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20 Cards in this Set
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Identify the artist, title of the work, and medium used. |
Artist: Romare Bearden Title: Rocket to the Moon Year: 1971 Medium: Collage on Board (Collage fragments build a scene of quiet despair and stoic perseverance) |
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Artist: Geogia O'Keefe Title: Jack-in-the-Pulpit No. V Year: 1930 Medium: Oil on canvas (depicts a jack-in-the-pulpit flower; natural rhythms present in a flower) |
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Artist: Marc Chagall Title: I and the Village Year: 1911 Medium: Oil on canvas (implied lines to create a large circle at the lower center that brings together scenes of Russian Jewish village life; drew in implied sightline between man and animal) |
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Artist: Shen Zhou Title: Poet on a Mountain Year: c1500 Medium: Album leaf mounted as a hand scroll; ink and watercolor on paper on silk mount; atmospheric perspective; near and distant |
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Artist: Michelangelo Buonarroti Title: Pieta (means pity) Year: 1498-1500 Medium: marble |
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Identify the artist, title of the work, and medium used. |
Artist: Henri Matisse Title: Large Reclining Nude Year: 1935 Medium: Oil on canvas |
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M.C. Escher, Sky and Water |
Medium: woodcut; shape Figure Ground Reversal: a visual effect in which what was seen as a positive shape becomes a negative shape, and vice versa |
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Raphael, The School of Athens |
Medium: fresco; linear perspective; one-point perspective system; used perspective for emphasis |
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Asher Brown Durand, Kindred Spirits |
Medium: oil on canvas; atmospheric perspective; provide a sense of distance; illusion of infinite space is balanced by dramatically illuminated foreground details; landscape |
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Jacob Lawrence, Going Home |
Medium: gouache; balanced unity and variety; established visual themes with the lines, shapes, and colors of the train seats, figures, and luggage; repetition; many objects and figures in the complex composition form a unified design through the artist's use of abstraction, theme, and variation |
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How does the book define a work of art? |
A work of art is the visual expression of an idea or experience, formed with skill, through the use of a medium. |
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What does the word "medium" mean as it is used in art? |
A medium is a particular material, along with its accompanying technique. Artists select media to suit the function of the work, as well as the ideas they wish to present. When a medium is used in such a way that the object or performance contributes to our understanding or enjoyment of life, we experience the final product as art. |
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List several examples of artistic media. |
Oil on canvas, ink on paper, cinematography, printmaking, ceramics, marble, fresco, collage on board |
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What are the three main techniques artists use to give the illusion of depth on a 2D surface? |
Implied depth, linear perspective, and aerial/atmospheric perspective |
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Implied depth |
overlapping, diminishing size, and vertical placement Examples: Paul Cezanne's Still Life with Apples |
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Linear perspective |
a system of perspective in which parallel lines appear to converge as they recede into the distance, meeting at a vanishing point on the horizon Examples: Raphael's The School of Athens |
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Atmospheric or Aerial perspective |
a nonlinear means for giving an illusion of depth, the illusion of depth is created by changing color, value, and detail Examples: Shen Zhou's Poet on a Mountain, Asher Brown Durand's Kindred Spirits |
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Ted Talk: Importance of Doodling and the real definition of doodle |
Sunni Brown, Doodlers, Unite! Sketching and doodling improve our comprehension and creative thinking; No solid definition of doodle/doodling; people who doodle retain more information than non-doodlers; it's a measure to help you stop from losing focus To doodle: to make spontaneous marks to help yourself think |
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Tony Orrico, Penwald : 2 : 8 |
patterns, draws circles with body |
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Willard Wigan |
Micron scale/micro-sculpture, "the best things come in small packages" Sculptures: Hoff house on a pinhead Medium: nylon, glass, fiber, gold |
