AA Midterm Review

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Art Appreciation:

Midterm Review

As you read through this review, see

the questions in red and answerthem as part of your review.


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3 Art Questions

1-What is art?Art is the expression of human creative skill andimagination.

Artists tell the story of human history through art!


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2-Why should we appreciate art?We live in a visual world it is important to be able tounderstand the images we see everyday.When people change, art changes.

When art changes, people change.

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3-How can we see God in every

style of art?Through the beauty of the artists expression and the waysGod reminds us of truth through that beauty.The creation of art reflects our Creator (God).

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Art Timeline

MiddleAge

s(400-1400)

Renaissan

ce(1400-155

0)

Mannerism

(1520-1600)

Baroque(1

600-1700)

Rococo(1700-1775)

Neoclassic

ism(1765-18

50)

Romanticism(1800-188

0)

Impressio

nism(1864-1885)


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Renaissance Art1400-1550

AnnunciationLeonardo da Vinci, 1475-1480


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A little history... Before the Renaissance (during a time called the Middle Ages), most

people were very poor and believed that life was supposed to be really

hard.

From around 1350

-1450, the Black

Plague killed ofthe population of

Europe.

Huge economyshift that created a

Middle Class.


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Middle Ages Art

What are some

things you notice

about art from the

Middle Ages?


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A little history... A major shift in thought in Florence, Italy, people begin to think

differently about life.

A revival of interest in studies of classical Greek and Roman ideason language, philosophy, art, arcitecture & literature.

Renaissance means rebirth. This began the rebirth of ideas andlife for people in Europe.

Renaissance Humanism: the study of things that promote andexhault human culture. Rather than focusing on the spiritual or eternal ideal, it focused on a worldly

ideal. Living life in the here and now, exploring and enjoying the present.

This idea did not exclude Christian ideas, however it did focus more on man

than God.

...so, Renaissance art became a rebir thof a more classic, natural

and realistic way of art.


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Giotto di Bondone1266-1377

Lamentation (The Mourning of Christ),

between 1304 and 1306

Giotto was a painter, sculptor

and architect and is considered

the first to heavily contribute to

the Italian Renaissance. His use

of color and perspective (nearly

100 years before the

Renaissance) had a hugeinfluence on some of the great

Renissance artists.


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Leonardo de Vinci1452-1519

De Vinci is known as a Renaissance Man. He

had many talents as an artists he was a

painter, sculptor, scientist and inventor, with his

most famous paintings being the Mona Lisaand The Last Supper. His understanding of light

and dark helped to create a more realistic

perspective to his works.


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Leonardo de

Vinci

Mona Lisa (1503-1506)

This is one of the most famouspaintings ever painted by de Vinci or

any artist. De Vinci used techniquesthat helped define Renassiance art at

the time a natural, realisticperspecive using light and shadow in

such a way that the painting looksmore like a photo. He also used a

technique known as sfumato thatblended light and dark colors, againaiding in the realisic nature of the

painting.


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Michelangelo Buonarroti1475-1564

Michelangelo was also a sculptorand painter. His great attention to

detail as well as his poetry,architecture and engineering ideasmade him one of the great artists of

the Renaissance.

Painted by: Jacopino del Conte,

after 1535


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Michelangelo Buonarroti

Sistine Chapel (1508-1512) is painted on the celing of the large Papal Chapelwithin the Vatican. Michelangelo painted 9 scenes from the Book of Genesis.

Detail: the face of God


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The School of Athenss (Raphael, 1510-1511) comes from a time when the status of artists had dramatically

risen. This captures so much of what the Renissance was about the glorification of classical themes (art,language, mathematics, philosophy) and the glorification of man.


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The Madonna and Child in Majesty

Cimab ue, 1280

Madonna Enthroned

Giotto di B ondone, 1310

Painted sometime between 330-550


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Madonna and Child with two angels

Fil ipo L ippi, 1465

What differencesdo you see betweenthe 4 paintings of the

Madonna & child?


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Lasting Effects

Oil on canvas

Realistic perspective

Sfumato Lighting techniques to create a morenatural look


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Mannerism& Baroque Art

Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror

Parmigianio, 1524

The Storm on the Sea of GalileeRembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (1633)

R i Th i M i


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What

isi

t?Recurring Themes in Mannerism

Movement Awkward or unusual poses

Distortion of Figures

Elongated figures (i.e. neck), disproportionate body parts (i.e. small orlarge hands)

Manipulation of Space Logical boundaries ignored

Light

Manipulated for dramatic effect Spiritual Intensity

New ways of distinguishing between the earthly and divine

Elegance and sophistication

Confusing on purpose

Why did Mannerist artistsmake their paintings confusing

on purpose?


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anne

rism-Pontormo

Entombment

Jacopo Carucci (known as Pontormo) 1528

Joseph in Egypt (1515-1518)

Monsignor della Casa (1544)


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anne

rismE

lGreco

Madonna and Child with St.

Martina and St. Agnes (1599)

View of Toledo (1596/1600)


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hatisit?

