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Art Historical Analysis
Architecture (buildings)
Residential (houses, apartments) - Commercial (offices, stores)
Institutional (schools, hospitals) - Religious (churches, temples)
Cultural (museums, theaters)
Industrial (factories, warehouses)
Sculpture (three-dimensional)
Freestanding (statues, abstract forms) - Relief (bas-relief, high relief)
Kinetic (moving sculptures)
Installations (interactive, site-specific)
The pictorial arts (two-dimensional) - Paintings
Drawings
Prints
Photographs
Crafts (designed objects, utilitarian)
Ceramics
Metalwork
Woodwork
Textiles
Media depicts or show installation arts resemble sculptures but it usually
includes interactive feature
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
site specific
performance art does not fit into any of the category
makes a piece of art out of experience
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, experience pictorial documented
Art history adjusts to the dynamics of the respective generation and it is
continuously expanding
Art historical questions
How old is it
physical evidence: what is the medium, (ex: oil paint started to get used
post mid-15th century in Europe — Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini
documentary evidence
official written documents mentioning the artist or the part work or
when the building was commissioned
how much funding was dispensed to get the art piece
The ambulatory int he Abbey of St. Denis, 1140-44
internal evidence: what is represented (ex: identifiable person, hairstyle
only at a specific time)
stylistic evidence
period style: ex: Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas, used surrealism
techniques/style (unconscious, dreams)
regional style: Kahlo includes distinct regional style and merges
with surrealism, a French movement
personal style: Kahlo makes her painting personal narrative with
realistic anatomical detail with stiffness and geometrically reflective
component
What is its subject
iconography: the visual images, symbols, or modes of representation
collectively associated with a person, cult, or movement
symbolism: The Four Evangelists from The Book of Kells
narrative: some artist don’t have this (abstract art without narrative) (ex:
Kazimir Malevich Black Square)
Who made it
attribution to individuals
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Art Historical Analysis
Architecture (buildings)
Residential (houses, apartments) - Commercial (offices, stores)
Institutional (schools, hospitals) - Religious (churches, temples)
Cultural (museums, theaters)
Industrial (factories, warehouses)
Sculpture (three-dimensional)
Freestanding (statues, abstract forms) - Relief (bas-relief, high relief)
Kinetic (moving sculptures)
Installations (interactive, site-specific)
The pictorial arts (two-dimensional) - Paintings
Drawings
Prints
Photographs
Crafts (designed objects, utilitarian)
Ceramics
Metalwork
Woodwork
Textiles
Media depicts or show installation arts resemble sculptures but it usually
includes interactive feature
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
site specific
performance art does not fit into any of the category
makes a piece of art out of experience
05.02 1
, experience pictorial documented
Art history adjusts to the dynamics of the respective generation and it is
continuously expanding
Art historical questions
How old is it
physical evidence: what is the medium, (ex: oil paint started to get used
post mid-15th century in Europe — Jan van Eyck, The Arnolfini
documentary evidence
official written documents mentioning the artist or the part work or
when the building was commissioned
how much funding was dispensed to get the art piece
The ambulatory int he Abbey of St. Denis, 1140-44
internal evidence: what is represented (ex: identifiable person, hairstyle
only at a specific time)
stylistic evidence
period style: ex: Frida Kahlo The Two Fridas, used surrealism
techniques/style (unconscious, dreams)
regional style: Kahlo includes distinct regional style and merges
with surrealism, a French movement
personal style: Kahlo makes her painting personal narrative with
realistic anatomical detail with stiffness and geometrically reflective
component
What is its subject
iconography: the visual images, symbols, or modes of representation
collectively associated with a person, cult, or movement
symbolism: The Four Evangelists from The Book of Kells
narrative: some artist don’t have this (abstract art without narrative) (ex:
Kazimir Malevich Black Square)
Who made it
attribution to individuals
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