AAD 250 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cindy Sherman, Cultural Artifact, Curved Mirror
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Art and Human Values Midterm Study Guide
Artist Name: Diego Velazquez
Title: Las Meninas (Young Maid of Honor)
Date: 1656
Fact 1: Velazquez served as a court painter to the
Spanish King and the main subject here is King’s
daughter.
Fact 2: The painting represents a new kind of
realism in painting in that it appears to capture a
real moment of a scene where artist is working on
portraits of King & Queen, reflected in mirror, while
their daughter and her attendants watch.
Velasquez include his self-portrait as the painter
standing before the canvas.
The Core Human Values
1. Honesty: talking straight, being genuine and ethical
2. Courage: taking accountability for results, being up front about mistakes and taking
considered risks
3. Fairness: Treating people justly and equitably
4. Respect: treating individuals with dignity
5. Caring: listening carefully to others, working together to achieve shared goals
6. Trust: keeping our promises
Definitions
Symbolism in art: symbolic value or meaning of a work of art stemmed from the recreation of
emotional experiences in the viewer through color, line, and composition. In painting, Symbolism
represents a synthesis of form and feeling, of reality and the artist's inner subjectivity.
Realism in art: An attempt to make art resemble life. Realist painters take their subjects from
the world around them (instead of from idealized subjects, such as figures in mythology or
folklore) and try to represent them in a lifelike manner.
Idealism in art: In art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would
have them rather than as they are. In ethics it implies a view of life in which the predominant
forces are spiritual and the aim is perfection.
Pop art: art based on modern popular culture and the mass media, especially as a critical or
ironic comment on traditional fine art values.
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Artist Name:
Title: Parthenon Temple in Athens, Greece
Date: 450 B.C.
Fact 1: Parthenon houses a sculpture of
Athena, goddess of civilization, war, wisdom
and patron of Athens.
Fact 2: The temple is built with no straight
lines.
Fact 3: The East Pediment depicts the birth
of Athena. The West Pediment depict the
contest between athena and her Uncle Poseidon, to see who would become patron of God of
Attica and her capital city, Athens. Each Pediment is composed of 15 wall section panels
painstakingly aligned to correspond to the slope of the roof.
Artist name: Michelangelo Buonarroti
Title: David
Date: 1501-04
Fact 1: Contrapposto (Italian term) means counterpose. Used in the
visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight
on one foot so that its shoulders and arms twist off-axis from the hips
and legs. This gives the figure a more dynamic, or alternatively
relaxed appearance.
Fact 2: The character of David and what he symbolizes was perfectly
in tune with Michelangelo's patriotic feeling and he used David as a
model of heroic courage, in the hope that the Florentines would rally
around the individualism of the newly formed Republic. By 1501,
when Michelangelo returned to Florence, a Republic was formed and
it needed a public symbol of strength.
Artist name: Marcel Duchamp (French)
Title: Fountain, industrial porcelain life sized
Date: 1917
Fact 1: Submitted for the exhibition of the Society of
Independent Artists, in 1917, the first annual
exhibition by the Society to be staged at The Grand
Central Palace in New York, Fountain was rejected
by the committee, even though the rules stated that
all works would be accepted from artists who paid
the fee.
Fact 2: Duchamp replaced the art of discrimination
with the art of designation. This is shown in his
Readymades.
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Artist name: Hokusai (Japanese)
Title: The Wave
Date: 1829-32
Fact 1: This piece of art is from the Edo Period
in Japanese Art—focused on scenes of daily
life, including lovers, travelers along roads
through Japan, and a caring mother.
Fact 2: Hokusai did Thirty-Six Views of Mt Fuji,
which were 46 woodblock prints created
between 1826-1833. They all contained Mt. Fuji
in it.
Concepts
Realism:
•Definition: An attempt to make art resemble life. Realist painters take their subjects from
the world around them (instead of from idealized subjects, such as figures in mythology or
folklore) and try to represent them in a lifelike manner.
•Example
Artist name: Gustave Courbet
Title: The Bathers
Date: 1853
Fact 1: The realist paintings of Courbet were considered
“controversial” at the time because The Bathers
showed a realistic looking nude that was not idealized to
be made beautiful
Fact 2: painted to emphasize the beauty of the female
body but Courbet’s showed extra folds in the woman’s
flesh and dirt on the bottom of feet, showing she actually
had walked on the dirt path in the forest environment.
Courbet was seeking the truth
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Document Summary
Fact 1: velazquez served as a court painter to the. Spanish king and the main subject here is king"s daughter. Velasquez include his self-portrait as the painter standing before the canvas. Symbolism in art: symbolic value or meaning of a work of art stemmed from the recreation of emotional experiences in the viewer through color, line, and composition. In painting, symbolism represents a synthesis of form and feeling, of reality and the artist"s inner subjectivity. Realism in art: an attempt to make art resemble life. Realist painters take their subjects from the world around them (instead of from idealized subjects, such as gures in mythology or folklore) and try to represent them in a lifelike manner. Idealism in art: in art idealism is the tendency to represent things as aesthetic sensibility would have them rather than as they are. In ethics it implies a view of life in which the predominant forces are spiritual and the aim is perfection.
