Art Quiz #3 Vocab About Artists

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Cameron

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An artists of a period turned to such traditional paintings genres as portraiture, still life, and her Portrait of a Woman is a good example of the trend towards "art" photography that surface during the mid 19th century,

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Degas

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He convinced that painting could be manipulated to suit the "natural view". Some of his most captivated work was done in chalk pastel a medium that effectively combines a variety of mark making devices usually associated with drawing and dramatically intense color. His scenes reminds viewers of snapshots and most of his art work of woman's in tubs or ballerinas. Also sculptured the Little fourteen year old dancer.

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Cassatt

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She was closely associated with Degas and her work combines the often contradictory sensibilities of drawing and color with singular insight. Mother and Child of 1889 is typical of her work, which drew heavily on the everyday relations between mothers and their children. The results are an interesting merging of Monet's light and mark making with Manets flattering of forms, in a satisfying and sensitive portrayal of domestic.

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Rodin

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Was perhaps the most gifted sculptor in Western art since Bernini, and his work spanned six crucial decades in the development of modern art. he was commissioned by the port city of Calis to honor six of its citizens who, in 1347, willingly allowed themselves to be taken hostage by the invading English in the hope that their city might be spared.

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Japanese Prints

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This is a traditional printmaking based mainly on the woodblock technique, which was capable of producing a high-quality , clear image with very simple tools. The process involves the inking cut-out wood forms, which are reassembled and through pressure then transfered onto paper. The woodblock method is also a relief form of printing, which means that only the raised areas of the block are printed.It showed a way of creating art on a two dimensional surface without the tired conventions of perspective and atmospheric space that had been a part of Western painting since the Renaissance.

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Gauguin

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One of the most famous painters to develop the dramatic flattering of space and saturated areas of color. His vision after the Sermon of 1888 is a striking example of his willingness to let color inform the viewer in less than traditional ways. He desired color that was liberated form its role as representation, and as a result functioned with a degree of symbolism and intent on the part of the artists post impressionism.

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Harlem Renaissance

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This in turn created a generation of sophisticated artists nurtured on both contempotrary European trends and traditional black motifs. One of the pre-eminent hubs for such activity was Harlem, which provided as essential focus for black culture during the first decades of the 20th century.
during this period , a number of artists associated with the Harlem
renaissance .

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Lange

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At their worst, these images were explotiative abd condescendingly degrading; at their best, as in the work of her the images transcend their historical circumstance to speak human tragedy and injustice in a convincing and dignified manner. Images such as Lange's Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California of 1936 are indicative of Depression Era documentary photography and remain among the most profound represent actions of the human spirit in American art.

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Macchu Picchu

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A remarkable urban design built by the Incas in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in the Peruvian Andes.

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Manet

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A realism artist. 1850-1860.
Contemporary subjects and influenced modern artists.

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Matisse

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Began to develop a psychology of color of particular sensitivity. A delightful example of her playfulness with established painting conventions is his Still Life with Goldfish of 1911.

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Mondrian

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First excursion into the 20th century painting came as a result of his interest in Cubism. His initial experiments in fracturing space and asserting the picture plane relied heavily on a vertical horizantal configuration nature seen through God's imposed grid system. He aspired to paint like Einsteins theory of relatively, could become the blueprint for a new, more truthful experience of life through art.

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Ogun

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He is an example of Yoruban deity, The "Hard god", the god of war and iron. He possesses a complex duality and ambivalence embodied in the activities of the blacksmith who transforms iron.

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Picasso

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Use of African masks as a pictorial source serves an important visual function in the painting but it also demonstrates how such images often carry other implicit connections to their age.

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Pollock

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Is one of the most celebratred artists in American History. His seemingly random and incoherent method of painting elicited the mockery of conservative critics and the public alike , who saw his work as a joke produced by a man out of control.. Had a "drip" method.

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Renoir

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Shared Monets enthusiasm for the effects of light and freedom of paint handling but was much more conservative in his tastes . Was one of those rare characters in art who seemed genuinely content to explore and elevate the status of everyday joy and harmony. Example would be Luncheon of the boating party.

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Rivera

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was one of the first young Mexicans muralists after the fall of Diaz to establish a reputation for insightful, uncompromising images of revolt and social commentary. His Night of the Rich.

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Rothko

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Artist associated with the Color Field Painting movement.

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Monet

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Painted Impression: Sunrise.

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Van Gogh

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He wished to release color in painting from emirical notions but unlike Gauguin he spent his life painting from observation