Principles of Art Exam 1

Self-Portrait

Vincent Van Gogh 18889

The Starry Night

Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Vincent Van Gogh labored to express his personal feelings as he stood on the outskirts of a small village in France and looked up at the night sky. The night landscape inspired in him a vision of great intensity.

Cottage on the Cliffs at Varengeville

Claude Monet 1882 The kind of painting that almost everyone finds easy to like. The colors are clear and bright. There is no difficult matter that needs explaining. Monet ran a workshop staffed with assistants and apprentices--a small business, essentially, that produced paintings, altarpieces, sculptures, banners, objects in precious metals and architecture.

What was different about these three artists' method of making art?

Cole's goal was to capture and remember the landscape. The chinese painters goal was the ephasize the landscape, and Smithson's goal was to help shape the landscape.

Representational

Descriptive of a work of art that depicts forms in the natural world

Arnolfini Double Portrait

Van Eyck 1434 Painted with entrancing clarity and mesmerizing detail, the work portrays a man and a woman, their hands joined. He has the floor in the background. Seemingly pregnant, she stands next to a bed draped in rich red fabric. Mirror: two witnesses One candle: Presence of Christ Dog: marital fidelity and love Shoes off: stand on sacred ground

Discuss the similarities in form of the Buddha and Madonna Enthroned. How does the form contribute to the comprehension of the message of each of those artworks?

Both artworks were created for Spiritual purposes. They both representedan aspect in each religion to bring highlight to it. Both artworks are solely focused on the main subject and bringing the attention to it. It helps you understand the importance of those people. Both have halos, scribes in each to picture. Focus of the image is large.

How do Bosh's, The Garden of Earthly Delights and Rousseau's, The Dream fit into the theme of Intervention and Fantasy.

Both images capture a fantasty land. Neither are true real locations. Both required a great imagination and ingenuity.

First Communion

Picasso 1895-1896 The son of a painter who taught drawing, Pablo Picasso showed talent as a child and was surrounded by people who knew how to nurture it. He completed the First Communion at age 15, the year he was accepted into art school. First communion is a very faithful to visual experience, recording how forms are revealed by light and shadow, how bodies reflect an inner structure of bone and muscle, how fabric drapes over bodies, and objects, and how gravity makes weight felt.

Naturalistic

Description of an approach to portraying the visible world that emphasizes the objective observation and accurate imitation of appearances. Naturalistic art closely resembles the forms it portrays. Naturalism is construed as a broader approach, permitting a degree of idealization and embracing a stylistic range across cultures.

Jocho

Amida Nyorai Buddha Unknown An important work of Japanese art, the statue was created during the 11th century by the sculptor Jocho for a temple called Byodo-in, where it still resides. Its intended statue easily. The rest of us need some help.

Jahangir receives a cup from Khusrau

Manohar 17th century At the center of the painting, we see Jahangir himself, seated beneath a sumptuous canopy. His son Khursrau, dressed in a yellow robe, offers him the precious gift of a golden cup. The paining commemorates a moment of reconciliation between father and son, who had a violent falling out.

Neolithic

New stone age: the neolithic era is named for the new kinds of stone tools that were invented, but it also saw such important advances as the domestication of animals and crops and development of the technology of pottery

The Kiss

Rodin 1886-1898 Rodin probably took white marble and the technique of carving for granted when he created The Kiss, one of the most famous works. White marble had long been a standard material for sculpture in Europe, and carving was the standard way to shape it.

Iconography

The identification, description and interpretation of subject matter in art.

Impulse for Art

The impulse to make and respond to art appears to be as deeply ingrained in us as the ability to learn language, part of what sets us apart as humans. The impulse for art is when the urge to create is so strong that artworks have appeared in all cultures.

Cave Painting Lion Panel

Unknown 30,000 BCE Neolithic Period More than 300 images were eventually found. Until the Chauvet cave was discovered, many experts believed that ancient cave paintings were done for magical assistance in the hint, to ensure success in bringing down game animals

What do artists do? 5 roles of an artists & specific artworks/artists

1. Artists create places for some human purposes: Maya Lin: Vietnam Veterans Memorial 2. To record and commemorate: Manohar: Jahangir Receives a Cup from Khusra 3. To create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects: Kente Cloth 4. To give tangible form to the unknown: Shiva Nataraja 5. To give tangible form to feelings and ideas: Starry Night

Style

A characteristic, or a number of characteristics that we can identify as constant, recurring, or coherent. in art, the sum of such characteristics associated with a particular artist, group or culture, or within an artist's work at a specific time.

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 he central one.

Compare the Meta Warrick Fuller, Talking Skull and Johannes Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance. How do they express the concept of "Looking Inward: the Human Experience?"

Although "Talking Skul" and "Woman holding a Balance" are both very different styles, they both provoke the viewer to reflect and look deeper. The pictures pull us in. Fuller's work provokes us to look at the threshhold between life and death, meanwhile Vermeer gives us a sense of life and the descions we make are going to be judged.

David

Andrea del Verrocchio 1465 One of Verocchio's best-known works is a statue of the biblical hero David. The work was commissioned by Pier de' Medici, the head of a wealthy, powerful Florentine family, for display in the Medici family palace. Verrocchio trained many apprentices in his turn, including a gifted teenager named Leonardo da Vinvi. The David may actually be a portrait of him.

