Style
Refers to the formal qualities of a work of art that can typically be associated with a historical period and/or a specific geographical region, and which are shared across individual creators
Art Deco
Characterized by angular shapes and dark colors
Golden Age of Dutch Painting
17th century
Guilds
Confraternities or craft associations
French Academy of Painting and Sculpture
Influential in defining the modern identity of the artist as an independent intellectual
Artists began producing for the Market Place
18th-19th century
Ngil secret society
Existed within the Fang ethnicity; served quasi-judicial and police functions
Almond-shaped form, incised patterns (sacrifications), geometry of features
Features of Fang Masks
Classicism
Ancient Greece, Rome, tradition
Humanism
World view centers on human, not divine, perspective
French Revolution of 1789
Codified values of the Enlightenment; declaration of rights
Republicanism
Common good
Renaissance
Re-birth of classical antiquity
Avant-garde
Advance Guard; Utopias; ahead of their own time; revolutionaries
Modernity
The civilizational aspect of the
modern experience, e.g. scientific discoveries,
technological advances, railroads, industrialization,
mechanization, urbanization, rationalization, etc.
Modernism
The cultural aspect of the modern
experience expressed mainly in art and literature,
e.g. individuality, alienation, psychological states,
dandyism, introspection, aesthetization of
everyday experience
Abstract art
No reference to natural objects
Trompe-l'oeil
Fool-the-eye
The 1960s
Post-modernism
Jiro Yoshihara, Untitled, 1965, oil on canvas
Constantin Brancusi, The New Born, marble, 1915
1793
Tamara de Lempicka, Self-Portrait, ca. 1925, oil on canvas
Joseph Stella, The Brooklyn Bridge: Variation on an Old Theme, oil on canvas, 1939
1634
Sabatino "Simon" Rodia, Nuestro Pueblo (Watts Towers), 1921-1954, Watts, CA
Anonymous, Jamb Statues of Old Testament Prophet, Kings, and Queen, Notre Dame de Chartres, ca. 1145-1170
Henri Fantin-Latour, A Studio in the Batignolles Quarters, or Hommage to Manet, oil/c., 1870
Fang Mask, Ngil Secret Society, Gabon, 19th century, wood painted with kaolin
(c.1655) Classicism
Giacomo Balla, Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912, oil on canvas
Kasimir Malevich, Suprematist Compositon: White on White, ca. 1918, oil on canvas
Pablo Picasso, Portrait of Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, 1910, oil on canvas
Example of Realism