1. Key Terms For Art History

2. Plato and Aristotle Style: In the visual arts, a manner of execution that is characteristic of an individual, a school, a period, or some other identifiable group. Ideal Style: Physical beauty was not just a mirror of nature, but and idealized version.

3. Adriaen van der Spelt and Frans Mieris, Flower Piece with Curtain, 1658. Oil on Panel. (46.5 x 64cm).

4. Story of Zeuxis and Parrhasios –Late 5 th c BCE Narrative Painting Iconography: Meaning and interpretation of images. Branch of art history that deals with the identification, description and classification of subject matter in the visual arts.

5. David Smith, Cubi XIX, 1964. Stainless Steel. (2.88 x.55 x.51cm)

6. Non-representational art: Art that is so abstract the audience cannot directly reference objects from the natural world. Subject Matter: The topic or subject that is depicted within the space of the work. Meaning: An understanding that is produced from the interaction between art work and audience.

7. ‘Art’: Our own definitions are different to what people thought in the past. 1. Early Modern Era – 1500s(1400s in Italy) – 1700s 2. Modern Era-1800s – 1900s 3. Postmodern Era-1960s – Present Day ● Genre: Term used to describe a particular branch or category of art. For example: Landscape, Portraiture, Still Life.

8. Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects. 1550. Three Periods of artistic re-invention: 1. 1250-1400: ‘The First Lights’ 2. 1400s: Time of transition 3. ‘The Modern Period’

9. Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Tower of Babel, 1563. Tempera on Panel. 1.14 x 1.55m.

10. Jan Steen, The Drawing Lesson, 1665. Oil on Canvas.

11. Jan van Eyck, The Virgin in a Church, c. 1410-25. Oil on panel. 31 x 14 cm.

12. Some Approaches to Art History: 1. Marxism 2. Feminism 3. Biographical/Autobiographical 4. Semiology 5. Deconstruction 6. Psychoanalysis

13. Meret Oppenheim, Fur Covered Cup, Saucer, and Spoon. 1936.

14. James Abbot McNeill Whistler, Arrangement in Black and Gray (Portrait of the Artist’s Mother). 1871. Oil on canvas.

15. The Formal Elements of Art: 1. Composition 2. Plane 3. Line 4. Depth 5. Perspective 6. Space 7.Shape 8. Colour

16. Hieronymus Rodler. A Vault the Way You’d Like It. 1531. Woodcut