Artists transform recognizable natural subjects

  Artists transform recognizable natural subjects

The Great Sphinx

 

·         Funerary Complex of Khafre

 

Flower Piece with Curtain

 

·         Adrian van der Spelt & Frans van Mieris

 

Suculent

 

·         Edward Weston

 

Red Canna-

 

·         Georgia O'Keefe

 

 Cubi XVIII

 

·         David Smith

 

Medici Venus

 

·         Greek Statue of plump woman (unknown artist)

 

Hana-Murasaki of the Tamaya

 

·         Kitagawa Utamaro

 

Punitavati- Karaikkal Ammaiyar

 

·         (spiritual woman with fanged hag face)

 

Untitled- Kiki Smith

 

·         (two naked wax figures drawing attention to AIDS)

 

offering bowl

 

·         Olowe of Ise (created for the Yoruba people of West Africa)

 

Diary-

 

·         Roger Shimomura (grandmother's account of an internment camp

 

The Drawing Lesson

 

·         Jan Steen (boy apprentice and mature girl learn from a master artist)

 

Last Supper-

 

·         Leonardo

 

Great Sphinx:

 

·         one of the world's best-known monuments carved from the living rock of the Giza plateau in Egypt. By placing the head of the ancient Egyptian king Khafre on the body of a huge lion, the sculptors joined human intelligence and animal strength in a single image to evoke the superhuman power of a ruler.

 

patron:

 

·         the institution or person who commissions or finances a work of art

 

trompe l'oeil:

 

·         a manner in which pictures attempt to viewers into thinking what they are seeing is real, not a painted representation of the real

 

still lifes:

 

·         a type of painting that has a s its subject inanimate objects such as food, dishes, fruit, or flowers taken out of their natural contexts

 

Classical:

 

·         refers to the art and architecture of ancient Greece and Rome

 

naturalism or realism:

 

·         a style of depiction in which the physical appearance of the rendered image in nature seems to be accurately described

 

abstract:

 

·         art that does not describe the appearance of visible forms but rather transforms them into stylized patterns

 

abstraction or stylization:

 

·         artists transform recognizable natural subjects into patterns or make them conform to ideals

 

nonrepresentational:

 

·         do not depict a recognizable natural subject

 

convention:

 

·         traditional way of representing forms

 

woodblock print:

 

·         a print made from one or more carved wooden blocked

 

bronze:

 

·         a metal made from copper alloy, usually mixed with tin. Also any sculpture made from this substance

 

iconography:

 

·         the study of conventional subjects and symbols

 

foreground:

 

·         within the depicted space of an artwork, the area that is closest to the picture plane

 

Eucharist:

 

·         : the ceremonial commemoration of Jesus's Lat Supper with his disciples (AKA Holy Communion or the Mass)

 

Altar:

·         a tablelike structure where religious rites are performed. The site of the rite of the Eucharist

 

Self Potraits:

 

·         artist expressing how they or those in their culture conceive their role in society

 

composition:

 

·         the overall arrangement, organizing design, or structure of a work of art

 

halo:

 

·         nimbus, worn on Christian saints or emperors to signify power and purity

 

porcelain:

 

·         : white ceramic used by Chinese potters

 

Acropolis

 

·         : Athens's civic and religious center

 

contextualism:

 

·         : the personal and social circumstances surrounding the making, viewing, and interpreting of a work of art

 

connoisseurship:

 

·         method of scrutinizing individual art objects