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Final exam backwards definitions Flashcards

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Another name is Yugure. “Twilight” made out of raku ware. Made specifically for Tea ceremony.

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Tea Bowl

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Material, Hand built, low-fired, red clay.

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Raku Ware

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Sap from a tree for objects to have a hard glass finish

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Lacquer

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gold or silver sprinkle design that is put on the object and then covered with laquer

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Makie

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5
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steeped tea

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Sencha

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Descriptive elements of the design

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Key block

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?

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registration mark

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A style of art made form wood blocks. Subject matter is modern life or on stage. Black and white and colored in

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ukiyo-e

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A style of art made from wood blocks. multiple wood blocks that are colored

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sukiyo-e

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Questions asked to the Zen Buddhism for enlightenment

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koan

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Short sleeve dress worn by females

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Kosode

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A citrus tree (design on the kosode)

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tachibana

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Type of ceramic that came from the Nabeshima sumarei clan that was later used by other noble families

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Nabehsima ware

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name for cut gold lead

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Kirkane

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Dried up mountain and water

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Karesaneui

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Landscape plant types that were already there but are now declared a part of the made landscape

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Borrowed Scenery

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Slide door with transparent wall. Designs on them

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Fusuma

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Free standing screen with designs on it

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Byobu

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rice paper and wood door

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Shoji

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A room filled with Fusuma, byobu, Shoiji, Tatami mats

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Shoin

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Are mats covering the the entire ground in Shoin room

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Tatami

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22
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Tea drinking ceremony

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Chanoyu

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Strings that have knots in them to keep historical information

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Quipu

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purple or white beads

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wampum

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porcupine or bird quills that are dyed and made for art

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quilwork

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Grasses and plant materials weaved together

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basketry

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wrapping multiple pieces of that material together to form a long piece and then spiralling it together for basketry etc.

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coiling

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The new form of quillwork and replaced quillwork

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beadwork

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taking a material and wrapping it around the vertical of the material. for basketry

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twinning

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Weaving the material under and over the material

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plaiting

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31
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a bent rectangle with rounded corners

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ovoid

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a feature in the indigenous art, distinguished by the use of characteristic shapes referred to as ovoids, U forms, and S forms. black, continuous, shapes defining lines.

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formline

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33
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gift gathering ceremonies

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potlatches

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34
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Indigenous dancers who wore masks

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koshares

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35
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nadle

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36
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quetzal

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quetzal

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37
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e

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blackware

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38
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Land that is said to be empty by Europeans even though the indegenous are on it. They do not have a form signed claiming it as their own.

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Terra nullius

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39
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e

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atoll

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40
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g

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rarrk

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41
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House in the Pacific culture. Men are only the ones allowed in it in the morning during ceremony. Boys and women are not allowed. 3 zones of design, mats on bottom, painted wooden lintel, bark on the top. Penis at top, vagina at the bottom

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Korambo

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42
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A bag that women wear. Purpose: To carry items, to morn their husbands death, to pronounce their getting married. Made from 1 long piece of string.

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bilum

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43
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Mangrove tree for death of ancestors and pays tribute to them The birds ate the fruit (heads) off of the tree (body).

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bisj pole

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44
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A sculpture figure display.

  • for death of clan leader. the bigger the malagan the more priminence you had as leader
  • For initiation of boys and girls into adulthood
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malagan

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45
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Female mask that are danced only 1 a year. Dukduks are the kids born from the tubuan mask.

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tubuan mask

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46
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Wapape navigation chart for learning purposes only, not for art.

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stick charts

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47
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Power. The first child has the most

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mana

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48
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a pattern, resembles a young fern tree

** Te-Hau-Ki-Turanga

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koru

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49
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house panel carved with steel tools

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poupou

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50
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stone figures of ancestors

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moai

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51
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bark cloth. The polynesians brought production back with them. Used for clothin, sails, mats, and ceremonial purpose

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tapa

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52
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the name for bark cloth. made from stripping the innder bark from branches of paper mulberry tree. The bark is beaten with a wooden mallet, then folded over and beaten again

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siapo

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53
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image of twin figure

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ere ibeji

54
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For Initiation of young men and women. A political system based on a voluntary association called bwami, which comprises six levels or grades. Men and women can belong to swami (but women cannot receive a higher grade then men)

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bwami

55
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a three sided roofed enclosure built at cross roads near initiation center. It announced that initiation was soon to be finished and their children will soon be home.

