by: laura cavens and tricia prewitt. chinese art alters ritual vessels jade dragons imperial seals...

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