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Art 261 Final
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
04/30/2012

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Term
Academic Art
Definition

-Hidden brushstrokes

-Classical antiquity

-Moral/historical subjects

-Dying for a higher cause

Term

AndyWarhol

Marilyn Diptych

Pop Art

1962

Definition
[image]
Term

Anonymous

Forbidden City

Ming Dynasty

1406-1420

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Anonymous

Krishna and Rhada in a Pavilion

Hindu Rajput Kingdom

c. 1760

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Anonymous

Nail figure (Power figure)

African Art (Kongo)

c. 1875-1900

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Anonymous

Royal Ancestral Altar of Benin King

African Art (Benin)

Date Unknown

Definition
[image]
Term

Anonymous

She of the Golden Bells

Aztec

Late 15th Cent.

Definition
[image]
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Art Nouveau
Definition
A style of decoration and architecture of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, characterized particularly by the depiction of leaves and flowers in flowing, sinuous lines.
Term
Bai
Definition

-Men's ceremonial club houses in Belau

Women not allowed

-Dilukai (splayed female) protects club house

-Has reliefs of narrative scenes and abstract currency

Term

Bauhaus

 

Definition

-Art school established in Germany

-Known for the approach of design it taught

-Translates to "House of Construction"

Term

Bichitr

Jahangir preferring a sufi sheikh to kings

Mughal Empire

C. 1615-18

 

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Bill Viola

The Crossing

New Media

1996

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Charles Moore

Piazza d'Italia

Postmodern Architecture

1976-80

Definition
[image]
Term

Claude Monet

Impression: Sunrise

Impressionism

1872

Definition
[image]
Term

Dada

 

Definition

-1916-1924-

-Switzerland, Germany, U.S.A.,France. 

-Emphasis on non-sense, embrace of chance, use of collage

 

Term

David

Oath of the Horatii

Neo-Classicism

1784

Definition
[image]
Term

Duchamp

Fountain 1917

Dada

1950

Definition
[image]
Term
Earth Art
Definition

-Altering nature to create works of art

-Ex: Spiral Jetty

Term

Faith Ringold

Who's Afraid of Aunt Jemima

Multicultural

1983

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Frank Ghery

Guggenheim in Bilbao

Post Modern Architecture

1997

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Goya

3rd of May

Romanticism

1814

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Gustave Courbet

Burial at Ornans

Realism

1849

Definition
[image]
Term

Jackson Pollock

Number 1 (Lavender Mist)

Abstract Expressionism

1950

Definition
[image]
Term

Joseph Wright of Derby

A Philosopher giving a Lecture...

Enlightenment

c. 1763-65

 

Definition
[image]
Term

Judy Chicago

The Dinner Party

Multimedia (Feminist Art)

1979

Definition
[image]
Term

Kadinsky

Improvisation 28

Expressionism

1912

Definition
[image]
Term
Literati
Definition

-Showed harmonious relationship between humans and nature

-Did not paint for money

-Painted by intellectuals

-Monochrome with stamps showing who has owned

-Text = poems complimenting the painting

Term

Masquerade

 

Definition

-Senufo men dance in masks

-Initiation rights

-Also perform at funerals and other public gatherings

-Masks incarnate ancestors and bush powers

Term
Modernist Formalism
Definition

-Painting as flat, non-representational, true to the material used

-A.k.a. Greenbergian Formalism

Term
New Media
Definition
Using audio, video, and other technological things
Term

Nicolas Poussin

Burial of Phocion

French Baroque

1648

Definition
[image]
Term
Papier Colle
Definition

-Collage

-showing objects from many points of view at once

Term
Performance Art
Definition

Materials move out of museums

 

Term

Perrault, Le Vau, Le Brun

Louvre Facade

French Baroque

1667-70

Definition
[image]
Term
Pointilism
Definition
-Neo-Impressionist painting using tiny dots, which become blended in the viewer's eye from a distance
Term

Robert Smithson

Spiral Jetty

Earth Art

1970

Definition
[image]
Term

Rococo

 

Definition

-Associated with Louis XV

-c. 1716-1770s

 

Watteau, Return to Cythera, vivid brushstroke alluding to the pleasure of the aristocrats one sees in the work.

 

Term

Rodin

Burghers of Calais

Post Impressionism

1884-9

Definition
[image]
Term

Salvador Dali

The Persistence of Memory

Surrealism

1930

Definition
[image]
Term

Sesshu Toyo

Splashed-Ink Landscape

Muromachi Period

C. 1495

 

Definition
[image]
Term
Sublime
Definition
Impressive, admirable
Term

Subverting the 'male gaze'

 

Definition
-Defines how women should apparently look, talk, act, and feel
Term
Taj Mahal
Definition

-Agra, India, 1632-47

-Dedicated to King's Wife and served as their tombs

-Dome is shaped like a crown

Term

Tatlin

Monument to the 3rd International

Constructivism (Russia)

1919-20

Definition
[image]
Term
Tea Ceremony
Definition

-Zen Buddhism

-Every sound and movement is precise and purposeful

-No ranking within tea house

-Important during Moyo Period

-All about simplicity

Term

Turner

The Slave Ship

Romanticism

1840

Definition
[image]
Term

Van Gogh

Starry Night

Post Impressionism

1889

Definition
[image]
Term

Walter Gropius

Shop Block of the Bauhaus

Constructivism (Germany)

(Also Modernism)

1925-6

Definition
[image]
Term

Watteau

Pilgrimage to Cythera

French Rococo

1717

 

Definition
[image]
Term
Zen Budhism
Definition

-Enlightenment comes through meditation rather than faith

-Art forces one to imagine and contemplate

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