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ART EXAM GRADE NINE: NOTES FOR ART HISTORY!

Mona Lisa: Leonardo da Vinci

➰ in the Leuvre museum, France

➰ Small painting

➰ has it's own 17 million dollar room

➰ behind bullet proof glass

➰ only painting in the Leuvre you can't walk up to and see up close

➰ speculation of the painting to be a female version of Leo himself

➰speculated to be a painting of a woman named Mona Lisa del Gihanda

➰woman was around 24 years old

➰unfinished, speculation because of lack of eyebrows

➰ three versions of Mona underneath the existing painting

➰ never sold

➰ priceless

➰stolen in 1911

➰acid thrown on it in 1956, it took several years to restore.

➰Leonardo was fascinated with flight and the human body

➰ Leo would dig up kadavars to investigate the proportions and works of the human body.

➰ Leo was an inventor Aswell.

The Family: Norval Morrisseau

Canadian artist

also known as copper thunderbird

changed styles often

alchoholic

originator of the woodland style

did Christian people portraits

died 2007

At The Crease: Ken Danby

died 2007

Canadian

painted common images

hockey one of his primary favourites

photo-realism style

Starry Night: Vincent Van Gogh

born in holland

muddy style

painted coal miners

traveled to France for inspiration

post Impressionism style

2000+ works of art

sold only one painting

he had a mental illness

he was going to set up shop with his friend to create works in, but they got into a heated argument and Gogh cut off his ear lobe and sent it to a prostitute friend

he was painting in a cornfield when he decided to kill himself. He shot himself in the stomach and walked home to his brother. He died three days later in his brothers arms.

Bull Moose: Robert Bateman

realism style

still living

600 prints of his painting

conservation of the wild

criticized in art world

no major galleries

a lot of commercial success

painted animals

active person

83 years old

Canadian

was art teacher in Hamilton

has his own gallery

The Scream: Edward Munch

Norwegian

expressionist style

he created this painting believing there was an "infinite scream through nature"

scream speculation 1: volcanic eruption unbalancing nature

scream speculation 2: mad house near by, late night screaming

scream speculation 3: moving of a mummy from Egypt

painting to be set in Oslo Norway

The Jack Pine: Tom Thomson

Canadian

landscape painter

died 1917

friend of the group of seven

group of seven created after death

pacifist

died in a canoeing accident at Algonquin park

stylized, decorative painting

a lot of emotion and mood put into the art

David: Michelangelo ️

born in Florence Italy ️

competed with da Vinci️

hated da Vinci️

poet️

architect️

sculptor ️

painter️

disliked painting none the less how good it was️

sculpture finished in 1504️

renaissance like bodies️

sculpture stands for youth, human, beauty️

made of marble️

shifted weight, contraposto️

Michelangelo painted the ceiling of the cisterns chapel, it took 4 years and he hated the job

Persistence of Memory: Salvador Dali

surielism

Spanish

1904-1989

had a fear of ants

ants are devouring a pocket watch in the painting

Dali's face in the driftwood

port legat

Big Raven: Emily Carr

Canadian

oil canvas

died 1945

native totumpoles were one of her concentrations in art

northwest coast First Nations

poverty ridden

used gas as paint thinner

Guernica: Pablo Picasso

about war

there is a flower for hope

this picture depicts the tragedy and loss that comes with war

Spanish civil war

co founded cubist movement

avid painter

died 1973

3 periods: rose period, blue period, realism

Marilyn Monroe: Andy Warhol

pop art leader

takes mass produced items/people and turns them into pop art

died 1987

he made ordinary thing become art

pop culture icon

is also famous for his Campbell's soup pop art

started the pop art movement

Jelly Shelf: Mary Pratt

⚓️Canadian

⚓️completed painting in 1999

⚓️photo realism style

⚓️Newfoundlander

⚓️divorced

⚓️living

The Kiss: Rodin

French sculptor

famous for "the thinker"

sculpture

1917 death

human body portrayal

actual love story, both end up dying

lips don't touch

holding the story book of their love in the sculpture

also sculpted "the Gates Of Hell" residing outside of the Leuvre.

