Images for 6/9 Lecture

Frank Lloyd Wright's Kaufmann House (Fallingwater), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936-39, which I switched with his Robie House.

Spiral Jetty

This is a short clip from the video Smithson made about the Spiral Jetty, an example of how multimedia plays in chronicling and making a work of art public. Not many people will ever make it to the Spiral Jetty in person, but the public is free to view photographs or videos of it from some venue.
Caution: the video may cause some vertigo.

Vocab for 6/9

Pluralism
International Stye

Dan Steinhilber

Next lecture we are discussing conceptual art and installation art in museums. I highly recommend Dan Steinhilber's exhibit at the BYU Museum of Art for an intriguing, fun and contemporary example of installation art.

Jackson Pollock

Hear Pollock describe his art in his own words, and see him in action.

Vocab & images for 6/4

Mark Rothko, Ochre and Red on Red, 1954

Joan Miro, Woman with Blond Armpit Doing Her Hair by Starlight, 1940

Vocab:
Fauvism
assemblage
DADA
ready-made
Surrealism
Existentialism
Abstract Expressionism
Pop Art
Benday dots

Cameron's sink into oblivion

Since we're talking about Seurat next class period, can't help but think of this clip from Ferris Buehler's Day Off. Enjoy!

Vocab for 6/2

Paul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples

Vocab:
the bourgeoisie
Charles Darwin
Karl Marx
Sigmund Freud
fin de siecle malaise

Vocab for 5/28

rocaille
Fete Galante
The Englightenment
"The Other"
The Lonely Crowd
The sublime

Bernini

In case you didn't get enough Bernini in class - this is a video slide show of some of Bernini's greatest works. Not everything in the slide show was created by him, but a good number are.

Vocab for 5/21

tenebrism
Council of Trent
Counter Reformation
camera obscura

Images and Vocan for 5/19 lecture

Italian Renaissance
Medici Family
humanism
Neoplatonism
Renaissance man
Pyramidal composition
sfumato
painterly
impasto

Images and Vocab for 5/14 lecture

Hans Holbein, The Ambassadors
Abraham and the Three Angels, from the Psalter of St. Louis
Parts of a Gothic cathedral, Chartres
Portal sculpture of Reims Cathedral, Mary and Gabriel to the right
Facade of Notre Dame de Paris
Plan of Notre Dame de Paris

West facade of St. Denis

Vocab
Abbott Suger
pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
clos
nave arcade
gallery
clerestory
realism of particulars

Bayeux Tapestry Video

Okay, this is a little cheesy, but it helps animate the story in an innovative way.

Vocab for 5/7

cloisonné
animorphic
book art
illumination
reliquary
pilgrimage
mandorla
Battle of Hastings
embroidery

Images not in your Textbook for 5/5 lecture

Augustus of Primaporta, cuirass detail, Roman Art

Column of Trajan detail, Roman Art

Apse Mosaic, Sant Apollinare in Classe, Early Christian art

Vocab Terms 5/5

patera
concrete
oculus
verism
philosopher-king
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th style painting
chi rho
Nicene Creed

Images not in your Textbook for 4/30 lecture

Example of Egyptian Canon

Overview of Great Pyramids and surrounding area

Symbols in the Palette of Narmer

Judgement of Hu Nefer

Reconstruction of the Treasury of Atreus

Reconstruction of Palace at Knossos

Reconstruction of Mycenae

Vocab Terms 4/30

Horus
Osiris
Pharaoh
Canon
Narrative
Hedjet
Hieroglyphics
Heb-sed festival
Nemes headcloth
Polychroming
Ben-Ben
Amarna Period
Lapis Lazuli
Book of the Dead
Continuous narrative

Tholos
Corbelling
Cyclopean masonry
Amphora
Krater
Filling Ornament
Entasis
Korous
Kore
Stereometric
Epigastric arch
Archaic smile
Contraposto
Golden Mean
Symmetria
Gigantomachy

Building of the Pyramids

Short video with visuals on how the pyramids may have been built.

Terms and Vocabulary from 4-28 lecture:

Conceptual Analysis
Formal Analysis
Illusionism
Proportion
Composition
Linear perspective
Aerial perspective
Iconography
Shaman/shamanistic
Hunter-gatherer society
Mother-Earth goddess
Post and lintel
Cromlech
Blue stones
Great Causeway
Gobekli Tepe, Turkey
Mesopotamia
Tigris and Euphrates
Cuneiform
Theocratic Socialism
City-state
Bent axis
Cella
Cult Statue
Ziggurat
Battered walls
Epic of Gilgamesh
Enkidu
Registers
Blue-glazed brick
Achmaenid Dynasty - Cyrus the Great
Zoroastrianism
Bas-relief
Column capital

First Day

Welcome to the Class Blog! I'm glad you've found it. I hope this will be a valuable resource to you in the coming weeks.

Below are some images from our first lecture that are not in your book.


The Great Lyre with bull’s head


Detail of Ishtar Gate


This is a close-up of a lion on the Ishtar Gate.