Question | Answer |
Aesthetics | Philosophy of art; study of creative process, work of art, aesthetic experience, principles of criticism, & role of art in society |
Artistic Form | Organization of a medium that clarifies or reveals a subject matter |
Content | Subject matter detached by means of artistic form from accidental or insignificant aspects |
Perception | Awareness of something stimulating our sense organs |
Propaganda | Political persuasion |
Style | Identifying features (characteristics of form) |
Paleolithic | (Old Stone Age) Decorated objects, Venus figurines,& cave paintings focused on hunting & fertility |
Mesolithic | (Middle Stone Age) Rock & cave paintings of human figures, creation of stone microliths, & pottery |
Neolithic | (Late Stone Age) Weaving, architecture, megaliths, temple buildings, tombs, & pictographs |
Babylonian Art | Artwork from civilizations found between Tigris & Euphrates rivers. Architecture found in Mesopotamia |
Egyptian Art | Art with religious focus, depictions of gods & goddesses, & afterlife, sculptures, tombs, monuments/pyramids, & paintings |
Persian Art | Architecture, painting, weaving, pottery, works of stone & metal |
Ancient Greece | Art best known for elevation of human: ceramics, architecture, sculpture, coin design, & pottery |
Rome | Architecture, development of concrete as construction material, introduction of landscape to painting |
Romanesque Art | Architecture, sculpture, fresco painting, metalwork, & manuscript illumination (performed by monks) |
Gothic Art | Dominated by christian religious themes. Architecture: pointed arches, ribbed vaults, & flying buttresses |
Renaissance Art | Innovations: Oil painting, linear perspective in painting & sculpture, aerial perspective in landscapes, Mannerism |
Renaissance Artists | Leonardo da Vinci, Michaelangelo, Raphael Sanzo, Sandro Boticelli, Albrecht Durer, Pieter Bruegel |
Baroque | Emphasis on harmony & unity complemented by a religious fervor, often drawing on biblical stories & themes, Rococo |
Baroque Artists | Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi), Rembrandt van Rijn, Diego Velazquez |
Neoclassicism | Idealized realism, & reason, drew on enlightenment thinking. Painters used sharp colors & chiaroscuro |
Neoclassicism Artist | Jacques Louis David |
Romanticism | Romantic artists stressing passion, emotion, & exotic settings with dramatic action |
Romanticism Artist | Eugene Delacroix |
Realism | Accurate & objective portrayals of the ordinary, observable world |
Realism Artists | Gustave Courbet, Jean-Francois Millet |
Impressionism | Initial, fleeting reaction to what is observed at the moment. Painted subjects & landscapes; used light, color, & simplified compositions |
Impressionism Artists | Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Camille Pissaro, Edgar Degas, & Pierre Auguste Renoir |
Post-Impressionism | Greater concern for expression, structure, & form; also emphasized emotions & personal responses |
Post-Impressionism Artists | Paul Cezanne, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Henri Matisse, & Paul Gauguin |
Art Nouveau | International style of art & architecture favored sinuous lines, curves, & organic motifs (plants & flowers) |
Fauvism | Spontaneous, bold reactions to nature, employed vibrant colors directly from the tube |
Fauvism Artists | Henri Matisse & Andre Derain |
Cubism | Subject represented from multiple angles using simplified geometric forms |
Cubism Artist | Pablo Picasso |
Geometric Abstraction | Observed subjects converted into geometric shapes, stressing the two-dimenionality of painting |
Geometric Abstraction Artists | Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, & Kasimir Malevich |
Surrealism | Influenced by Freud's focus on dreams. Used images from dreams & subconscious to transform ordinary subjects by placing them in distorted or fresh contexts |
Surrealism Artists | Andre Breton, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, & Rene Magritte |
Bauhaus | "House of Art/Architecture" known for its simplicity functionalism & craftsmanship |
Abstract Expressionism | Spontaneous personal expression in large abstract paintings |
Abstract Expressionism Artists | Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, & Robert Motherwell |
Minimalism | Nonrepresentational style of sculpture & painting stripped down to its simplest visual elements (geometric shapes) |
Minimalism Artists | Frank Stella & Donald Judd |
Pop Art | Drew from popular mass culture |
Pop Art Artists | Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, & Claes Oldenburg |
Objective | Assumed to be free from personal considerations, emotional perspectives, etc. |
Subjective | Assumed to be heavily, if not entirely, influenced by such personal considerations |
Art Therapy | Acts as healing agent for society's general illnesses |
Expressionism | School of art in which the work emphasizes the artist's feelings or state of mind |
The Reformation | Abrupt end to relative unity of Western Christendom under the Roman Catholic Church because the growing sense of corruption and administrative abuse; images became effective tools for disseminating negative portrayals of the church |
Dadaism | Art objects in unconventional forms produced by unconventional methods; reflected a cynical attitude toward social values, irrational, absurd, playful, emotive, intuitive, and often cryptic |
Dadaism Artists | Francis Picabia, Jean Arp, Raoul Hausmann, Marcel Duchamp, Kurt Schwitters, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Man Ray |