the devastation of a Spanish city by Nazi bombers
What event prompted Pablo Picasso to create the painting Guernica?
Defined....mans creative response to his hopes, dreams, fears and anxieties.
What is ART?
Audrey Flack, Wheel of Fortune (Vanitas), 1977-78
What is the information on this piece?
Juan de Valdés Leal, Vanitas, 1660
What is the information on this piece?
Warhol and Pop Art
What is this artist and movement?
Andy Warhol, Gold Marilyn Monroe, 1962
What is this piece?
Barbara Kruger, Untitled (Your Gaze Hits the Side of My Face), 1981
What is this piece?
Delauney, Electric Prisms, 1913
What is this piece?
Jackson Pollock, Number 1, 1949. 1949
What is this piece?
Jackson Pollock, Number 1,1949. 1949
What is this piece?
Jan Van Eyck, Arnolfini Double Portrait, 1434
What is this piece?
Jan van Eyck's, The Arnolfini Double Portrait, 1443
What is this piece?
Jasper Johns, Target with Four Faces, 1955
What is this piece?
Jeff Koons, Michael Jackson & Bubbles, 1988
What is this piece?
Kandinsky, Composition VIII 1923
What is this piece?
Leonardo Da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495 - 97
What is this piece?
Leonardo da Vinci, "The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius", 1490
What is this piece?
Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa, 1503 - 1505
What is this piece?
Leonardo da Vinci, The Last Supper, 1495-97
What is this piece?
Leonardo da Vinci, The Study of Human Proportions According to Vetruvius, c. 1485-90
What is this piece?
Maria & Julian Martinez, Jar, 1939
What is this piece?
Mark Rothko, Orange and Yellow, 1956
What is this piece?
Pablo Picasso, Guernica, 1937
What is this piece?
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow The natural world
What is this piece? Theme?
Wang Juan, White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang The natural world?
What is this piece? Theme?
Edouard Manet, Le Dejeuner sur l' herbe or Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
What is this place?
Paleolithic Period Chauvet cave, Lion Panel, C.30,000 B.C.E
What period are these cave paintings from? What is the information on this piece?
*María and Julian Martínez, Jar, c. 1939.
What piece is this?
Christo & Jeanne-Claude, The Gates, 1979 - 2005
What piece is this?
Cornell, Hotel Eden, 1945
What piece is this?
Leonardo da Vinci, "The proportions of the human body according to Vitruvius", 1490
What piece is this?
Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999
What piece is this?
Maria & Julian Martinez, Jar, 1939
What piece is this?
Ohio, Serpent Mound, c. 1000 C.E
What piece is this?
Petrus Christus, A Goldsmith in His Shop, 1449
What piece is this?
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, 1907
What piece is this?
Pollock, Shimmering Substances, 1946
What piece is this?
Renzo Piano and Richard Rodgers, Georges Pompidou National Center of Art and Culture, Paris, 1977
What piece is this?
Roman Copy of Apoxyomenos, c. 320 B.C.E
What piece is this?
Romare Bearden, Mysteries, 1964
What piece is this?
Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818 - 1819
What piece is this?
Giacometti, The Nose, 1947 Space
What piece is this? Example of?
Keith Haring, Untitled, 1982 Line
What piece is this? Example of?
Sarah Sze, Hidden Relief, 2001 Line
What piece is this? Example of?
Seurat, A Sunday on La Grande Jatte, 1884-86 Optical Color Mixture and Pointillism
What piece is this? Example of?
Seurat, Evening, Honfleur, 1886 Optical Color Mixture and Pointillism
What piece is this? Example of?
Manet, Le Dejeuner sur I' herbe or Luncheon on the Grass, 1863
What piece is this? Impressionism
Monet, Autumn Effect at Argenteuil 1873
What piece is this? Impressionism
*Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Jupiter and Thetis, 1811
What piece is this? Neoclassicism
Salavador Dali, The Persistence of Memory, 1931
What piece is this? Surrealism
Kiki Smith
Which artist said "I chose the body as a subject...because it is the one form that we all share"?
No Title (Not a single...) by Petition
Which of the following works of art was created with a liquid drawing medium?
Art of Humanity
Which one of these in not a theme of art? Natural World Invention and Fantasy Art of Humanity Art for Art
Texture & Pattern
Which one of these is not a Principle of Design*
Baldessari
Who created Six Colorful Inside Jobs?
(sculptor)said," All art is either Paleolithic or Neolithic: either the urge to smear soot or grease on cave walls or pile stone on stone."
Who is Anthony Caro?
on the grounds it was not a color in the natural world
Why did some painters stop using the "black" in their paintings?
assemblages
Works such as Rauschenberg's Winter Pool and Johns' Target with Four Faces are considered _________________________.
Textile
______ was used to drape over statues of deities and as payment for taxes in the Incan culture.
Triptych
_______ - a composition consisting of three panels side by side, generally hinged in such a way that the two outer panels can close like shutters over the central one.