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Kikaki

56
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a celebration of coming of age initiation rites, by creating brightly painting sculptures and decorated wall panels with human and animal figures. For the Kikaku of the Nkanu people.

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nkanda

57
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meaning container. are objects harnessing spirit forces of powers, and were made by the Kongo and Songye peoples of the Democratic Republic of Congo, primarily during the 19th and early 20th centuries. to alleviate illness, protect vulnerable individuals, and bring success in hunting, trade, and other.

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Minikisi

58
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other world wife or otherworld husband

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spirit spouse

59
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Yoruba have 2 important gods (orisha). Two orate are principle mediators: Orunmilia who represents certainty, fate, order, and equilibrium. and his counterpart Eshu who represents uncertainty, disorder, and chance.

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diviniation

60
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woven textiles. A symbol of leadership

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kente

61
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(chokwe diviner) shakes basket of symbolic objects and interprets the objects according to the way they come to rest inside the basket

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nganga

62
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houses powerful spiritual forces

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power figure

63
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a collective funeral rite in Dogon funerary Dama. A variety of different masks perdorm to the sound of gunfire to drive the souls of the deceased from the village.

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dama

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A common belief that the skull, bones, and relics of ancestors who had performed great deeds during their lifetime were collected after burial and placed in a cylindrical barm container (nsek-bieri). SO a wooden sculpture (eyema bieri) is placed on top of the container holding the relics.

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bieri

65
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e

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rationalism

66
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refers to the rooms in the hotels as well as the social events held in them that are decorated in Rococo Style.

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salons

67
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an architecture element. flowing lines and swirling shapes.

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arabesque

68
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an architecture element.

** Salon de la Princess, Hotel de Soubise

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volute

69
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carved wood panels in salon de princesse.

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boiseries

70
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clock surmounted by an allegorical figure of fame and sheltering a pair of lovers.

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memento mori

71
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a new category created after Jean Antoine Watteau’s painting called “Pigrimage to the Island of Cythera”. Elegant outdoor entertainment.

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fete galante

72
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an extended visit to the major cultural sites of souther Europe.

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Grand Tour

73
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used for the Grand Tour. Dry’s quicker then oils so tourists could spend more time doing tourist things. Rosalba Carriera used Pastel.

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Pastel

74
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an imaginary landscape or cityscape in which the artist mixed actual structures, such as famous ruins, with imaginary ones to create attractive compositions

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Capriccio

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a more naturalistic rendering of famous views and buildings, well known tourists attractions, and local color in the form of tiny figures of the Venetian people and visiting tourists.

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Veduta

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Pleasant, agreeable, and popular. used to describe “picturelike” qualities of some landscape scenes.

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picturesque

77
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a fine-grained, unglazed, coloured pottery

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jasperware

78
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a small group of people with shared interests, or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people.

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Coterie

79
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type of printmaking

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intaglio

80
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The battlements of a castle or other building.

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crenellation

81
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(based on historical, mythological, or biblical narratives and generally converting a high moral or intellectual idea). The term is derived form the wider meanings of the word historia in Latin and Italian, meaning “story” or “narrative”, and essentially means “story painting”

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history painting

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middle-class drama. Diderot expanded the traditional range of theatrical works in Paris from mostly exaggerated and comedy included the drama bourgeois. and “middle tragedy”

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drame bourgeois

83
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a bundle of 13 rods (representing 13 colonies)

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fasces

84
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Christian symbolism became inextricably mixed withe the symbolism of indigenous religious beliefs which can be seen in colonial atrial cross.

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atrial cross

85
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a word for studios in France

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ateliers

86
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French word for “sketch”. A quickly executed drawing or painting conveying the overall idea for a finished painting.

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esquisse

87
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Turkish word for “harem slave girl” or “concubine”. Ingres painted these female slaves. early 19th century.

