art appreciation b study guide for the final you will be asked to: -name the piece -name the artist...
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Art Appreciation BStudy Guide
For the final you will be asked to:-Name the piece
-Name the artist
-Name any other important features about the piece
Be sure to look at the last slide for the Critical Thinking Study Guide – you will be asked to answer the questions in a short paragraph.
Arnolfini Wedding
Jan Van Eyck, 1434.
Oil on panel.
Van Eyck excelled at portraying direct and diffused light,
shadow falling on a variety of surfaces, and light’s effect on
the illusion of distance.
Chapter 10
Garden of Delights
Hieronymus Bosch, 1505-1510.
Oil on panel.
A Dutch painter, his work presents a world
of images and puzzling symbols.
Chapter 10
Magdalen with the Smoking
Flame
Georges de La Tour, 1630-1635.
Oil on canvas.
La Tour often used a candle as the only source of light.
Chapter 11
Allegory of the Art of PaintingJan Vermeer, 1665-1672.
Oil on panel.
This painting is filled with symbolism.
- It is thought that the model represents Clio.
- The Muse of history, looking at a table full of objects that symbolize
other Muses.
- The artist in a sixteenth-century costume might be Vermeer.
- The map of Holland on the wall, surrounded by pictures of twenty
cities, could symbolize that Holland is the center of world art.
Chapter 11
The MillRembrandt van Rijn, 1650.
Oil on canvas.
Rembrandt was the greatest of Dutch painters and one of the
great geniuses of the art world.
The Mill is his greatest landscape and details are
nonexistent because a powerful chiaroscuro eliminates them.
Chapter 11
Third of MayFrancisco Goya, 1808. Oil on canvas.
Goya’s dramatic work could be termed a “social protest” painting.
It shows the slaughtering of Spanish rebels by French soldiers.
Chapter 12
The Horse Fair
Rosa Bonheur, 1853. Oil on canvas.
Ms. Bonheur, an important Realist painter, successfully persuaded her father to let her attend boarding school with her
brothers.
She worked in sculpture as well as painting, but it was her paintings of animals that brought her fame.
Chapter 12
Rouen CathedralClaude Monet, 1894.
Oil on canvas.
Monet became the leading force in the
Impressionist movement.
Monet enjoyed directly confronting the
environment, painting a single subject at
different times of the day, at different times
of the year, under different light. Chapter 13
A Sunday on La Grande JatteGeorges Seurat, 1884. Oil on canvas.
Seurat conveys color and light through the technique of pointillism, tiny dots of color which the viewer’s eyes visually
mix together to create values.
Chapter 13
The Starry NightVincent Van Gogh, 1889. Oil on canvas.
Van Gogh only sold a single painting while he was alive. Yet today he is considered one of the world’s more important artists.
His paintings jump alive with brilliant color and texture, with paint applied in thick impasto.
Chapter 13
The Red StudioHenri Matisse, 1911. Oil
on canvas.
In this picture of his studio, and in his other
work, Matisse emphasized the idea that
a painting of three-dimensional space still
should remain true to the fact that a canvas is
really two-dimensional.
Chapter 14
Diego y yo
Frida Kahlo, 1940.
Oil on masonite.
Frida Kahlo was a self-taught artist who often
painted works that were psychologically
mysterious and almost always worked with
figures.
Chapter 14
Guernica
Pablo Picasso, 1937. Oil on canvas.
Cubism was begun in 1907 by Picasso.
He was a creative innovator of ideas and techniques and a master of many styles, he was constantly searching and changing during his
long lifetime.
Chapter 14
The Persistence of Memory
Salvador Dali, 1931.
Oil on canvas.
Dali became the most famous surrealist.
His paintings were magical
presentations using exacting realism.
Chapter 14
I and the VillageMarc Chagall, 1911.
Oil on canvas.
Chagall’s paintings were inspired by:
- Dreams
- Memories
- Folklore
- Fairy tales
Chapter 14
The Banjo Lesson
Henry O. Tanner, 1893.
Oil on canvas.
Religious and Genre themes were important to Tanner.
Tanner was the most honored of all African-
American artists, here and abroad.
Chapter 15
Government BureauGeorge Tooker, 1956. Egg tempera on gesso panel.
This painting is the stark, almost chilling, summation of the dehumanizing of urban society that the
Social Realists sought to portray.
Chapter 15
Kaufmann House
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1936.
Wright’s primary concern was to develop a
compatible relationship between the structure and
its location so that the building would seem to
grow out of its environment.
Chapter 16
No. 1 (Lavender Mist)Jackson Pollock, 1950.
Oil enamel and aluminum on canvas.
After going through realistic and abstract periods, Pollock
began his series of drip paintings.
His new working technique completely freed him from the use of traditional brushes and opened the door to Abstract
Expressionism.
Chapter 17
Masterpiece
Roy Lichtenstein, 1962.
Oil on canvas.
Lichtenstein became one of the stars of Pop Art.
His art brought Abstract Expressionism to an
abrupt halt.
Chapter 17
Critical Thinking
• Know the definitions for Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Expressionism and two artists whose work exemplifies each style. (Chapter 13)
• Know at least 3 artists from Chapter 14. Know the style in which the artist painted in and at least one piece the artist is famous for.
• Know two of the artistic styles you learned about in this class. – Be able to describe the art style– know the time period– Discuss at least one artist and their work.