More Art
Vocabulary!
Patron
• a person who
financially
supports an
artist or an art
organization.
Connoisseur
• An expert; one who knows much about art
Curator
• a person who organizes an art show or
museum exhibit.
Parody
• A parody is created when you copy or imitate another artist’s
work, but you change it in some way to give it a different
meaning. Parodies are often humorous.
• Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh
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a parody of Starry Night
American Gothic by Grant Wood
a parody
Appropriation
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when an artist uses an image from another artist’s work, but changes it’s purpose to
make a new, original work of art.
You have to be careful when appropriating another artist’s work. If you don’t make a
significant change it is plagiarism.
Artists often copy other artists work as a way to learn a new style. However, you can’t
copy another artist and display it as your own work.
Andy Warhol appropriated a fashion
image of Marilyn Monroe for this piece
• Parody is a good example of proper use of appropriation. A
parody imitates another work of art, but changes it in some way
to make it funny or to make a point.
• Marcel Duchamp used Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (but added
mustache) for his irreverent piece.
Art Criticism
• The process of evaluating a work of art by describing what is
seen, analyzing its structure, interpreting its meaning, and
judging its effectiveness
Critique
• a critical review or commentary of a work of art
• Art classes sometimes do group critiques in
which everyone looks at each other’s work and
offer suggestions for improvement.
Atelier (a til ya’)
• A French term for an artist’s studio
Iconography
• The interpretation of symbols
in their art historical context.
• In some artwork, an object
might symbolize something
much greater than itself.
• For example, in Medieval
religious icons a gold background symbolized heaven.
• In this Renaissance painting, “the Marriage of
Arnolfini” by Jan van Eyck, the dog symbolized
loyalty.
• Piero della Francesca’s
altarpiece Madonna and
Child with Saints (c. 1450)
• The egg hanging above the
Virgin Mary symbolizes the
Immaculate Conception.
• This came from a myth that
ostrich eggs hatched
themselves
Juxtapose
• Simply stated, juxtaposition means placing
things side-by-side.
• In art this usually is done with the intention of
bringing out a specific quality or creating an
effect, particularly when two contrasting or
opposing elements are used. The viewer's
attention is drawn to the similarities or
differences between the elements.
• In this powerful photo, the artist juxtaposes the
traditional temple with the modern, industrial
background. This juxtaposition emphasizes the
differences between the past and modernity.
• Surrealism often uses juxtaposition of unrelated
objects to create weird, illogical images like you
might see in dreams. These examples are by the
Belgian artist Rene Magritte.
Relief
• In sculpture, relief mans when the subject
projects out from the background. In low-relief
the subject barely rises from the background. In
High-relief the subject rises well above the
background.
Memento mori (also called vanitas)
• Latin: "remember (that you have) to die“
• In art, memento mori (vanitas) are artistic or symbolic
reminders of mortality, that worldly pleasures don’t last.
(All is vanity, as the speaker of Ecclesiastes says.)
• These include symbols of mortality, like skulls,
or more subtle ones, like a flower losing its
petals. Vanitas still life paintings are typically
loaded with both beautiful objects and
metaphors for death.
• Vanitas often include symbols for death and
the passing of time.
• Trompe-l‘oeil (French for "deceive the eye",
pronounced ”tromp loy”) is an art technique that uses realistic
imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects
exist in three dimensions.
• More trompe-loeil examples
• Julian Beevers is a contemporary arttist who
does trompe-loeil chalk drawings in public
spaces.
• Julian Beevers
• His art has to be looked at from one specific
angle for the illusion to work.
• Wrong angle ^
Right angle >
• Another example