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odalisque

88
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Process of making a print (lithograph) from a design drawn on a flat stone block with greasy crayon. Ink is applied to the wet stone and adheres only to the greasy areas of the design.

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lithography

89
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19th century artists goal. Of a concept, thing, or state of greatness or vastness with high spiritual, moral, intellectual, or emotional value; or something awe-inspiring

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sublime

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the middle class, typically with reference to its percieved materialistic values or conventional attitudes.

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bourgeoisie

91
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workers or working class people

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poletariat

92
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e

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imperialism

93
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Art that is based on the past such as Rome or Greece

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historicism

94
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a darkened chamber in which the image of an outside object is projected and focused onto a surface.

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camera obscura

95
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An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver-coated copper surface previously exposed to iodine vapour or iodine and bromine vapours.

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daguerreotype

96
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an early photographic introdcued in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot that used paper coated with silver iodide: also known as talbotype.

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calotype

97
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a term for any artistic work whose success is attributed, in whole or in part, to public controversy surrounding the work.

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success de scandale

98
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is the status of many peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism. It was a condition of bondage, which developed primarily during the High Middle Ages in Europe and lasted in some countries until the mid-19th century.

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serfdom

99
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Where artists painted outside looking at their subject instead of painting in the studio

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en plein air

100
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are pairs of colours that when combined, the cancel each other out and make a new colour.

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complementary colour

101
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a style of brushwork used to apply the paint. dots.

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pointillism/divisionism

102
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which roughly translates to “to push back,” this technique puts a figure or object in the extreme foreground and uses it as a contrast in order to increase the illusion of depth and focus our attention on the main subject.

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repoussoir

103
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an academic term. a critical approach to representations of the Orient of the Eastern cultures of the Middle East, North Afica, South West Asia, and South East Asia.

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Orientalism

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e

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malcontente

105
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travelling acrobats

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saltimbanques

106
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A term used in modern artists to scour the art of other cultures beyond the Western tradition for inspiration.

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primitivism

107
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to glue. Picasso

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collage

108
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constructing of works by by assembling found objects and unconventional materials.

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assemblage

109
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e

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synesthete

110
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an object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.

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readymade

111
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a photographic work create from many smaller photographs arranged (and often overlapping)in a compostion, which is then rephotographed

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photomontage

112
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System of building construction introduced by the architect Le Corbusier in which reinforced concrete floor slare are floated on six free-standing pots placed as if at the position of the six dots on a domino playing piece

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domino construction

113
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concrete reinforced with steel bars in Villa Savoye.

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ferroconcrete

114
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free standing posts in the Villa Savoye.

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pilotis

115
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a wall in a building that does not support any of the weight of the structure

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curtain walls

116
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windows the run the length of the wall in the Villa Savoye

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ribbon windows

117
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contemporary art created for a specific site, especially a gallery or outdoor area, that create a complete and controlled environment

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installation art

118
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a technique in which artists abandon the usual intellectual control over their brushes or pencils to allow the subconcious to create the artwork without rational interference.

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automatism

119
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a design produced by laying a piece of paper over a textured surface and rubbing with charcoal or other soft medium

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frottage

120
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a pattern created by scraping off layers of paint from a canvas laid over a textured surface.

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grattage

121
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e

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paranoid-critical method

122
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Denoting the biological or organically inspired shapes and forms that were routinely included in abstracted Modern art in the early 20th century.

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biomorphic

123
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French for “sketch”. a quickly executed drawing or painting conveying the overall idea for a finished painting

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esquisses

124
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combination of paitning and sculpture using nontraditional art

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combines

125
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a technique of printing in which paint or ink is pressed through a stencil and specially prepared cloth to reproduce a design in multiple copies.

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silkscreen

126
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In modern printing and typesetting, the individual dots that, together with many others, make up lettering images. Often machine or computer generated, the dots are very small and closely spaced to give the effect of density and richness of tone.

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Benday dots

127
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e

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earthworks

128
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of a work commissioned and/or designed for a particular location.

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site-specific

129
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a social structure or goal that allows members of divers ethnic, racial, or other groups to exist peacefully within the society while continuing to practice the customs of their own divergent cultures.

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pluralism

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e

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chador

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e

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computer-aided design (CAD_

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