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