Pictures for mid term exam Flashcards
Archaic Period
600-500 B.C
Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon 1906
Architecture of color
Cubism – prismatic reordering of reality
Rethink art – return to the African primitive
Anti-Academic
Must find a way to top
Matisse in 1906
The Stone Breakers, 1949 by Gustave Courbet
Social realism, “show me an angel” and I’ll paint one.
Courbet’s painting were often considered too extreme as was his disdainful view of official society with its religious leaders, blindly obedient teachers.
1855- Salle des Refuses
Nave of Amiens Cathedral
Nave had considerable amount of stained glass which created more humane environment than Romanesque style.
Shows typical Gothic characteristics of ribbed ceiling vaults, cluster piers, pointed arches, and losts of light let in through the many windos
Romantic Period
1750-1900- A movement which promote the exotic and the long ago along with genuine feelings and emotions. During this time there was a reverence for the middle ages and classical quarry.
Feininger, The Privateers 1920
. Lyonel Feininger- Cubism in Germany ca. 1912
- End of the Seance (Lecture) 1910
- Angles with Bluebird 1912
- Cycle Race 1912
- The Privateers 1920
Walpole, Horace
1717-1797- he was the rich sone of British Prime Minister, and was a social dandy with something of a social consciousness as well. He became a Whig Party member of Parliment and was known for designing a Romantic escapist country estate at strawberry Hill near London and for writing the First so-called Gothic novel the Caste of Otranto.
Conversion of St Paul painted by Caravaggio (1600)
Baroque style art that emphasized Tenebrism, which means dark, gloomy and mysterious.
Dramatic use of light and darkness to form a powerful chiaroscuro effect known as tenebrism
George Melies
1861-1938- Pioneering magician and filmmaker who was the first to introduce many of the techniques still used in filmmaking, including special effects, stop motion, animatronic figures, and at design, often adapting techniques that he used in is theater in Paris. His classic films were the first to put science fiction and fantasy on screen.
Thomas Edison-Edison poses as the inventor
Claimed to have invented the incandescent light and many other inventions. He was notorious for using gangster-type tactics to block other form infringing on his inventions and territories, particularly with regard to the movies. He had developed with his assistant William Dickson a kinetoscope which used a crank to send film through a viewing machine.
Jean Eugene Robert-Houdin (1805-1871)- Worl-renowned magician and owner of the largest theater in Paris. Robert-Houdin was also an inventor who made automation of an eerie type. much admired by young George Melies.
Baroque Period
1600-1715, associated with catholic church and its resurgence and renewed energy verses fast-rising competing movements such as Protestantism. Caravaggio was its principal and most influential artist, his tense experiment with single and dramatic lights sourcing and dramatic subject manner produced many followers knowns as carvaggisti.
Gothic Style
12th -14th centuries.
Transformation in spiritual values from romanesque period.
Cathedrals became more filled with light, had pointed arches and ribbed vaults and stained glass, along with cluster of piers, and flying buttresses.
St. Sernin, Youluse, France 1070-1120
Basilica of St. Sernin is constructed in the Romanesque style.
Characteristics of Romanesque style (11-12th Century) include, massive walls, round arches, cross shape, apse at end, absence of light, window, frightening, transept, Narthex Nave. Church itself is large and cross shaped
Symbolizes the god fearing appoarch to religion.
Ophelia by John Millais
Ophelia is a famous character from shakespeare’s play hamlet.
Joseph Nicephore
Niepce 1765-1833
Experiments with back of camera obscura
Silver Chloride on back of obscura,
Changes color when struck by light
Creates an image
Heliography- takes 8 hours
Asphalt makes lights & darks reverse
Asphalt/petroleum helps to fix image
Meets LOUIS DAGUERRE 1827
Gallery owner
Uneducated hustler
Claims he’s doing experiments too!
Treats silvered plate with mercury vapors
Achieves black and white image
Classical Period
500-300 B.C.
