VOC Quiz No. 1

Abstract

1. art imagery that departs from recognizable images from the natural works: 2. an artwork the form of which is simplified, distorted, or exaggerated in appearance. it mau represent a recognizable form that has been slightly altered, or it may be a completely non-representational

Portrait of Eleonora of Toledo with Her Son Giovanni De Medici / 0.0.4

Artist: Agnolo Bronzino Medium: oil on panel Where: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy When: 1544-55 Size: "45 1/4 X 37 3/4" Fine art usually refers ti a work of art (traditionally a painting, drawing, carved sculpture, and sometimes a print). When the Itailian artist

Reverie / 0.0.21

Artist: Allan Houser Medium: Bronze Where: edition of 10. Allan Houser of Archives When: 1981 Size: 25 X 23 X 13"

Las Meninas / 1.10.11a

Artist: Diego de Silva y Velazquez Medium: Oil on canvas Where: Museo Nacional del Prado, madrid spain When: 1656 Size: 10' 5 1/4" X 9 3/4"

Nighthawks / 1.10.2

Artist: Edward Hooper Medium: Oil on canvas Where: Art Institute of Chicago When: 1942 Size: 33 1/8 X 60" Nighthawks (1.10.2, p. 180), by the American artist Edward Hopper (1882-1967), conveys a sense of absence and loneliness. When making a formal analysis of a two-dimensional work, such as this painting, useful aspects you can consider are the locations of objects, the colors used pg 179

The Journey of the Sun God Re / 0.0.1

Artist: Egyptian Medium: Plastered and painted wood. Where: detail from the inner coffin of Nespawershefi... Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England When: third intermediate period, 990-969 BCE. Size: n/a The Egyptian who in the 10th century decorated the wooden coffin of Nespawershefi with a painting of the sun god Re had a quite different idea of rivers. For ancient Eyptians, rivers were important survival, because they depended on the flooding of the River Nile to grow their crops. Rivers also had significance. Egyptians believed during the daytime Re sailed across a great celestial ocean in his sailboat. By night, the sun god traveled in his evening boat along a river in the underworld, but before he could rise again he had to defeat his enemy the serpent Apophis, can be seen swimming in the river.The river is again suggested rather than being realistically portrayed. the choice of this subject was appropriate for a coffin: no doubt Nespawershefi hoped to emerge from the underworld to live a happy afterlife. For the painter of this coffin, art was way to express profound religious ideas to and to invoke beliefs in a happy life after death.

Old man's cloth / 0.0.6

Artist: El Anatsui Medium: Aluminum and cooper wire. Where: n/a When: 2002. Size: 15'9" X 17' 3/4" Art historians now recognize that art is part of a wider context of things we experience: the visual culture in which we live which includes all of the images that we encounter in our lives. The contemporary artist El Anatsui (born 1944) makes artworks that reference the colonial history of Africa and the impact of modern consumerism on cultural values. Old man's cloth is made from discarded liquor bottle tops as his material because European traders bartered alcohol for African goods. Slaves were shipped from Ghana to the sugar plantations of the Caribbean then in turn was shipped from there back to Africa. El anatsuis bottle tops thus remind us of the slave trade as well as highlighting the way in which modern consumerism discards waste. At the same time, the artist's use of traditional designs suggests both the enduring power and the fragility of Ghanian culture.

The Garden of Earthly Delights / 1.10.3

Artist: Hieronymus Bosch Medium: Oil on wooden panel Where: Mueso Nacional del Prado, Madrid, Spain When: 1500-1505 Size: 7'1 5/8" X 6'4 3/4" wings 7'1 5/8" X 38 1/4" The left panel of Garden of Earthly Delights shows God's presentation of Adam and Eve before the Fall; the center panel shows elongated nude figures inhabiting the false

Infinity / 0.0.20

Artist: Jose de Rivera. Medium: Stainless steel sculpture Where:in front of National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. Size: 13 1/2 X 8 X 16'

Carved ivory mask-shaped pendant / 0.0.22

Artist: N/a Medium: Ivory inlaid with iron and bronze Where: British Museum London, England When: Mid-16th century Size: 9 5/8 X 5 X 2/3".

Watts Towers / 0.0.8

Artist: Simon Rodia Medium: Seventeen mortar- covered steel sculptures with mosaic. Where: East 107th Street, Los Angeles, California When: 1921-51 Size: 99 1/2 high at tallest point. 1761-1765

Isabella d'Este / 0.0.12

Artist: Titian Medium: Oil on canvas. Where: Kunesthishoristiches Museum, Vienna, Austria When: 1536 Size: 40 1/4" X 25 1/4"

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania / 0.0.7

Artist: n/a Medium: n/a Where: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania When: n/a Size: n/a

Baroque

European artistic and architectural style of the late sixteenth to early eighteenth century, characterized by extravagance and emotional intensity

Types of Analysis

Formal, stylistic, iconographic, contextual, feminst, gender studies, psychological

Renaissance

a period of cultural and artistic change in Europe from the fourteenth to the seventh century

Patron

an organization or individual who sponsors the creation of works of art

Formal Analysis

analysis of the form or visual appearance of a work of art using the visual language of elements and principles

Representation(al)

art that depicts figures and objects so that we recognize what is representated

Context

circumstances surrounding the creation of a work of a art, including historical events, social conditions, biographical facts about the artist, and his or her intentions

Interpretation

explaining or translating a work of art, using factual research, personal response or a combination of the two

Academies

institutions training artists in both the theory of art and practical techinques

Guilds

medieval associations of artists, craftsmen, or tradesman

Oil Painting

paint made of pigment suspended in oil

Medieval

relating to the Middle Ages, roughly between the fall of the Roman empire and the Renaissance

Memento mori

remember you have to die; death

Medium

the material on or from which an artist chooses to make a work of art

Content

the meaning, message, or feeling expressed in a work of art

Composition

the overall design or organization of a work

Foreground

the part of a work depicted as nearest to the viewer

Background

the part of a work depicted furtherest from the viewer's space, often behind the main subject matter

Subject

the person, object, or space depicted in a work of art

Provenance

the record of all known previous owners and locations of a work of art