More Art Vocabulary!

Patron

• a person who financially supports an artist or an art organization.

Connoisseur• An expert; one who knows much about art

Curator• a person who organizes an art show or

museum exhibit.

Parody• A parody is created when you copy or imitate another artist’s

work, but you change it in some way to give it a different meaning. Parodies are often humorous.

• Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh• a parody of Starry Night

American Gothic by Grant Wood a parody

Appropriation• when an artist uses an image from another artist’s work, but changes it’s purpose to

make a new, original work of art.• You have to be careful when appropriating another artist’s work. If you don’t make a

significant change it is plagiarism.• Artists often copy other artists work as a way to learn a new style. However, you can’t

copy another artist and display it as your own work.

Andy Warhol appropriated a fashion image of Marilyn Monroe for this piece

• Parody is a good example of proper use of appropriation. A parody imitates another work of art, but changes it in some way to make it funny or to make a point.

• Marcel Duchamp used Leonardo’s Mona Lisa (but added mustache) for his irreverent piece.

Art Criticism• The process of evaluating a work of art by describing what is

seen, analyzing its structure, interpreting its meaning, and judging its effectiveness

Critique• a critical review or commentary of a work of art• Art classes sometimes do group critiques in

which everyone looks at each other’s work and offer suggestions for improvement.

Atelier (a til ya’)• A French term for an artist’s studio

Iconography• The interpretation of symbols

in their art historical context.• In some artwork, an object

might symbolize something much greater than itself.

• For example, in Medieval religious icons a gold back- ground symbolized heaven.

• In this Renaissance painting, “the Marriage of Arnolfini” by Jan van Eyck, the dog symbolized loyalty.

• Piero della Francesca’s altarpiece Madonna and Child with Saints (c. 1450)

• The egg hanging above the Virgin Mary symbolizes the Immaculate Conception.

• This came from a myth that ostrich eggs hatched themselves

Juxtapose

• Simply stated, juxtaposition means placing things side-by-side.

• In art this usually is done with the intention of bringing out a specific quality or creating an effect, particularly when two contrasting or opposing elements are used. The viewer's attention is drawn to the similarities or differences between the elements.

• In this powerful photo, the artist juxtaposes the traditional temple with the modern, industrial background. This juxtaposition emphasizes the differences between the past and modernity.

• Surrealism often uses juxtaposition of unrelated objects to create weird, illogical images like you might see in dreams. These examples are by the Belgian artist Rene Magritte.

Relief• In sculpture, relief mans when the subject

projects out from the background. In low-relief the subject barely rises from the background. In High-relief the subject rises well above the background.

Memento mori (also called vanitas)• Latin: "remember (that you have) to die“• In art, memento mori (vanitas) are artistic or symbolic

reminders of mortality, that worldly pleasures don’t last. (All is vanity, as the speaker of Ecclesiastes says.)

• These include symbols of mortality, like skulls, or more subtle ones, like a flower losing its petals. Vanitas still life paintings are typically loaded with both beautiful objects and metaphors for death.

• Vanitas often include symbols for death and the passing of time.

• Trompe-l‘oeil (French for "deceive the eye", pronounced ”tromp loy”) is an art technique that uses realistic imagery to create the optical illusion that the depicted objects exist in three dimensions.

• More trompe-loeil examples

• Julian Beevers is a contemporary arttist who does trompe-loeil chalk drawings in public spaces.

• Julian Beevers

• His art has to be looked at from one specific angle for the illusion to work.

• Wrong angle ^

Right angle >

• Another example