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Exploring Art Final Exam Study Guide

Exploring Art Final Exam Study Guide. Use this slideshow, along with your lecture notes, as a guide to study for the final exam. This slideshow will help but issues not addressed by this guide may appear on the test. The exam will cover anything we have learned since the midterm

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Exploring Art Final Exam Study Guide

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  1. Exploring Art Final Exam Study Guide • Use this slideshow, along with your lecture notes, as a guide to study for the final exam. This slideshow will help but issues not addressed by this guide may appear on the test. • The exam will cover anything we have learned since the midterm • The exam will be structure similar to the mid-term exam with multiple choice, short answer, matching, and essay questions • There will also be a memorization section where you will shown an image and you will be required to list the artist, artwork title, and the period or style of the artwork. The images on this part of the exam will come only from this study guide. Some images will have missing titles or artists and that is ok. • Additionally you will be shown a work of art you have never seen before and you must indicate the period or style associated with that artwork, guess the artist, and defend your answer. Therefor it is important to know the characteristics of artwork from each period so that you can recognize them when you encounter a new work.

  2. Ancient Greek Art

  3. Venus de Milo, or • Aphrodite of Melos • 150BCE

  4. Laocoon and His Sons • Likely 42-20 BCE • Greek or possibly Roman copy of a Greek original

  5. Ancient Roman Art

  6. Colosseum, • Rome

  7. Floor Mosaic of Sea Creatures • Pompeii

  8. Classical Chinese and Japanese Art

  9. Terra cotta warriors, Qin Dynasty, China

  10. Huang Gongwang Dwelling in the Funchun Mountains Scroll Painting (Chinese)

  11. Katsuchika Hokusai • Great Wave off Kanagawa

  12. Early Renaissance1400-1600

  13. Renaissance means “rebirth” and refers to the revival of interest in ancient Greek and Roman culture and Art

  14. Artists became very interested in the natural world and in replicating it as accurately as possible. • Linear perspective • Chiaroscuro • Atmospheric perspective • Idealized bodies (like the Greek and Romans)

  15. Italy was the birthplace of the Renaissance. • Powerful Church located here, patron of the arts • Economically Powerful • Social structure that had city-states competing for the best artists

  16. David • Bronze • Donatello, 1430

  17. The Birth of Venus • Sandro Botticelli • 1480, 6’7” x 9’2”

  18. Renaissance of Northern Europe • Less dramatic a change than was seen in Italy • Still a concern with accurate depictions and effects of light and space, particularly fine details • Growth out of late Middle Ages artwork

  19. Arnolfini and Wife • (one of many names) • Jan van Eyck, 1434

  20. Decent from the Cross • Rogier van der Weyden, 1435

  21. Decent from the Cross (Detail) • Rogier van der Weyden, 1435

  22. Account of the symbols of objects in the text • The Ambassadors • Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533

  23. The High Renaissance to the Late Renaissance • “If a ninja turtle was named after him… • …he’s probably from the high renaissance.” • -Neal Galloway

  24. Vitruvian Man • Leonardo da Vinci, 1490

  25. David • Michelangelo, 1501-1504

  26. Sistine Chapel Ceiling • Michelangelo, 1508-1512

  27. School of Athens • Raphael, 1509-1511

  28. Venus of Urbino • Titian, 1538

  29. Enlightenment Art • Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Realism

  30. French Art Academy and annual Salons • Inherently conservative • Women were not allowed as students, pre-trained women could apply as artists. • Hierarchy of artwork subjects • History including biblical • and mythological subjects • Portraiture • Still life • Landscape

  31. Rococo • The Swing • Fragonard, 1767-68

  32. The Oath of the Horatii • Jacques-Louis David, 1784-85 • Neo-Classical

  33. Realism • The Stonebreakers • Gustave Courbet, 1849

  34. Modern Art • (Modernist, Modernism)

  35. Modern Art • Tendency toward abstraction and non-representation • Visual experimentation • Photography’s effect on painting and drawing • Industrial Revolution • Influence of Science and Technology on artistic practice and philosophy • Self referential

  36. Avant-Garde and Kitsch • Clement Greenberg

  37. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Mademoiselle of Avegnon) • Picasso, 1907

  38. Expressionism • The Joy of Life • Henri Matisse, 1905-06

  39. The Fountain • Marcel Duchamp (R. Mutt), 1917 • Dada

  40. Number 8 • Jackson Pollock • Abstract Expressionism

  41. Graffiti and Street Art

  42. Obey • (different versions) • Shepard Fairy

  43. Girl and Soldier, West Bank Wall • Banksy, 2007

  44. Banksy

  45. Graphic Novels and • Video Games

  46. Graphic Novels • A mashup of two artistic mode of expression: • Image-making and writing

  47. Maus • Art Spiegelman

  48. Flower, That Game Company • 2009

  49. Contemporary Art • Art that was made from about 1960s to present day • Categorizing Art that is being made now is difficult. Perhaps we will have a better understanding of the influential artists of our time, only in 100 years from now.

  50. Breakdown of the divisions between media- Many contemporary artists draw, paint, sculpt, make video art etc… • Outward looking- Frustrated with the insulated nature of Modern art, most contemporary artists make art that comments on issue in the world at large (rather than art that talks about art) • Everything is possible- The legacy of Modernism, artwork in any media on any topic is a potentially legitimate way of working • Well crafted- Art of the mid-20th century could often get away with a messy and haphazard style or construction. This is no longer as acceptable in the Post-modern world. Contemporary Art

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