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Art History 100 Final Terms
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04/28/2015

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Baroque Art
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evokes intense emotional responses from viewers. 

Bernini

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Tenebrism
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exaggerated and theatrical type of chiaroscuro where selected forms emerge strongly highlighted from a pervasively dark background

Velazquez

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Generes of painting (landscape, still ife, genre painting)
Definition

landscape- focuses on the landscape

still life- objects that arent in motion captured as life like paintings

Genre painting- paintings with a certain theme 

 

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impasto
Definition

Thickly applied pigment

van Gogh's "The Starry Night"

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The creation myth of the Aztec (migration and the battle of Coatepec
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aztecs were located on an islandd city in the middle of a lake.

footprints in art symbolize migration

myth of Coatepec- woman got pregnant by putting dust in chest, 400 siblings go to kill the mom but the son is born fully armored and kills all the siblings

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Templo Mayor (Great Temple of Tenochititlan)
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largest Aztec pyramid that was in the center of the city
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Lost-wax casting
Definition
method of casting metal by a process in which a wax mold is covered with clay and plaster then heating the wax and leaving a hollow form where metal is poured
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Yoruba culture
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culture that incorporates masks and uses wooden sculptures that had exaggerated features
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Olokun
Definition

Sea god with mudfish feet that could stand on water

Yoruba god

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"Spirit Spouse"
Definition

figure that people keep in their room that displays the most desired marks of beauty so that the spirit spouses would be encouraged to enter the sculpture

 

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Rococo
Definition

art movement emerged in france in the late 17th early 18th century 

flowing lines and elaborate decoration

Fragonard

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Neoclassicism
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based on the principles of simplicity and symmetry

David's "Oath of the Horatii"

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Romanticism
Definition
loose, fluid brushwork, strong colors, dranatic contrasts of light and dark
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Lithography
Definition
print made from a design drawn on a flat block with greasy crayon. oil-based ink applied to a wet stone and when printed adheres only to the greasy areas of the design
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Orientalism
Definition
fascination with middle eastern cultures that inspired 19th cent european fantasies of exotic life
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Realism
Definition
attempt to represent subject matter as truthfully as possible
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Daguerreotype
Definition
positive photo print on a light sensitized copper plate
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Modernism
Definition

tendency to emphasize the physical process of artistic creation. questions the naure of art and adapts new techniques

"The Joy of Life" Matisse

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Impressionism
Definition

French based movement about feeling and expression through painting 

Monet

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Primitivism
Definition

borrrowing from primitive art and putting it into modern art

Picasso

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Cubism
Definition
breaking of objects into parts to analyze them
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Collage
Definition
i know what a goddamn collage is
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Futurism
Definition

advance technology and urban modernity celebrated

similar to cubism

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Readymade
Definition

ordinary objects turned into art

"Fountain" Duchamp

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Constructivism
Definition
art as a practical socially relevant endeavor with a focus on industrial production
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cantilever
Definition
a beam or structure that is anchored at one end and projected horizontally beyond its vertical support
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surrealism
Definition

release the creative potential of the unconscious mind

dali's "The Persistence of Memory"

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Action Painting
Definition

paint spontaneously dribbled on the canvas

pollack

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combine
Definition

mix between painting and sculpture

Rauschenberg

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pop art
Definition

art made from popular culture 

warhol

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silkscreen
Definition
silk or polyester is used with a special machine and stencils to create art
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Feminist art
Definition
women become involved in fine art like the "dinner party" by judy chicago
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appropriation
Definition

incorporating a preexisting image into a new creation 

collages

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