ART APPRECIATION

Study Guide for Test # 1

Title, artist, dimensions, media, location in case of architecture, (style or culture) If there is an asterisk (*) by a work of art, that image or a similar one by theartist is found in your book.

I will ask you extra credit questions on Test#1 from the following readings in your book: Chapter 5 (Drawing), Chapter 11 (Architecture), p. 236-242 (Ceramics)ELEMENTS
(Chapter 2) composition, line, actual line, implied line, shape and mass, positive space, negative space, organic line, mechanical line, perspective, light, color, saturation(intensity), hue,tint, shade, color wheel, color scheme (aka color harmony: polychromatic, monochromatic, analogous, complementary, triadic) symbols, texture, actual texture, implied (visual) texture, balance,symmetrical, asymmetrical, radial, focal point, scale, rhythm, unity and variety, influence representational (objective) art, abstract art, non-representational (non-objective) art

FOOD & DRINK
1.Plate, anonymous, c. 950, c. 11" diameter, ceramic (Islamic)
2. Bison, anonymous, c. 20,000 bce, 4" wide, carved deer antler (pre-historic) mobiliary art
3. Basket, anonymous, c. 900, 7" dia, naturalmaterials (Pomo, Native American)
4. Salt Shaker, anonymous, c. 1550, 11" high, ivory (Afro-Portuguese)
5. Women at the Fountain House, “AD painter”, 21" high, 515 bce, ceramic (Greek) *
6.Achilles and Ajax Playing Dice, Exekias, 540 bce, 24" high, (Greek)
7. Sarpedon Carried off the Battlefield, Euphronios, 500 bce, 18 ½” high, ceramic (Greek) Zeus, Hermes
8. Still Life, Willem Kalf, c.1660, oil on canvas (Baroque) vanitas painting, Holland
9. World War II (Vanitas), Audrey Flack, 1977, 8' x 8' (Photo-Realism) holocaust
10. Summer, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, 1563, oil oncanvas (LateRenaissance)
11. Pepper #30, Edward Weston, 1930, b & w photo (USA)
12. Cabbage Leaf, Edward Weston, early 1930's, b & w photo (USA)
13. Cha no yu (“Tea Ceremony” of Japan) Zen Buddhism
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