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ARTS 2000 Final
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45
Art History
Undergraduate 3
12/10/2011

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Woman of Willendorf

 25,000-20,000 BCE

 

  • Paleolithic era
  • Earliest known work of religious art
  • Exaggerated features

 

 

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Pyramids of Giza, Egypt

 2500-2650 BCE


  • part of ancient Egypt
  • burial vaults for Pharaohs
  • architectural and sculptural feats for this time
Term
[image]
Definition

Doryphorus

Polykleitos (Roman copy)

after bronze original

c. 450 BCE 

  • example of Greek classicism
  • human body is a set of divinely inspired ratios
  • used a contrapposto pose

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Laocoon Group

(Roman copy)

c. 1st CE

 


  • Hellenistic period
  • expressed a lot of emotion and anguish
Term
[image]
Definition

The Pantheon

126 CE

 


  • Greek architecture
  • a major temple dedicated to all the gods
  • huge dome, circular walls, and extremely thick walls
Term
[image]
Definition

Head of Constantine

313 CE

 

 

  • symbolizes Paegan to Christian empire
  • emphasis on eyes - windows to the soul
Term
[image]
Definition

Empress Theodora and her Retinue

San Vitale, Ravenna, Italy

6th century

 


  • Byzantine period
  • eyes are emphasized, halo, crown
  • importance of women in salvation
Term
[image]
Definition

Purse Cover from the Sutton Hoo Ship Burial

Origin: Suffolk, England

Pre-7th century

 



  • Europeon middle ages, Byzantine
  • ancient symbol of power
Term
[image]
Definition

Chartes Cathedral

12th-13th century

 

 

 

 

  • Gothic architecture
  • reach up to heaven, proportions work in harmony, & a lot of light
  • flying buttresses & stained glass
Term
[image]
Definition

Lamentation

Giotto De Bondone

Padua, Italy

ca. 14th century

  •  Renaissance
  • shows a story line of the birth of Christ
  • human emotion
Term
[image]
Definition

Birth of Venus

Sandro Botticelli

ca. 15th century

 

 

  • Italian Renaissance
  • mythological
  • not fully 3d, no illusion of deep space
Term
[image]
Definition

David

Donatello

late 15th century

 

 

  • Italian Renaissance
  • on the decapitated head of Goliath
Term
[image]
Definition

David

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Piazza della Signoria, Florence, Italy

16th century

 

  • High Renaissance
  • symbol of freedom from tyranny
Term
[image]
Definition

Philosophy (School of Athens)
Raphael

Vatican Palace Rome, Italy

16th century

 

 

  • High Renaissance
  • 4 themes: philosophy, theology, poetry, and law
  • identifies many famous intellects of the day and the past
Term
[image]
Definition

Hunters in the Snow (Winter)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Seasons of the Year Cycle, whole view
16th century

  • High Renaissance
  • more detailed in the foreground, Alps in the background
  • symbolized the harsh winter of 1565
Term
[image]
Definition

The Conversion of Paul

Carvaggio

1600

 

 

  • Baroque
  • heightened light and dark imagery
  • very naturalistic
Term
[image]
Definition

David

Gianlorenzo Bernini

17th century

 

  • Baroque
  • conservative view of art because he's covered up
  • more in motion
Term
[image]
Definition

Great Stupa

Sanchi, India
10 BCE-15 CE

 

  • Indian Art, traditional
  • a pilgrimage to and around the house is a ritual
  • at all four gates there were images of the symbols of fertility and animals

 

Term
[image]
Definition

The Approach of Krishna

17th century

 

 

 

 

  • Indian Art
  • color, pattern
  • erotic spiritual desire to be in a union with the divine
Term
[image]
Definition

Travelers among Mountains and Streams

Fan Juan

11th century

 

 

  • Chinese art
  • painted on a large hanging scroll
  • lack of color, brushwork, massive centrality of the design

 

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Main Shrine

Ise, Japan

7th century

 

 

  • Japanese art
  • Rebuilt every 20 years b/c no need for long-standing structures
  • used natural materials to construct it
Term
[image]
Definition

Reflected Beauty

Kitagawa Utamaro

18th century

 

 

 

  • Japanese art
  • absense of shading
  • Geisha theme was present
Term
[image]
Definition

Great Mosque

Kairouan, Tunisia

begun 836

  • Islamic architecture
  • include high-standing minarets and mirhabs
  • showed political stability

 

Term
[image]
Definition

Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaykh to Kings

Bichitr

17th century

 

