By: Laura Cavens and Tricia Prewitt
Mar 27, 2015
By: Laura Cavens
and Tricia Prewitt
Chinese Art Alters Ritual Vessels Jade Dragons Imperial Seals Clothing Religious
“There is no such thing as art for art’s sake.”
- Mao
Alters
Used for sacrifices during the Zhou dynasty
Came with equipment Alter of Soil and Grain
Deity: Lord Millet4 colors: Red=south, White=west,
Black=north, Yellow=east
Zhou Dynasty Altar Table
Ritual Vessels
Yi is placed in the pan Yi holds the ritual water
Jade Bi Han dynasty Enhance position of emperor-Son of
Heaven Heaven, Earth, and 4 cardinal directions
Heaven is a circleBlue represents HeavenYellow represents EarthGreen represents EastRed represents SouthWhite represents WestBlack represents North
Jade Bi continued
The “5 agents” control the natural orderSeasons, natural materials, times,
directions, and color
Dragons used on disks, means it belonged to the emperor
Jade was suppose to have potent magic, and aesthetic satisfaction
Jade belts also showed rank
Han Dynasty Jade bi An emperor owned it
dragons
Jade Burial Suits
Han dynasty Protect mortal remains from decay and
helps achieve the after life Emperors’ suits were sewn with gold
thread Princes’ suits were sewn with silver
thread
Jade Burial Suit
Clothing
The quality of a courtier’s attire showed the social rank and status of the weaver
Emperor’s clothesThe last link between Heaven and EarthYellow is the imperial colorManchu styleEstablished the roles and virtues of the Son
of Heaven
The emperor’s Dragon Robe
Clothing continued
Military and Civil Service RanksThe Ming dynasty started itThe symbols for the Civil Service are birdsThe symbols for the Military ranks are
animalsThe 7th/8th rank of both is a rhino
Qing Civil Service and Military Rank
Religion Buddhism
The Tang emperors supported
The height of the statues show how preoccupied the emperors were with Buddhism
The temples how the most art
Ceramics/Lacquer ware
Ceramics matured over dynasties Lacquer ware was the most precious of
goods to own
Protect the First Emperor in the afterlife.
Phoenix means good luck
Tang Yin
Scholar class Verses on painting Painted on paper or silk
Olmec Art
Basalt symbolizes the Earth’s fiery powerUsed to make thrones and colossal heads
Jade symbolizes water Jaguars, eagles, serpents are gods
Craved into green stone
Olmec rulers shown with gods Religious
Nazca Art
Giant desert pictureMiles wide
Pottery, textiles most important type of art
Many art forms of the Cat god
Maya Art
Their pyramids have 9 levels symbolizing the 9 levels of the underworld
Toltec Art
Shows aggressive nature of animals Shows empire’s military demeanor
Aztec Art
Started to do art in 3-D Royal portraits were rare before the
European conquestFew portraits with hieroglyphs placed near
the rulers head to ID
Inca Art
Gold and silver are sacred The ruler wears a symbolic color so he
is connected with the gods Rulers are divine, born of the Sun god Inca nobles wore pectorals
The New World
Moorish art traditions Reconquest architecture style European book illustration Italian Renaissance 1st oil paintings appear
Cult of Guadalupe Mexican cult Virgin of Guadalupe Christianity and Aztec religious beliefs
mixing The Virgin Mary showed up a Tepeyac,
which is sacred to the Aztec Earth-mother goddess TonantzinShown on Diego’s Indian fiber coatChurch built at Tepeyac
From the church at
Tepeyac
Mannerist Art Copied designs Politicians use
European artists Baltasar de Echave
OrioMexican artist
Baroque Art
Sebastian Lopez de Arteaga 1610-1653
Church officials want baroque artCristobal de Villalpando
○ Mexico City’s Cathedral○ Puebla Cathedral
Rococo Art
French Ouro Preto
Church
Romantic Art
Jose Maria Estrada Art’s revolt against ridged art “rules” Representing picturesque
Modernismo Adopted Cubism, Impressionism,
Symbolism, Naturalism, Art Nouveau Saturnino Herran (1887-1918) Politically against the Academic Realism
Dr. Atl: held an art show against the government's art show
Diego Rivera 1886-1957Cubist
Dr. Atl’s painting
Mural Paintings
The government sponsor National Preparatory School for Boys in
Mexico City Diego Rivera Jose Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) David Alfaro Siqueiros
communist
Diego Rivera
Shamanism The belief that
humans can turn into animals.
Only important people like priests, or shamans
Prestige objects Used only by the king
and his family. Show that the king
was powerful and wealthy and could control artists.
Queen mother Most important
women in Benin. The mother had a
cast head that was made in brass.
Ivory salt cellars Ivory was traded. One of the things
made by the Africans was the salt cellars.
it was made from sherbo ivory.
It came from the west African coast and it was made by the sherbo people.
