Final exam backwards definitions Flashcards
Another name is Yugure. “Twilight” made out of raku ware. Made specifically for Tea ceremony.
Tea Bowl
Material, Hand built, low-fired, red clay.
Raku Ware
Sap from a tree for objects to have a hard glass finish
Lacquer
gold or silver sprinkle design that is put on the object and then covered with laquer
Makie
steeped tea
Sencha
Descriptive elements of the design
Key block
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registration mark
A style of art made form wood blocks. Subject matter is modern life or on stage. Black and white and colored in
ukiyo-e
A style of art made from wood blocks. multiple wood blocks that are colored
sukiyo-e
Questions asked to the Zen Buddhism for enlightenment
koan
Short sleeve dress worn by females
Kosode
A citrus tree (design on the kosode)
tachibana
Type of ceramic that came from the Nabeshima sumarei clan that was later used by other noble families
Nabehsima ware
name for cut gold lead
Kirkane
Dried up mountain and water
Karesaneui
Landscape plant types that were already there but are now declared a part of the made landscape
Borrowed Scenery
Slide door with transparent wall. Designs on them
Fusuma
Free standing screen with designs on it
Byobu
rice paper and wood door
Shoji
A room filled with Fusuma, byobu, Shoiji, Tatami mats
Shoin
Are mats covering the the entire ground in Shoin room
Tatami
Tea drinking ceremony
Chanoyu
Strings that have knots in them to keep historical information
Quipu
purple or white beads
wampum
porcupine or bird quills that are dyed and made for art
quilwork
Grasses and plant materials weaved together
basketry
wrapping multiple pieces of that material together to form a long piece and then spiralling it together for basketry etc.
coiling
The new form of quillwork and replaced quillwork
beadwork
taking a material and wrapping it around the vertical of the material. for basketry
twinning
Weaving the material under and over the material
plaiting
a bent rectangle with rounded corners
ovoid
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.
formline
gift gathering ceremonies
potlatches
Indigenous dancers who wore masks
koshares
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nadle
quetzal
quetzal
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blackware
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.
Terra nullius
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atoll
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rarrk
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
Korambo
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.
bilum
Mangrove tree for death of ancestors and pays tribute to them The birds ate the fruit (heads) off of the tree (body).
bisj pole
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
malagan
Female mask that are danced only 1 a year. Dukduks are the kids born from the tubuan mask.
tubuan mask
Wapape navigation chart for learning purposes only, not for art.
stick charts
Power. The first child has the most
mana
a pattern, resembles a young fern tree
** Te-Hau-Ki-Turanga
koru
house panel carved with steel tools
poupou
stone figures of ancestors
moai
bark cloth. The polynesians brought production back with them. Used for clothin, sails, mats, and ceremonial purpose
tapa
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
siapo
image of twin figure
ere ibeji
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)
bwami
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.
Kikaki
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.
nkanda
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.
Minikisi
other world wife or otherworld husband
spirit spouse
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.
diviniation
woven textiles. A symbol of leadership
kente
(chokwe diviner) shakes basket of symbolic objects and interprets the objects according to the way they come to rest inside the basket
nganga
houses powerful spiritual forces
power figure
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.
dama
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.
bieri
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rationalism
refers to the rooms in the hotels as well as the social events held in them that are decorated in Rococo Style.
salons
an architecture element. flowing lines and swirling shapes.
arabesque
an architecture element.
** Salon de la Princess, Hotel de Soubise
volute
carved wood panels in salon de princesse.
boiseries
clock surmounted by an allegorical figure of fame and sheltering a pair of lovers.
memento mori
a new category created after Jean Antoine Watteau’s painting called “Pigrimage to the Island of Cythera”. Elegant outdoor entertainment.
fete galante
an extended visit to the major cultural sites of souther Europe.
Grand Tour
used for the Grand Tour. Dry’s quicker then oils so tourists could spend more time doing tourist things. Rosalba Carriera used Pastel.
Pastel
an imaginary landscape or cityscape in which the artist mixed actual structures, such as famous ruins, with imaginary ones to create attractive compositions
Capriccio
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.
Veduta
Pleasant, agreeable, and popular. used to describe “picturelike” qualities of some landscape scenes.
picturesque
a fine-grained, unglazed, coloured pottery
jasperware
a small group of people with shared interests, or tastes, especially one that is exclusive of other people.
Coterie
type of printmaking
intaglio
The battlements of a castle or other building.
crenellation
(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”
history painting
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”
drame bourgeois
a bundle of 13 rods (representing 13 colonies)
fasces
Christian symbolism became inextricably mixed withe the symbolism of indigenous religious beliefs which can be seen in colonial atrial cross.
atrial cross
a word for studios in France
ateliers
French word for “sketch”. A quickly executed drawing or painting conveying the overall idea for a finished painting.
esquisse
Turkish word for “harem slave girl” or “concubine”. Ingres painted these female slaves. early 19th century.
odalisque
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.
lithography
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
sublime
the middle class, typically with reference to its percieved materialistic values or conventional attitudes.
bourgeoisie
workers or working class people
poletariat
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imperialism
Art that is based on the past such as Rome or Greece
historicism
a darkened chamber in which the image of an outside object is projected and focused onto a surface.
camera obscura
An early type of photograph created by exposing a silver-coated copper surface previously exposed to iodine vapour or iodine and bromine vapours.
daguerreotype
an early photographic introdcued in 1841 by William Henry Fox Talbot that used paper coated with silver iodide: also known as talbotype.
calotype
a term for any artistic work whose success is attributed, in whole or in part, to public controversy surrounding the work.
success de scandale
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.
serfdom
Where artists painted outside looking at their subject instead of painting in the studio
en plein air
are pairs of colours that when combined, the cancel each other out and make a new colour.
complementary colour
a style of brushwork used to apply the paint. dots.
pointillism/divisionism
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.
repoussoir
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.
Orientalism
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malcontente
travelling acrobats
saltimbanques
A term used in modern artists to scour the art of other cultures beyond the Western tradition for inspiration.
primitivism
to glue. Picasso
collage
constructing of works by by assembling found objects and unconventional materials.
assemblage
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synesthete
an object from popular or material culture presented without further manipulation as an artwork by the artist.
readymade
a photographic work create from many smaller photographs arranged (and often overlapping)in a compostion, which is then rephotographed
photomontage
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
domino construction
concrete reinforced with steel bars in Villa Savoye.
ferroconcrete
free standing posts in the Villa Savoye.
pilotis
a wall in a building that does not support any of the weight of the structure
curtain walls
windows the run the length of the wall in the Villa Savoye
ribbon windows
contemporary art created for a specific site, especially a gallery or outdoor area, that create a complete and controlled environment
installation art
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.
automatism
a design produced by laying a piece of paper over a textured surface and rubbing with charcoal or other soft medium
frottage
a pattern created by scraping off layers of paint from a canvas laid over a textured surface.
grattage
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paranoid-critical method
Denoting the biological or organically inspired shapes and forms that were routinely included in abstracted Modern art in the early 20th century.
biomorphic
French for “sketch”. a quickly executed drawing or painting conveying the overall idea for a finished painting
esquisses
combination of paitning and sculpture using nontraditional art
combines
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.
silkscreen
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.
Benday dots
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earthworks
of a work commissioned and/or designed for a particular location.
site-specific
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.
pluralism
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chador
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computer-aided design (CAD_
