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Mycerinus Triad
2500 BC-Old Kingdom Egypt |
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Art represents ruler in afterlife
Permanence of form and subject
Perservation for afterlife
Placement and relative size indacates Importance
Figure sculptors observed conventions |
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Exekias and Andokies,
Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice |
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Greek vase painting frieze arrangement,
No perspective or background.
Specialized production: potter, painter |
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Physical Perfection as allegory for perfection of mind.
Nudity as ideal (vs. Nakedness)
Some Greek sculptors known by name.
Ponderation, Closed Composition |
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Classical phase:relaxed, active, perfect.
Gods depicted as beautiful athletes.
Singled out by Winckelmann as superior.
Open Composition |
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Mary and Child Icon
500AD
Early Christian |
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Rigid conventional image for devotional use.
Encaustic on panel, Icon, Symmetry |
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Maya Pyramid
Corbel arch construction |
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Typanum
(Church/St. Mary Magdalene at Venzelay)
1130AD
Romanesque (abstract) |
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Placement and relative size indicate importance.
Program's parts amplify message
Art in Europe mostly devoted to religion. |
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Basilican Plan
325AD (onward)
Early Christian (onward) |
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Christian churchs belong to long history of standardized plans and conventions.
Nave, Transept, Apse, Choir, West/East orientation |
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Colored Windows at Notre Dame Chartres
1200-1225AD
Gothic |
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Gothic period creates architectural space for elaborate cycles of windows.
Iconography=elaborate series, stories in glass.
Cult of the Virgin |
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Giotto, Scrovegni Chapel at Padua
1305
Gothic/Early Renaissance |
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Artist was known, successful, and in demand (new status of artists)
Registers, Trompe l'oeil, Intonaco, Giornati, Grisaille |
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Van Eyck, Ghent Altarpiece: (Mystic Lamb)
1430 Flemish Gothic
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Elaborate multi-paneled work exemplifies whole world at worship.
Altarpiece, polyptych, New Medium: oil binder |
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Aztec stone calendar
1450
Pre-Columbian |
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| Exceptional accounting, astral study. |
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Botticelli, Birth of Venus
1482
Early Renaissance |
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Patrons interested in ancient art encourage classical subjects with classical models,
Great artists are celebrated
e.g. Vasari's Lives of the Artists, 1550.
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Leonardo da Vinci, Last Supper
1495
High Renaissance |
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Systematic construction of picture space to advance realism.
Linear Perspective modeling |
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Raphael, School of Athens at Rome
1510
High Renaissance |
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Fusion of ancient and contemporary ideas and identities, ultimate renaissance work.
Perspective system maximizes spatial realism.
Linear perspective, horizon line, vanishing point, transversal and orthogonal lines. |
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Michelangelo, Sistine Chapel ceiling at Rome
1508-1512
High Renaissance |
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Biblical subjects depicted in vocabulary of ancient/classical forms.
New compatibility of pagan and christian ideas expressed via compatible artforms.
Power of papacy, centrality of Rome. Artists are seen as geniuses, divinely inspired.
Patron(Julius II) Quadratura, Cartoon. |
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Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith/Holofernes
1614
Baroque, Counter-Reformation |
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| Intense dramatic effects achieved with focused light, blank background, and tiny brushstrokes to achieve clear detail. |
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Rembrandt, The Night Watch
1642
Northern Baroque (Dutch Golden Age) |
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| Baroque Reformation are focuses on secular subjects. Celebrates new independence, protestantism. |
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Metal plate printmaking process.
Ground, etch, platemark, states |
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Bernini, Ecstasy of Teresa at Rome
1650 Italian Baroque |
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| Baroque counter-reformation emphasizes drama, and you-are-there immediacy. Sculpture is presented as theater. |
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Wedgewood Jasperware
1780
Neoclassicism |
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| Modern ceramics decorated to resemble rediscovered antiquities. |
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Freidrich, Wanderer above the Mists
1818
Romanticism |
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Modern era (1800 onward) includes new interest in real places. Goethe encourages travel and landscape art.
Landscape, Ruckenfigur, Golden Section |
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Hokusai, The Great Wave
1830 |
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japanese woodblock prints:new subjects appear in 19th century: landscape and everyday life.
Ukiyo-e, relief printing process (one block per color) |
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Turner, Burning of the Houses of Parliament
1834
Romanticism |
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Heroic treatment of cerrent event.
Landscapes: real places.
Watercolor, sublime (vs. beautiful and picturesque) landscape. |
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Whisstler, The Golden Screen
1864 |
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Western artists collect Japanese objects, employ them in their paintings and find inspiration in them for decorative arts, prints, etc.
Japonisme |
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Monet, Impression: Sunrise
1974
Realism |
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New paints and appreciation for qualities of sketching in paint lead to new painterliness and everyday subjects, real places.
Impressionism, complementary palatte |
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Rodin, Gates of Hell and Burghers of Calais
1880s
Symbolism |
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Additive sculpture (clay on armature), later cast into permanent bronze.
Lost wax casting process, Active surface, maquette, pedestal. |
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Clausen, The Gate
1889
Naturalism |
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| Monumentalization of working class |
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Cassatt, The Fitting
1891
Impressionism |
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| Japoniste artists used western printmaking processes to make prints resembling Japanese woodblock prints. |
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Picasso, Les Demoiselles D'Avignon
1907
Cubism |
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| Sordid aspects of modern life became subjects. Large-scale painting. Picasso saw African art as means to rejuvenate European art. |
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Maria Martinez, Black-on-Black pottery
1940
Ceramic Art |
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Hand-built ceramic forms in American SW.
Pinch, Coil, Paddle |
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Jackson Pollock, Lavender Mist
1948
Abstract Expressionism |
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Mid-20th century art abandons recognizable subjects. New primacy of process (over subject).
Artists use art to investigate recent history.
Post-modernism, representational but non-narrative, sub-aesthetic materials. |
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Keifer, Book with Wings
1992
Post-Modern |
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Living artists are interested in representation.
Artists use art to investigate recent history. |
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Viola, The Greeting
1995
Video Art
Post-Modern |
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| Artists use new technologies to incorporate time and sound. |
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| Artists plan work with dynamics of colors in mind (warm advance, cool recede, complements intensify.) |
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