Review Day!

Rebekah Scoggins

Art Appreciation

January 29, 2012

Format of the Exam• 15 slide IDs, 90 seconds each, 2 pts each, 30 pts total

– Artist, title, date, and medium for most works (also the location if Fresco)

– Artist, title, date, and location for architecture

– Each part of your answer is worth ½ a point.

– You get a 3 year cushion on your dates. Ex: If the date is 1914 and you say 1916, you still get credit.

• 10 short answers, 5 pts each, 50 pts total

– Answer in complete sentences.

• 1 essay, Choose from 3 questions, 20 pts

– Answer in complete sentences in paragraph form.

– It should be multiple paragraphs and take you time to think about and write.

– Remember, it’s 20 points of your test. Treat it as such.

Study Help• Read through the information in the book• Review your notes on the topics I outline in the study

guide• Use flash cards for the slide IDs. • Make sure you understand the general idea behind the

different methods of production (painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, printmaking, film) and how they progressed.

• Understand how to use and explain the terms on the study guide

• Be able to give all the required information on the slide ids.

• Look over the Power Points for important descriptions

Terms to Know

• Work of art – what an artist makes or puts in front of us for viewing, the visual object (or product) that embodies that idea the artist wanted to communicate.

• Medium (plural media) – a particular material along with its accompanying technique, a specific type of artistic technique or means of expression determined by the use of particular materials– Clay, fiber, stone, wood, paint, video, computer/digital, photograph,

movie

• Oil on canvas, silver gelatin print, etc

Functions of Art

Communicating InformationDay to Day Living

Worship and RitualSelf ExpressionSocial CauseVisual Delight

Art Criticism : Three Basic Theories

• Formal, aka formalism – focus attention on the composition of the work and how it may have been influenced, on a compositional level, by earlier works, analyses these qualities over (or with no respect to) other aspects of a work’s production, reception, subject matter, or thematic significance.

• Contextual – considers art as a product of a cultural that exists within a cultural and value system, within a particular society as a particular time and place

• Expressive, aka biographical – pays attention to the artists’s expression of a personality or worldview, takes into account birthplace, gender, cultural background, etc.

Vertical line / Horizontal line Diagonal line

Hard line / Soft line

Descriptors of Art• Shape• Mass • Space • Abstract Art• Representational Art• Composition• Foreground• Background• Time• Motion• Light • Color

Perspective

Linear vs Atmospheric

c. Two-point linear perspective

a. One-point linear perspective b. One-point linear perspective. Cubes above eye level, at eye level, and below eye level

Raphael. The School of Athens. 1508. Stanza della segnatura (Room of the Signatura). Vatican Palace. Vatican City, Italy.

Raphael. The School of Athens. Layout of Linear Perspective

Asher Brown Durand. Kindred Spirits. 1849. Oil on canvas. Painting

Atmospheric Perspective

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Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Shuttlecocks. One of four. 1994. Aluminum, Sculpture.

Scale

Proportion

Michelangelo Buonarroti. Pietà. 1501. Marble, Sculpture.

Roettgen Pietà. 1300–1325. Painted Wood, Sculpture.

Types of Painting

• Watercolor

• Tempura

• Oil

• Advantages and Disadvantages?

Pigment• Ancient – ground minerals, dried plant

juices, powdered animal urine, dried insect blood

• Modern – synthetic pigment

Support• Canvas

• Wood

• Paper

True Fresco

Giotto di Bondone, Interior View andThe Lamentation, True Fresco, Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel (Architecture), 1305, Padua, Italy, Italian Renaissance

Types of Printmaking

• Relief– Woodcuts / Woodblock

• Intaglio– Engraving– Etching

• Lithography

• Stencil– Silkscreen / Screenprint

Sculpture• Relief

– Low-relief

– High-relief

• Freestanding

• Casting

– Substitution process

– Mold

• Carving

– Subtractive process

• Assemblage

– Combine

– Mixed media

• Installation

• Site-specific

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Dome (arch rotated 180°). Dome on a cylinder.

Hagia Sophia. Interior. Istanbul, Turkey. 532–535.

Dome on pendentives

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, exterior, 1926-27, Dessau, Germany. International Style.

International Style

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. Seagram Building. New York. 1956–1958.

International Style

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Frank Lloyd Wright. Fallingwater (Edgar Kaufmann Residence). Bear Run, Pennsylvania. 1936.

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