George Melies
Horror Vacui
The fear of leaving an area in a work of art not filled in the some kind of decoration
Courbet Gustave
1819-1877- heroism of the common man: the laborer who, unappreciated, kept the entire country solidly on its feet. He tended to use the brown colors of the Baroque movement as exemplified by Caravaggio and Rembrandt
Boffrand, Germain
1667-1754, Decorator of the Hotel de Soubise, in Paris. Perfect example of Rococo style. Luis X king of France was a major patron of the Rococo movement.
Raphael
1483-1520- Known for a clear style that drew heavily on monumental classical prototypes and included triangular composition and concepts known as unione whereby the entire painting is unified in its approach to the modeling of the figures, the color and shading.
Name of the paiting: “Judith Slaying Holfernes (1620) painted by Artemisia Gentileschi (women artist in 1620 who followed style of Caravaggio – Caravaggisti)
Holofernes is Assyrian general of 6th century BCE
Camera Lucida
A device which took the camera obscura and added a prism attaching the new device to a drawing table. In this way, an object or individual posing for a drawing or painting reflects onto tow specially made glass prisms inside the instrument.
Rembrandt’s Return of the Prodigal Son 1665- Dutch Baroque
Rembrandt 1606-1669
Dutch Baroque
Psychology of Light
Influence on Theatre
Influence on Cinema
Chiaroscuro models
emotion, character,
textures, contrasts
The swing (1767) by Jean-Honore Fragonad
This painting shows some of the typical characteristics of he Rococo epoch: the deisre to monumentailze te trivial, the emphasis on refinement and manners, the craving for excessive elegance, and an emphasis on ribald love and a generla feeling of opulence and fun.
Rococo 1715-1800: painting and interior desing was light and delciate with feathery textures, pale coloring especially for women’s clothing, and an extremely clutured look but withot the massiveness and heavy drama of barque. Aboundance of cupid figures, and preference for scense of love featuring lovely ladies.
George Melies (1861-1938)- Pioneering magician and filmmaker who was the first to introduce many of the techniques still used in filmmaking, including special effects, stop motion, animatronic figures, and set design, often adapting techniques that he used in his theater in Paris. His classic films were the first to put science fiction and fantasy on the screen.
Trip to the Moon 1902 (pioneering science fiction fantasy film based on novels by Jules Verne)
Together with his sons Auguste and Luis, Antoine oversaw the transformation of an Edison Kinetoscope into a proper movie camera and projector. By 1895 they were popularly showing short moves in their theater in Paris.
Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris 1163-1250
Gothic style, pointed arch(unlike round arch from Romanesque), flying buttress , stained glass window(Bathe church in God’s mystical lgith, radiant and also instructive to illiterate). More use of light.
Many small individually crafted statues were placed around the outside to serve as column supports and water spouts. Among these are the famous gargoyles, designed for water run-off and chimeras.
The Parthenon on the Acropolis- Major temple on the Athenian acropolis.
Features Colored Metopes and Frieze
plus interior statue of goddess Athena
447-432 BCE
Louis Daguerre (A Real Shit)
Claims he’s the real inventor
of photography
Cheats Niepce
Names Daguerrotype after himself
WILLIAM HENRY FOX-TALBOT
Optician and chemist
Soaks paper in salt & silver nitrate
Shadowgraph= lights,darks reverse
Creates positive film image
Daguerre steals from him too
St. Sernin Interior of Nave (the central part of a church building) Romanesque style
Characteristics: dark interior, absence of light, scary and foreboding, Barrel vault, Nave, side aisles, apse, transept.
The Lady of Shalott by John Waterhouse (1888)
Pre-Raphaelite work, shows figures on the edge of doom, about to face destiney, but showing no emotion.
Pre-Raphaelites (1850-1900)- refers to group of english artist, writes, and poets, that desire to embrace the medieval and ancient worlds before the time of the Renaissance partner Raphael.
