Art history midterm

How to look at art: questions you should answer: How old is it?. Who made it?. What is its subject?. Who is the patron?. What is its style?. What does it mean?. What is the technique?. What's the context?.

How do we determine how old is art?. Physical Evidence. Documentary evidence. Visual Evidence. Stylistic Evidence. Price. Context.

Match accordingly: How old is it?. Who made it?. What is its subject?. Who is the patron?. What is its style?. What does it mean?.

Match accordingly: 1rst level of meaning. 2nd level of meaning. 3rd level of meaning. 4th level of meaning.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Industrial Revolution: Where and when? ie: Sudafrica, 1230-1278.

Industrial Revolution: Shift from rural life to ____ life; from agriculture to _____. Beginnings of ______, and rise of _____ _____. ie: apple, banana, pear, grape fruit.

Linotype machine invented by...

In which year was lithography invented?.

Right after lithography, something else was developed with the same concept but using multiple stones instead to add full color:

Match accordingly. Gutenberg's press. Friedrich Koening's steam-powered press (25k pages per hours). Linotype machine (printing with lines instead of letter by letter).

Distinctions between fine art and graphic design started to appear in the __th century.

Posters and advertisements appeared during the...

Match accordingly: Fat faces. Egyptian Typeface. Sans Serif Typeface.

Match accordingly: Fat faces. Egyptian Typeface. Sans Serif Typeface.

Who introduced a 3D perspective into typefaces?.

Became hugely important in
later 20th-century graphic 
design
 Usually used in the 19th century
for subtitles & descriptors under bold fat faces.

What is the name of this typeface innovation?.

What is the name of this typeface innovation?.

What is the name of this typeface innovation?.

Shifting away from balance, harmony and academicism:

Photography was introduced to public in year...

Realism years:

Away from emotional exaggerations of Romanticism. Interest in depicting everyday people, people of lower social classes, working class people. Interest in social, economic, political, & cultural underpinnings of 19th c. society – including the ‘ugly’ underbelly and mundanities of daily life.

In opposition to the Paris Salon, because they were elitist, biased and conservative, so they would refuse a lot of artworks.

In year ___, the jury rejected half of the submissions to the Paris salon.

After half of the works of art were refused by the Paris Salon, ____ ordered the refused works to be exhibited next to it.

Art movement concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty.

It means that art can exist solely for the sake of existing. It can be beautiful because it’s beautiful. It does not have to have a function beyond itself.

is a French term coined in the late nineteenth century to describe the craze for Japanese art and design in the West.

Japonisme was popular in the ____'s.

Japonisme resonates in movements like _______ and ___ ______.  Separate your answers with ",". ie: apple, passion fruit.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

What's the name of the model of most of Manet's paintings?.

What does Ukiyo-e mean?.

painting from the Edo period, and subject matter included depictions of the city / city life, travel, romantic landscapes (19th century), famous cultural figures, and erotic scenes.

By the __th century, Ukiyo-e printmakers innovated with printing techniques in order to create colorful picture prints that had a wide reach and distribution within popular culture. .

Ukiyo-e had a profound effect on _____ artists, who incorporated its innovations into their own work.

Major category of type design.

Excessively thick and bold fonts.

Designed expressly for advertising purposes: short lines of large, eye-catching text.

Introduced perspective into typeface design:

Also known as slab serif:

Associated with this new social awareness away from emotional exaggerations of Romanticism.

Match accordingly: emphasizing the subjective role of the artist. a realistic portrayal of social structures. the beauty of everyday life. and representation itself.

The mid __th century is classified as the starting point for “modernism”.

The Aesthetic movement emerged in _____ during the late __th century.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

What's the name of The Peacock Room patron?.

What's the name of the painting in The Peacock Room that represented the fights between the artist and patron?.

In Britain, _______ was a ‘chief artist transmitter’ of Japonisme.

Reaction against rise of mass production Reaction of decline of hand-crafted goods & decline in quality Handmade goods instead of machine uniformity Harmony between designer, architect, craftsman Uniting work and life / joy and pride in work.

Combination of the aesthetic and the utilitarian.

Match accordingly. Art Nouveau. Arts & Crafts.

Art Nouveau years:

Encompassed all aspects of design: architecture, furniture, product design, fashion, art, graphics.

organic, undulating and decorative lines. vine tendrils, flowers, birds (especially peacocks), human female form.

New design principle unifying decoration, structure, and 
intended function.

Attempt at making art part of everyday life. Combination of 
fine art training and embracing of applied art techniques: 
Upgrade of visual quality of mass communications.

one of main sellers of style in furniture and decorative arts.

Term ‘Art Nouveau’ comes out of _____, German merchant living in Paris. Connoisseur of Japanese art.

Czech painter, illustrator, and graphic artist living in Paris. Started his career painting theatre sets. He went on to study at the Munich Art Academy and finished his training in Paris.

Major American practitioner of Art Nouveau-inspired graphic design and illustration. He simplifies the image into silhouettes, color palette is more minimalist than European Art Nouveau.

William Bradley was inspired by 2 British artists:

Became a popular printing method that made posters more accessible during Art Nouveau.

In the 1890’s _______ introduced the color lithograph.

withdrawal from Viennese Creative Artists’ Association.

Last European country to get on the Art Nouveau train.

Motto: “Better to work 10 days on one product than to manufacture 10 products in one day” belongs to...?.

Journal published by Secessionists.

Ver sacrum journal years:

Who made the Secession building?.

When was the Secession building made?.

What was the phrase written on the Secession building?.

Considered to be an example of ‘Gesamtkunstwerk’.

involved an element of urgency communicated through ‘direct appeal’ from compelling characters: an official, a victim, or a widow.

Major topics: Promotion of enlistment Purchase of bonds to fund the war effort Conservation of staples like sugar, rubber, and gasoline Hard work in both domestic occupations and factories.

German for “poster style”. Reductive, flat poster style that originated in German in the early 20th century.

Bold lettering, a simple central image, and distinctive eye-catching colours.

Heavily influenced by Japanese ukiyo-e prints and styles Liked to draw in black ink – stylized lines and forms as in Japanese prints.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.

Artist, title, art movement, date Please separate your answers with a samicolon.