Art History – Study Guide


-Learning about Art
	- Sutton Hoo burial
		- Treasure ship
		- Showed the presence of art in ancient times
		-7th century- Saxon King
	
	- Kaylix from Greece can be dated 500 B.C. This is because the technique of 	using a red figure on a black background didn’t come into use until after that date. 	Before red figure Greek pottery featured a black figure on a red background.

	- Oppenheimer fur teacup- you know this is modern and is probably making a 	social statement– use practicality when looking at art. What was Oppenheimer 	trying to convey?
		- Méret Oppenheim
		- Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in neutral 			Zürich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 			1920. 	The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature 			(poetry, art manifestoes, art theory), theatre, and graphic design, 			and concentrated its anti war politic through a rejection of the 			prevailing standards in art through anti-art cultural works. Dada 			activities included public gatherings, 	demonstrations, and 				publication of art/literary journals. Passionate coverage of art, 			politics, and culture filled the publications. The movement 				influenced later styles, movements, and groups including 				Surrealism, Pop Art, and Fluxus.

- Preservation and Archaeology
	- Both are very important to art and are used together. Without Archaeology, there is no art and without preservation, there is no art. Without art what is the purpose of preservation or archaeology. Most art historians have some form of preservation and archaeology experience. 
	- Archaeology teaches us about the artifacts and the people who created them. 

- Iron Age People 800 B.C. to 500 A.D.
	- In archaeology, the Iron Age was the stage in the development of any people in 	which tools and weapons whose main ingredient was iron were prominent. The 	adoption of this material coincided with other changes in some past societies often 	including differing agricultural practices, religious beliefs and artistic styles, 	although this was not always the case.




- Peat Bog People
	- The Tollund Man
		- 400 B.C. years old
		- Rope around his neck.  
		- Probably a sacrifice.
		- Found in Jutland peat bog in 1950, Denmark
		- Knotweed porridge in stomach
		- Skin rope
	- Grauballe Man
		- 290 B.C.
		- Hair and nails well preserved
		- Throat cut, leg broken
		- Beginning of onset of gout
	- The Lindow man
		- From England
		- Triple Death
			- Three Blows to head
			- Neck cut
			- Chocked
		- Was a druid
			- Minimal signs of labor
	- Windeby Girl
		- Actually a boy
		- Weighted down with rocks and poles
		- Another boy found nearby
		- Blindfold to hold hair back

- Mother Figure
	- Venus of Willendorf
		- 30,000 – 25,000 B.C.
	- Venus de Milo
		- 125 B.C.

- The Figure
	- Walking man II 
		- 1960
		- Giacometti
		- Painted Bronze

- Picasso’s Guernica 
	- Below the dying horse in the centre of the painting is a concealed bull's head 	contained in the outline of the horse's buckled front leg. Its location infers that 	that it is plunging its horns into the horse's belly from below... the goring of the 	horse in the bullfight was a favourite subject for Picasso 
	- The preoccupying theme of Guernica is of course death; reinforcing this, in the 	centre of the painting is a hidden skull which dominates the viewer's subliminal 	impressions. The skull is shown sideways and has been ingeniously overlaid onto 	the body of the horse, which is also a death symbol. The skull's mechanical 	appearance seems appropriate to the modern weaponry used in the 1937 bombing. 	Picasso often hid one or more related symbols within a particular image as seen 	here.
	- The figure falling across the face which is often assumed to be a woman, in fact 	bears a strong resemblance to Picasso, who appears to be identifying with the 	victims of the bombing.

- Frans Snyders 
	- A game stall
		- 1620
		- Still life, but with living elements

- El Greco 
	- Impressionist
	- Town looks lonely, but exciting sky

- Picasso
	- Also a scultpor
		- Overlooked because of his paintings
	- Cubism and abstract (ism?)

- Non-Objective painting
	- Jackson Pollock
		- Threw pain at wall

- List of works of art
	- Oppenheimer tea cup
	- Tollund Man
		- 2000 years old
	-  Grauballe Man
		- 290 B.C.
	- Windeby Girl
		- From Iron Age
	- Lindow Man
		- From Iron Age
	- Giovanni Arnolfini and His Bride 
		- Van Eyck
		- Narrative Painting
		- 1434
	- Maoi from Easter Island
		- 1000 years old
	- Viking God Thor
		- And his hammer
	
	- Laocoon and his sons
		- Greek Hellenistic
			- Portrayal of inner feelings
		- 42 B.C. -20 B.C.
	- Twelve Views from a Thatched Hut. 
		- Hsia Huei
		- 1180-1230
	- View of Venice
		- Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
		- 1834
	- Prehistoric Venus of Willendorf 
		- 30,000?-25,000 BC
	- Venus de Milo
		- ca. 150-125 B.C.
 	- Walking Man II
		- Giacometti 
		- Painted bronze 1960
	-Henry VIII
		- Hans Holbein 
		- c. 1536 
	- La Familia de Felipe IV o "Las Meninas"
		- Diego Velázquez de Silva 
		- 1599-1660
	- Carl Larsson
		- Historical Subject
	- Picasso’s Guernica
		- Cubism
	- Three Honey Jars
		- Janet Fish
		- oil on canvas
		- 1975
	- Wayne Thiebaud
		- Ice cream cones
	- View of Toledo
		- El Greco
		- 1596
		- Landscapes
	- Chicago Picasso
		- 1967
		- Large structure
	- Convergence
		- 1952 
		- Jackson Pollock
	- No. 5 1948
		- Jackson Pollock
		- $140 million