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DSN S 183 (1)
Info for the first exam on Cunnally's 183 class at Iowa State.
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
09/23/2012

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Term
[image]
Definition

The Slave Ship

1844

Joseph Turner

Style: Romantic

Term
[image]
Definition

Mural

1943

Jackson Pollock

Romantic/Biomorphic

Abstract Expressionism

Term
[image]
Definition

German Beer poster

Alphonse Mucha

1898

Style: Art Nouveau

Term
[image]
Definition

1915 Coke Bottle

Alex Samuelson, Clyde Edwards

Cyma Curve

Cola nut/Cocoa Bean

Term
[image]
Definition

Wassily Chair

1925

Marcel Breuer

Sleek, Streamlined, like Gabrielle Channel

Term
[image]
Definition

Barcelona Chair

1929

Mies Van Der Rohe

Bauhaus style

Term
Using multiple motifs
Definition
Eclecticism
Term
[image]
Definition

The City (1919)

Fernand Leger

Cubist style

Term

Cubism

Talk about the development of it

Be specific yada yada

Definition

Started by Pablo Picaso in 1907, was in all part of design by 1920 in the form of Art Deco. It was considered very high class at the time.

RUR(1920) is a play from Cehoslovacia by Karel Capek. It is where the word robot came from and was a major part of the cubism movement with mahines mechanical whatnot.

 

Term
[image]
Definition
ELC Chair
1944
Charles Eames
Uses organic shapes
Term
German word for being of a certain time. 
Definition
Zeitgeist
Term
German word for world view or mental attitude of certain people of a certain time.
Definition
Weltanschauung
Term
[image]
Definition

Advertising poster for Pivolo aperitif

1923

Adolphe Cassandre

Style: Art Deco

Term
[image]
Definition

1965

Mary Quaint

Mini dresses with paterns, straight lines, more geometric & less biometric

Term
[image]
Definition

Tribute in Light

2002

 

88 spotlights

Julian Laverdiere and Paul Myoda

NYC, NY

Term
[image]
Definition

Clothespin

1976

Claes Oldenburg

Philadelphia, PA

Pop art

Term
[image]
Definition

TWA terminal

Eero Saarinen

1957

JFK airport, NYC, NY

Dionysian architecture- crazy, not geometric, curvy lines, biomorphic

 

Eero Saarinen also made the Tulip Chair in 1955

Term
[image]
Definition

Chevron

Ken Noland

1962

Minamalist, linear

Term
[image]
Definition

Oath of the Horatii

Jacques Louis David

1785

Classical painting

Term
Explain walking around a cat
Definition

Vito Acconci

he was a Conceputal artist 

Term

Vocab:

Being from the same time

Being from a Different time

Definition

Synchronic

Diachronic

Term
[image]
Definition

Thomas Chippendale

 

Flowery/intricate patterns

 

1760s

 

Style: Rococo

Term
[image]
Definition

Composition

1930

Piet Mondrian

Minimalism

Apollonian- like Apollo, orderly

Term
[image]
Definition
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche said the Greek were great because they balanced their worship between the two Gods, Apollo and Dionysos. They are very different and offer the society structure and energy. These forms can be seen speratly in paintings.
Term
[image]
Definition

Salk Institute (1959)

La Jolla CA

Louis Kahn

Apollonian architecture- very organized and sharp/clean

Term
[image]
Definition

Improvisation

1914

Wassily Kandinsky

Dionysian painting- romaintic, colorfull, kind of blurry with out set boundries of shapes

Term

Name the Term and describe it better:

When there are two different ways or types of things

Definition

Dichotomy

Alternating styles such as

Painterly or Planar

Apollonian or Dionysian

Term
[image]
Definition

Bird in Space

 

1925

 

Constantin Brancusi

 

Landmark Case - Firt time abstract sculpture was officially art in court of law

Term
[image]
Definition

The Moulin de la Galette

1876

Pierre Auguste Renoir

 

Style: French Impressionism

People thought was very ugly at the time but eventually came to like it (10 year rule)

 

Renoir also painted Nude in Sunlight which was though bad because of the realistic colors that were not normally used at the time

Term
[image]
Definition

Prince Albert Armchair

1851

Henry Eyles

 

Won award for most beautiful furniture ay London's 1851 worlds fair.

Term

Washington DC

 

Presidents house

 

Capitol

Definition

1791. Pierre Charles L’Enfant. radial and castrum designs

1792. James Hoban. neo-classicism with portico and tholo

1793. William Thornton after the Pantheon

Term

Golden Ratio

 

Give me more

Definition

A is to B as A+B is to A


Luca Pacioli did research on this with funding by the Duke of Urbino who then had it implemented in his palace

 

Phi = Φ = .618

Term
[image]
Definition

5 Irish Brothers from Waterloo, Iowa. Died 1942 on the Navy ship USS Juneau

 

Memorial has a mast, 5 anchors, % sided pyramid, shamrock

Term
Ground Zero Memorial
Definition

Design:

Michael Arad and Peter Walker

 

Groups

Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Lower Manhattan Development Corporation

World Trade Center Memorial Foundation

Term
Tell me the story of the Smithsonian Institute
Definition
James Smithson died and left his money to his nephew but eventualy to the US for the Smithsonian Institute. Designer was James Renwick in Romanesque in 1855.
Term
Mall Re-Landscaping
Definition

James McMillan headed committee

- Make the mall open and green

- Extend mall to south and west

- Add new monuments

- Make permanent committee to regulate building design

Term
Lincoln Memorial
Definition
Designed by Henry Bacon
Term
Jefferson Memorial
Definition
Designed by John Russell Pope
Term
National Gallery of Art
Definition

By John Russle Pope 1941

money from Andrew Mellon and then son Paul Mellon with new addition in 1978 that didn't look clasical, but was classical in spirit. Addition by Ieoh Ming Pei

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