Logos and trademarks:
_______ Symbols that represent the company or its product gain meaning through effective advertising.
Guernica by Pablo Picasso April 26, 1937 Spanish Civil War
_______ depicts the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain, by twenty four bombers, on _______ during the ______, in which a number of people estimated between 250 and 1,600 were killed and many more were injured. Theme: Politics and the Social Order
Themes
_______ in art are often messages about life, society or human nature, and are usually implied rather than explicitly stated.
Vetruvius
_______, a Roman architect related the perfected male form to the perfect geometry of the square and the circle
Picasso
________ rocked the art world with this shockingly geometric version of nudes. Cubism
Layout
________ A blueprint for work in print to hold the viewer's attention
Graphic Design
________ is the visual presentation of information.
Paris, France
________ was the center of the art world in the early 19th century.
Bodhisattvas
_________ are enlightened beings who have deferred their ultimate goal of nirvana to help others attain that goal.
Typography
_________ the arrangement and appearance of letters
Ancient Greeks and Romans
__________ and _______ believed that numerical relationships held the key to beauty, and that perfect human proportions reflected a divine order
Abstract
__________ art is rooted in the real world but is exaggerated.
Installation
_____________ is a new art form that has space and is presented as a work of art to be explored and experienced.
Delaunay
_____________ is considered a pioneer of nonrepresentational art
Formalism
______________ focuses on the formal elements of a work, especially its style.
Jasper Johns
______________ utilized a 3-dimensional, mixed-media technique referred to as "assemblage."
Abstract Expressionism Jackson Pollock
_______________, was inspired by the Surrealism movement and one of the movements main contributors was _________________
The Arts and Craft Movement
________________ heightened awareness of the value of handmade objects in the face of industrialization.
Surrealists
________appreciated the logic of dreams and the superiority of the unconscious.
Dorothea Lange Great Depression
________used her eye to make political and social statements; she created a memorable image, a photograph, documenting the misery of the ________in the West in her work Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley 1936.
In the Kaufmann House (Fallingwater) 1936-39,
_______the house fits into the environment and does not conflict with the countryside; Wright has even used the water to act as a complement to the structure and the landscape.
Sculpture
as defined, is art that encompasses height, width and depth. It is also the act or practice of shaping figures or designs "in the round" or in "relief" earthworks and installation.
Casting
begins with an additive model from which a mold is made. A subtractive method then leaves space for multiple images to be made in an indirect process
Romare Bearden
carried on this technique, but worked with bits of photographic magazine illustrations to evoke his life as an African American growing up in rural North Carolina.
The Egyptians
considered the duration of this sculpture paramount to immortality.
oil painting
consists of a pigment combined with oil, usually linseed.
Picasso
created a powerful work, Guernica 1937 that presents a graphic and forceful mural detailing the destruction of the Basque city of Guernica.
Maria Martinez
created these works by using the coil method, and they are almost geometrically perfect. She constructed the pieces, while her husband did the glazing. They are known for their Black on Black Ware pottery.
line
defined as a path of a moving point.
Guernica by Pablo Picasso
depicts the Nazi German bombing of Guernica, Spain by twenty-four bombers, on April 26, 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, in which a number of people estimated between 250 and 1,600 were killed and many more were injured.
Nonrepresentational
does not contain any reference to the real world and is entirely focused on the visual elements and principles of design
Themes
in art are often messages about life, society or human nature, and are usually implied rather than explicitly stated.
Wood
is easy to work, renewable, and widely available, and even though heat could destroy it, it is still the most widely used medium across all cultures throughout history.
Atmospheric Perspective
optical effect caused by the atmosphere that interposes itself between us and the objects we perceive
Style
refers to a distinctive, recognizable ensemble of recurring characteristics
Abstract
rooted in the real world but exaggerated
Representational
rooted in the real world, but presented in such a way that we recognize a likeness
Preliminary study
to plan or to study to think through an idea and explore
true
true or false: The 3 purposes for drawing include Preliminary Study, Illustration and Expression.
Asymmetrical balance
two sides that do not correspond to one another in size, shape, and placement emphasizes the opposition between life and death
Bourgeois, Maman, 1999 cast 2001
what piece is this?
DOROTHEA LANGE, Migrant Mother, Nipomo Valley, 1935. Gelatin silver print. 1' 1" x 9". Oakland Museum of California, Oakland (gift of Paul S.Taylor)
what piece is this?
GRANT WOOD, American Gothic, 1930. Oil on beaverboard, 2' 5 7/8" x 2' 7/8". Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (Friends of American Art Collection). Art © Estate of Grant Wood/Licensed by VAGA, New York
what piece is this?
PABLO PICASSO, Guernica, 1937. Oil on canvas, 11' 5 1/2" x 25' 5 3/4". Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
what piece is this?
SALVADOR DALÍ, The Persistence of Memory, 1931. Oil on canvas, 9 1/2" x 1' 1". Museum of Modern Art, New York.
what piece is this?
Optical Color Mixture
when small patches of color are close together, the eye will blend them to produce a new color
