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Art History Final

Terms in this set (25)

Rococo
Haussmannization
Manifest Destiny
Authentic Cubism
Synthetic Cubism
Readymade
Great German Art Exhibition
Degenerate
Benday Dots
Kitsch
Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Marat
Neoclassical
1. Idealized no sign of his skin problems, his skin appears clean and unblemished, bathed in light light biblical figures
2. Radical pamphleteer - Marat was a radical journalist and leader French revolutionary effort
3. Shows Marat dying amid good action for the people ie. the green rug, the papers, and the pen
4. His death is depicted in realistic fashion with blood - evokes sympathy
5. Took the stuff of politics as its material, and did not transmute it
How does _____'s _____ __ _____ characterize the radical pamphleteer as a martyr of the French Revolution? How does David's style of painting work well for political propaganda?
Ingres
Napoleon on the Throne
Neoclassical
1. Show ideal clarity, going back to renaissance style with precise drawing, formal idealization, classical composition, and graceful lyricism
2. On throne in middle of painting with powerful pose
3.Lavish fabrics, gold thread, red velvet, eagle on the rug.
4. Scepters symbol of royalty
5. Large circle makes up the back of the Throne symbolizing his higher status
How does ______ employ ____________ principles in this work of art to represent Napoleon? Please make sure to explain what aspects of the picture (geometry, gesture, materials, composition) are employed to represent these principles?
Goya
The Third of May, 1808
Romanticism
1. Drawing attention and sympathy to victims and martyrs - christ-like pose (light halo around head), expressive gestures
2. French soldiers - no faces -> no empathy anonymous killers, lined up as killing machine
3. Movement of figures (man falling presumably just shot, man with hands covering face in anguish as about to be executed next)
4. Violence depicted - bloodied dead bodies on ground, contorsion
5. Roughness of paint makes bodies look more beat up, increasing sense of brutality
How does ____ change the genre of history painting with this work? What aspects of the painting challenge standard representations of war?
Manet
Olympia
Realism
Addresses the spectator, sometimes through the nude female's gaze but also through male figures in the painting (here cupids).Female: coy, candid, dreamy offering of selfBody arranged at a distance, near but far; it is also generalized, abstract and feminine.Hair: long and flowing as a symbol of luxurianceCurvaceousIdeal nudity and beauty function like clothing
1. Anatomically correct, shorter legs and torso opposed to an academics idealized nude with long legs and an elongated spine and curvaceous
2. Dark hair pinned up neatly, where an academic nude has light long flowy hair
3. Represents transition to an anatomically correct body, the way Paris went through haussmannization and transitions to a new improved strategically built city - night life
4. Prostitute instead of courtesan lower class because accessories aren't luxurious, black female worker in brothel instead of white handmaidens, flower given by lover not husband
5. Hand presses down instead of curving towards (less inviting), gaze less coy and inviting
5. Took inspiration from Titian's Venus of Urbino
How did _______'s _______ challenge traditional academic representations of the female nude? What type of woman does Manet represent and how is she related to the modern life of Paris? Remember to mention the Renaissance source of inspiration for this painting
Monet
Impression: Sunrise
Impressionism
1. Modern group of artist set to create art that captures a single moment in time, group later called impressionists.
2. This painting was exhibited at the first impressionist exhibition
3. Quick and spontaneous brush strokes leave messy and unfinished look while adding the illusion of detailed images
4. Unblended contemporary color used to add an empherial aspect
5. worked in plein air
How and why did _______ __________: _______ contribute to the naming of this group of artists as impressionists? Make sure to mention the subject, technique, etc. in your answer
Degas
The Dance Class
Impressionism
1. study of movement, discipline, choreography, rhythm & repetition, point and counterpoint
2.offered vocabulary of body in contemporary manner
3. complicated poses - draftsman
4. dancer in hunched over position, not graceful -> dark undertones of the ballet including sexualization of girls
5. photographic portrait studies
Why did the ballet interest _____ ? How does he characterize his dancers in his paintings? What form of photography inspired him?
Picasso
Les Demoiselles d'Avingnon
Cubism
1. De-idealization of the human body - flat, simplified geometric bodies, purposeful distortion of contour lines, no smooth blending of colors in shading of body, contrast instead
2. Thick-limbed, angular, and broad featured women laborers
3. Subject - prostitutes in a brothel - not a courtesan frank presentation - their confidence and possible aggression
4. Disuse of illusionistic space
5. Mixture of visual idioms: western and African, primitive and contemporary
How does _________'s ___________ _'_______ problematize the traditional conventions of painting and the female nude in particular? Be specific as to the "academic" conventions that Picasso challenges
Dali
The Persistence of Time
Surrealism
1. illusions in imagery in nature - disproportionate objects, fantastical
2. imagery within our unconscious mind
3. reality meets dream
4. intangible fears and anxieties about time in paint
5. impossible worlds in realistic way
How does ____'s ___________ __ ____ depict ____________ ideas? In this answer make sure to define surrealism
Pollock
Lavender Mist
Abstract Expressionism
1. Black is not for contours or deseinga but equal to color/color & line are the same
2. Use of materials - industrial paint, not oil or pigment plus tempera
3. No easel - floor - caused
4. Mixed materials/mediums ie. cigarettes/sticks
5. No narrative subject - expression of frenetic/anxious emotion through the technique; subconscious action play, movement and gestures
6. No persp -> all over, no center
How does _______ overturn traditional aspects of his medium in ________ ____? Why is the work abstract and considered "modern?"
Warhol
Marilyn Monroe Diptych
Pop Art
1. Repetition of image - captures audiences insatiable need to continue seeing/hearing about her; represents over repeated popularity and interest in tragic news
2. Left to right - image begins to fade, shadowed dark - represents fading of her
3. Gaudy colors seems like mask, moves her away from being a real person, represents objectified quantity
4. Darkness - darker psychological aspects of fame and Hollywood which stained & marred her image and mind
5. Screen print - photos transferred onto the mesh of a silk screen, passed an ink over mesh as the silk screen sat atop his canvas, ink would pass through the mesh and impress a print of his image onto the canvas
What statement is ______ trying to make in his ________ ______ _______ about popular culture? Make sure to mention Warhol's use of the screenprinting technique in your answer
Lorna Simpson
Room 1
Glass bottles, water, wooden stools, engraved plastic plaques, sound
Lorna Simpson
Room 2
wooden hut, engraved plaques, sound
Lorna Simpson
Room 3
Glass bottles, rice, wooden stools, four Polaroid color prints, sound
Lorna Simpson
Room 4
Gelatin silver prints, engraved plastic plaques, sound
Lorna Simpson
Room 5
Plastic dolls, string, plastic plaques
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