Modernism 1900-1950
This painting movement, led by Henri Matisse is characterized by bold, vibrant colors
Fauvism
A type of book, generally featuring a European written work accompanied by small drawings, and often embellished using gold pigments
What is an illuminated manuscript?
Two common types of materials used for both Greek & Roman sculpture
Marble and Bronze
The use of perspective to create the illusion of a form projecting into space making it appear compressed and shorter. Seen in the paintings of Peter Paul Rubens.
Foreshortening
Relief printing technique where the artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood, leaving the printing parts level with the surface while removing the non-printing parts.
Woodcut
The futurists were an art movement that emerged from ____. Their manifesto was a radical document that championed ____.
Italy; war as means to wash away the past in order to move towards the future.
A rectilinear type of script often used in medieval Koran pages
What is Kufic script?
Common Roman Portrait style typically depicting older men
Verism
Pictorial method that creates subtle progressions between dark and light so that they blend into each other mimicking how the eye actually perceives light. Used by Rembrandt.
Chiaroscuro
Technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") plaster
Buon Fresco
Pablo Picasso’s 1937 painting, Guernica, is about
the tragedies of war and the suffering it inflicts upon individuals
A notable 6th century European illuminated manuscript folio, painted on purple vellum with gold and silver pigments, featuring the story of Rebecca and Eliezer
What is the Vienna Genesis?
Ancient Greek artist famously known for his sculptures, who created Aphrodite of Knidos
Praxiteles
Period of societal change in 18th century France that saw a rejection of traditional beliefs in favor of empirical evidence. It caused an increased interest in classical antiquity that gave rise to Neoclassicism.
The Enlightenment
This painting acts as a record and places the painter as an official witness to the marriage.
Jan van Eyck, Giovanni Arnolfini and His Wife, 1434
Marcel Duchamp was pivotal in the art movement ____. His sculptures made of found objects are called _____.
Dadaism; readymades.
Excerpts from the Persian national epic poem by Firdausi, generally in folio form
What is a shahnama/what are shahnameh?
The Five Roman Orders of Columns are
Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, Tuscan, and Composite
Name 2 elements of the Salon de la Princesse that are characteristic of its Rococo style
Examples: Soft architectural lines; Irregular painted shapes; rocaille pebbles and shells; painting, sculpture, and architecture combined; effect of freely growing nature; curved walls; large mirrors to expand space
Who revived free-standing nude statuary?
Donatello
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner was a German Expressionist painter and a member of the group, ____. The group sought to bridge the past and the present by __.
Die Brucke; using urban scenes to express raw emotion about modern life and culture.
An Islamic folio or album, the translation of this word is "patchwork"
What is a muraqqa'?
Name two types of sculptural elements or specific sculptures found in the Parthenon
Examples: Pediments, Ionic friezes, Doric friezes Athena Parthenos statue, and Metopes
In Death of Marat, Jacques Louis David modeled Marat's pose after this Renaissance artwork to make him appear like a martyr.
Michelangelo's Pietà
Flemish painter who mastered oils, painting vivid scenes in painstaking detail; known for the Ghent Altarpiece and the Arnolfini Wedding
Jan van Eyck