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Exam 1 Pamela Lee
Fine arts 101
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Fine Art
Undergraduate 4
02/20/2012

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Fine art
Definition
Refers to objects created and appreciated for thier own merits, for asthetic satisfaction, or for some statement about the human condition. It is experienced and appreciated on an intangible rather than practical level
-painting, printing, sculpture
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Asthetics 
Definition
Refers to what is pleasing to the human eye
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Form
Definition
Refers to everything about the visual and the phsyical apperance of a work of art
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Applied Art
Definition
are created to serve a fcutnion. The intent is ulitarian. Applied art objects are not created just for aestheirc satisfaction alone, also functional.
architect and design
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[image]
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Leonardo da Vinci-Italian Renaissance artist

oil painting on wood pannel

1503-15?

Things were changed in the painting

Da Vinci wrote in script, backwards

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Sfumato
Definition
soft veiled appearance of the oil painting, invented by Da Vinci
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Glazing
Definition
layering up of many thin translucent applications of paint
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Giorgio Vassari
Definition
Art historian, first to write about the renaissance, mona-contraction of Madonna "my lady"
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Young Raphael Sanzio
Definition
learned from Da Vinci, copied the Mona Lisa
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1987 computer generated theory by Lillian Schwartz
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left side of Da Vincis self portrait matched up with Mona LIsa Painted
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Agostino Vepsucci
Definition
Identified in his book in 1503 that Lisa del Gocondo was the subject of the Mona LIsa
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Japanese National Treasures
Definition
most valuable art forms. cannot be taken out of the country
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Cultural properties
Definition
important cultural properties, historical and aesthetic importance
Term
ars
Definition
skills
Term
art
Definition
creative endeavors, performing arts, literary arts, visual arts
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Folk art
Definition
untrained artists working in rural areas
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Industrial design
Definition
telephones, typewriters, functional pieces
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graphic design
Definition
2 dimensional art that are mass produced such as logos, magazine and decorative art.
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Art is beauty
Definition
standars of beauty are not universal
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[image]
Definition

Foutain

Marcel Duchamp, French Modern Era Artist

original is lost

1917 New York Society of Independent artists

Dada artwork

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1917 exhibition of New York society of independent artists
Definition
prestigous group admitted by initiation, every member inthis group could have at least one piece as long as the dues were paid
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R. Mutt
Definition
Signature on the fountain. Penn name for Marcel Duchamp. Looked in NY yellow pages for the name of the owner of the company.
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Ready mades- (found object sculptures)
Definition
are made from or incorporate already exisiting objects, usually common place objects
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Dada
Definition
an anti art, anti meaning, anti movement. it ias a hilistic art movement, it was anarchistic.
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nihilism
Definition
extreme form of skepticism, total rejection of law or tradition
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Viewing art is a "tri-part" experience
Definition

1. look and you really feel

2. feel in response to art

3. seeing art can evoke an intellectual experience

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[image]
Definition

Venus of Willendoft, prehistoric sculpture

small (4 1/8) limestone sculpture 

once painted a red ocher color

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Venus
Definition
Roman God of Beauty. The Venus Of Willendorf would not have been appreciated without a mythical name
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Willendorf
Definition
town in austria were the Venus was found
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Form
Definition

is the way a work of art looks. It refers to everything about the visual and physical appearance of the artwork.

 

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Subject Matter
Definition
the figures, objects or shapes that are portrayed in a work of art
-narrower meaning of form
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Content
Definition
the message or meaning of the work of art. Its what a work of art is saying (overall message). Some are more literal and some have more specific meanings
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iconography
Definition
the story within a work of art including the conventional meanings and all levels of symbolic meaning, such as literary, cultural and religious references.
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iconology
Definition
the study of visual symbolism in art
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mask
Definition
portrait of someone, life size, never worn
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penant
Definition
worn by the king, necklace
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"Iyoba"
Definition
Queen
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"oba"
Definition
King
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motif
Definition
1. subject matter
2. a repeated pattern or design
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Olokun
Definition
represnted as a mudfish, god of water and wealth, King had special relation with deity .
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[image]
Definition

Portrait of a Queen Mother (Pendant Mask) 

Edo/Beni

From court of Benin

early 16th century

Benin Culture

Nigeria

Ivory and Iron 

Term
[image]
Definition

The Isenheim Alter Piece

Matthias Gruenwald

German Artist 

1510-1515

Northern Renasance Period 

Polypytch

Large oil paitning on pannels, some carved, wood relief sculpture 

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Polyptych
Definition
work of art made of multiple (4+) images that are traditionally joined together as a united. they are indented to be viewed as one piece of art
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Monastery church of the Order of St. Anthony
Definition
Treated skin diseases.
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Ergot Poisoning
Definition
fungus that effects grain, found in rye bread
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[image]
Definition

