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| What are the basic properties of art?enclosed or defined space |
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| form, content, style, medium |
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| qualities: line, shape, color, texture, space, mass, volume, and composition. |
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| Hue, value, and saturation |
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| lightness or darkness of a given color |
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| intensity, a color's amount of brightness or dullness. |
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| the tactile quality of a surface |
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mass is matter that takes up space
volume |
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| the combination of form and composition that makes a work distinctive |
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| a type of art that refers to common traits from a particular historical era. |
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| stylistic traits that persist in a geographical region |
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| those that create recognizable subject matter, like realism, naturalism, and illusionism. |
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| style that departs from literal realism to capture the essence of a form |
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| what is non representational art |
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| a formt aht does not produce recognizable imagery |
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| the artist use line as the primary means of definition |
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| the creation of an illusion of 3 dimension through shading |
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| a style of painting in which vigorous, evident brushstrokes dominate and shadows and highlights are brushed freely |
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| refers to the material from which work of art is made |
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| something thast has a central temporal aspect in that the artwork is viewable for a finite period of time |
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| woman from willendorf is an example of what? |
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| woman from brassempouy is an example of what? |
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| where can you find examples of upper paleolithic dwellings? |
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| what do the cave paintings sometimes resemble? |
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| what is the oldest dated european cave painting? |
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| chavet cave in south eastern france |
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| two best known paintings are? |
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Lascaux in southern france
Altamira in northern spain |
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| who made the first clay pots |
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| what began at the end of the neotlithic period? |
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| the bronze age, metalworking |
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| a tomb chamber formed of huge upright stones supporting one or more tablelike rocks known as capstones |
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| any pile of stones that forms a memorial or landmark |
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| a circle formed by stones or wooden posts oten surrounded by a ditch with builty up embankments |
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| a simple picture that represents a thing or a concept |
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| the shape of marks made by the stylus writing in mesopotamia |
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| sumerians accomplished what? |
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| inventing the wagon wheel, and the plow, casting objects in copper and bronze and a system of writing |
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| a stepped pyramidal structure with a temple or shrine on top made by sumerian's |
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| One for Ianna, the goddess of fertility and the Anu Ziggurat which became the Nanna Ziggurat |
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| small statues that they sometimes identified as portraits of themselves, and placed in the god's shrine. |
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| hard stones with designs incised into the curface of damp clay, used for signing documents or marking container lids or storage room door-ways |
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| what happened to the sumarians? |
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| they were defeated by the akkadians, with the ruler Sargon. The culture was then adapted |
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| who is the stele of naraamsin about? composition? Scale? |
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the military victory of naramsin, sargon's grandson and successor
the composition of the stele allows for the mountain
he is larger than the rest |
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| greater size in art indicates greater relative importance |
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| he reunited the sumers and created politcal peace creating babylonia. Created a written legal code. As seen on the setele of Hammurabi |
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| What exsisted at the same time as predynastic egypt? |
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| the early dynastic, the old kingdom, the middle kingdom, and the new kingdom |
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| flat stones with a circular depression carved on one side used to grind paint that was applied around the eyes |
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| the pisirt or life force, lived forever past mortal death |
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| the most common type of tomb structure in Egypt, a flat-topped, one-story structure with slanted walls erected above an underground burial chambe |
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| who is the first architect? |
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| Stepped Pyramid of King Zoser/Djoser |
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| 6 mastaba like elments stacked, made by imhotep,, coevered wtih a limestone veneer. |
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| what is typical of a egyptian statue? |
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| youthful body with a more accurate portrait for face. sense of permamnence, legs at a stride, closed fists |
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| what does showing a ruler hunting mean in egyptian art? |
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| The ability and power to maintain order and balance |
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| what marked the art of middle kingdom egypt? |
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| it didn't always idealize the formality of earlier examples. Express a special awareness of the hardship and fragility of human exsistance |
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| a oval figure or tablet enclosing the hieroglyphs of the king's name |
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| who were the three worshipped mainly in the new kingdom? |
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| who temporarily changed the new kingdom? |
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amenhotep aka akhenaten
religion became monotheistic, the sun disk, aten
he was aten's son |
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| who conquered egypt in the beginning of the late period? |
