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Art History
Undergraduate 1
06/13/2011

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The Allegory of Painting

 

by Jan Vermeer

 

Variety of media are depicted:  book, trumpet, tapestry, chalk lines, chandelier, map, mask

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Mimis and kangaroo

Rock art, Austrailia

dates back 40,000 - 6000 BCE

Stick like figures represent ancestral spirits, or mimis

Drawing records knowledge of the artist

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The Alba Madonna

by Raphael

 

Circular, he takes da Vinci's advice, sketch quickly and loosely, rough out the limbs

 

he sketched it out first

oil painting

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Self-Portrait

Kathe Kollwitz

 

Charcoal, burnt wood, especially vines

expressive lines

 

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Untitled (Ocean)

Venice, CA

 

by Vija Celmins

 

graphite, photo realism

soft form of carbon, similar to coal

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After the Bath, Woman Drying Herself

 

by Edgar Degas

 

Pastel, chalk medium, with colored pigment

sketch line marks, he used pastels proficiently and inventive

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Prophet

 

by Emile NOLDE

 

 

relief - image to be printed is raised off the background in reverse, rubber stamps, press into ink pad and then paper


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Adam and Eve

 

by Albrecht Durer

iconographical meaning

Intaglio process - area to be printed are below the surface, strippling, dots are used in greater and greater density

elk - black bile, melancholy

cat - yellow bile, anger and cruelty

rabbit - blood, sensuality

ox - phlegm, lazziness, sluggish

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Marilyn Monroe

 

by Andy Warhol

Silkscreen printing

depicted her in garish, conflicting colors

she is an image, she died of suicide, like an endangered species, her identity has been stripped

Campbell soup - commodity (compared to Marilyn)

a woman shot Warhol

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Lamentation

by Giotto

 

Gold Halos - early Renaissance, early Christian Art

Trying to figure out how to give figures volume, to be more realistic

 

*Giotto also worked on the relief on Florence Cathedral

 

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Madonna and Child Enthroned

by Giotto

 

Realism

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The Libyan Sibyle

by Michelangelo

 

Turning from pagan past towards christianity.

Closing the book to her past.

 

shows movement

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CONTRAPPOSTO

Definition

Distortion of Human Figure

 

Greeks used

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Primavera

by Botticelli

 

Tempera, drappery and transparency

30 coats of paint on gowns/material and you can still see the figures underneath

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Braids (Helga)

by Andrew Wyeth

 

Oil Painting

 

Realism

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A Wall, Nassau

by

Winslow Homer

 

Water color (Most expressive)

Divider wall, black shards of glass,

Intrusion of privacy by tourists

The people don't want them there

Sail boat - freedom

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The Dove

by

Romare Bearden

 

Collage Artist

black experience, peace and harmony

paste/glue fragments of printed matter, fabric, usually on a flat surface

 

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Monogram

by Robert Rauschenberg

 

Combine - painting

high relief collages

bringing together diverse objects

to coexhist

 

Angora Goat

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Horse in Motion, Cantering, Saddled

Edward Muybridge

 

PHOTOGRAPHY

 

Bet to see if horse is entirely free of the ground.

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Le Boulevard du Temple - 1839

by

Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre

 

PHOTOGRAPH

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Maria Edgeworth, 1841

 

by

Richard Beard

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Harvest of Death

by

Timothy O'Sullivan

 

PA 1863

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Athens, The Decisive Moment 1953

by

Henri Cartier-Bresson

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The White Chapel of Senusret I

 

Relief sculpture, figure types, Egyptians

Figures are not depicted correctly, everyone is made the same, broad shoulders and pinched waist, carved in limestone, relief sculpture is meant to be seen from one side only, frontal

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*The Rape of the Sabine Women

by

Giovanni da Bologna

 

CARVED MARBLE, SUBTRACTIVE PROCESS

 

It was an abduction, not a rape

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Slave (Atlas)

 

by

Michelangelo

He wasn't able to finish and transform, he gave up and left it unfinished.

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*King Menkoure and His Queen

 

Stone lasts forever, they were concerned with afterlife

KA - individual spirits

 

Criteria for Egyptian art:

broad shoulders

pinched waists

rigid stance

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Kourous (Kritios Boy)

 

Marble

 

Greeks are more detailed, muscles, hair, eyes, abs.

**Body movement.  Ideal proportions to human.**

 

Figure was very important to Greeks

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Hermes & Dionysos

by

PRAXITELES

 

Counterbalance - contrapposto

 

 

Greatest Greek sculpture of all time.  Zeus had an affair and asked Hermes to take baby to nimphs in the mountains to be raised.

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Tomb of the Emperor

by

Shih Huang

 

Accidental discovery

ceramic

Chinese were first to perfect porcelin

 

 

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*Lost Wax Casting Process

perfected by the Greeks

 

sculpture is modeled (clay, wax) -core

mold is made (left with negative or original, gelatin mold) inside in filled with plaster, mold is removed and you are left wtih wax casting

molten bronze is poured and cooled and mold is removed

you are left with bronze replica of wax form

 

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*Contingent

by

Eva Hesse

 

Assemblage art - individual objects brought together to for a larger one

fiberglass and latex

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*A Frontal Passage

by

James Turrell

Light Artist

 

Deep Red Glow, dense haze like atmosphere, experience installation, state of hyper self consciousness

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*Spiral Jetty

by

Robert Smithson

Earthwork Artist (Public Art)

 

Utah Dead Sea, earthwork, salt crystals, red water, agale, black rock, man made.

spiral - snails, whirl pools naturally appear in nature.