Last Judgement of Christ, (Romanesque)
Weighing of Souls, St. Lazare Tympanum 1120-1135
Damned souls in Last Judgement (on the bottom) Created by Gislebertus
souls are geting weighted, some idnviduals are casted into the wold of hideous demons while on the right of chrsit idnivduals who have larend to honor and fear God are enjohing a blissful eternity
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Rouen Cathedral, 1893
Impressionism
- Matter as color and light, dehumanization of form
- Complimentary colors and choppy brush strokes
Looks at random brush strokes, but when you move far back, it is a big picture. response to photography
Grande Odalisque (1814) by Jean Ingres
The face with its large eyese, hair style, and shape is dervied from the painings of Pomeii being circulated at the time in the picutre books and newspaper. the clear outlione of the figure echoes the approach o megalographic classical sculpture found on the parthenon frieze.
The art with its nudity and overs the shoulder glance had a sexual component for western audience and appealed ot the newly rich males of parisian society.
Greek Sculptural Advances of the 5th Century BCE
Contrapposto
Weight Shift
Striding stance
Liberation from block
Detailed musculature
More realistic appearance
No more hair braids
Popular piece from Renaissance period (14-16century)
Mo na Lisa by leonardo da vinci (1503)
It is painted by Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci.
Mood-inducing chiaroscuring lighting and form-modeling efffects.
Leornardo da vinci used specificallly heavy dark sourrounds that were put on the skin of figures, an effect which has been termed sfumato for its smokiness of look.
The night cafe (1888) by Vincent Van Gogh.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. (1919). Seminal german Horror film paving the wy for many american films at universal pictures in 1930s and 1940s. shot in the expressionist cubist style by Robert Wiene. St the standard for silent horror films for decades while intending to be an expose of German ware machines and its propaganda.
Loreena Mckennit, Canadain singer, and harpist.
Highley successful international career using many influences from the pre-raphaelite movement.
THE MUMMER’S DANCE 1997
Birth of Venus (1879) by William Bouguereau.
The figure of Aphrodite looks like a highly polished greek marble of parthenon-like quality. created to appeal the rich people. romantic period.
The Opera, by Charles Garnier Constructed (1861-1874)
Neo-Baroque is one way to describe the building.
This was the place for newly riches individuals of the society.
It is a gigantic architecture of the horror vacui type (fear of empty spaces in artwork). All spaces of the architecture are filled with leitmotif (repeated element of lyre).
C. Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)- Pre-Expressionist, or Post-ImpressionistStarry Night 1889
The flip side of the industrial revolution, was an Admirer of Courbet. was moody and sickly all the time.
The Night Cafe 1888 -The background is alive and is fertilized by the artist’s emotions
Intense emotional expression
Flip side of Melies, Ingres,
Bouguereau & Industrial Revolution
– man as victim
Metropolis (released 1927)- Classic German-American coproduced film set in the future and dealing with the problems of rich versus poor and the difficulty of maintaining urban life. It was directed by Fritz Lang and writing by his then-wife Thea Von Horbou.
Madonna of the Meadow (1506), typical Raphael style, high renaissance
It is a painting of the Madonna with the Christ Child and St. John the Baptist
Blue – church
Red – Christ’s death
Raphael paintings have slght darkening at the edges what we call modeling with light and dark values ( Chiaroscuro)
The Acropolis of Athens
contains the Parthenon
It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, and it is known for Doric order. It’s decorative sculptures are considered some of the high points of Greek art. The Parthenon is regarded as an enduring symbol of Ancient Greece, Athenian democracy and western civilization
Acropolis are religous temples built on rock hill with flatten top (high city)
Strawberry Hill, (begun in 1749 by Horace Walpole). Exterior in the romanesque-Gothic style.
Romanesque-gothic style: A mix of Gothic and Romanesque style. Interiors might be dark, gloomy, and frightening within massive walls while the windows and vaults might come to a point as in gothic. This syle might als be termiend striped-down gothic, featuring the massiveness and smipliciyt of Romanesque with some gothic touches.
The Scream by Edvard Munch (1893)- psychic anguish, existential loneliness, morbid, disorienting diagonal.
Edvard Munch (1863-1944)Post-Impressionist, Pre-Expressionist
- Influence of Van Gogh- primitive forces within all of us
- Influence of Sigmund Freud- death wish, role of women, repression
- Distortion, exaggeration, anguish- abandon natural imagery for greater impact
- Neuroses, fear of women, social anxiety