Fetish figures Objects thought to
have magical powers. Called onto by owners
to protect or help hunt enemies.
The people of Kongo state had the idea of adding nails to the Fetish figures after seeing the Christians add nails to Christ.
Divination
The way certain people tell the future by using “magical powers”.
They use a special tool in order to communicate with gods.
Kuba Giving the king a
crested eagle is a good thing because it signifies power.
Afro-Brazilian architecture The Afro-Brazilian architecture was
derived from the Portuguese - Brazilian style.
Slaves brought the style with them when they returned to Nigeria in the late 19th century.
The houses are very decorated.
Body Art In Africa some
societies art is put on bodies.
The marks are to show how high of ranking a women is.
Carnivals Art was used in
costumes to celebrate an event that was happening.
African Masks Made to use in social activities or group
rituals Thought to have had magical and
supernatural powers Suppose to attract good forces and drive
away bad ones Warrior masks symbolize energy and
courage Women or children masks symbolize
fertility
El Greco Made “The Agony
Garden” The picture helps us
identify with Christ's suffering.
The Parthenon The greatest temple
ever built in 431b.c. Was completed
before the Peloponnesian war.
Was dedicated to the goddess Athena.
Phiclias (c. 550-431BCE)
Worked on the Parthenon.
The Colosseum It was completed in
80 A.D. Accommodates
50,000 people.
Arch Titus spoils from the triumph in Jerusalem Shows parts of the
triumphal possession celebrating the conquest of Jerusalem.
Crucifixion A painting showing
Christ's crucifixion
Landau Gospels The odd thing about
this picture is that Christ shows no suffering.
Chartres Cathedral 180 original stained
glass windows. High ceiling and
skeletal construction shows the gothic architecture.
Leonardo Da Vinci Painted the Mona
Lisa one of the most famous portraits.
The painting captures the maternal tenderness that was to Leonardo the essence of tenderness.
Auguste Renoir An impressionist
painter captures heroism of modern life.
The painting “Le Moulin de la Gabelle” radiates human warmth that is entrancing.
“Le Moulin de la Gabelle” Auguste Renoir
Claude Monet Another impressionist
painter that never had fantasy art but has subjective art.
the painting water lilies was a sequel to bank of the seine Bennecourt.
Edgar Regas Was a sculpture that
made the 14 year old dancer.
When he showed the sculpture it caused great scandal because he didn’t stick to tradition instead he used rough texture and cotton and silk for the skirt.
Vincent Van Gogh He didn’t think that
impressionists didn’t give artists enough freedom to express their emotions.
He says” I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize.”
Evardo Munch The image scream
is to signify fear, the terrifying unreasoned fear we feel in a nightmare.
His work causes great controversy that in 1892 his work was exhibited.
Picasso His paintings were in
blue and white which is what most painter painted when they went to Paris.
His paintings usually consist of beggars, Derelicts, and other outcasts which the painting “the old guitarist”
Individual development
Sofonisba Anguissola
Noblewomen Renaissance Sisters painted as well 1st women that was in high demand Warm colors, crisp details, highly
expressive eyes
Barbara Longhi
Devotional images Daughter of a painter
Emphasizing Mary’s youth and warm relationship with the child
Baroque Era
Flowers were the most highly paid paintings
Rachel Ruysch
Dutch Court painter Botany and Zoology
Judith Leyster
Dutch Only female member Haarlem Painters Guild
Teresa del Po
Academy of St. Luke in Rome Conveying movement Great detail Rococo style
Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun French Court painter Painted Marie Antoinette in the Rococo
style Exiled from France because she was
friends with the Queen of France
One of her paintings of Marie Antoinette.
Adelaide Labille-Guiard
French Enjoyed teaching Painted courtiers
Sophie Anderson
English Victorian era Did religious work and ancient history
Berthe Morisot
Lighter colors Married Manet’s brother impressionist
Mary Cassat
Upper-middle class American Moved to Paris Did Impressionists “snapshot” paintings Mother and child scenes
Georgia O’Keeffe
Painted flowers and sun-bleached desert bones
Abstract drawings and watercolors Inspired by skyscrapers Painted colors and shapes as she saw
them Accused of having “female” qualities
Isabel Bishop
Ordinary moments in New York City Paid to do federal art projects during the
Depression
Miriam Schapiro
Organized 1st femine art program with an artist named Chicago
Abstract Expressionist style
Audrey Flack
PhotorealistOne of the first artist
Mass communication During the 1960’s she did social and
political themes Her pictures have emotional content
Janet Fish
Her paintings are about light filtering through glass vases and bouncing off them as well.
Joyce Kozloff
“political” Eschews words Abstract
Rejected the principal art form by painting on ceramic tiles
Carmen Lomas Garza
Chicane Folk-art Everyday life
Memories of her childhood
“conceptual perspective”Painting tilted forward