ARTH 1520 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Undergarment, Fra Angelico, Andrea Pisano
30 Apr 2016
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What makes art/artists? is conscious of self essential? (thinking i"m an artist ) is it all aesthetics? (what it looks like, visually pleasing) Iconography => icon = image, graphy = to write. Break away from high art and formulaic . Expanding middle or merchant class introduced a new relationship between artist and patron. Artisan guilds became a dominant organizational force. Organized by occupation and founded on an apprentice system. Painters belonged to the pharmacy guild (making paint involved chemistry), the. Painters in the northern europe belonged to the guild of st. luke. The downside being hunger from bad harvests, wars and the first appearance of the black death. In italy it is now the 14th century that artists began to emerge as personalities. It might be that their economic and social freedom also promoted individuality. A competition not founded or funded by a ruling family. It was a civic competition commissioning this project and asking artists for submissions.
