ART 1110: REVIEW FOR MIDTERM

CHAPTER ONE - Living with Art

What Do Artists Do?

• Record and commemorate (document a historical event: Guernica, Executions of the Third of May, Murder in the Rue Transnonain)
• Give tangible form to the unknown (Shiva Nataraja, or other sacred/spiritual works of art)
• Give tangible form to feelings (Van Gogh's Starry Night)
• Enable us to experience a way of seeing different than our own (Dali, etc.)

CHAPTER TWO - What is Art?

Art and the Artist

• Degas, Dancer Looking at the Sole of her Foot (originally not intended for public display)
• Rembrandt, Polish Rider (attribution disputes)

Art and Beauty (Beauty in the eye of the beholder)

• Massys, Grotesque Old Woman vs. Leonardo's Mona Lisa
• Pieta by Michelangelo, vs. Roettgen Pieta

Art and Appearances (Understand the difference between representational, abstract and nonrepresentational art)

• Picasso, Portrait of the Artist's Father (Representational)
• Picasso, Three Women at the Spring (Representational)
• Picasso, Three Musicians (Abstract)
• Klee, Monument in Fertile Country or Jackson Pollock's Autumn Rhythm and other works (Non-Representational)

Art and Meaning - Iconography:

• Van Eyck's Arnolfini Double Portrait
• Buddha Images (nonwestern iconography)

CHAPTER THREE - The Themes and Purposes of Art (What are the purposes of art?)

Arts of Daily Life

• Feathered Basket, a kimono, etc.

The Sacred Realm

• Ste. Chapelle
• Great Mosque, Cordoba

Social Order

• The Great Pyramids
• Daumier, Murder in the Rue Transnonain (criticism of the social order)
• Picasso, Guernica (again, criticism of government/social order)
• Maya Lin, Vietnam Memorial

Storytelling

• Sassetta, St. Francis Giving his Mantle to a Poor Man

The Here and Now

• Seurat, Bathers at AsniËres

The Human Experience

• Rembrandt, Self-Portrait
• Rodin, The Kiss
• Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance

Invention and Fantasy

• Skoglund, Radioactive Cats

Art and Nature

• Cole, The Oxbow
• Smithson, Spiral Jetty

Art and Art (conceptual art)

• Sol LeWitt, Untitled Cube

CHAPTER FOUR - The Visual Elements

Line

• Eakins, The Biglin Brothers Racing
• GÈricault, The Raft of the Medusa

Shape and Mass

• Matisse, The Beasts of the Sea
• Mayan Figurine or any three-dimensional sculpture

Light and Value (Sfumato, Chiaroscuro)

• Leonardo, Virgin and Saint Anne
• Wright, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

Color

• Optical Effects of Color (Seurat, Sunday on La Grande Jatte)
• Emotional Effects of Color (Munch, The Scream, or any Van Gogh work)

Texture and Pattern

• Actual Texture (Brancusi, Bird in Space)
• Visual Texture (Dufy, Regatta at Cowes)

Space

• "Real" or Three Dimensional Space (space that is real, such as the space in architecture or sculpture)
• Implied Space (Space is not actually real, but is implied: Suggesting the illusion of three-dimensional space on a two-dimensional surface):
  • Linear Perspective (Leonardo, Last Supper)
  • Foreshortening (Grien, The Groom and the Witch)
  • Atmospheric Perspective (Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains)

Time and Motion

• Monet, Haystack at Sunset (series of paintings)
• Monet, Waterlilies at Dusk (panoramic views of waterlilies)

CHAPTER FIVE - Principles of Design

• Unity and Variety (Matisse, The Red Studio)
• Balance: Symmetry (O'Keeffe, Deer's Skull; Kahlo, The Two Fridas)
• Balance: Asymmetry (Klimt, Death and Life; Manet, Bar at the Folies BergÈre)
• Emphasis and Subordination/Focal Point (Goya, Executions of the Third of May)
• Scale and Proportion (Oldenburg)
• Rhythm (Hopper, Early Sunday Morning)
• Elements and Principles: A Summary (Picasso's Girl Before a Mirror)

CHAPTER SIX - Drawing

Dry Media

• Pencil
• Metalpoint
• Charcoal
• Chalk and Crayon

Liquid Media

• Pen and Ink
• Brush and Ink

CHAPTER SEVEN - Painting

• Encaustic (Fayum Mummy Paintings)
• Fresco (Raphael, School of Athens, Sistine Chapel, etc.)
• Tempera (Wyeth, Braids)
• Oil (Van Eyck, Man in Red Turban, Arnolfini Double Portrait)
• Watercolor (Homer, Shore and Surf, Nassau)
• Gouache (Klee, Landscape with Yellow Birds)
• Acrylic (Frankenthaler, The Bay)
• Painting-Related Techniques: Collage (Picasso, Braque)
• Painting-Related Techniques: Mosaic (Empress Theodora)

