Annotated Mona Lisa (Prehistoric Through Medieval) Flashcards
5 tools of art
Composition, Movement, Unity and Balance, Color and light/ dark contrast, Mood
Large, vertical stones with a covering slab like a giant table
Dolmen
Single stone set on its end
Menhir
Circular arrangement of stones, such as Stonehenge
Cromlech
Architecture of Mesopotamia
Tower of Babel, Hanging Gardens
Age of Pericles
Golden age of Greece. Pericles championed democracy and encouraged free thinking
Pottery ornamented with geometric banding and friezes of simplified animals, humans (9th-8th century B.C.)
Geometric art
Black forms stood out against a reddish clay background
Black-figured style
The figures, on a black background, were composed of natural red clay with details painted in black
Red-figured style
The weight of the body rested on one leg with the body realigned accordingly, giving the illusion of a figure in arrested motion
Contrapposto
Rival of Phidias, wrote book on proportion; most celebrated work colossal gold and ivory statue of Hera at Argos
Polykleitos
Athenian sculptor famous for first entirely nude Aphrodite statue; introduced more sensual, natural concept of physical beauty
Praxiteles
Early phase of Classical sculpture characterized by reserved, remote expressions
Severe Style
referred to all the standard components of a temple, typically found on mainland Greece
Doric Order
More widespread in the Greek settlements of Asia Minor ond the Aegean
Ionic Order
Its columns topped by stylized leaves of the acanthus plant, developed much later. It was not widely used on exteriors until Roman times
Corinthian Order
Female figures that replaced fluted columns
Caryatids
Period includes kouros stone figures and vase painting (600-480 B.C.)
Archaic Art
Earliest (625-480 B.C.) free-standing statues of human figures; frontal stance, left foot forward, clenched fists, and grimace known as “Archaic smile”
Kouros (nude male youth) Kore (clothed maiden)
Peak of Greek art and architecture, idealized figures exemplify order and harmony (480-323 B.C.)
Classical art