TAMU ARTS 150 Exam 2 14_1

Set of notecards from powerpoints for TAMU ARTS 150 class, taught Spring 2011 by Dr. Lubunski

15 cards   |   Total Attempts: 186
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Question 1
Rosalba Carriera. Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorset. Pastel on Paper -pastel dries quickly, perfect for travel
Question 2
Canaletto. The Doge's Palace and the Riva degli Schiavoni Canaletto: -sometimes accurate landscapes, sometimes capriccio (made up, superimposed) -only can be done to urban landscapes
Question 3
Canaletto. The Bucintoroat the Molo Canaletto: -sometimes accurate landscapes, sometimes capriccio (made up, superimposed) -only can be done to urban landscapes
Question 4
Giovanni Battista Piranesi. View of the Pantheon, Rome. 1756 etching (mass produced, tourists) -has people flocking to the church in the scene
Question 5
Anton Raphael Mengs. Parnassus. 1761. -first example of neoclassicism -parnassus-mt of the gods -located on ceiling -Winckelmann - influenced neoclassicism -Apollo has lyre, laurel, leaves, surrounded by muses (all are friends of the cardinal)
Question 6
Antonio Canova. Pauline Borghese as Venus. 1808. Canova: -Winckelmann influenced -formed huge monuments for leaders, intimate erotic subjects for private clients -antiquity and renassaince style -wife known as seductress, did not show
Question 7
Joseph Wright of Derby. An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump. -member of the lunar society (science) -image of suspense -attempts to bring science to the masses
Question 8
Angelica Kauffmann. Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures. 1785 -1/2 members allowed in british academy -history painter -points to childen as her treasure when friend shows off her jewelry
Question 9
Benjamin West. The Death of General Wolfe. 1770. -contemporary history painting (first of it's kind) -hero, as won battle of quebec -took artistic liberty -shows retrained grief, Indian to show place in America's, relates to death of christ (sacrificed for GB as Christ did)
Question 10
Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington). ChiswickHouse. 1724–1729. -similair to Rotonda (palladio) -argued that artists should use classical architecture
Question 11
John Henry Fuseli. The Nightmare. 1781. Fuseli: -launched romanticism in GB, intellectual, influenced by michaelangelo
-incubus-nightware thought to have sex with women -fear of unknown, sexuality, human physci, etc.
Question 12
William Blake. Newton. 1795–c. 1805. -naturalism -muscular body, compass=rationality
Question 13
John Singleton Copley. Watson and the Shark. 1778. Copley: portraits, history painter -shark attack recent history -politcal motivations: thought americans who wanted freedom were two-faced as had slaves. Slave is only link to saving him
Question 14
Jacques-GermainSoufflot. Panthéon(Church of Sainte-Geneviève). 1755–1792. -classical influence -boroque influence in the dome (steep, decorative)
Question 15
Jean-BaptisteGreuze. The Village Bride, or The Marriage, the Moment when a Father Gives His Son-In-Law a Dowry. 1761. -genre painting -not intimate, but linked arms -marriage not always about social progress, something about poor morals