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Sfumato
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Refers to the soft, veiled smoky appearance of the oil painting.
-Da Vinci Invented it. |
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Glazing
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Refers to the layering up of many thin translucent applications of paint.
-A Method in Practice |
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The Mona Lisa; ATD
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A- Leonardo DaVinci (Italian Renaissance Artist)
T- c. 1503-1505 D.30 X 21 " |
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La Gioconda - Lisa Gherardini del Gioconda
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It was thought that Mona Lisa in fact was a painting of Mr. Gioconda's wife.
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Giorgio Vasari
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Wrote a book that started the idea the painting was of Mr. Gioconda's wife.
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Records and Riddles...
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Da Vinci kept notebooks/sketches/records/documents for all of his commission portraits.
He wrote lots of riddles, and taught himself how to write backwards in cursive. |
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X-Rays Reveal?
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That Mona Lisa once had pearls around her neck.
Da Vinci also altered the hands. There's a different smile. |
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Raphael Sanzio
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Visited Da Vinci and asked to copy a painting (shows pearls hand placement smile columns on side) and the columns were sawed off
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Da Vinci kept the painting until he died...
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The Mona Lisa started but didn't end as a comission portrait.
King of France invited him to come live with him, Da Vinci walked there and brought the painting. |
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1987 Computer Generated Theory/Lillian Schwartz at MIT
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Came up with a theory that it ended up as a feminine portrait of leonardo, and people claimed he wasn't a heterosexual.
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Agostino Vespucci?
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A book owned by him was found, a margin note by AV from October 1503 identifies Lisa Del Gioconda as the subject of Mona Lisa; until 2008 there were still mysteries.
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Fountain; ATD?
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A- Marcel Duchamp
T- 1917 (Replica of the original fountain, lost after submission to 1917 New york society of independent artists) D-12" x 15" x 18" A "DADA" Artwork |
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Era?
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A big period of art history.
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Dada?
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Art historical movement ~ 20 years (means nothing, aims to mean nothing, and was adopted precisely because it means nothing).
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1917 exhibition of NYSIA (New York Society of Independent Artists)...
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1917 in NYC.
Formal organization and list of people that paid their dues going to mount an exhibition and when to send their artwork. Duchamp decided to test that clause and sent in the fountain, they took it out to the dumpster and a replica is pictured. |
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R. Mutt?
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Name on the urinal, Duchamp got the yellow pages and found a name that manufactured these urinals.
Richard Mutt owned plumbing manufacturers. |
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1913 Armory Show?
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Most important exhibition in the history of the United States.
Initially a large exhibition of a group of advanced artists. armory= only place large enough to hold all of the art, Europeans stole the show. (ppl were shocked and used to realism) |
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Ready-Mades?
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AKA: Found Object Sculptures
-Made from of incorporate already existing objects, usually commonplace objects (fountain). |
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Role of taste in the selection?
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"The readymade was selected with a total absence of good or bad taste, in fact, in complete anesthesia" -Marcel Duchamp
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DADA
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anti-art, anti-meaning, anti-movement. It is a nihilistic art movement and was anarchistic as well.
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Nihilism?
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An extreme form of skepticism; total rejection of law or tradition.
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What huge event was during this time period?
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World War I (1914-1918)
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Viewing art as a tri-part experience...
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1) Look and see the art.
2) Feelings and emotions. 3) Art can inspire an intellectual response in the viewer (words, not feelings). |
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Venus of Willendorf; ATD
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A- Unknown
T- prehistoric sculpture, c. 22000-24000 BCE. D- 4 3/8 inches heighth.Small limestone sculpture once painted a red ocher color |
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Ocher?
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A naturally occurring pigment earthy red clay.
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Prehistoric?
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Before written history, we don't know who sculpted it.
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Venus
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Discovered by an archaeologist.
Roman goddess of love and beauty. |
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Willendorf
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Place in Austria, closest city tot he archaeological site; prized wasn't broken up.
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Explanations for Venus of Willendorfs Features?
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No feet. No face.
Prehistoric woman, ample body fat. During this time, women were seen as procreators who carryy youn. Everything is carved except the belly button; stuck in the earth at labor w/o feet. |
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Art is a form of _____. It is visual ______. The art object is the focal point of this _____ process.
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Communication.
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Form?
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Is the way a work of art looks.
Form refers to EVERYTHING ABOUT THE VISUAL AND PHYSICAL APPEARANCE of the artwork. Includes: Subject matter, style, media (materials and technique) composition, perspective, size (proportion, scale, overall piece), visual elements (space, line, color, texture, shape) etc. |
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Subject Matter?
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Refers tot he figures, objects or shapes that are portrayed in the work of art.
In nonobjective, (art without recognizable subject matter) we might call a red shape a red "form". |
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Content?
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Refers to the message or meaning of the work of art (general meaning).
Living with art text "content is what a work of artt says" |
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Iconography?
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The story within a work of art, including the general or conventional meanings and all the levels of symbolic meanings, such as literary, cultural and religious references.
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Iconology?
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The study of visual symbolism in art.
