Art 2 Final Exam Study Guide
Image Identification
Title: The Fall of Man
Artist: Albrecht Durer
Date: 1504
Art Period: Renaissance
Title: The 3rd of May, 1808
Artist: Francisco Goya
Date: 1814
Art Period: Romanticism
Title: The Burghers of Calais
Artist: Auguste Rodin
Date: 1895
Title: The Art of Painting
Artist: Jan Vermeer
Date: 1670 – 1675
Art Period: Dutch Baroque
Title: Snap the Whip
Artist: Winslow Homer
Date: 1872
Art Period: Realism
Title: The Death of Marat
Artist: Jacques-Louis David
Date: 1793
Title: Olympia
Artist: Edouard Manet
Date: 1863
Art Period: Realism/Impressionism
Title: Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
Artist: Georges Seurat
Date: 1884-1886
Art Period: Post-Impressionism
Title: Over the Town
Artist: Marc Chagall
Date: 1918
Art Period: Expressionism
Title: Sorrow of the King
Artist: Henri Matisse
Date: 1952
Art Period: Fauvism
Title: Precious Stones
Artist: Alphonse Mucha
Date: 1900
Title: American Gothic
Artist: Grant Wood
Date: 1930
Title: Persistence of Memory
Artist: Salvador Dali
Date: 1931
Art Period: Surrealism
Title: Guernica
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Date: 1937
Art Period: Cubism
Title: Red Balloon
Artist: Paul Klee
Date: 1922
Characteristics of African art:
1. There is an emphasis on the human figure. Figures are usually simplified and contain
exaggerated features containing symbolic meaning.
2. Depictions of symbolic animals that are meant to evoke or harness the power of the particular
animal.
3. The use of abstract forms, especially geometric pattern and design.
4. Functionality
5. An emphasis on symmetry
Characteristics of Art of the Northern Renaissance:
1. A focus on moral subject matter
2. The use of oil paint to create luminous color
3. A lack of depictions of nudes, unless the work depicts Adam and Eve
4. A lack of erotic subject matter, unless the work depicts the sin of lust
Characteristics of Art of the Dutch Baroque:
1. Mostly non-religious subject matter (portraits, still lifes, landscapes)
2. Attention to detail
3. Extreme realism
4. Layering of oil paint to create luminous color
5. The Study of natural light
Characteristics of Romanticism
1. A desire to express personal emotions
2. They rejected reason in favor of intuition
3. Subject matter often included natural phenomena such as raging rivers, storms and misty
mountains
Main Characteristic of Realism
Showed truthful scenes from the everyday lives of the working class
Characteristics of Impressionism
1. Use of new techniques such as short, choppy brushstrokes and use of pure bright color
2. An emphasis on light and how it can be represented with color
3. Mundane subject matter (scenes from every-day life)
4. A sense of spontaneity in their artwork
5. Their desire for independence from the official salon in Paris
Characteristics of Post-Impressionism
1. They tried to express emotion and symbolism
2. They were not as concerned with depicting color with light and used simplified colors and forms
3. They did not work as a group nor did they exhibit together
Characteristics of Fauvism
1. Simplified drawing
2. Exaggerated color
3. Developed in France by Henri Matisse and Andre Derain
Characteristics of Surrealism
1. Creating art from the subconscious
2. Pushing boundaries of socially acceptable behaviors to discover pure thought
3. Artists had permission to express their most basic drives: hunger, sexuality, anger, fear, dread,
ecstasy, etc.
Characteristics of Cubism
1. “Founded” by Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque
2. Objects appear fragmented
3. Different views can be seen at the same time
4. Neutral Colors
1. Be able to critique a work of art using the 4 steps of art criticism.
Describe, Analyze, Interpret, Evaluate