What term describes work done by non professionals?
Folk art, naïve art, intuitive art, outsider art
The term ‘style’ is used to categorize a work of art by its
visual characteristics
If a work of art is faithful to our visual experience, its style is
naturalistic
When discussing the size, shape, materials, color, and composition of a work of art, we are discussing its
form
______, literally “describing images”, involves identifying, describing, and interpreting subject matter in art, and allows a viewer to understand meaning that he/she may not be able to readily see for themselves
Iconography
Philosophers determined that the pleasure of art was an intellectual pleasure and was perceived through
special kind of attention called disinterested contemplation (admiring characteristics)
Which statement is NOT true regarding James Hamilton’s throne of the third heaven..
. body of work?
He was outside the realm of professional training, he was unknown until death, work was a spiritual vison, and the complete body of work now resides in Smithsonian (very high class). But it is not true that the artist intended the work to be viewed by everyone as a message of redemption. He only intended himself to view it.
If this piece was on a lawn or on the side of the road it would be seen as trash but people recognized it as art and now it seems very regal when its in the respectable Smithsonian. The setting of the artwork changes people’s views.
Van Gogh’s painting are of high value because
his work had a major influence on subsequent artists, there are a limited number of his paintings, he plays a large role in western art history, and his paintings allow the viewer to feel a connection with the artist himself.
According to the author, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa dazzled his contemporaries because
the portrait was miraculously life like
If a work of art does not represent or otherwise refer to the visible world outside itself, its style is
nonrepresentational
Iconoclasm
destruction of images based on religious beliefs
What is an example of a theme in art?
Art and nature
The pyramids at Giza in Egypt were build as
tombs
Pablo Picasso’s Guernica was a protest against
the bombing of a civilian population
What were designed as a place of worship or meditation?
Sainte-Chappelle, the Great Mosque at Cordoba, The Temples at the Pyramids at Giza
Christian Boltanski draws upon ________ to create his work ___________
Holocaust; Altar to the Chases High School
Nineteenth-century American Painters employed the American landscape as a subject.
On such artist was Thomas Cole who focused on an areas of the Connecticut River to create
The Oxbow
Jeff Wall’s Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai) is a ____________ that refers to a __________
Photograph; print
Artist Frida Kahlo is well-known for her
self portraits
The term __________ can be applied to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty
land art
