1. Review Day! Rebekah Scoggins Art Appreciation January 29, 2012

2. Format of the Exam 15 slide IDs, 90 seconds each, 2 pts each, 30 pts total –Artist, title, date, and medium for most works (also the location if Fresco) –Artist, title, date, and location for architecture –Each part of your answer is worth ½ a point. –You get a 3 year cushion on your dates. Ex: If the date is 1914 and you say 1916, you still get credit. 10 short answers, 5 pts each, 50 pts total –Answer in complete sentences. 1 essay, Choose from 3 questions, 20 pts –Answer in complete sentences in paragraph form. –It should be multiple paragraphs and take you time to think about and write. –Remember, it’s 20 points of your test. Treat it as such.

3. Study Help Read through the information in the book Review your notes on the topics I outline in the study guide Use flash cards for the slide IDs. Make sure you understand the general idea behind the different methods of production (painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, printmaking, film) and how they progressed. Understand how to use and explain the terms on the study guide Be able to give all the required information on the slide ids. Look over the Power Points for important descriptions

4. Terms to Know Work of art – what an artist makes or puts in front of us for viewing, the visual object (or product) that embodies that idea the artist wanted to communicate. Medium (plural media) – a particular material along with its accompanying technique, a specific type of artistic technique or means of expression determined by the use of particular materials –Clay, fiber, stone, wood, paint, video, computer/digital, photograph, movie Oil on canvas, silver gelatin print, etc

5. Functions of Art Communicating Information Day to Day Living Worship and Ritual Self Expression Social Cause Visual Delight

6. Art Criticism : Three Basic Theories Formal, aka formalism – focus attention on the composition of the work and how it may have been influenced, on a compositional level, by earlier works, analyses these qualities over (or with no respect to) other aspects of a work’s production, reception, subject matter, or thematic significance. Contextual – considers art as a product of a cultural that exists within a cultural and value system, within a particular society as a particular time and place Expressive, aka biographical – pays attention to the artists’s expression of a personality or worldview, takes into account birthplace, gender, cultural background, etc.

7. Vertical line / Horizontal line Diagonal line Hard line / Soft line

8. Descriptors of Art Shape Mass Space Abstract Art Representational Art Composition Foreground Background Time Motion Light Color

9. Perspective Linear vs Atmospheric

10. c. Two-point linear perspective a. One-point linear perspectiveb. One-point linear perspective. Cubes above eye level, at eye level, and below eye level

11. Raphael. The School of Athens. 1508. Stanza della segnatura (Room of the Signatura). Vatican Palace. Vatican City, Italy.

12. Raphael. The School of Athens. Layout of Linear Perspective

13. Asher Brown Durand. Kindred Spirits. 1849. Oil on canvas. Painting Atmospheric Perspective

14. Copyright ©2011, ©2009 Pearson Prentice Hall Inc. Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen. Shuttlecocks. One of four. 1994. Aluminum, Sculpture. Scale

15. Proportion Michelangelo Buonarroti. Pietà. 1501. Marble, Sculpture. Roettgen Pietà. 1300–1325. Painted Wood, Sculpture.

16. Types of Painting Watercolor Tempura Oil Advantages and Disadvantages?

17. Pigment Ancient – ground minerals, dried plant juices, powdered animal urine, dried insect blood Modern – synthetic pigment Support Canvas Wood Paper

18. True Fresco Giotto di Bondone, Interior View andThe Lamentation, True Fresco, Scrovegni (Arena) Chapel (Architecture), 1305, Padua, Italy, Italian Renaissance

19. Types of Printmaking Relief –Woodcuts / Woodblock Intaglio –Engraving –Etching Lithography Stencil –Silkscreen / Screenprint

20. Sculpture Relief –Low-relief –High-relief Freestanding Casting –Substitution process –Mold Carving –Subtractive process Assemblage –Combine –Mixed media Installation Site-specific

21. Copyright ©2011, ©2009 Pearson Prentice Hall Inc. Dome (arch rotated 180°). Dome on a cylinder.

22. Hagia Sophia. Interior. Istanbul, Turkey. 532–535. Dome on pendentives

23. Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, exterior, 1926-27, Dessau, Germany. International Style. International Style

24. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Philip Johnson. Seagram Building. New York. 1956–1958. International Style

25. Copyright ©2011, ©2009 Pearson Prentice Hall Inc. Frank Lloyd Wright. Fallingwater (Edgar Kaufmann Residence). Bear Run, Pennsylvania. 1936. Cantilever