Art appreciation test 4

Michelangelo

"Creation of Adam" painted the ceiling of the Sistine chapel, preferred sculpting to painting. 20 years after he returned to paint the altar wall "Last Judgement"

William Blake

British artist and poet.. Recreated michelangelos creation of Adam

Strengths of photography

Clarity. Realism. Careful composition. Select material

Oldest artifacts from mesoamerican period. Date back 11,500 years ago

Clovis points

Paracas

Coast of Peru. Beginning about 600 to 200 bce. Paracas textile (painting showing creature holding snakes)

The inca

Existed as early as 800 ce. Empire established- powerful inca ruler Pachacuti centralized the government. Became largest empire in pre-Colombian America.. Machu Picchu... Wool tunic

European accounts

Eyewitness reports

15,000 to 18,000 years ago

First humans on the continent

North America

First inhabitants up to 18000 years ago. Natural materials used for architecture & art

The Anasazi

Known for Adobe architecture, weaving, pottery, painting.. Cliff dwellings made of stone timber & Adobe brick

Three Italian artists that dominated the high Renaissance period

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, raphael

4 corners

Location important to North American natives

Photography

Means drawing with light

Renaissance

Means rebirth

Film

Negative and positive

The Moche

Northern Peru. About 200 to 600 ce. Known for pottery, textiles, metalwork

The Moche

Northern Peru. About 200 to 600 ce. Known for pottery, textiles, metalwork... Gold turquoise metal work believed to be warrior priest

The Aztecs

Powerful empire in mesoamerica, same time as inca dominated. Areas of Aztec empire--central Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras (painting of human sacrifice) (rock statue of mother goddess) (circular rock carving)

Teotihuacan

Pyramid configuration

Baroque (early renaissance)

Refers to time period & style of art. Art tends to be full of motion and emotion. Intense darkness

Photojournalism

Use of photography to tell a news story. Needs to be true. Photo of dorothea Lange migrant mother

Neoclassicism

About morality & societal order. Idealized bodies. Classical architecture. Heroic subject matter.

Post Impressionism

All about abstraction

Art in vogue

All about materials. (Kiss by Gustav Clint) uses powder... Figures are flat!!

Realism

Art about everyday life (real) figures realistic rather than idealized

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Art about war might convey the artists experience, opinion, attempt to be intentionally persuasive toward a particular view of war

Still life photography

Artistic arrangement of objects. Allows artist to study formal relationships. Light, shadow, texture

Donatello

Created bronze statue of david

Leonardo da Vinci

Creator of the last supper

The maya

Cultural group with city-states throughout mesoamerica. Known for pyramids/architecture, stone monuments, painting, pottery, jewelry.. (Vase with ballgame scene) (painting fresco of lots of ppl some on steps, ruler,) maya considered blood on temple sign of triumph & way to please gods

Negative/positive photography processes

Cyanotype, calotype, daguerreotype

Scientific evidence

Dna testing. Archeological finds

Camera obscure

Earliest example of photography. Projection of outside scene. First drawn then captured on light sensitive material

Donatellos "David"

Early renaissance. Inspired by the art of Ancient Greece & Rome. Revives the ancient technique of bronze casting. Idealized depiction of human body

Romanticism

Energy and movement. (Dead bodies) reflects revolutionary beliefs in liberty, equality, and humanity.

Landscape photography

Environmental concerns. Pictures of the land and its natural features. Scenic records.

Mannerism

From Italian "di maniera" which means charm, grace.. Exaggeration for emotional effect

Indigenous accounts, European accounts, scientific evidence

How we know about these cultures (mesoamerican etc)

Impressionism

Incredibly varied, modern day life depicted, many of paintings outside

Filipo Brunelleschi

Invents linear perspective, constructed Florence cathedral of lighter material and made innovations

The kiss by gustav Klint

Oil paint, silver and gold leaf on canvas. Large amount gold leaf used, flattened image. No shading just strong outlines

Portraiture

One of photography's most popular early uses. Substitute for more costly painted portraits. People could take their own pictures

Indigenous accounts

Oral histories. Writings in bark books. Inscriptions on stone monuments

Raphael

Painted school of Athens. Used features of contemporary people he knew, made the scene believable, followed rules of perspective. Made ancient scholars look like contemporary ppl

The Chavin

Pilgrimage center. Established around 900 bce. Site marked by temples & stone monuments. Raimondi stela drawing, relief sculpture carved in stone. Human & animal features, can be seen both ways

Digital

Pixels, computer

Digital processes of photography

Pixels, digital files, display, manipulation

Aperture

Small hole used to project image into camera obscure

Incas most valuable commodity & animal

Textiles & llama

Machu Picchu

The sacred sight

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Vincent Van Gogh-- impasto

Salon

Was open to everyone. Art in salon was arranged to hierarchy

Fresco

What da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael used as medium

Industrial revolution / states in revolution

What influenced art 1700-1900

Oil paint

What separates northern from Italian Renaissance

Central America & Mexico

Where is mesoamerica