  • Islamic art
  • had a lot of symbols with realistic representations
  • the painter included himself in the image, which was bold
Term
[image]
Definition

Taj Mahal

Agra, India

17th century

 

 

  • Islamic architecture
  • the architect built this for his wife who died giving birth to their 14th child
  • illusion that the building is floating
Term
[image]
Definition

Oath of Horatii

Jacques-Louis David

18th century

 

 

 

  • Neoclassic - emulation of classical Greek and Roman art
  • conveys political ideas during the time of the revolution
  • democracy - sacrifice yourself for your nation
Term
[image]
Definition

Death of Sardanapalus

Eugene Delacroix

19th century

 

  • Romanticism - imagination and emotion are more valuable than reason
  • nostalgia about the past
  • depicts Lord Byron facing defeat & destroying everything he knows
Term
[image]
Definition

The Stone Breakers

Gustave Courbet

19th century

 

 

  • Realism
  • interested in the condition of the poor
  • draws up close, emphasizes paint on canvas, flattens the space
Term
[image]
Definition

Le Dejeuner sur L'Herbe (Luncheon on the Grass)

Manet

19th century

 

  • Realism
  • a scandal of its time because it depicted a naked woman
  • did not depict any historical or mythological significance
Term
[image]
Definition

Impression: Sunrise

Claude Monet

19th century

 

  • Impressionism - capturing observation in everyday life
  • light and presence of minimal warm coloring is important
  • visual perception - looked different up close than it did far away
Term
[image]
Definition

Monte-Sainte Victoire from Les Lauves

Paul Cezanne

20th century

 

  • Post-Impressionism - showed different interpretations of impressionist art
  • geometric and logical order
  • flattened space by using the same color intensity but threw in wrong colors
Term
[image]
Definition

Harmony in Red (The Red Room)

Henri Matisse

20th century

 

  • Post-Impressionism
  • bold colors, patterns
  • Fauvism - "wild beast" style of painting characterized by contrasting color and simplified shapes
Term
[image]
Definition

Les Demoiselles D'Avignon

Pablo Picasso

20th century

 

  • Cubism
  • influenced by African sculptured masks
  • no male figures, shows prostitutes the way he thinks of them, not as he sees them
Term
[image]
Definition

The Portuguese

Georges Braque

20th century

 

  • Cubism - analytic (expressive intuition, pure analysis)
  • painted from memory, shows a man playing a guitar in a cafe
  • opened up geometric interpretation by seeing things from all sides (2D vs 3D)
Term
[image]
Definition

Unique Forms of Continuity in Space

Umberto Boccioni

20th century

 

  • Futurism - reflects the exciting period of change with innovation in transportation and cinema
  • fragmented muscular figure in geometric forms to suggest motion and speed
Term
[image]
Definition

Airplane Flying

Kazimir Malevich

20th century

 

  • High abstraction cubism - suggests constant change
  • shapes and colors in a painting always communicate the subject of the work
Term
[image]
Definition

Composition No. 2

Piet Mondrain

20th century

 

 

  • High abstraction
  • completely freehanded
  • nonrepresentational work, form and rhythm paralleled nature
Term
[image]
Definition

Fountain

Marcel Duchamp

20th century

 

 

  •  Dada - "anti-art"
  • used readymade items to make art


Term
[image]
Definition

The Persistence of Memory

Salvador Dali

20th century

  •  Surrealism - depicts a dreamlike state
  • allegory of the literal mind
  • melting watches - symbol of life, death, and time
  • terrain of memory
Term
[image]
Definition

Painting

Joan Miro

20th century

 

  • Surrealism
  • genesis of a new world
  • suggestions of humans and animals
Term
[image]
Definition

No. 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist)

Jackson Pollock

20th century

 

  • Abstract Expressionism - influenced by all types of movements
  • pure painting - pure color, pure line
  • drip paint
Term
[image]
Definition

No. 16

Mark Rothko

20th century

 

  • Abstract Expressionism
  • chromatic abstraction
Term
[image]
Definition

Marilyn Diptych

Andy Warhol

20th century

 

  • Pop Art
  • shows variation, a different but similar image in every square
  • suggests passing of time
Term
[image]
Definition

Untitled Film Still #48

Cindy Sherman

20th century

 

  • Feminism
  • subject of cinema, mass production of identity
  • gender is a socially constructed idea
Term
[image]
Definition

Pink Panther

Jeff Koons

20th century

 

  • Neo-Pop
  • consumerism, mass production
  • absurdity of celeb romance, beastiality
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