 

 

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*To Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond

by

Zhang Huan

8-15-97

Performance Art

Immigrant workers who lost jobs to moderinization - protest

to show the power of collective action

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Apotheeosis of Homer Vase, 1796

Blue Jasperware

 ornamental ware - considered art

by Josiah Wedgwood

 

slip:  clay mixed with water, poor runny clay in mold and then fire that

ornamnetal ware (considered art)

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Wedgewood Queen's Ware kitchenware

 

mass production

everyone can afford and available to the middle class

more functional

"useful ware" - for the table

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Fine Art

 

 

 

Craft Art

Definition

fine art - nonfunctional

 

craft art - functional

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Tea Bowl Named Amaguno

 

by Koetsu

 

clay is rolled out in slab

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CERAMIC

 

three types of construction

Definition

 

 

coiling - native american's used this process, clay is rolled out in long, rope-like strands, stacked on each other

 

slab - clay is rolled out flat and then shaped wtih hands (Tea Bowl)

 

wheel-throwing

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*The Dinner Party

 by

Judy Chicago

 

very controversial artist, for females to be recognized equally for their art

over 300 women worked on this

triangle - symbol of female power, celebration of women

Problems:  she couldn't find history of famous women and Congress

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*Rotunda

by

Dale Chihuly (still living today)

glass - chandelier

shapes were organic - found in nature

inspired by mother's flowers and the sea

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*Tar Beach (Quilt)

by

Faith Ringgold

 

Rooftopin NY, hot summer time the parents would play cards on the roof, Cassie, is sleeping on blanket and dreaming as she flies over the Washington Bridge, wants mom to have icecream everyday

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*3D sculpture is built on

 

Armiture wire

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*warp - vertical threads, held taught on loom itself

 

weft - threads that are woven over and under, horizontal

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Corner of the First Temple of Hera

Paestum, Italy

 

Architecture

greek architecture (mathematic approach)

columns are fluted (length of column), grooved area

 

 

 

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*three types of column

 

Doric - masculine, plain

ionic - feminine, more decorative, slimmer

corinthian - acanthus leaves, very decorative

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*Arch - changed the way architecture could be done

perfected by Greeks

 

arch enables you to make structures with a larger span

 

single arch

barrel vault (tunnel)

groined vault

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*The Colosseum

 

Rome

 architectural wonder

Gladiator games, sports, fights to the death between humans and animals

could hold a lot of people

 

amphitheater - means double theater

two semicircular theaters are brought face to face

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*Pantheon (every God)

 

Rome

 

known for dome with open air (oculus-eye of Jupiter) open to heavens, worshippers could make contact to heaven

poured concrete

Romans were first to perfect the dome

20 feet thick thins to 6 ft at circular opening

carved niches

 

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Eiffel Tower

 

by Gustave Eiffel

 

built for Paris Expo of 1889

symbol of Paris

 

1000 feet hight, skeletal beams, so wind could pass through, used cast iron, no load bearing walls

not well received at first

(add carbon to iron - very strong medal that can span massive areas)

 

 

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Falling Water

by

Frank Lloyd Wright

 

America's most famous architect

built homes that fit into environment

in Pennsylvania in 1936

still standing, problems with drooping

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Turning Torso Residential Tower

by

by Santiago Calatrava in Sweeden

 

 

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Guggenheim Museum (Spain)

by

Frank Gehry

 

 

 

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*Burlington Zephyr

Burlington Northern Company

 

streamlining - machines could move faster

 

STREAMLINER ERA

 

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Wall painting with three horses facing one another

Chauvet, France

30,000 BCE

Rock wall painting

 

EARLIEST ART

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*Venus of Willendorf

Lower Austria

c 25,000 - 20,000 BCE

 

carved l+imestone

female form, no facial features, fertility is purpose of exaggerated breasts and belly area, statue,

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Stonehenge

England

 

circular, gathering

rocks are called megaliths

orientation towards the rising sun at the summer solstice indicates a connection to planting and harvest

major cooperation among people working on this

 

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She-Wolf

c 500 BCE

Rome

 

bronze

 

Fierce protectiveness, power of motherhood

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*THREE TYPES OF CLAY
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Porcelin

Earthware

Stoneware

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Santa Costanza, Rome

 Church

c. 354 CE

 

emphasis on spiritual, spread of christianity, softened corners, greek cross

 

Constantine legalized christianity in 313CE

the light was prevalent because of the mystery of the heavenly light of heaven

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 Theodora and Her Attendants,

San Vitale, Italy, c.546-47

Mosaic

 

Characteristics of early christian art:  gold halos, large wide eyes, flat-no volume

 

Theodora, wife of Justinian (his most trusted advisor)

12 advisors like the 12 apostles

3 maji bearing gifts to the Virgin and newborn Christ

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Chartes Cathedral, 1145-1220

Paris, France

 

Gothic art style:  light and lacey (left side)

Romanesque style: darker (right side)

 

Rose Window

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Florence Cathedral

 

Some releif done by Giotto

 

Color scheme:  red clay because they were so proud of their blue sky

 

Exterior is Romanesque

Interior is Gothic

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