art fundamentals
The paintings and engravings found in Chauvet Case used charcoal and red ochre to depict what?
What are animals (or human hands)?
Author of the "Six Canons of Painting"
Who is Xie He?
Watercolor painting inspired by Renaissance fascination with the natural world
The Large Piece of Turf, Albrecht Durer
This Japanese artist produced the famous art piece "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" a.k.a "Under the Wave"
Who is Katsushika Hokusai?
In Fallingwater, it follows function
What is form?
This 4-inch statue features exaggerated bellies, breasts, and pubic area
What is the Venus of Willendorf?
This handscroll featured negative space, and depicted men who were idealized for living a simple life devoid from government and politics
What is Fisherman, after Jing Hao?
Creator of "Two Gentlemen Rabbits in the Snow", whose work often focused on the linkages between the human and the nonhuman
Who is Beatrix Potter?
John Singleton Copley, the artist behind "Watson and the Shark" also produced a famous rendition of this American figure
Who is Paul Revere?
From the Latin Fons, it may have decorative or symbolic functions
Gothic architecture was most prolific in these buildings
What are churches?
These "Four Gentleman" were used in Orchid and Rock, representing moral uprightness as well as the four seasons
What is orchids, plums blossoms, bamboo, and chrysanthemus?
This watercolor piece was inspired by multiple trips to the Bahamas and is now part of the Collections of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Gulf Stream, Winslow Homer
Ukiyo-e artistry influenced Impressionists. This influence would come to be known as what?
What is Japonisme?
In Fallingwater, this landscape feature was left in the house near the living room
What is a boulder?
Since antiquity, it was the first freestanding nude statue
What is the bronze statue David?
Starting in the 1960's, Koren artists began to focus on materiality, paralleling development in which area
Edward Hopper focuses on this theme in his piece "Haskell's House"
What is the alienation of contemporary American life?
John Singleton Copley's portrait of his younger brother, produced in 1765, elicited the attention of whom?
Who is Benjamin West?
A technique used by Baroque painters of high-contrast , theatrical lighting
What is chiaroscuro?
The parable depicted in Gibbons in a Landscape discusses grasping unattainable enlightenment, and can be traced back to this Buddhist teaching
What is the Tripitaka?
Creator of "Golden Eagle" who became a Fellow of the Royal Society of London and also presented to Charles Darwin
Who is John James Audubon?
Hokusai's "Under the Wave off Kanagawa" was produced using what technique?
What is woodblock printing?
A fountain commissioned for this person used public funds during a famine, sparking outrage
Who is Pope Innocent X?