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VAH Test 2
VAH Test 2 - 11/16/07
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
11/14/2007

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Term
Henri Matisse
Definition
Collage (to paste up), French
late 19th century, early 20th
friendly rivalry with Picasso
became sick and couldnt get out of bed so made collages
died 1953
Term
Frank Gehry
Definition
Asymmetrical architexture,
organic shapes
Term
Freida Kahlo
Definition
"The Two Freidas"
oil on canvas
*surrealistic*
married to Deigo Rivera
Term
Grant Wood
Definition
"American Gothic"
- gothic archetexture
- great depression (dark, gothic times)
"Parson Weems Fable"
Term
Fransico Goya
Definition
"The Executions of the 3rd of May 1808"
focal point of the standing man
Term
David
Definition
"The Death of Marat"
painted to look innocent
- no focal point, just emphasis
Term
Oldenburg/Van Bruggen
Definition
large scale, pop art sculptures
"The Knife Ship"
- Venice, Italy
distorted porportion and scale
Term
Edward Munch
Definition
"The Scream" or "The Cry"
- unity variety
- compared to VanGogh
Term
Cezanne
Definition
Father of Modern Art
- 1st artist to paint abstract
Genre of nature
Term
Mya Ying Line
Definition
Vietnam Memorial **1982**
polished black granette
most visited nomument in US
genre of death
Term
Claude Monet
Definition
*impressionist*
series paintings
impasto
Term
Pablo Picasso
Definition
Styles:
- Blue, Rose, Cubism, Classical
4 kids (1 from wedlock)
greatest artist of all time
spanish but lived in Paris
took mothers name - real name Ruiz
Term
Henri Rousseau
Definition
Naive style
started painting at 40
"The Dream" - very stylized
Term
Jackson Pollic
Definition
Abstract expressionism
action painting
Term
Balance
Definition
Principle of Design
- visual weight
- symmetrical (formal)
- asymmetrical (informal)
- radial
- symmetrical relieved
Term
Ways to create empahsis/ focal point
Definition
- content
- implied light
- implied lines
- placement near the center
- contrast
- color
- isolation
Term
Classical
Definition
Influenced from Greeks/Romans
- period of Picasso
Term
Gothic
Definition
middle ages (1150)
pointed arches (buttresses hold up), rose windows,
Term
Iconclasm
Definition
image breaking
- Jewish dont believe in having images of God: Taliban tearing down their statues
Term
Genre
Definition
works of art whoes theme is everyday life, or everyday living
Term
Impressionism
Definition
portraying daily life, quick brush strokes, record the change in nature (light)
Term
Style
Definition
differences between artists in a group
Term
Cubism
Definition
Picasso
showing object at many different planes/angels on the same picture plane
Term
Iconography
Definition
The story/symbols behind a piece of work
Term
Memento Mori
Definition
Symbol of death
- skull
- single candle
Term
Fiber Art
Definition
made out of fiber/fabrics
- Judy Chicago - "The Birth Project"
Term
Naive
Definition
Unaware
Henri Rousseau
Term
"The Venus of Willendorf"
Definition
**23000 BC*
earliest form of sculpture
carved limeston - 4"
believed to be a fertilitly goodess
Term
Stonehenge
Definition
**2000 BC**
3 continuous rings of stone
belived to be a calender/burrial ground
Sullsberry England
Term
Great Pyramid of Cheops (Giza)
Definition
**2500 BC**
Tomb for pharro Cheops
largest of the pyramids - 450 ft
Term
Parthenon
Definition
**450 BC**
most proportionate building created
archetects - Ictions and Callicrates
defined Greek archetecture and art
Classical Period
temple to the godess Athena
Term
Principles of Design
Definition
- Balance
- Emphasis/Focal Point
- Unity and Variety
- Scale and Proportion
- Rhythm
Term
Censorship
Definition
the supervision by one individual or group over the artistic expression of another individual or group
Term
Robert Mapplethorpe
Definition
Photographer, "X Portfolio"
Term
A. Gentileschi
Definition
Baroque - odd because she is female
"Judith with the Head of Holofernes"
- Hebrew widow, Aserian general Holofernes fighting, Judith has swards in paintings and cuts his head off, Hebrews win battle
Term
Georgis De La Tour
Definition
Baroque - French
"Joseph the Carpenter" Josephy holding a candle (momento mori)
Term
Vanitas
Definition
Latin for "vanity"
biblical book of Ecclesiastes
Term
Audrey Flack
Definition
"Wheel of Fortune (Vanitas)"
momento moris - skull, hourglass, calendar, single candle,
necklace, mirrow, lipstick symbols of vanity
Term
Jacob Lawrence
Definition
Harlem Renaissance - 1930
Genre - everyday life (poor, civil rights movement)
Term
Richard Serra
Definition
"Tilted Arc"
Term
The Guerrilla Girls
Definition
formed in 1985, group of women who hide their identity, fight and protest for equal treatment of female and minority artists
Term
Super/Photo Realism
Definition
the praticular kind of realism that the camera produces
Term
Minimalism
Definition
co-existed with Pop art
mainly 3D art
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