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
what geographic characteristic weakened the mesopotamian civilizations
a lack of natural barriers to ward off invaders
why do so few examples of mesopotamian art exist
mesopotamians used perishable materials and region witnessed much conflict and destruction
jean dominique ingres
pupil of jacques louis david who exemplified neoclassical style
eugene delacroix
painter and leaderof the romantic movement
romanticism
style returning to the barquoe emphasis on emotional qualities
3 important romantic artists
eugene deacroix william blake and theodore gericault
realism
style of painting emphasizing the use of all features of a subject
gustave courbet
leader of realist movement who painted the stonebreakers
the brightness or purity of a color
intensity
warm colors
red, orange, yellow
cool colors
green, blue, violet
the “true” color of an object
local color
the effect that special lighting has on the colors of objects
optical color
how things feel or how we think they would feel
texture
organization of the elements of art
composition
movement or pattern in a work of art
rhythm
the two aspects of repetition
motif and pattern
a single element of a pattern
motif
equal distribution of visual weight in an artwork
balance
slight variation of shapes or objects around the central axis
approximate symmetry
visual balance of disparate objects
asymmetrical balance
point where the eye tends to rest
focal point
relationships between objects’ sizes in artwork
proportion
FIVE drawing tools
pencil, pen, charcoal, crayon, felt-tip marker
drawing technique used to change color values
shading
shading with closely set parallel lines
hatching
