Thursday, April 29, 2010

Study Guide for Final Exam and Slide IDs

Slide IDs
Venus de Milo, unknown artist, Hellenistic period
Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet, Naturalism
The Rouen Cathedral by Claude Monet, Impressionism
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grande Jatte by Georges Seurat, Post-Impressionism
Still-Life with Apples by Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionism
The Scream by Edvard Munch, Expressionism
Woman with the Hat by Henri Matisse, Fauvism
The Ladies of Avignon by Pablo Picasso, Cubism
Nude Descending a Staircase #2 by Marcel Duchamp, Futurism
 Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) by Wassily Kandinsky, Non-Objectivity
The Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, Dada
The Two Fridas by Frida Kahlo, Surrealism
Terms
montage         maquette
contrapposto gelatin silver process
Impressionism  documentary film
lost-wax process calotype
resolution Fauvism
pixel Surrealism
daguerrotype Pictorialism
cinematography assemblage
photogram persistence of vision
CDs/DVDs Expressionist film
Other Areas of Study for Multiple Choice, Short Answer and Essay
Rashomon by Akira Kurosawa
Citizen Kane by Orson Welles
Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein
leaders of the Pictorialist movement
the work of Frida Kahlo
the work of Cindy Sherman
example of earthworks
Wassily Kandinsky and Non-Objectivity
the founders of photography
the three non-silver printmaking processes
advantages/disadvantages of film photography vs. digital photography
the significance of Manet’s Luncheon on the Grass


Venus de Milo by an unknown artist, Hellenistic Period


Luncheon on the Grass by Edouard Manet, Naturalism


The Rouen Cathedral by Claude Monet, Impressionism



A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of Grand Jatte by Georges Seurat, Post-Impressionism


Still-Life with Apples by Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionism


The Scream by Edvard Munch, Expressionism


Woman with the Hat by Henri Matisse, Fauvism


The Ladies of Avignon by Pablo Picasso, Cubism


Nude Descending a Staircase #2 by Marcel Duchamp, Futurism


Improvisation No. 30 (Cannons) by Wassily Kandinsky, Abstraction


The Fountain by Marcel Duchamp, Dada


The Two Fridas  by Frida Kahlo, Surrealism





Sunday, April 11, 2010

Exam 2 Essay Images and Exam 2 Study Guide


Exam 2 Study Guide

Terms

pastel monotype
gesso suicide block printing
glazing technique intaglio printmaking
sans serif fresco
collage sfumato
graphic design relief technique
medium stippling
reduction print silkscreen
typography serif
camera obscura prints
underpainting mosaic
support
Other Areas of Study
Impasto technique and Van Gogh
Andy Warhol and silkscreen
different methods of intaglio printmaking
airbrushing and synthetic paint media
Edgar Degas’s work in pastels
Cai Guo-Qiang’s drawings
advantages/disadvantages of oil vs. acrylic paint
woodcut vs. wood engraving 
Essay Topics
You will be asked to write a short essay describing the importance of one of the following paintings:
The Lamentation by Giotto c. 1305-06
The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait by Jan van Eyck c. 1434
The Garden of Delights by Hieronymus Bosch c.1510-15
The Virgin (or Madonna) of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci c.1485
The Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio 1596
Pick one to memorize facts about and be prepared to discuss in essay form on the exam.  Items to include would be what time period of art history the work belongs to, facts that make the painting worthy of continued study, materials used to create the work, and possible scholarly interpretations.


The Lamentation by Giotto  c. 1305-06



The Arnolfini Wedding Portrait  by Jan Van Eyck  c.1434




The Garden of Delights  by Hieronymus Bosch  c. 1510-15




The Virgin (or Madonna) of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci c. 1485



The Calling of St. Matthew by Caravaggio 1596 

Monday, February 22, 2010

Exam 1 Study Guide

Terms - be able to define any 10 of the following terms
line
shape
form
scale
color
value 
texture
unity
repetition
pattern
variety
contrast 
rhythm
balance
emphasis
economy
Other areas of study for the Short Answer/ Multiple Choice sections:
Theories of cave paintings and their existence
Name of famous cave paintings complex
examples of two-dimensional artwork
examples of applied art
example of work that uses implied lines
categories of representational artwork
positive space/negative space
example of artwork that uses scale change
linear perspective
actual texture vs. simulated texture
naive artist
the three critical approaches to art
closed form vs. open forms
symmetrical and asymmetrical balance
golden mean ratio
chiaroscuro
figure/ground relationship
pointilism
atmospheric perspective
examples of compositional unity
different characteristics of line
horizon line
Make sure to go over the color section very carefully.  You must know the difference between additive and subtractive color, the characteristics of color, and the other terms we went over in relationship to color.