Art Appreciatio
Test #2 Review
Slide Notes
Mimis and kangaroo. Older paintings before 7000 BCE, kangaroo probably
post-contact. Oldest drawing tradition. Represent ancestral spirits and the process
of drawing releases them and connects them to present.
Mary Cassatt. Young Mother, Daughter, and Son.
Pastel -good for figure studies
Beverly Buchanan. Monroe County House with Yellow Datura.
oilstick
William Kentridge. Drawing from WEIGHING . . . and WANTING.
Animation process – refer to video links
Emile Nolde. Prophet
woodcuts.
Mary Cassatt. The Bath.
Intimate world of mothers/children.
Cyril E. Power. The Tube Train.
Linocut – softer, smaller editions.
3 separate colors.
Albrecht Dürer. Adam and Eve, Fourth State.
INTAGLIO -Hatching, cross-hatching, stippling .
Honoré Daumier. Rue Transnonain, April 15, 1834.
Report of police raid killing everyone b/c of one possible sniper. (for a monthly
publication)
Giotto. Madonna and Child Enthroned.
Didacticism – ability to teach
Jan de Heem. Still Life with Lobster.
Dutch fetishism. Vanitas – frivolousness of human exisance and worldly things.
Romare Bearden. The Dove.
Dove – symbol of peace
Eadweard Muybridge. Annie G, Cantering, Saddled.
Photgraphy still – 1830’s Photography has a unique relationship to “truth”.
Timothy O’Sullivan. Harvest of Death, Gettysburg, Pa.
Documentary. Question of “truth” or “authenticity”
Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre. Le Boulevard du Temple.
Painting is dead! 8-10 min. people are blurred away except shoeshine.
William Henry Fox Talbot. The Open Door.
Calotype is basis for modern processes.
Michelangelo. “Atlas” Slave.
Marble CARVING -subtractive
Robert Arneson. Case of Bottles.
Additive. Against the assembly line
MODELING
Senwosret I led by Atum to Amun-Re. c.
Low-relief
Giovanni da Bologna. The Rape of the Sabine Women.
Rome. Abduction. First generation men of rome (in legendary history).
Louise Nevelson. Sky Cathedral.
assemblage
Kara Walker. Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On)
installation
Robert Smithson. Spiral Jetty
Earthwork - Spiral cosmic form. Nebula, life force against the the great salt lake
(americas dead sea)
Allan Kaprow. Household
No spectators, only participants. Licking strawberry jam off a car hood.
Paul T. Frankl. Skyscraper Bookcase.
Maple wood and bakelite plastic. Skyscrapers are new around 1900’s
Venus of Willendorf.Fertility, red ochre – menstruation. Symbolic rather than a
portrait. Multiple venus figurines. Austria. Navel – not carved!
Stonehenge.
Planting/harvest summer solstice.
Nike of Samothrace
Hellenistic style – increasingly animated and dramatic.
Speed strength and victory
She-Wolf.
146 bce Romans conquered greece. Rome founded in 750 bce.
Fierce loyalty and power of their empire.
Twins (romulus and remus) added during the renaissance.
The Great Stupa at Sanchi, view of the West Gateway
Circle, harmony, cosmos,
Ideology related to formal aspects.
Raphael. The School of Athens.
Fresco, vatican. Great philosphrs and scientists of old. Like last supper but plato
and aristotle center. Plato grey- points up.
Donatello-right/red
Raphael – exiting right
Michelangelo -brooding
Leonardo da Vinci. Mona Lisa.
¾ view, crop closer, atmospheric perspective, invented background. Reference video
Gianlorenzo Bernini. The Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Anguish/joy
Hidden window above make figures glow.
Like a theater/stage
Jean-Honoré Fragonard. Bathers.
Rococo --From baroque but More sensuality/erotic tone and less serious content.
Angelica Kauffmann. Cornelia, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures
Rococo – rich / this neoclassicism -- civic-minded. Moral virtue. Devotion to family.
Jacques Louis David. The Death of Marat
French monarchy irresponsible, overthrown in french revolution. Journalist/War
hero – murdered by a supporter of the king.
Rogier van der wenyden “deposition”. Or michelangelos pieta.
The letter is how the killer gains access “pleading for help” bathtub.
Thomas Jefferson. Monticello
His house/design. Neoclassical. Greek ideals.
Francisco Goya. Saturn Devouring One of His Sons Black paintings. Deaf. Oil
directly on walls of his home. Lost hope for mankind.
Saturn myth who, fearing that he would be overthrown by his children, ate each one
upon their birth.
Relation to TIME. goya’s personal fears are present.
Eugène Delacroix. Liberty Leading the People.
Romantic. Personified the idea of liberty
Ernest Meissonier. Memory of Civil War (The Barricades).
No glory. No heroism. Colors of french flag muted rags.
Claude Monet. Impression-Sunrise
Name came form here!
Feeling in the air and moment.
Pleasure – even just pleasure of seeing over a social criticism
Wassily Kandinsky. Sketch I for Composition VII.
Sees monets haystacks. Also the fauves.
Marcel Duchamp. The Fountain.
At first rejected but when he said he was r.mutt accepted.
Ideas over the visual. Readymade.
Pablo Picasso. Guernica
Nearly 1,000 people killed. Spanish civil war.
Symbolisn/surrealism - speared horse- creativity
Bull- in spainish tradition – heroic and tragic
Lights- possibly old and new ways of seeing. -van gogh lamps from the night café.
Piet Mondrian. Composition II with Red, Blue, and Yellow.
Removed reference from his work.
Slow in being accepted.
Willem de Kooning. Woman and Bicycle.
Action painting and abstract exp.
Roy Lichtenstein. Whaam!.
Emptied gesture. Sunday comic.
Frank Stella. Empress of India.
No content beyond what you see. Shaped canvases.
Yasumasu Morimura. Portrait (Twins).
He dresses up as both characters. Manipulates photo to include himself. Issues of
identity.