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Finals: Classical Period Flashcards

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True or False: This “aboutness” is what allows us to experience them as art

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true

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BROAD AREAS of meaning that have been reflected in the arts of many culture through THROUGH HUMAN HISTORY

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Themes of Art

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What are the diff Themes of Art?

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  1. The Sacred Realm
  2. Politics and Social Order
  3. Stories and Histories
  4. Looking Outward: Here and Now
  5. Looking Inward: The Human Experience
  6. Invention and Fantasy
  7. The Natural World
  8. Art and Art (Art for Art’s Sake)
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Theme for gods & goddesses; because of Churches (house of gods)

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The Sacred Realm

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Parthenon, Greece
Statue of Athena
Pantheon, Rome (Perfect Circle/Universe)
The Last Supper

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The Sacred Realm

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The Great Pyramids
Guernica by Pablo Picasso (a city bombed in Civil War, Mexico)
Poleteismo by Mideo Cruz (CCP, mixed media are exhibit)

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Politics and Social Order

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Les Miserables by Victor Hugo
Ramayana
Statue of Leda and the Swan
Dying Achilles

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Stories & Histories

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Gleaners
The Angelus
The Stone Breakers
Young Ladies of the Village
The Picnic
The Banjo Lesson
Gas
Boy
Young Shopper
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Looking Outward

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The Scream
Convergence
Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits
The Lovers II

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Looking Inward

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Subjectivity; based on one’s feelings and emotions

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Looking Inward: Human Experience

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Empty Dream (Mermaids fantasy in the beach scene)
The Persistence of Memory (Salvador Dali)
Dismaland
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Invention and Fantasy

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theme based on one’s dreams/fantasy

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Invention and Fantasy

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theme about nature and outdoor painting

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Natural World

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White Clouds over Xiao and Xiang
Impression Sunrise (Claude Monet)
La Grenouillere
The Bridge at Villeneuve-la-Garenne

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Natural World

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Theme where an artist exercises his skills; not created to have meaning, only for the sake of creating it

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Art for Art’s Sake

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Summer Moon

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp (upside-down na men urinal)

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Art for Art’s Sake

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Is the period in which the Greek and the Roman society flourished throughout Europe

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Classical Period

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Classical Period era is collectively known as?

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Greco-Roman World

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Classical Period starts with the culture of? And who imitated them?

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Ancient Greeks; Romans imitated them

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The city states of Ancient Greece

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Polis

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Polis were built where? why?

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often on high places: rocky hills and low mountains.
-This is where they build their important temples and where they retreat when under attack
= Acropolis

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literally means high city in Greek

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Acropolis

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etymology of Acropolis

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Akron - highest or topmost

Polis - city

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one of the famous building in the acropolis in Athens

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Parthenon

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The Parthenon’s massive foundations are made up of what?

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limestone

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Parthenon Columns are made of?

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Pentelic marble

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flawless white with a faint yellow tint that’s why it looks shining when the sunlight passes through it.

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Pentelic marble

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is a temple which shelters the monumental statue of Athena

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Parthenon

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Statue of Athena is made of?

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Gold and Ivory

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Parthenon is derived from?

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Athena herself, Athena Parthenos which means virgin

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emphasis on symmetry, proportion, geometry, and regularity of parts

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Classicism

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Columns that have no bases

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Doric order

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is the central area or city where ancient Rome developed

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Roman Forum

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Here was commerce, business, religion, prostitution, and many other things that is imminent in the Roman culture happened

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Roman Forum

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How many spectators were allowed in the Colosseum?

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55,000 (seated by rank)

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one of the best preserved of all ancient roman buildings and has been in continuous use throughout history

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Pantheon

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Pantheon was commissioned by?

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Marcus Agrippa (during the reign of Augustus - founder of Roman Empire)

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What does the inscription in the Pantheon means?

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Marcus Agrippa, son of Lucius, consul for the third time, built this.

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has been famously known as a perfect space; it is a perfect universe.

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Pantheon

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Eye is to symbolize the life giving sun as the light.

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Oculus/Great Eye

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The interior of Pantheon symbolizes what

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heavens

42
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is the central point of the Pantheon for it is the source of light

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Oculus

43
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Classical Period Sculptures were divided into four stages:

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Archaic (Kouros)
Classical (Kritios Boy)
Hellenistic
Roman

44
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in which the kouros were sculpted

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Archaic

45
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Kouros in Greek means?

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Youth or a boy

46
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they are highly symmetrical and every body parts are depicted in simple geometric forms

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Kouros (Archaic)

47
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highlights the poses in shaping sculptures

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Classical Period

48
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the first that have used the contrapposto

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Kritian / Kritios Boy

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The body supports its body on the left leg and the right knee is bent in a relaxing state.

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contrapposto

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What does contrapposto means?

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Counterpose

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during this period sculptures became more and more naturalistic and common people or animals can be subjects for sculpture

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Hellenistic Period

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known for the draping and effects of clothing and they are posed slightly to the side for in this stance, muscles are more flexed.

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Hellenistic Period

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The Greeks love to paint but some of their works have not survived on walls or paper but survived as

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pottery decoration

54
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features circles, patterns of straight, wavy and zigzag lines

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Protogeometric Style

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illustrates the profoundly significant shift of focus from abstract design to the human figure.

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Geometric Style

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The Greeks also learned the art of doing the black figure where the potter makes the vase first, then let it dry. Then he designed his the painting by putting in a ?

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Slip

57
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a clay but more liquid

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Slip

58
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The Classical Literature was the territory of the four famous poets:

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Homer, Ovid, Lucan, Horace

59
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was more popular for his two works of art the Iliad and the Odyssey

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Homer

60
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It tells the story of the Trojan War that is caused by Agamemnon’s pride and Helen’s abduction by Paris. It also depicts the fall of troy and the death of so many characters because of the gods’ intervention.

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Iliad

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is the story of the Greek hero Odyssey, ten years have passed since the fall of Troy but he has not yet returned to Ithaca, his kingdom.

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Odyssey

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Black figures on gold (pots)

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Black-figure

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Gold figures on black (pots)

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Red-figure

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For romans, they have an ancient poet

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Virgil

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Author of epic Aeneid

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Virgil

66
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highlights the rise of the Roman Empire

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Aeneid

67
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These three epics all have gods that interact with the mortals which is highly the Classical characteristic and Homerian style of writing.

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Iliad
Odyssey
Aeneid

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