Exam Review Session December 5, 2012

First, Delete the Following

• embroidery

• genre painting

Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer),

High Classical, 450-440 BCE

(Roman copy after a bronze original)

contrappostokouros

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Polykleitos, Doryphoros (Spear-Bearer),

High Classical, 450-440 BCE

(Roman copy after a bronze original)

Polykleitos’ Canon

Michelangelo, David, 1501-1504marble, 17’ tall

Originally intended for one of the buttresses of Florence Cathedral

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Woman from Willendorf, from Austriaca. 24,000 BCElimestone, 4” tall

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Édouard Manet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1863, oil on canvas Salon of the Rejected Ones; why was it so scandalous?

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Pablo Picasso, Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (The Young Ladies of

Avignon), 1907oil on canvas

8‘x7’8”

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Cubism

Ladies preparing newly woven silk, 8th c. copy of Zhang Xuan original, handscrollink and color on silk, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ritual of preparing silkSymbolism of silk: longing for your husband

Morals and silk: important female virtue

Handscroll

Ladies preparing newly woven silk, 8th c. copy of Zhang Xuan original, handscrollink and color on silk, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Ritual of preparing silkSymbolism of silk: longing for your husband

Morals and silk: important female virtue

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Pounding the silk

Sorting silk threads (right)Sewing (left)

Ironing the silk

Fanning the fire for the irons

Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, 1664

oil on canvas

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

LastJudgment

Face

Belly

Light

Pearls

Scale

Mirror

Auguste Renoir, Moulin de la Galette, 1876, oil on canvassubject, composition, style, technique, material function

Impressionism

First Impressionist

Exhibit

impasto

en plein air

Georges Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte, 1884-86oil on canvas, Pointilism

subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans, 196232 canvases, synthetic polymer paint; Pop Art

subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Edvard Munch, The Scream, 1893Symbolism, oil on cardboard

Symbolism

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939oil on canvas

5’7”x5’7”

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Bird-headed man with Bison, Shaft scene in Lascaux Caveca. 15,000 BCE; paint on limestone; length: 9’

subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Hokusai, “The Great Wave off Kanagawa,” from Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji, 1831-3410”x15”, Hakone Museum in Japan (has original); woodblock print

subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Robert Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1969-70Great Salt Lake, Utah; Earth Works

He sought to express the ongoing dialectic of nature: constructive vs. destructive forces6000 tons of earth; 1500’ spiral

subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Plan, Teotihuacan, 100-650 CE

Street of the Dead:N-S boulevard

More than a mile long150’ wide

Canal of San Juan River

Pyramid of the MoonPlaza of the Moon

Pyramid of the Sun

Teotihuacan, Pyramid of the Sun (foreground), Pyramid of the Moon (distance)Avenue of the Dead (north-south axis of the city); 100-650 CE

Pyramid of the Moon, Teotihuacan, 100-650 CE

Machu Picchu, Peru, 1450-1530; Inca Empire; Hiram BinghamPolitical and Ceremonial Center for the Incas?

Inca MasonryBlocks of stone cut to fit together tightly with no mortar

Advantages?

Urban and Agricultural Sectors140 structures: temples, parks, residences, steps, water fountains

Plan, Forbidden City

• E: Drum towers

• A: Meridian Gate

• F: Gate of Supreme Harmony

• G: Hall of Supreme Harmony

• L: Palace of Heavenly Purity

Outer and Inner Courts3 vertical axes

Northwest corner tower with view of walls and moat

Palace of Heavenly PurityMing: residence of the emperor

Qing: audience hall

Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo RucellaiFlorence, 1455-58

How does this reference antiquity?

Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo RucellaiFlorence, 1455-58

Colosseum, Ancient Rome, 80 CEDoric, Ionic, Corinthian

Leon Battista Alberti, Palazzo RucellaiFlorence, 1455-58

Palazzo RucellaiTuscan Doric, New order, Corinthian

Palladio, Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, Italy, begun 1560s; villa

porchesdome

pedimentIonic order

stairsstatues

Antonio Gaudi, Casa Milà, Barcelona,

Spain1905-10

Art Nouveau

Frank Lloyd Wright, Falling Water/Edgar Kaufmann HouseMill Run, PA 1937; cantilever

cantilevers, local stone and wood, natural colors

Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917

ready-madeDada

Jackson Pollock, Autumn Rhythm, 1950, MetMAAbstract Expressionism, action painting

subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Joseph BeuysHow to explain pictures to a dead hare1965; Performance Art

His head is covered in honey and gold leaf.Metal flange on one shoe.Dead rabbit in his arms.

subjectcomposition

styletechniquematerialfunction

Judy Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1974-79subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Damien Hirst, Mother and Child Divided, 1993subject, composition, style, technique, material function

Other Terms On Your Study Guide

• Book of Hours

• Khmer Empire

• Henri Mouhot

• Surrealism

• Domus

• Atrium

• Prairie Style