Vocab
What type of art moves away from market driven commodified objects in favor of concept?
conceptual art
Compared to Olafur Eliason, Robert Smithson was a lot less concerned about what?
viewer accessibility to artwork
Identify this artwork
Struggle Series No. 10 -- Washington Crossing the Delaware by Jacob Lawrence
Identify this artwork
Niagara by George Inness
What Latin word does the word fountain come from?
fons -- natural spring/constructed water supply
What art style is known as "pictures of the floating world" and is centered around the Buddhist idea of impermanence?
ukiyo-e
Who did Robert Eliasson work with to harvest large chunks of ice from fallen glaciers in the harbors of Greenland?
Miniki Rosing
Who created this artwork?
Carl Milles
What moment does Watson and the Shark portray?
moment right before rescue
What is a common feature of fountains of early/ancient civilizations?
animal motifs
What concept had the flat areas of color, asymmetry, black outlines, simplified forms, high horizon lines, scenes of everyday life seen in Japanese art influencing the West?
Japonisme
Who used narrative paintings to tell African American history?
Jacob Lawrence
Why is Mami Wata considered a product of globalization and exchange?
contains elements from all around the globe: African tradition, European mermaids, Indian snake charmer
Why is Georgia O'Keeffe's Black Lava Bridge considered vastly different from her usual works?
usually paints New Mexico deserts, this one about lava rock formation on Maui coast
What is the similarity between pineapples, papayas, and lobster's claw heliconia?
all non-native plants imported to Hawaii
What is an aesthetic category that induces a feeling of beauty mixed with terror and limitlessness?
sublime
Who portrays the Niagara Falls with terror, limitlessness, and power by filling the entire canvas with the fall in his/her painting Niagara?
Frederick Church
How does Watson and the Shark use pyramidal composition?
vertical line from the spear, the two men leaning, Watson and shark making a pyramid
How is the fact that Spiral Jetty is located a few miles from Promontory Summit, where the Transcontinental Railroad was completed with the Golden Spike in 1869 significant?
both show human changes to the natural environment with industry, but the spiral leads to nowhere while the railroad represents progress
Why was Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s Fontana dei Quattro Fiumi (Fountain of the Four Rivers) not received well by the public?
commissioned by Pope Innocent X with public funds during a period of famine
Followers of what religion, which shares principles with transcendentalism and theosophy, find divine presence through the close observation of nature?
Swedeborgian
Who was the influencer of the Hudson River School (of painters) and in 1825, impressed Trumbull who bought his painting (from a New York bookseller) and connected him to important painters?
Thomas Cole
Name one way Wright's Fallingwater embodies his philosophy of organic architecture.
hovers over Bear Run waterfall = "part of the hill", boulder in living room, windows = natural light, 4 elements: hearth = fire, falls = water, boulder = earth, windows = air
How do the ice chunks in Ice Watch convey the message that we need to do something about climate change?
In Paris and Copenhagen, ice shaped in clock --> melts = time to do something is running out
What is one form fountains took during the medieval period?
Roman/Byzantine aqueduct system Islamic world's sebil/sabil which evolved from a Roman model during the Sasanian Empire (ex. Spain's Alhambra)