Experiencing Art Final

Is symmetry a common feature of Renaissance painting?

yes

Death of Marat

David, Neo-Classical

Oath of the Horatii

David, Neo-Classical

What was the source for the subject matter of Gericault's Raft of the Medusa?

A shipwreck had occurred and some people found a small raft. Multiple people had died, and those barely alive are seeing a ship in the horizon, flagging them down.

What are the advantages of oil paint over fresco or tempera? Which of the works studied exhibit those advantages?

Advantages are slow drying, easier to blend, precise details, paint light better The Marriage Portrait by Van Eyck

David

Bernini, Italian Baroque

Hospital of the Innocents

Brunelleschi, Early Renaissance

Who invented linear perspective, and when?

Brunelleschi, Early Renissance

In what ways did the Post Impressionists try to "improve" Impressionism?

By showing more content, Less defined, more modular color, shallow depth

Supper at Emmaus

Caravaggio, Italian Baroque

La Montagne Sainte-Victoire

Cezanne, Post-Impressionism

Which artist was the first to hold an independent exhibition of his work?

Courbet

The Stonebreakers

Courbet, Realism

What are some of the characteristics of Baroque art? (e.g.: drama, movement, etc.)

Dark and dramatic, focuses on a dramatic time instead of the before or after. Time, movement, space, usually involve action, light, and shadow for drama

What were the characteristics of Baroque art?

Dark and dramatic, focuses on a dramatic time instead of the before or after. Time, movement, space, usually involve action, light, and shadow for drama

Death of Sardanapalus

Delacroix, Romanticism

What is "di sotto in su" perspective? Can you recognize it when you see it?

Di sotto in su literally means from below upwards. It's an extreme perspective where the viewer is underneath the art.

Which artist was the first to use linear perspective in an artwork?

Donatello or Masaccio

David

Donatello, Early Renaissance

What type of art was created by the groups Die Brucke and Der Blaue Reiter?

Expressionism

Nightmare

Fuseli, Romanticism

Raft of the Medusa

Gericault, Romanticism

Which artist has been called the "Father of Western Painting'?

Giotto

Lamentation

Giotto, Proto-Renaissance

In what way(s) did Caravaggio's painting style influenced other painters?

He influenced them by popularizing tenebrism

What was Masaccio's contribution to Italian Renaissance artists' ability to render light?

He invented directional lighting by basing the light in a painting on the lighting in the chapels he painted in. Lit from the right

What makes Florence's Hospital of the Innocents and its architect so important?

It is the first of its kind for both. It's the first proportional building with a 1:1 and horizontal emphasis, helped bring about linear perspective

What was/were the reason(s) for the controversy surrounding Courbet's Stonebreakers?

It was a large painting and large canvases are meant to be reserved for people of importance and the two stonebreakers in the picture are "nobodies" so people didn't understand why they got painted on a large canvas. He was making a political statement

When was non-objective painting introduced into modern art?

It was introduced during expressionism, especially Composition #4

What were the circumstances in which Michelangelo's David was created and exhibited?

It was made from a flawed stone, was supposed to be used on a flying buttress but was so beautiful that it was put in the courthouse in his honor, and it was the tallest statue since the fall of Rome (1st colossus at 17 ft tall). The stone was called "the giant"

The Joy of Life

Matisse, Fauvism

What factors made Michelangelo's completion of the Sistine Chapel ceiling so difficult?

It's 133 ft off of the ground and it was painted in fresco, so it had to be executed so perfectly since fresco dried quickly and left a border on the edges of it. He also did not want to be a painter so they had to convince him to paint it.

What is the content of Raphael's School of Athens?

It's a wall of philosophy for the Pope. It's basically divided straight down the middle with those siding with more earthly evidence of things on one side, and on the other is the people that are more believing to heavenward answers for things. Included philosophers.

How was Leonardo's interpretation of The Last Supper different from earlier ones?

Jesus isn't doing anything, and the scene is the one of the most dramatic points of the event (Jesus says one of you is going to betray me).

Composition #4

Kandinsky, Expressionism

Self-Portrait as a Soldier

Kirchner, Expressionism

Last Supper

Leonardo, High Renaissance

Which artist is sometimes considered to be the first "Renaissance" painter?

Masaccio

Expulsion

Masaccio, Early Renaissance

Tribute Money

Masaccio, Early Renaissance

Which famous sculptor also spent time as the Pope's architect?

Michelangelo

Creation of Man (Sistine Chapel)

Michelangelo, High Renaissance

David

Michelangelo, High Renaissance

Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo, High Renaissance

Rouen Cathedral

Monet, Impressionism

The Scream (The Cry)

Munch, Expressionism

Which common scenes from the "passion" of Jesus Christ?

Paintings based on His last days

Still Life with Chair Caning

Picasso Synthetic Cubism

Girl with a Mandolin

Picasso, Analytical Cubism

Ladies of Avignon

Picasso, Analytical Cubism

Apotheosis of St Ignatius

Pozzo, Italian Baroque

School of Athens

Raphael, High Renaissance

Which famous painter, although living in a protestant county, became a prolific illustrator of the Bible?

Rembrandt

Night Watch

Rembrandt, Dutch Baroque

Return of the Prodigal Son

Rembrandt, Dutch Baroque

Le Moulin de la Galette

Renoir, Impressionism

In which period does it become common for "the imagination" to be used as a source for subject matter in art?

Romanticism

How was Baroque Art related to the Counter-reformation ofthe Catholic Church?

The Church was encouraging this type of art, and it was often placed in the Church and used in services.

What is tenebrism? In what period was it common? Who popularized it?

The dark manner of painting. Common During the Italian Baroque. Caravaggio made it popular

How were the paintings of David related to issues surrounding the French Revolution?

The paintings all had underlying political messages

How is the work of Monet and the "Impressionists" different from earlier paintings?

Their real subject matter is light

What were the influences on Picasso at the time that he developed Cubism?

Used Cezanne's technique

How was color used by Matisse and the other artists of Fauvism?

Used color to express joy and positivity rather than negativity

Marriage Portrait

Van Eyck, Northern Renaissance

The Night Café

Van Gogh, Post-Impressionism

Las Meninas

Velazquez, Spanish Baroque

What is meant by "quadratura"?

illusionistic ceiling painting from di sotto in su perspective (from below upwards)

How did Giotto create depth in his paintings?

intuitive perspective, overlapping

What influences are visible in Donatello's David?

reintroduces contropasto, first freestanding nude since the fall of Rome. It shows secular, contemporary, classical, and Biblical references

What classical features are seen in The Hospital of the Innocents?

rounded arches, columns, horizontal emphasis, lack of adornment

What subject matter is typical of Romanticism?

something dark, very dramatic, and can use imagination. They were very emotional, with no division of art and artist. The first to use imagination as a legitimate source for artwork.

What is iconography? Which of the paintings in this unit feature iconography?

symbolic painting. It's in The Marriage Portrait by Van Eyck