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Beta Giorghis

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church of St. George, when Christianity came to Ethiopia, new Jerusalem

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Nok Art

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Nigeria created life sized, hollow, terracotta figures, heads, larger than bodies, triangular face holes, distinct hairstyles of headresses (exact menaing unknown)

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Kente

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woven fabric from asante, ghana, west, worn by royalty, symbolic use of colors.
yellow=holy
gold=royalty
red=political status

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Ijele

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most honored mask of igbo people of nigeria

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Quran

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act of prayer, calligraphy, written word of god, NO PICTURES BRUH

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Qibla

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wall that faces mecca

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Mihran

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semicircular niche in qibla wall

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Hypostyle

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multi column prayer hall

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forecourt

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the big middle part courtyard duuuuh

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minaret

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prayer tower in a mosque

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Ushnisha

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BUN OF BUDDHA

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Urna

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THE THINGGY ON BUDDHAS FORHEAD

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Mudra

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hand signals

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Yakshi

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NAKED WOMEN IN BUDDHA TOWERS

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Torana

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STONE ENSTRANCE OF BUDDHA SHRINE

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tale of the genji

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by Murasaki Shikibu considered first novel ever.

About love, wife’s letters, uses space, strong diagonals, blown off roof, iso perspective.

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Haniwa

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terracotta figure found in burial mounds, simple forms and natural material, used themes of Japanese art.

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Terracota Army of Shihuangdi

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guarded

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Song dynasty

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Buddhist and Daoist

arts of the brush

calligraphy and painting over all

landscapes

scholars

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A solitary temple amid clearing rocks

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song dynasty

li Cheng

northern song dynasty

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Teotihuacan - Pyramid of the sun and pyramid of the moon

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  • largest structure on site
  • religious significance connect the world of humans with world of gods
  • “The place of the gods”
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Dismemeberment of Coyolxauhqui

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  • stone disks
  • scattered body parts are tied with snake head rope
  • symbolized treat of sacrificial victims, bodies thrown down steps of great temple to land on disk
  • metaphor for spases of moon
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Paracas burials

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-embroidered designs on weavings
-backstrap loom
-people of peru

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Moche Pots

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-known for ceramics
-stirrup vessels: illustrate architecture, metallurgy, weaving, brewing of chicha, diseases and everyday activities.

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Puebloans

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-built in ridges
-New Mexico to Colorado
-communal dwellings
-abandoned

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Rococo

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Femmes savantes

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Romanticism and the sublime

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-sublime: terror and awe
- rejection of industrialization
-“age of reason”
- emotion, intuition, individuality, and imaginaiton
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Realism - Courbet and The Stonebreakers

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  • first “modern movement”
    -avant-garde: battle to advance progress of art
    -ecerday and ordinary
  • middle and lower class
  • rise of socialism
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en plein air

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tuped oil color allowed artists to paint outdoors

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local color

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white light reflecting on an object is modified by color around it reflecting upon its surface.

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japonisme

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1867 exposition ukiyo-e

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Les Desmoiselles d’Avigon - inspo from african masks

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-cubism
-truth to materials
-inspired by African masks

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Dada - fountain - role of the artist

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-protest against wwi
-cabaret voltaire
-individuality, irrationality, chace, absurdity and imagination
-randomly chosen name “dada”
-readymades

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Surrealism

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-inspired by sigmund freud
-dreamlogic: refelct subconcious, bizarre

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Freuds relations to surrealism

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Bauhaus

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  • treated all arts equally
    -truth to materials
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Herlem renassance

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-African heritage
-legacy of slavery
-realities of modern urban life
-new opportunities and equality for black Americans

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Causes and role of Locke and Hughes

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Abstract expressionism

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-express emotion
-industrial paints

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Pollack

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abstract expressionism
drip technique

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Color fielding

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variation of abstract expressionism where images are reduced to broad frields of color

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happenings

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eliminated the art object and focused on staged events

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pop art

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andy warhol, popular imagery as source material, drew art closer to life

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warhol

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silk screeen printing to mass produce images, the factory

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Marilyn Diptych

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Minimalism

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-rid art of representation
-manufactored
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Performance Art

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artist “live and in person” in the 1970s ei marina abramovic

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The dinner part

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-feminism
-39 place setting
- signifigance of mats

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YBA

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young british artists

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Kare walker

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post modernism

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Yayoi kusama

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polkadots obsession comes from hallucinations due to mental health issues

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Takashi Murakami

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-superflat
-ukiyo-e
-popart

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