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| what occured at the same time as middle egpyt? |
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| Cycladic art occured around |
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| Old Kingdom Egypt - Babylonia - Bronze Age |
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| Minoam times happened around? |
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| Middle & New Kingdom Egypt - Bronze Age |
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| what was very cmmong art found? |
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human figures made of marble, typically women, used to had painted face and hair, found near grave sites
they don’t look like fertility figures as they aren’t large/ no volume
men were musicians |
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| sculpture that is surrounded on all sides, except the base, by space |
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| what animal was common among minoan art? |
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| fuzing tiny balls of metal to a surface |
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| who had grave shafts and what did that indicate |
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| mycenaens and a stratified society |
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| the large stone masonry in mycenaean citadels and tombs, myth comes from cyclops |
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| a mycenean vault built up in layers of stone overlapping and ever-decreasing rings carefully until reaching a cap stone |
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| greekspeaking people invaded the greek pennisula ending the neolitic culture bringing metalworking cermic and architectual techniques |
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| Minoan art is and the figures had what |
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| Minoan art is more realistic and expressionistictiny waists |
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| where was everything traded in minoan society? |
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| In its widest sense, total structure; a synthesis of all the elements of that structure and of the manner in which they are united to create its distinctive character. The form of a work is what enables us to apprehend it. Form is not synonymous with shape. |
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| A comprehensive idea or generalization |
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| Suggests the offsetting or contrasting of parts so as to produce an aesthetic equilibrium in the whole. |
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| The result of bringing the elements of art into "appropriate" ratio between harmony and variety to give a sense of oneness, sometimes referred to as "Good Form". |
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| Two things put side by side, usually to emphasize comparison (like complimentary colors) |
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| Stressing the use of curved lines as opposed to rectilinear which stresses straight lines. |
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| (a.k.a. golden mean or dynamic symmetry) - A traditional proportional system for visual harmony expressed when a line or area is divided into two so that the smaller part is to the larger as the larger is to the whole. The ratio developed is 1:1.6180 - or, roughly 8:13. |
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| “the same time as”- the art that is being made now is contemporary to us. Leonardo and Michelangelo are contemporaries, that is, they were alive at the same time. |
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| commonly means what’s happening now. In art refers to a specific period and style of art which was created between the middle of the 19th century and about 1960. |
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| the loosely defined style of we are probably still in now, which began in the 1960s. |
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| to works of art done in such a manner that the subject looks "real". It is art that presents a convincing image of what we see and how we see. |
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| - A term given to the visual effects that derive their appearance from natural objects but which have been simplified, distorted or rearranged to satisfy artists' needs for organization or expression. Abstraction is a process of varying degrees of change, which ranges from near realism to near non-objective. Sometimes any resemblance of the final project to the original object is difficult to detect. To abstract is to simplify, to generalize. An abstract work of art is one that may still retain recognizable imagery, but does not attempt to be highly specific |
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| non-representational/non-objective art |
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| A term used to define work using non-recognizable imagery derived from the artist's mind. A non objective work of art is one that has no apparent relationship to recognizable imagery. The artist may use color, shape, line, and texture for its own sake or to express concepts which do not lend themselves to a natural image. A work of art in this category is usually concerned with emotions and feelings rather than trying to describe an object or tell a story. |
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| The representation of a quality or situation through the use of another object, emblem, or sign. |
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| Is the use of art to convince the viewer of something. Instrumentalist artists think of art as a tool to bring about change. It may include exposing social injustice, it may be educational or political, or it may be trying to sell a product. |
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| The primary goal of many artists throughout history has been to express their emotions and elicit an emotional response in the viewer. This “Romantic” view is that the meanings of the world are dependent on our own understanding. Intensity of emotional expression is more important than accuracy of representation. |
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| Formalism is the theory of “art for art’s sake.” This theory is relatively new, originating in New York in the ‘50s and ‘60' through the theories of Clive Bell and Clemet Greenberg. Formalists hold that aesthetic value is the only criteria for judging the quality of a work of art. The subject matter, the degree of abstraction, the narrative content, morality, religious content, social concerns, or personal expression are irrelevant |
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| what is in close proximity to the viewer |
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| Colors that appear differently because of various other factors, such as atmosphere and light conditions |
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| Warm and cool colors do what? |
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Warm colors seem to come to us
Cold colors seem to recede |
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| methods to creating the illusion of space |
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color
Overlap
Position & relative size
Atmospheric
One point Linear perspective
Two Point linear perspective |
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| between the secondary and primary |
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| opposites on the color wheel |
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| same side of the color wheel |
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| amount of light reflected |
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| all colors of pigment make black |
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Means of communication
Defines the human condition
Reflects culture |
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