ARTS 1301 (Exploration of the Arts) - Chapter 2 - What is a Work of Art?

John Rewald

The amateur photographer and Cezanne expert who rendered Mont Sainte-Victoire from a different angle through his photograph.

Criteria for determining whether something is a work of art:

1)The object or event is made by an artist. 2)The object or event is intended to be a work of art by its maker. 3)Recognized experts agree that it is a work of art.

form-content

A work of art's structure and meaning

mixed media

An artwork consisting of different materials.

Marcel Duchamp

One of the dadaist artists of the twentieth century whose signed urinal has been accepted as a work of art.

Giorgione

Painter of "Sleeping Venus", a painting of the goddess Venus asleep along the Italian countryside.

Subject matter

Some value expressed in the work of art.

Participation

Sustained attention and loss of self-awareness.

Jim Dine

The American artist who created "Shovel"

Tom Wesselman

The American painter who painted the "Great American Nude".

Jean-August-Dominique Ingres

The French painter who painted the frank portrait of a prostitute with a lengthened torso called "Large Odalisque".

Van Gogh

The artist who described artistic form as "a sketch that didn't come off"

Roy Litchenstein

The artist who invented the comic strip.

Alice Neel

The artist who painted "Margaret Evans Pregnant"

Paul Cezanne

The artist who painted the famous oil on canvas painting, "Mont Sainte-Victoire"

Roy Litchenstein

The comic strip artist of the famous ,"Torpedo-LOS!"

Suzanne Valadon

The female American painter who painted the oil on canvas painting "Reclining Nude".

Pierre-August Renoire

The impressionist painter of "Bather Arranging her Hair".

Content

The interpretation of subject matter

Amedeo Modigliani

The male Italian painter who painted "Reclining Nude".

Nude Descending a Staircase

The oil on canvas painting done by Marcel Duchamp that created a riot in 1912 and made Duchamp famous as a chief proponent for distortions of cubism.

Artistic form

The organization of a medium that results in clarifying some subject matter.

Francisco Goya

The painter of "May 3, 1808", a painting showing Napoleonic soldiers executing Spanish guerrillas the day after the Madrid Insurrection.

Pablo Picasso

The painter of "Nude under a Pine Tree.

Eddie Adams

The photographer of "Execution in Saigon"

Kevin Carter

The photographer of the picture "Vulture and Child in Sudan" published in the New York Times, which won the famous Pulitzer Prize for Photography in 1994.

Picasso and Braque

The two artists who created "Collages" which included objects such as paper and nails mounted on a panel.

artifice

The word "art" is short for ____.

Clive Bell and Roger Fry

Two philosophers who claimed that the presence of artistic form (or significant form) is all that is necessary to identify a work of art.

Artistic form

What distinguishes a work of art from objects or events that are not works of art?

aestheticians

philosophers of art are known as:

Perception

what we can observe

Conception

what we know or we think we know