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art 251-300 Flashcards

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Frank Stella

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Minimalist painter known for large, non-objective works

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TWO sculptors who created large abstract minimalist works

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David Smith and Dan Flavin

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Photorealism

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artistic style where subject are depicted in strong focus

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TWO photorealist artist who revived Gustave Courbet’s Realism

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Chuck Close and Duane Hanson

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5
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude

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two artists who “packaged” landscapes with fabric and plastic

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four artists associated with Earthworks

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Christ, Jeanne-Claude, Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson

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Performance Art

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style combining theater and art where artists themselves become the work

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Postmodernist

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20th-century artistic style reintroducing traditional elements or exaggerating Modernist ones

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9
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the most famous work of Ancient Chinese art

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the Great Wall

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10
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Chinese emperor whose tomb contains a life-sized clay army

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Qin

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Tang dynasty

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period of Chinese history often referred to as a “golden age”

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12
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number of languages and dialects spoken in India

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over 1600

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13
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TWO religions with strong influences on Indian art

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Buddhism and Hinduism

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14
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religion with strong influence on Japanese art

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Buddhism

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15
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African nation containing some of the oldest examples of cave painting

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Namibia

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16
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Nok

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civilization that arose in Nigeria around 500 B.C.E., influenced the Yoruba

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Benin Kingdom

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Nigerian civilization that produced cast bronze portrait heads and other ceremonial objects

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18
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ceremonial African and Oceania art pieces intended for use in performances

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masks

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19
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term used to Renaissance artists following Botticelli Donatello

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High Renaissance artists

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20
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what makes up the innermost ring of stonehenge

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a horsehoe shaped row of five lintel topped sarsen stones

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21
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where are the largest stones in stonehenge found

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in the innermost ring

22
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where is the heel stone relative to stonehenge

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in the east of stonehenge

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what does the heel stone mark in relation to stonehenge

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the place where the sun rises on the midsummer solstice as seen from the center of stonehenge

24
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where is mesopotamia

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the valley between the tigris and euphrates rivers

25
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what geographic characteristic weakened the mesopotamian civilizations

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a lack of natural barriers to ward off invaders

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why do so few examples of mesopotamian art exist

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mesopotamians used perishable materials and region witnessed much conflict and destruction

27
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jean dominique ingres

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pupil of jacques louis david who exemplified neoclassical style

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eugene delacroix

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painter and leaderof the romantic movement

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romanticism

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style returning to the barquoe emphasis on emotional qualities

30
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3 important romantic artists

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eugene deacroix william blake and theodore gericault

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realism

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style of painting emphasizing the use of all features of a subject

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gustave courbet

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leader of realist movement who painted the stonebreakers

33
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the brightness or purity of a color

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intensity

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warm colors

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red, orange, yellow

35
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cool colors

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green, blue, violet

36
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the “true” color of an object

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local color

37
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the effect that special lighting has on the colors of objects

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optical color

38
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how things feel or how we think they would feel

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texture

39
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organization of the elements of art

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composition

40
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movement or pattern in a work of art

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rhythm

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the two aspects of repetition

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motif and pattern

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a single element of a pattern

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motif

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equal distribution of visual weight in an artwork

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balance

44
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slight variation of shapes or objects around the central axis

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approximate symmetry

45
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visual balance of disparate objects

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asymmetrical balance

46
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point where the eye tends to rest

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focal point

47
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relationships between objects’ sizes in artwork

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proportion

48
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FIVE drawing tools

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pencil, pen, charcoal, crayon, felt-tip marker

49
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drawing technique used to change color values

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shading

50
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shading with closely set parallel lines

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hatching

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