Solidary Temple

Li Cheng

China

Northern Song Dynasty 950-960

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Style in art refers to...
Definition
an identifiable and recognizable set of visual characteristics. The characteristics can be associated with a particular artists, a group of artists in a period of time or within a culture.
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Two broad categories of style are:
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representational art nonrepresentational
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nonrepresentational art
Definition
does not attempt to portray a real object or person . There is no recognizable subject matter, but there can be content to some viewers
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representational art
Definition
depicts objects or people in some recognizable form
-to some degree objective images portray nature
-nature refers to the visible world of people and things
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representational art includes:
Definition
realism
abstraction
expressionism
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regionalism
Definition
celebrating paints of small town and rural art. Art colony started by Wood in Stone City
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[image]
Definition

Paul Cezanne

Mont sainte-victoire

Post Impressionist artist

oil painting

1902-1904

60 paintings

15 drawings 

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Cezanne's influence of art history
Definition
regareded as a pivitol modernist painter. He created art that was representational but not a strict realistic depction of nature. Work would come to be seen as the precursor of the antecendent to cubism
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Realism/Naturalism
Definition

the portrayal of people and objects as they are seen in nature.

-accurately emphasized

-there are no deliberate distoritons, nor expressionistic liberties. 

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[image]
Definition

American Gothic

Grant Wood

Modern American Artist

1930 

inspiration- house in Ceder Rapids Iowa 

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Photorealism
Definition
movement that recreated in two dimension the look of photographs and in three dimension used acasting to achieve the utmost fidelity to reality
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[image]
Definition

Wheel of Fortune 

1977-78

Audrey Flack

Contemporary American Artist

oil over acrylic 

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vanitas
Definition
baroque still life paintings that used objects to sumbolize the fleeting nature of life and thus the folly of people' s desires for wealth and beauty
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Memento Mori
Definition
a skull is included in the artwork to symbolize the passing of life and thus the futitility of greed and vanity 
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[image]
Definition

Janitor

Duane Hanson

1973

Modern American Artist

fiberglass and polyester resin, polychrome and mixed media

Both Modern and Super realism sculpture 

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Trompe-I'oeil
Definition
art rendered with such exacting realism that the viewer can be fooled into thinking the subjects are real rather than painted or sculpted.
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Abstract Art
Definition
depicts figures and objects in simplified, distorted or exaggerated.Color or shape can be changed or exaggerated.
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In terms of the two broadest categories of style abstract is..
Definition
representational
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abstract art is not synonymous with
Definition
nonrepresentational or nonobjective
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[image]
Definition

The Red Room 

Henri Matisse

1908-09

French Modern Era

large oil on canvas

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[image]
Definition

Pablo Picasso

Les demoiselles d'avignon

Modern Era

landmark cubistic painting 

1907

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Cubism follows what ____started
Definition
Cezanne
Term
Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque collaborated on developing
Definition
the visual vocabulary of cubism working together from 1909-1914
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Expressionistic art
Definition
involves the distortion of shape or color to achieve emotional intensification to express some strong emotion or negative psychological state
Term
expressionistic art fits into the broad style category of
Definition
depictive
Term
expressionistic art could be considered a subcategory of
Definition
abstract
Term
the distortions of shape and color with expressionistic art's purpose is
Definition
communicating strong emotions
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nonobjective art
Definition
has no recognizable subject matter
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[image]
Definition

The State Hospital

Edward Kienholz

Modern Era American Artist

large mixed media sculpture 

1966

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[image]
Definition

Titled Arc

Richard Serra

1981

Contemporary American Artist 

made with corten steel 

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[image]
Definition

Staircase, Tassel House

Victor Horta

Art Nouveau Style

Belgium 

1892-1893

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Examples of Art Noveau Style
Definition
hair combs, jewelry and stained glass windows
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Art Nouveau Style
Definition

1890-1914 USA and Europe

Forms reminisecent of plants, flowers, insects married by lyrical linerly and rich decorative ornament 

Term
[image]
Definition

Barcelona Chair

Ludwige Mies van der Rohe

steel and leather

1929 German Pavilion

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Bauhus (bulding house)
Definition

School of design 

severly economic, used geometric shapes and respected materials 

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Walter Gropius
Definition
founded Bauhaus School
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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.
Definition
Utility
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Media
Definition
Refers to the materials and techniques used to create art objects
ex. glazing with oil paints on a wood pannel
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Oeuvre
Definition
The entire body of an artists life's work
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The Pop art movement
Definition
at its peak in the 1960's and 1970's in the U.S. and England. Borrows images from contemporary popular and commercial culture and then recreates the images using fine art material.
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