Art Appreciation ch 16, 17, 18, 18, 21, 22

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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


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