art 251-300 Flashcards
Frank Stella
Minimalist painter known for large, non-objective works
TWO sculptors who created large abstract minimalist works
David Smith and Dan Flavin
Photorealism
artistic style where subject are depicted in strong focus
TWO photorealist artist who revived Gustave Courbet’s Realism
Chuck Close and Duane Hanson
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
two artists who “packaged” landscapes with fabric and plastic
four artists associated with Earthworks
Christ, Jeanne-Claude, Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson
Performance Art
style combining theater and art where artists themselves become the work
Postmodernist
20th-century artistic style reintroducing traditional elements or exaggerating Modernist ones
the most famous work of Ancient Chinese art
the Great Wall
Chinese emperor whose tomb contains a life-sized clay army
Qin
Tang dynasty
period of Chinese history often referred to as a “golden age”
number of languages and dialects spoken in India
over 1600
TWO religions with strong influences on Indian art
Buddhism and Hinduism
religion with strong influence on Japanese art
Buddhism
African nation containing some of the oldest examples of cave painting
Namibia
Nok
civilization that arose in Nigeria around 500 B.C.E., influenced the Yoruba
Benin Kingdom
Nigerian civilization that produced cast bronze portrait heads and other ceremonial objects
ceremonial African and Oceania art pieces intended for use in performances
masks
term used to Renaissance artists following Botticelli Donatello
High Renaissance artists
what makes up the innermost ring of stonehenge
a horsehoe shaped row of five lintel topped sarsen stones
where are the largest stones in stonehenge found
in the innermost ring
where is the heel stone relative to stonehenge
in the east of stonehenge
what does the heel stone mark in relation to stonehenge
the place where the sun rises on the midsummer solstice as seen from the center of stonehenge
where is mesopotamia
the valley between the tigris and euphrates rivers