Things to look for in Baroque Art:

Emotionally intense

Movement Drama

Use of color

Light and dark

Extravagant ornamentation

Back to a more realistic look

Artists

Caravaggio, Italy, 1571-1610

Rembrandt, Dutch, 1606-1669


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The Conversion on the way to Damascus (1601)

The Crucifixation of St. Peter(1601)


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dt

The Money Lender


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Rococo &Neoclassicism


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Important Charactaristics & Artists

Charactaristics

Pastel colors Lighthearted & playful

Decorative

Leisurley pastimes of the aristocracy

Themes of love Ornate elaboration excess Fete Galante

A type of painting that developed during the Rococo period that depicts a party orother lighthearted scene taking place outdoors


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rancoisBoucher

Mademe de Pompadour

1756

Why did

people paintsuch frivolousthings during

this timeperiod?


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ntoine

Wattea

u

Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera1717


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Neoclassicism history Age of Enlightenment people began to question everything.

i.e. Do Kings get their power from God? If no, then who gives themthis power? Can the same thing take that power away?

Enlighten to shed light on something; to make it clear.

The scientific revolution, also happening at this time, wasbased on empirical observation, changing the way people

thought and what they decided to believe in. There was a return to classical Greek and Roman ideas.

When have we seen this return to classical thought before??

A visual expression of the ideas of the Enlightenment

Art was "to make virtue attractive, vice odious, ridicule forceful; that isthe aim of every honest man who takes up the pen, the brush or thechisel. Denis Diderot

Neoclassical painters rejected both the high drama and murkyatmosphere of Baroque art and the misty-sentimentality of the

Rococo


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Important Characteristics & Artists

Characteristics Greek or Roman themes.

People looking polished and posing in the manner of a statue.

Drawing was more important than painting.

Smooth no obvious brushstrokes. Serious art with a purpose.

Artists

Jacques-Louis David


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Jacques-Louis

David

The Death of Socrates

How does this painting showthemes of Neo-Classicism?


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Jacques-Louis

David

Napoleon Crossing theAlps


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Biblical worldview

Rococo very focused on appearance.

Only the very wealthy seemed to be important or

even exist in the world.

Neoclassicism enlightenment. What does it

mean to be an enlightened Christian?


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Romanticism

"Romanticism is precisely

situated neither in choice ofsubject nor in exact truth,

but in a way of feeling.

Charles Baudeliare (1821-

1867)


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They wanted to glorify big ideas and big emotions survival, hope,awe, despair. Deep spirituality and freedom of expression were

also very influential ideas during this time.

Romanticism does not come from the word romantic as inrelationships and love, but the idea of glorification (to give glory,honor or high praise to).

Many paintings captured scenes where nature is in control astorm, the ocean, the moon, fog. These scenes also evoked feelingsof fear and despair, awe and horror.

"Nature never did betray the heart

that loved her, British Romantic

poet William Wordsworth.

What, When, Who, Where, Why

Think about the followingpainting by JMW Turner andanswer the questions on the

following slide


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The Fighting Temeraire, 1839


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Biblical Worldview

Psalm 139:13-14 For you created my inmost being; you knit me

together in my mothers womb. I praise you because I am fearfully

and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full

well.

We are each created uniquely and carefully by God, both what we look like

and who we are. Romantic artists used their paintings to express their

experiences through the emotions and personality that they were given by the

Lord. We have the privilege to see these unique sets of emotion andexpression in each painting. Conveying emotions can be one of the most

vulnerable things a human can do and with the knowledge that our Creator

gave us our emotions and personality, we can have even more courage to

share these with other people and to share in the experience of these

Romantic artists.


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Hebrews 10:24-25 And let us consider how to stir up one another

to love and good works, not neglecting to meet together, as is the

habit of some, but encouraging one another, and all the more as

you see the Day drawing near.

There was great importance put on the stirring up of emotions in Romantic

paintings. Artists wanted to convey a feeling; either of something old or

something new that was coming to change the way the world operated. And

while there may have been a specific emotion or message that each painter

had for each specific painting, anyone can look at any painting and assign any

situation or emotion to it. Something originally painted to convey the sadness

of the loss of simpler days brought on by the Industrial Revolution can also

stir up sadness for any situation in any viewers life. Or it can stir up awe in thebeauty of nature created by our God. Or the memory of an experience that

the Lord put us through to grow our hearts and understanding of who God is.

These paintings can stir up a greater love for each other, for nature, for our

experiences, for our God.

Biblical Worldview

The Salon de Paris


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The Salon de Paris

During the 19th century, theAcadmie des Beaux Arts was thepillar of the French artisticestablishment.

Every year they held an annualopen exhibition at the Salon de Paris.

The jury of the Acadmie tookcontrol of the paintings that wereaccepted into the Salon exhibitionsby their own standard which holdingthe artistic traditions of that era.

They rejected any paintings thatchallenged their artistic values.

The Impressionist were excluded bythis mainstream exhibition anddecided to make their own called:THE SALON DES REFUSES.


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Sunrise Midday

Sunshine

SunsetThese are painted by Claude Monet, outside.What was this new style of painting called? Whatmade it possible to paint outside?


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