Earthwork

Art, generally large in scale, made in a landscape from natural elements found there, such as rocks and dirt. Land art arose during the 1960s as a way to bypass conventional urban exhibition spaces and to make art that could not be sold as a commodity

Wheel of Fortune

Audrey Flack 1977-1978 Knowing something of the traditional Flack is building on, we can more easily appreciate her updated interpretation. As ever, a skill puts death in our minds. An hourglass, calendar, and guttering candle speak of time and its passing. The necklace, mirrors, powder puff, and lipstick are contemporary symbols of personal vanity, while a die and tarot card evoke the roles of chance and fate in our lives.

Look carefully at Vanitas and Wheel of Fortune

Biggest difference= possibly a Christian viewpoint

Bird in Space

Constantin Brancusi 1928 The artist portrays not a particular bird, but rather the idea of flight, feeling of soaring upward. Brancusi said that the work represents "the soul liberated from matter

Describe the political nature of Delacroix's, Liberty Leading the People and Picasso's, Guernica. Can you think of an image from your world that has the same impact as Delacroix's and Picasso's? Describe the image and what it means to you.

Delacroix's and Picasso's images both represent political turmoil during their time period. It was ever present and the world's focus. One image that comes to mind that relates to such class of art works would be a picture of the Twin Towers burning in NYC when the terrorist crashed the plane into the tower on 9/11. The image captures the destruction of the tower, the destruction of the lives that were in the plane, and the destruction of the idea that america is impenitratable.

Nonrepresentational

Description of art that does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside itself. Synonymous with nonobjectives

Abstraction

Descriptive of art in which the forms of the visual world are purposefully simplified, fragmented, or otherwise distorted.

What are your thoughts related to creativity and the work of Tim Hawkinson's installation Emoter?

Emoter looks like a diy science project that has gotten out of hand. The stepladder on the floor houses a black and white TV monitor turned to a local broadcast station. Being creative develops when the eyes and mind are wide open, and it is as important to looking at art is to making it.

Form and Content

Form: physical appearance Content: the subject matter of the art Context: the personal and social circumstances surrounding the making, viewing, an interpreting of a work of art; the varied connections of a work of art to the larger world of its time and place

Trompe l' oeil

French for "fool the eye", representational art that mimics optical expereicne so faithfully that it may be mistaken momentarily for reality.

Iconoclasm

Iconoclasm is derived from the Greek for "image breaking" It was coined to describe one side of a debate that raged for over a century in the Christian empire of Byzantium. The objection was idolatry.

Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations' Millennium General Assembly

James Hampton 1950-1964 Hampton worked for most of his adult life as a janitor for the federal government in Washington DC, but for many years, he labored secretly on this extraordinary work.

Vanitas

Juan de Valdes 1660 A quick glance reveals a careless jumble of objects with a cherub looking over them. In the background, a man looks out at us from the shadows. In the foreground, to the left is the timepiece. At the center, books and scientific instruments evoke knowledge. A skull crowned with laurel wreath lies on its side.

Mona Lisa

Leonardo da Vinci 1503-1505 It was painted in the 16th century. The sitter was a woman named Lisa Gheradrdini del Giocondo. Leonardo portrays her seated on a balcony that overlooks a landscape of rock and water. She turns her head to look at us with a hint of a smile.

Verterans Memorial

Maya Lin 1982 Maya Lin created the Vietnam Veterans memorial as a place for contemplation and remembrance. At the heart of the memorial is a long, tapering, V-shaped wall of black granite, inscribed with the names of the miss, the captured, and the dead--58,000 names in all. It suggests a perhaps modern entrance to an ancient burial mound, tough in fact there is no entrance.

Seated Woman Holding a Fan

Picasso 1908 Seated Woman Holding a fan is abstract. Picasso used the appearances of the world only as a starting point, much as a jazz musician begins with a standard tune. He selected certain aspects of what he saw then simplified or exaggerated them to make his painting.

Discuss the reasons why an artist who is capable of painting a faithful depiction of the "real" word might

Picasso experimented with style after style. The one that launched him on his mature path would become known as Cubism, and it began to take form in paintings such as Seated Woman Holding a Fan.

Stonehenge

Unknown 2000-1500 BC Neolithic Period Stonehenge at its height consisted of several concentric circles of megaliths, very large stones, surrounded in turns by a circular ditch. It was built in many centuries, beginning around 3100 BCE

Megalith

Very large stones.

Wheat Field and Cypress Trees

Vincent Van Gogh 1889 Van Gogh's world was not so far removed from ours. He bough paints and brushes at an art supply store, just as we could. His vision of the world was so strong, so uniquely individaul that the force of it s colors heightened

Thirty are better than one

Warhol 1963 Warhol portrays the paintings as a celebrity, someone whose instantly recognizable image circulates in endless multiples through our mass media.

SIva Nataraja

unknown 20th century bronze An anonymous Indian sculptor of the 10th century gave tangible form to the Hindu god Shiva, in his guise as Nataraja. In one hand, Shiva holds the small drum whose beat summons up creation; in another hand, he holds the flame of destruction. A third hand points at his raised foot, beneath which worshipers may seek refuge, while a fourth hand is raised with its palm toward the viewer, a gesture that means "fear not"