American Gothic: Grant Wood

American painting

models are artists sister Nan and his dentist

carpenter gothic style

went by these buildings and imagined the people who would live there

domestic woman tasks

unhappy and serious

people from Iowa were mad because it "insults" the states farmers

male shown as bread winners

Lascaux cave paintings: unknown cave artists

south west France

Palaeolithic 16 000 yrs old

4 teens and they're dog Robot discovered them

2000 images, nearly all animals

used to be open for public viewing but the carbon dioxide from exhaling was ruining the pigments

used in ceremony, religion, hunt or used as journal

only has one picture of a human

The Sphinx: Artist unknown (Khafra)

Egyptian

nose has fallen off

guards grand pyramid

made of sandstone

head of the king, body of a lion

once covered in sand

Giza Pyramids: Unknown architect

✒️in Giza valley

✒️made of limestone

✒️Khufu

✒️each pyramid represents 4 kings

✒️ancient shapes

✒️Leuvre in Paris has a glass pyramid that leads into the building

✒️Giza pyramids were made in 20 years

Venus De Milo: Alexandros of Antioch

✂️Greek

✂️marble

✂️130-100bc

✂️depicts Aphrodite

✂️in the Leuvre

✂️has no arms, but at one point did and was thought I be holding something like a book or an apple while the other hand was behind her back

✂️realistic

✂️bigger than life size

The Seated Boxer: Lyssipus of Sikyon

Greek

professional bruiser

form Hellenistic period

made 626-323

post fight

swollen scratched

made of bronze

wearing protective gloves

The Colosseum: Vespasian, Titus

greatest roman architecture

tallest roman architecture

50000 seating spaces

mock sea fights

built for entertainment

over one million human/animal deaths

for animal hunt and execution

begun 70-72 ad and finished 80 ad

people could vote for gladiator deaths by giving a thumbs up or down.

used to have a ceiling that was constantly shifted for maximum protection from the sun and cool air let in

The Acropolis: Ictinus and Callicrates

building is the Parthenon

flat top

150 m tall

Athens Greece

shelter a stature of Athena

statue made of gold and ivory

building made of 8f by 17sf limestone

spectators are only allowed outside of building to look in in the older times

used to be painted celebratory colours

marble columns

in rock

it is illegal to take stones from the site because they are ancient and valuable.

Diskobolos: MyronGreek version is lost

roman version is made out of marble

Romans stole the original

original said to be bronze

plasco

energy expressive

no muscular torso strain

original made in 460-450bc

Diving Rock: Robert Magee

originally 3 paintings.

