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Test One | ART - Art Appreciation, Quizzes of Art

Class: ART - Art Appreciation; Subject: Art; University: College of DuPage; Term: Forever 1989;

Typology: Quizzes

2009/2010

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TERM 1
August Rodin
DEFINITION 1
- Sculpted "The Age of Bronze" - Very Negatively Received -
Originally to be called "The Vanquish" - Too ambiguous and
vague. - People thought it was too good and said he used a
mold.
TERM 2
Pieta
DEFINITION 2
- Means Pity - An example: Mary holding dead Jesus. - Used
by Giovanni Bellini.
TERM 3
Surrealism
DEFINITION 3
- Element of reality with a strange twist. - Influenced by
Sigmund Freud's study of dreams. - Salvador Dali was part of
this movement.
TERM 4
Our mind tends to...
DEFINITION 4
... complete incomplete images for us. ... make order out of
disorder.
TERM 5
What does it mean to be creative?
DEFINITION 5
- Flexibility: Ability to adapt to new situ ations. - Originality:
Uncommon response. - Playfulness: Sense of humor, ability to
experiment. - Productivity: Ability to f ollow through with ideas. -
Fluency: Willingness to let your mind go where it wants to go. -
Analytical Skill: Ability to take things ap art and put things back
together. - Organizational skill.
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August Rodin

  • Sculpted "The Age of Bronze" - Very Negatively Received - Originally to be called "The Vanquish" - Too ambiguous and vague. - People thought it was too good and said he used a mold. TERM 2

Pieta

DEFINITION 2

  • Means Pity - An example: Mary holding dead Jesus. - Used by Giovanni Bellini. TERM 3

Surrealism

DEFINITION 3

  • Element of reality with a strange twist. - Influenced by Sigmund Freud's study of dreams. - Salvador Dali was part of this movement. TERM 4

Our mind tends to...

DEFINITION 4 ... complete incomplete images for us. ... make order out of disorder. TERM 5

What does it mean to be creative?

DEFINITION 5

  • Flexibility: Ability to adapt to new situations. - Originality: Uncommon response. - Playfulness: Sense of humor, ability to experiment. - Productivity: Ability to follow through with ideas. - Fluency: Willingness to let your mind go where it wants to go. - Analytical Skill: Ability to take things apart and put things back together. - Organizational skill.

Duane Hanson

Duane Hanson (January 17, 1925-January 6, 1996) was an American artist based in South Florida, a sculptor known for his lifecast realistic works of people, cast in various materials, including polyester resin, fibreglass, Bondo and bronze. TERM 7

The father of modern painting.

DEFINITION 7 Paul Czanne. He said: "One must detect in nature the sphere, the cone, and the cylinder". TERM 8

Celebrity Oriented

DEFINITION 8

  • Names carry a reputation and fame. TERM 9

Six Functions of Art

DEFINITION 9

  • Create places for some human purpose. - Create extraordinary versions of ordinary objects. - Record and commemorate. --- Mostly royal people. --- Andy Warhol coined the term "15 minutes of fame" - Give tangible form to the unknown. - Give tangible form to feeling and ideas. - Experience another way of seeing things / Refresh our vision. TERM 10

Assemblage

DEFINITION 10 Assemblage is an artistic process in which a three- dimensional artistic composition is made from putting together found objects.

Rembrandt

  • Frick museum in NY holds one of his greatest works; "The Polish Rider" - Known for his incredible use of light. TERM 17

Degas

DEFINITION 17

  • Did one sculpture. - Slowly went blind. - Continued doing sculptures when he was blind. - Never displayed them. - He liked to paint ballet dancers and women bathing. TERM 18

Rembrandt Research

Project

DEFINITION 18

  • They studied Rembrandt's work and verified that his work is legitimate. - Said that the famous "Polish Rider" painting may have not have been his. TERM 19

Neolithic

Era

DEFINITION 19

  • "New Stone Age" - We begin to see nicer things. - Art begins. TERM 20

DaVinci

DEFINITION 20

  • Painted the Mona Lisa. - Used Sfumato to make her expression vague. - DaVinci invented Sfumato.

Sfumato

  • Italian for "haze" or "smoke". TERM 22

Andy Worhol

DEFINITION 22 "Pop art" TERM 23

Dadaism

DEFINITION 23 Anti Art Movement TERM 24

Cubism

DEFINITION 24

  • Doing something that can only be done in a painting. TERM 25

When Jesus sits at the top of a piece he is...

DEFINITION 25

  • Sitting in judgement.

Installation

A space is presented as a wrok of art that can be entered, explored, and reflected upon. TERM 32

Context

DEFINITION 32 Context is the surroundings, circumstances, environment, background, or settings which determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of an event. It's web of connections to the larger world of human nature. TERM 33

Iconography

DEFINITION 33 literally "describing images". Involves identifying the desirable subject matter in art. The kind of background information is the domain of Iconography. TERM 34

Subject Matter

DEFINITION 34 Subject matter, in general, is anything which can be content for some theory. For representational and abstract works, content begins with the objects or events, the work depicts its subject matter. TERM 35

Content

DEFINITION 35 What a work of art is about.

Form

The way a work of art looks. Examples: size, shape, materials, color, and composition. TERM 37

Style

DEFINITION 37 Refers to a characteristic or group of characteristics that we recognize as constant, recurring, or coherent. TERM 38

Nonrepresentational / Nonobjective

DEFINITION 38 Developed from the search for art's essence in the wake of the challenge presented by photography. TERM 39

Megaliths

DEFINITION 39 A megalith is a large stone that has been used to construct a structure or monument, either alone or together with other stones. TERM 40

Tromp l'oeil

DEFINITION 40 "Fool the eye" - Duane Hanson