Art Appreciation - Exam 1

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The Journey of the Sun God Re

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God is sitting on throne

Based on tale where they are always victorious

Outside coffin represents a blessing for dead

Religious

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Frederic Edwin Church, Niagara, 1857

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Style Representational

Landscape

Meant to represent expansion and growth

Meant to promote settling in US

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Representation Style

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art that depicts figures and objects so that we recognize what is represented

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abstraction

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the degree towhich an image is altered froman easily recognizable subject

-more emotional/subjective response

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Louise Nevelson, White VerticalWater

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Abstraction

Sculpture

Color white reminds of water

Large size reminds of waterfall

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Cai Guo-Qiang. Transient Rainbow. 2002

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Firework Display

Rainbow connecting two cities signifying Museum's move

Connection to Goddess Moma

Rainbow represents hope, healing and optimism after 9/11 attacks

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Tea bowl, 16th century

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Japanese tea ceremony

Has a spiritual aspect

Are natural and organic atmospheres

Functional

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Leonardo da Vinci, Mona Lisa

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Renaissance

Art was valued as the artists enginuity

"Window into the World"

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Renaissance

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a period of cultural and artisticchange in Europe from the 14th – 17th centuries(c. 1300-1600)

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patron

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an individual ororganization who sponsors thecreation of works of art

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Titian, Isabella d’Este

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Contemporary

Wanted to show her wealth

Timeless youthful beauty

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Carved ivory mask-shaped pendant

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Wore by Kings of African region

Meant to exhibit power

King of Benene

Ivory is very valuable

Believed to be the kings mother's beauty

Heads above are soldiers

Portuguese (trade relationship)

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Claude Monet, Impression Sunrise

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Impressionist

Monet was rejected often/underground exhibits

Insulted it saying it wasn't art but a mere impression

Reflection of light and it's changing charac.

Diff way to look at life

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William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Nymphs andSatyr

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Sensation:Young British Artistsfrom the SaatchiCollection

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Marc Quinn, Self

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Chris Ofili, The Holy Virgin Mary

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Peter Paul Rubens, Assumption of the Virgin

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Twin figure, from Yorubaland

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Marcus Harvey, Myra

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Claude Monet, Haystack series,

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outline

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the outermost line ofan object or figure, by whichit is defined or bounded

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Spider

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contour line

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can suggest avolume in space

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Egon Schiele, Portrait of theArtist’s Wife, Standing, withHands on Hips

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Egon Schiele, Mother with Child

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e.g. of contour line

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Egon Schiele, Self-Portrait

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e.g. of contour line

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Actual and Implied Lines

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micrography

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the creation ofdesigns using very small writing

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Franco-German hand,Pentateuch with PropheticalReadings and the Five Scrolls

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implied line

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line not actually drawn butsuggested by elements in the work

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James Allen, TheConnectors, 1934

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Charles C Ebbets, Lunch atop a Skyscraper, 1932

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Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808, 1814

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Vertical Lines

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Communicate strength, stability and authority

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Horizontal Lines

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Communicate calm, peaceful and passiveness

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Diagonal Lines

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Communicate movement, action and drama

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Carolyn Davidson, Nike Company logo

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Vincent van Gogh, The Bedroom

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Shapes are ______; forms are ______

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flat; three-dimensional

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Forms have two fundamental attributes

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volume andmass

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Volume

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is the amount of space a form occupies

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Mass

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is a volume that has, or gives the illusion of having,weight, density, and bulk

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Texture

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is the surface quality of a work

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organic form

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as opposed to geometricform; the form of most things in thenatural world

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Rottgen Pieta (Vesperbild)

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Michelangelo. Pietà

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open volume

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to create an enclosed space withmaterials that are not completely solid

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Ralph Helmick and Stuart Schechter,Ghostwriter

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Carol Mickett and Robert Stackhouse, In the Blue (Crest)

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mass

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the degree to which athree-dimensional object has,or gives the illusion of having,weight, density, and bulk

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Colossal Head,Olmec, 1500–1300 BCE

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negative space

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an empty spacegiven shape by its surround

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Rachel Whiteread, House,1993

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e.g. of negative space

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texture

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the surface quality of awork; the tactile sensation weexperience when we physicallyencounter a three-dimensionalform

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Méret Oppenheim, Object

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e.g. Surrealist movement

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Surrealist

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an artist belonging to the Surrealist movement in the 1920s and later, whose art was inspired bydreams and the subconscious

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Louise Bourgeois, Maman, 1999

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Value

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the lightness or darkness of a surface

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Space

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the distance between identifiable points or planes

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Perspective

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the creation of the illusion of depth in atwo-dimensional image by using mathematical principles(atmospheric, isometric, linear)

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René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (“This Is Not a Pipe”

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Chiaroscuro

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is an effect that creates an illusion of solidity and depth by using five defined values

Highlight; Light; Core Shadow, Reflected Light, Cast Shadow

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Pierre Paul Prud’hon, Studyfor La Source

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tenebrism

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dramatic use of intense darknessand light to heighten the impact of a painting;from the Italian “tenebroso,” meaning “murky”

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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and HerMaidservant with the Head of Holofernes

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Creating value using hatching and cross-hatching

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Michelangelo, Head ofa Satyr

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e.g. cross hatching

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oba

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king of WestAfrican state of Benin,both military andspiritual leader

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high relief

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a carvedpanel where the figuresproject with a greatdeal of depth from thebackground

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Plaque withwarrior and attendants,16th–17th century.Brass

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e.g. high relief

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Katsushika Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Shore at Kanagawa

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part of Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji

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The effects of atmospheric perspective

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looks less clear and more hazy the further you go

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Asher Brown Durand,Kindred Spirits, 1849.

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Wo-Haw, Wo-Haw between Two Worlds, 1875–77.

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Xu Yang, The Qianlong Emperor’s Southern Inspection Tour, Scroll Six: Entering Suzhou and the GrandCanal, Qing Dynasty

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isometric perspective

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a system using diagonal parallel lines to communicate depth

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Supergiant Games, screenshot from Transistor

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e.g. isometric perspective

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One-Point Linear Perspective

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aperspective systemwith a singlevanishing point onthe horizon;

Diagonal lines, and has a vanishing point

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EdithHayllar, A SummerShower

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Masaccio, Trinity,c. 1425–6.

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Janine Antoni, Touch, 2002.

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e.g Horizon Line

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hue

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general classification of a color; the distinctive characteristics of a color seen in the visible spectrum, such asgreen, red, or orange

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Kane Kwei, Coffin in the Shape of a Cocoa Pod (Coffin Orange)

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Frederic Edwin Church, Our Banner in the Sky

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Jasper Johns,Flag

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After image effect; complementary color

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afterimage effect

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whenthe eye sees thecomplementary color ofsomething that the viewerhas spent an extendedtime viewing

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Mary Cassatt, The Boating Party

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Analogous combos

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Vincent van Gogh, The Night Café

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Analogous Color

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Next to each other on color wheel

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Complementary Color

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Across from each other on color wheel