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Portrait of a Queen Mother (Pendant Mask); ATD
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A- From the Court of Benin, Nigeria
T- EDO, early 16th century D- ivory and iron inlays (embedded), 9 3/8" height |
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A mask...?
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the "likeness" of a person, not really meant to be worn.
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Pendant?
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An ornament that hangs; this is a pendant mask because it was worn hanging.
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Kingdom of Benin/Edo dates?
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1440-1897
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A royal art?
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King made it a decree that anyone who made a head had to be beheaded unless it was casting in the service of royalty.
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Relations with the Portuguese?
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1485- Portuguese brought a sailing ship to kingdom of Benin and brought gifts to the king and set up trade relations with them.
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"oba"
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The King = most powerful man in the lands.
Name = Esigie |
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"iyoba"
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Queen Mother of the King = Most powerful woman in the land.
Name = Idia |
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Motif
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Subject matter or a pattern or design
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Olokun?
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Lord of water and wealth.
Deity; particular god in their set that was supposed to be their counterspirit for the king. |
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Staircase, Tassel House; AT
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A- Victor Horta
T- Art Noveau Style; 1892-1893 Brussels, Belgium |
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A house for...
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A family named Tassel; head of the family was professor tassel that taught geometry at the free university in Brussels.
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Victor Horta designed...
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Knows it was an architectural design.
Better made = more commission. Tassels collected art, Japanese wood block prints. He was a very hands on architect; famous for dramatic staircases with such detail. |
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Art Nouveau Style - (What, where, when?)
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1980-1914 across Europe and America.
The forms are reminiscent of plants, flowers, insects. The style of marked by lyrical linearity and rich, decorative ornamentation. |
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Art Nouveau Style - (Inspired or Influence By)
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1) Nature (plants, insects)
2) celtic design 3) asian design |
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Art Nouveau Style - (Proponents of this style were against)
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Industrialization and the rising prevalence of machine made objects.
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Barcelona Chair -ATDS
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A-Ludwig Miles van der Rohe
T-1929 German Pavilion, International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain D- 29" high, steel and leather S-Bauhaus Style |
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Bauhaus Style (what where when?)
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Means "Building House"
From 1919-1933 it was a school as well as an aesthetic, the school was founded by Walter Gropius, a German architect -Bauhaus design was severly economic, used geometric shapes and advocated a respect for materials. -"less is more"/"form follows function" |
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International Style
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The aesthetic in architecture emerged in a number of European countries and came to be called this.
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The distinction between fine art and applied art rests on the intention of ____, not on the medium nor on aesthetic merit.
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Utility.
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Media?
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refers to the materials and techniques used to create art objects.
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Example of media?
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glazing with oil paints on wood panels.
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Medium
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Is the singular form of media, which is plural.
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Gray areas between fine and applied art...
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Some cultures make NO distinction between them.
When an established fine art artist makes an occasional funcational image, it's included in the artist's oeuvre. |
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Oeuvre?
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The entire body of an artist's life's work.
French for = Complete work! |
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The pop art movement.
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Was, at its peak, in America and England in the 1960's and 1970s.
It borrows images from contepmorary popular and commercial culture, and then recreates the images using fine art media. Historically, it scrambled/confused the barriers between high and low art. |
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Pop Art Movement Artists eg?
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Andy Warhol, Oldenburg, Lichtenstein etc
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Architecture...
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Is both a fine art and an applied art.
At its best, architecture is much like sculpture. Architects manipulate the same visual elements (mass, texture, space, color, line) as sculptors. Architecutre is also funcional, we live, shop and worship in works of architecture. It can dramatically affect our lives, bringing aesthetic pleasure/irritation. WSU- grouped arch. department with engineering (applied. UIDAHO- art and architecure (aesthetic). |
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Mont Sainte-Victoire; ATDS
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A- Paul Cezanne, a Post-Impressionist Artist
T-1902-1904 D-27 1/2" x 35 1/4" S-Representational Art |
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The artist's intentions?
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Paul Cezanne was OBSESSED with searching for a solidity and unity of form.
Sought to discover and paint geometric solids in nature. Looked for essential geometric forms; cone, sphere, cylinder. As a person: difficult and obsessive, hard to get along with and stubborn, took criticism very poorly. |
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Mont Sainte-Victoire
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Cezanne did some 75 painted/drawings of it.
He wanted to depict a solidity and unity of form in nature, an order he seeked with his eyes. He is famous for his belief that geometry served as a basis for all forms. |
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The method used...
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Slow, methodical painstaking fashion.
Kept many canvases active, spent years and months on some. Used wax fruit, had difficulty using people as models, very slow. |
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He felt linear perspective was a "lie"
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A mathematical system based on monocular style vision, from one single unmoving point of view.
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His influence of art history
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His art was the precursor for cubism.
Used searching brush strokes to define form. Used color as a line. Shared with/impressionists a distate for conventional drawing. |
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Realism/Naturalism
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Is the portrayal of people and objects as they are seen to be in nature.
-accuracy is emphasized -there are no deliberate distortions, nor expressionistic liberties |