CHAPTER EIGHT - Prints

Relief (Raised surface)

• Woodcut (D¸rer, Horsemen of the Apocalypse; Hokusai, The Great Wave)
• Linocut (Picasso, Portrait of a Young Girl)

Intaglio

• Engraving (D¸rer)
• Etching (Rembrandt, Christ Preaching)

Lithography (Kollwitz, Toulouse-Lautrec, Rauschenberg)

Screenprinting (Warhol)

Special Techniques (Monotype)

Recent Directions (Computer-manipulated images)

CHAPTER NINE - The Camera Arts

Photography

• The Still Camera and Its Beginnings (Daguerre)
• Landscape (O'Sullivan, Ansel Adams)
• Photojournalism (Lange)
• Photography and Art (Stieglitz, Strand, Sherman, etc.)
• Censorship: Robert Mapplethorpe

CHAPTER ELEVEN - Sculpture

• Modeling (Female Figure from Cyprus)
• Casting (Bodhisattva)
• Carving (Olowe of Ise, Olmec Head, Michelangelo)
• Assembling (David Smith)
• Low Relief (Maya Sarcophagus Lid)
• High Relief (Parthenon Sculptures)
• Sculpture in-the-round (The Burghers of Calais by Rodin)
• Public Art (Richard Serra, Serpent Mound, Christo and Jeanne-Claude)

CHAPTER TWELVE - Crafts

• Ceramics (Maria Martinez)
• Glass (Stained Glass, Chihuly)
• Metal
• Wood
• Fiber (Unicorn Tapestry)
• Contemporary Craft Arts (Judy Chicago, Faith Ringgold)

CHAPTER THIRTEEN - Architecture

• Load-Bearing (pyramids)
• Post-and-Lintel (Greek temples such as the Parthenon)
• Round Arch and Vault (Aqueducts, Colosseum)
• Dome (Pantheon, Hagia Sophia, Taj Mahal)
• Corbelled Arch and Dome (Lion Gate - I showed this slide but it is not in the book)
• Cast-Iron (Eiffel Tower)
• Steel-Frame Construction (Wainwright Building)
• Suspension (Golden Gate Bridge)
• Reinforced Concrete (Sydney Opera House)
• Geodesic Domes (Bucky Fuller's Geodesic Dome at Expo 67)
• Frank Lloyd Wright - "father of modern architecture"

SLIDE IDENTIFICATION LIST

1. Shiva Nataraja, Indian, 11th century (page 9)
2. Van Gogh, Starry Night, 1889 (page 10)
3. Van Eyck, Arnolfini Double Portrait, 1434 (page 41)
4. Daumier, Murder in the Rue Transnonain, 1834 (page 53)
5. Picasso, Guernica, 1937 (page 55)
6. Maya Lin, Vietnam Memorial, 1982 (page 56)
7. Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance, c. 1664 (page 66)
8. Smithson, Spiral Jetty, 1970 (page 73)
9. Sol LeWitt, Untitled Cube, 1968 (page 74)
10. Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1818-19 (page 83)
11. Leonardo, The Last Supper, c. 1495-97 (page 109)
12. Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, 1863 (page 112)
13. Monet, Haystack, c. 1891 (page 115) (Note: My slide does not exactly match the image in the text)
14. Frida Kahlo, The Two Fridas, 1939 (page 127)
15. Manet, A Bar at the Folies-Bergére, 1881-82 (page 130)
16. Goya, Executions of the Third of May, 1808 (page 133)
17. Picasso, Girl Before a Mirror, 1932 (page 142)
18. Raphael, School of Athens, 1510 (page 164)
19. Hokusai, The Great Wave, c. 1831 (page 183)
20. Rembrandt, Christ Preaching, c. 1652 (page 191)
21. Stieglitz, The Steerage, 1907 (page 217)
22. Rodin, The Burghers of Calais, 1884-85 (page 265)
23. Serra, Tilted Arc, 1981 (page 274)
24. The Unicorn Tapestry, Franco-Flemish, c. 1500 (page 288)
25. Chicago, The Dinner Party, 1979 (page 291)
26. Pont du Gard, Roman, early 1st century CE (page 300)
27. Taj Mahal, India, 1632-53 (page 307)
28. Fuller, Geodesic Dome at Expo 67, 1967 (page 314)
29. Gehry, Guggenheim Bilbao, 1997 (page 320)
30. Wright, Fallingwater, 1936 (page 325)

Midterm will be 100 points total, consisting of:

Six Slide Identifications (5 points each, 30 points possible)
One Compare/Contrast (20 points possible)
Five Short Essays (10 points each, 50 points possible)

For Slide Identifications you are responsible for the following:

• Title (2 points)
• Artist (or Civilization) (2 points)
• Date within 100 years (1 point)

  Five points total per Slide ID

Examples:

The Rocky Mountains, Bierstadt, 1863
Shiva Nataraja, Indian, 11th century