Final Flashcards
The branch of metaphysics that deals with the nature of being ultimately, truth
Ontology of something
Who is the photographer who took the picture Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California (1936) during the Great Depression
Dorothea Lange
What was the invention of photography seen by many as? Such as who?
As ushering in increased objectivity in images
Andre Bazin
Where was photography invented? By who? When?
England
William Henry Fox Tablot and Louis-Jacques-Mande Daguerre
Mid 19th century
What refers to Japanese pictures of the floating world
Ukiyo
What is a woodcut?
A print made by carving a design into a wooden block inking the raised surfaces, placing a piece of paper on the inked surface, and applying pressure to transfer the ink to the paper
Classic work of Japanese literature often considered worlds first novel
Tale of Gengi
What did the Jomon culture create? Where were they from?
Of japan and they created works such as figural sculptures, with chord like patterns
Assignment in the visual arts of human traits to inanimate objects, animals, or forces of nature
Anthropomorphism
Who were the Gutai Art Association influenced by
The work of Jackson Pollock
What were the heavy emphasis with Ando Hiroshige prints
Landscapes, women, and actors
Image where all the elements are arranged neatly inside the frame
Closed composition
What did Zen Buddhism emphasize enlightenment through
Mediation and dharma practices
Where and when were Buddhism, a writing system, art, medicine, and forms of governmental organization introduced to japan
From china during the Asuka Period
Opposition to the use of religious images and, in some cases, the systematic destruction of religious icons
Iconoclasm
Why in his Apologia did St. Bernard object to lavish decoration of churches and the use of fantastical imagery in manuscripts
Because they had no scriptural basis in the bible
What is the Germanic Animal Style characterized by
Abstract patterns in vigorous, ornamental designs
When was the Book or Kells write end and decorated? What did it contain?
Irish Monks circa 800 AD
Contained illuminated illustrations marked by a flat, abstract representation
What is interlace in the Medieval manuscripts?
The curvilinear decoration in which ribbon like bands are stylistically depicted as if woven under and over one another
What is the Chi-Ro page?
Monogram of the letters XP, the first two characters of the name Christ in Greek
Angelo-Saxon Germanic literary epic
Beowulf
The use of strong contrasts between light and dark, usually bold contrasts affecting a whole composition
Chiaroscuro
Imitation or copy of another object
Mimesis
What did Friedrich Nietzsche wire in his book The Birth of Tragedy
That Alexandrian Art was syncretic, didactic and was informed by models in history
Human figure with most of it’s weight on one foot so that it’s shoulders and arms twist off axis from the hips and legs, giving an “S” curve to their body
Contrapposto
Who is the god of wine, debauchery, and agriculture who induced madness and drunkenness in his followers
Dionysus
What did Plato conceive
Allegory or the cave
Single path structure
Labyrinth
What did Socrates found?
Classical Greek philosophy but never actually but his beliefs into writing
Where is Chauvet Cave? What does it contain? Dated to when?
Southern France
Earliest known cave paintings
28,000 B.C.
What is the Woman of Willendorf
Portable sculpture that bears a strong resemblance to the female form, despite being rather abstract to some degree
Where is Serpent Mound located? How big? Creation attributed to who?
Peebles Ohio
1,300 foot long earthwork
Fort Ancient culture
What did the Mound builder cultures often create
Structures which were geometric or sometimes based on animals
Substance, usually ground, that used to give color in the tempera, fresco, and early oil painting techniques
Pigment
What does “Three Sisters” refer to? That three things do they rely on?
Hopewell and Fort Ancients cultures
Maize, squash, beans
What did many Native American cultures use as weapons
Flint
Sculpture in which the forms project substantially from the background
High Relief
Simultaneous expression of two or more rhythms
Polyrhythms