redoing the middle one

rock formation and trees

the two side angels are shorter

man and son with dog in the picture

originally was supposed to be just the rock formation

Gibson lake

suicide rock

4 months worth painting

people in picture are pointing up

intrusive to leave canoe by itself

4x6 ft measurements for canvas

Name three primary colours: Red, Yellow, Blue
name the three secondary colours:green, orange, purple
what is another name for colour: hue
what are cool colours associated with: sadness, mellow, chill.
name the three colours: Blue, Green, Purple
what are warm colours associated with: Richness, health, happiness, love
Name the three colours: Red, orange,yellow
what are complimentary colours: Opposite on colour wheel
name the three true complementary pairs: Blue- Orange, Yellow-Purple, Red-Green
Value is: lightness/darkness
Intensity is:brightness/ dullness
When one adds white to any colour one is: Tinting
When one adds black to any colour one is:Shading
these colours are Neighbours on the colour wheel: Analogus They are closesly related, such as: Red, red orange, orange
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true or false: colours can suggest or creata certain mood of feeling:True
what type of mood or atmosphere would cool colours create: Sad, depressed
What type of mood or atmosphere would warm colours create:Happy,excited,angry
The object where you arrange or mix paints on is called a: pallet
when the three primary colours are mixed they create:brown
When the three secondary colours are mixed they create:brown
what is used to help thin and make your arcrilic, gouache, or tempera paint go further:water
water is therefore known as a: Medium
the medium(s) for oil paints are: Turpintime and linseed oil Because oil paint doesnt mix with water.
what Pigments did the cave artists use: Blood, Earth, Dirt, Mud, Charcol, Leafs.
the egyptian's painted their temples, pyramids and sarcophagis with:Gold and Bright colours
many artists will use a pattern or stencil as a guide in making a form this pattern is also reffered to as a:template
What are ALtamira and lascaux: cave paintings
describe what prehistoric means: Before written history
the paleolithic period is also refered to as the: old stone age. it occured 2.5 millionyears ago
Identify the purpose the cave paintings may have served:Ritual, Celebration, Hunting, documenting
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what images did the cave painters create:Horses, bulls, only one human, symbols
Ceramics is the art of pottery making. a simple clay vessel made usic only one's hand is known as a pinch pot.
when clay is fired at a high temperature in a kiln or an oven the piece becomes hard. it is now known as bisque.
where can clay naturally be found:the ground, river beds, near water.
several techniques used to create the illusion of depth. or distance: Perspective, colour, overlapping, size, Valute/tone, detail/focus, Position, Proportion.
who were the first to discover perspective:Egyptians
what is the point called in a 1pt persective drawing where the lines converge or meet:Vanishing Point
the area near the front of the painting is called the: Foreground
the area near the back of the painting is called the: background
the area near the middle of the painting is called the:Middle ground
describe what happens to the sky's colour te higher up you go: Gets brighter, richer in pigment/colour
What is the line where the sky and the eath meet: Horizon line
what does water reflect: Colours around it
what three things are created when light hits an object: 3-d form, high light, shadow.
which part in a 1-pt perspective drawing of a buildingis closest to the veiwer, the cornal or the straight wall: straight wall view
which group of artists perfected and fully understood the theories of perspective drawing:rennicance artists (Michelangelo)
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Where was the original source of clay and describe what caused it's formation: Mountain erosion
when clay is soft and and easy to model it is often called:????
clay is also referred to as having plastic properties because of its shapable qualities:
when a peice of clay firms-up and loosens most of its moisture content can be carved into, it is known as leather hard.
what would happen if a peice of clay went into the kiln with moisture of air pockets:Crack /explode
How long does it take our kiln to fire our pieces before they can be safely taken out:12 hrs firing, 12 hrs cooling
what is glaze: glass coating
how can it be applied:even, same direction brush strokes.
describe the procedure for joining two pieces of clay together:score it, Slip is, Put them togehter, apply pressure. (snaking if its a box.)
low relief or high relief is a relatively flat sculpture not raised up very high above the surface.
the paintings at Lascaux are abour 16 000 years old
Ancient Egyptians represented their gods as: Part human, part Anminal.
why did the egyptians mummify they're dead: Preservation
the great sphinx is part man and part lion.
the original pyramid was not smooth sideded. steps were called Mastaba
The growth of the egyptian civilization began around 5000 bc and established itself in the fertile valley of the nile river.
identify 5 rules of Egyptian Portraiture:head sideways, chest foraward,feet profile, long legs and fingers and feet, rigid
another name for an egyptian king is Pharoh
In the eyes of the people he was also considered a god.
the pyramid was built to house the body of the pharoh and his treasures. His body was sealed in a stone coffin called a sarcophogas.
themost famous tomb to be discovered was tutankamen's. it was unearthed by an archeaologist by the name of howard carter in 1922
the most important subject matter for the greeks was the human body
the later greeks wanter to portray the human form in a stylized/ idealized way
the romans wanted to show the human body in the most accurate and natural of ways. (realistic)
early greek scuptures were stiff and simplified with little detail.rigid looking. they werepainted with rich colours with have worn off in the thousands of years.
these early sculpors wanter to create the perfect human body
the romans destroyed much of the greek artwork when the roman Empire collapsed in the 5th ad.
identify 3 techniques used in pen and ink: Stippling, Cross hatching, Hatching
who created the giant sculpute of david: Michelangelo
the romans wade two new achitectural advances which were the discovery of concrete and the arch.
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who is the most famous canadian wwildlife artist: Robert Batemen
Name a famous canadain woman artist who lived in B.C. and Painted nature and totum poles: Emily Carr
that is texture: surface feeling
who created the mona lisa: da Vinci, what is she famous for: Smile, Why: Ambigous.
Controappaosto is Wieght Shift
gesture means: stop section
cotour drawings are: Lines only
center of interest is: main idea to look at
name three types of balance that could be used when creating an art work: ????
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why is preparatory or rough work important: generate ideas
How is paper mache made: Water, Flour, White glue.

Lascaux Cave Paintings - Unknown	American Gothic - Grant Wood	Big Raven - Emily Carr
Bull Moose - Robert Bateman	David - Michelangelo	Jack Pine - Tom Thomson
Guernica - Pablo Picasso	Persistance of Memory - Salvador Dal	At The Crease - Ken Danby
Diskobolos - Myron	Giza Pyramids - Unknown Artist	Jelly Shelf - Mary Pratt
Mona Lisa - Leonardo de Vinci	Marilyn Munroe - Andy Warhol	Starry Night - Vincent Van Gogh
The Acropolis - Ictinus and Callicra	The Colosseum	The Family - Norval Morriseau
The Kiss - Rodin	The Scream - Edward Munch	The Seated Boxer - Lyssipus of Sikyo
The Sphinx - Unknown Artist (Khafra)	Venus de Milo - Alexandros of Antioc	At The Crease - Ken Danby