What concepts and ideas did pop artists share? What were their motives?
They shared a common concern for commercialism and popular culture. Driven by a need to respond and act against modernism and their strict rules regarding formality. Wanted to give the people images they could relate to
Identify the following:
- Title
- Location
- Style
- Title: Winged Victory of Samothrace
-Location: Greece
-Style: Hellenistic
Who is the artist of this work? Give a brief context on the artist and the piece.
- Vincent Van Goh
- History of mental illness. This was painted from his room in an asylum.
- Cut off part of his own ear, later committed suicide
Post-Lintel
two upright members, the posts, hold up a third member, the lintel, laid horizontally across their top surfaces
What does form follows function mean? When is it from?
- It means the shape (form) of a building or object should primarily relate to its indented function or purpose
- 19-early 20 century; industrialism
What is the Armana style/period and who started it?
Armana is a curvilinear Egyptian art style created by Akhenaton; It differs from Egypt's conventional rectilinear style
Identify the following:
- Title
- Location
- Style
- Title: Forum of Trajan
- Patron: Trajan
- Location: Rome
What art style did artists Picasso and Georges Braque create?
Cubism
Contrapposto
when a figure stands with one leg holding its full weight and the other leg relaxed. This classic pose causes the figure’s hips and shoulders to rest at opposite angles, giving a slight s-curve to the entire torso
Explain the importance that the dome of the rock has to all Abrahamic religions.
- Believed to be where Abraham almost sacrificed his son
- Believed to be the place where adam was buried
- Believe it commemorates Muhammad's journey to heaven
What are Pompeii’s 4 wall art styles?
- Masonry/Incrustation
- Illusionistic/Architectural
- Ornate
- Fantastic/Intricate
Identify the following:
- Title
- Artist
-Location
- Period/Style
- Date
- Title: The swing
- Artist: Fragonard
-Location: France
- Period/Style: Rococo
- Date: 18 century (1767)
Who is the artist of this work and what did he supposedly do with nun Lucrezia?
- Fra Filippo Lippi
- He persuaded nun Lucrezia to run away with him and she would become the mother of his son.
Allegory
a work of art, such as a story or painting, in which the characters, images, and/or events act as symbols. The symbolism in an allegory can be more abstract such as wisdom, love, death
What were the key differences between the Early Christian and Romanesque Cathedral?
CHRISTIAN CHURCHES
- timber, flat, plain exterior,
ROMANESQUE CHURCHES
- stone, barrel, elaborate exterior, featured a tympanum
Describe how expressionism differs from impressionism.
EXPRESSIONISM
- taking inward emotions and ideas and expressing them outwardly through art. Its made up. Colors are used in an emotional way in regards to how it makes them feel.
IMPRESSIONISM
- took and expressed outside ideas. For color they put science behind it like the color theory. They painted their impression of the world.
Identify the following
- Title
- Location
- Patron
- Date
- Period/Style
- Title: Akhenaton and Nefertiti and 3 daughters
- Location: Egypt
- Patron: Akhenaton
- Date: 14 Centruy BCE
- Period/Style: Armana Period
Describe the stylistic characteristics of Caravaggio's work.
- realism/naturalism
- intense chiaroscuro
- emphasis on co-extensive space
Tenebrism
a style of painting using profoundly pronounced chiaroscuro, where there are violent contrasts of light and dark, and where darkness becomes a dominating feature of the image
Identify 5 of the buildings of the Acropolis.
1) Temple of Athena Nike
2) Propylaia
3) Parthenon
4) Erectheon
5) Old temple of Athena
6) Rome and Augustus altar
How did the work of mannerists differ from the artists of the High Renaissance?
- Mannerist works didn't follow pyramidal composition and weren't as rational with their subject placement
- Mannerists would blow up scenery often in ways that don’t make sense and have the figures on the edges.
- Mannerists created works with no central thing to look at
Fully Identify this work
- Title
- Artist
- Location
- Period/Style
- Date
- Patron
- Title: The Kiss
- Artist: Constantine Brancusi
- Location: Romanian in Paris
- Period/Style: Symbolist/Cubist
- Date: 1907-1908
- Patron: J
How did WW1 affect artists, specifically the artist of this piece?
- A lot of post-war art radiated chaos– anxiety—fear
THIS WORK
- Arist: Earnest Ludwig Kirchner
- He and a lot of other artists, coming back form WW1 were dealing with a lot of trauma (PTSD). Kirshner displays this in this work through his image of a soldier with a missing hand as to say he can't paint anymore. Hitler labeled him a degenerate and his works were destroyed. He would later commit suicide.
Tympanum
the semi-circular or triangular decorative wall surface over an entrance, door or window, which is bounded by a lintel and an arch. It often contains sculpture or other imagery or ornaments
Describe the following:
- What the iconoclasm is
- When it took place
- Who started it and why
- The effects it had on art and artists
- It started in the 8th century CE by emperor Leo the 3rd. He believed that religious imagery was against the second commandment. He and his large following destroyed icons. Because of the destruction and ban of art, religious imagery became secretive. Either very portable or underground. Because of this and the destruction, art historians have a huge gap in art history.