Review Material for the First Exam
Art Appreciation
See pages 6 & 7 in your study guide for tips on preparing for exams.)
Study Slides:
- Be able to visually recognize the image.
- (fill-in-the blank: know Artist, name of the Artwork, the Art Era, Art Movement, or country it is associated with, the location if it was created for a particular place or will never be moved from that location,) and roughly when it was created—16th century, 19th century, early 20th century, etc.
- Know some factual information about the artwork and the artist—materials it is made of, size if that is relevant, terms and phrases that may be relevant to its creation, who the subject was and why it/he/she was chosen, who commissioned it if that was the case, what the intent of the artist/designer was in creating or presenting this artwork, what it’s purpose was/is.
Study Slides you will be responsible for in this block of lectures:
- Simon Rodia’s Watts Towers
- Michelangelo’s David
- Kane Kwai’s Coffin Orange
- Faith Ringgold’s Tar Beach
- Dale Chihuly’s Alabaster Basket with Oxblood Wraps
- Marcel Breuer’s Armchair, model B3
- Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain
- The Great Stupa, Sanchi, India
- Chartres Cathedral, Chartres, France
- Interior of the Sanctuary of the Great Mosque, Cordoba, Spain
- Andrew Wyeth’s Christina’s World
- Henri Matisse’s Harmony in Red (The Red Room)
- Leonardo da Vinci’s Last Supper
Study Slides not pictured in your text:
Watts Towers Christina’s World Tar Beach
Be able to differentiate between categories of art and artists:
CraftFine Art,
Architecture Applied art
Folk artGraphic Design
CraftspersonFine Artist
ArchitectDesigner
Folk Artist
Terms to know: Matching or Short Answer Essay
Oeuvre Aesthetics
Art NouveauArt Deco
Content Subject matter Composition
FormStyle
NonrepresentationalAbstraction
RealismExpressionismRepresentational
Polychromatic color SchemeAnalogous Color Schemearbitrary color
high keylow keyintensity
valuenaturalistic colorhue
saturation paletteMonochromatic Color Scheme
Complementary Color SchemeTriadic Color SchemePicture Plane
Pictorial SpacePerspectivePosition
ScaleHierarchical ScaleLinear Perspective
Vanishing PointForeshorteningProportion
Atmospheric Perspective
Symmetrical vs. Asymmetrical BalanceRadial Balance
Focal Point
May be matching or short answer essay
What is the ideal streamlined shape?
What is Load-Bearing construction?
Identify the three orders of Greek architecture and how do they differ from one another?
What is a Colonnade?
Define Post-and-Lintel construction or draw a diagram
The Arch--What is the keystone and why is it important? Who perfected it?
The Barrel Vault—what is it and how was it used in the Roman Colosseum. Who invented it?
What is an Amphitheatreand how does this apply to the Roman Coliseum’s use? Who invented it?
The Dome and its use in the Pantheon. Who invented it? What is the Pantheon?
What does the term “Romanesque” mean? How would you describe it as an architectural style? What key element(s) of Roman architecture was used in Romanesque architecture?
Gothic cathedrals—how was their height achieved and what did they symbolize?
When did Cast-iron construction begin and what does it have to do with the EiffelTower?
Lattice-Beam construction and its use in the EiffelTower
Frame Construction and its use today in domestic architecture
Steel and Reinforced Concrete Construction
The Prairie House and the man considered by many to be the first truly modern architect
The International Style
Samples of short answer essay questions:
Where was the first true porcelain made?
When was glass-blowing invented and who was the first to turn it into a major industry?
What craft medium is made primarily of silica, a kind of sand, plus other minerals that add color?
What is the traditional use of fiber arts and what do they trace their origin to?
What artform does Dale Chihuly himself make to get across his ideas?
Why does temperature play a critical role in the creation of glassworks?
What role does the Gaffer play in the glassblowing process?
What was the first Nazi public art project, completed in 1937?
What was Adolph Hitler’s view of what “True German Art” should be?
How did the German Expressionist artists use form and color?
What was Hitler’s attitude toward the German Expressionists?
Where does the value lie with regard to Applied art objects?
What is the simplest building method?
The Romans perfected which architectural structure by the end of the first century BCE? This form is not stable until the keystone is put into place?
As if in response to the dark and dreary climate outside, the interior of a ______rises to an incredible height, lit with a rich and radiant light by stained-glass windows.
In the 19th century, what material that had been known for thousands of years but never employed in architecture transformed the built environment?
What does it mean when we refer to works of art as being representational?
The vanitas tradition of still life painting is specifically designed to induce a higher order of thought in the viewer. What is the key element?
What two humble technological innovations have helped to determine the look of our built environment from the 19th c. to the present?
What are the two basic issues that design would face in the 20th century?
What was the effect of Hitler’s speech on the German Expressionist artists featured in the film “Degenerate Art?”
Who was responsible for formulating the rules about Atmospheric Perspective and what are the rules?
The color scheme that is the most contrasting utilizes hues that are opposites, such as red and green, or orange and blue. What is this color scheme called?
What is the goal of Graphic Design?
What was auctioned off at the Nazi Auction of June, 1939 held in Switzerland?
What do the stars and stripes stand for in Faith Ringgold’s “God Bless America?”
Using your three architectural study slides as examples, discuss the two ways religious architecture serves religion. Part 1: how does the structure work functionally--in other words, describe how each of these faiths is practiced and how, in practical terms, was the structure built to make it easy for worshipper to practice the observances of his/her faith? Part II: What are the visual symbols of each faith, what does the art in each case look like, and how is the art in each structure used to remind the worshipper of what his/her faith is about?
Subjects you may be asked to write what you know about from the assigned readings:
Christo and Jean-Claude’s “Umbrella Project.”
The Marine Corps War Memorial or Jasper Johns Three Flags, or Scott Tyler’s What is the Proper Way to Display the American Flag?” or Yukinori Yanagi’s “the World Flag Ant Farm”
Magdalena Abakanowicz’s fiber art sculptures
William Morris’s attempt to revive the medieval craft tradition
Who founded the Bauhaus and why?
Norman Bel Geddes Air Liner Number 4
Fredrick Law Olmsted’s and Calvert Vaux’s purpose in designing New York’s Central Park
What was Fredrick Law Olmsted’s concept of the suburb?
The vanitas tradition and Robert Mapplethorpe’s Self-Portrait
Works in Progress: Be prepared to write a short paragraph about these.
Peter Volkos’ X-Neck
Fred Wilson’s Mining the Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater
Mierle Ukeles’ Fresh Kills Landfill
Lorna Simpson’s The Park
Chuck Close’s Stanley
Sonia Delaunay’s Electric Prism
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