LECTURE 1

Question 1

What is visual literacy?

Answer 1

The ability to “read” appearances. Understanding their meaning from the image.

Question 2

What is Iconography?

Answer 2

Symbols in artwork

Question 3

What is a somatic reading?

Answer 3

Immediate reaction to an artwork

Question 4

What is a visual/formal analysis?

Answer 4

What you can tell from the visuals of an image or artwork

Question 5

What is function?

Answer 5

The purpose of an object

Question 6

What is context?

Answer 6

The situation behind it, the background info, (it can be anything important)

Question 7

What is Scale?

Answer 7

The size of object

Question 8

What is medium?

Answer 8

what material the object is made off

Question 9

What is meaning of audience in art?

Answer 9

Whoever saw the artwork or who is it for

Question 10

What is patronage in art?

Answer 10

Whoever paid for the art

Question 11

What is an outline?

Answer 11

A line that is 2d

Question 12

What is a contour line?

Answer 12

Line that shows 3d forms

Question 13

What is an Implied line?

Answer 13

An invisible suggested line

Question 14

What are analogous colors?

Answer 14

Colors that lie next to one another in the color wheel; blends smoothly

Question 15

What are complementary colors?

Answer 15

Colors that are ACROSS one another on the color wheel

Question 16

What is composition?

Answer 16

Basic organization of an artwork

Question 17

What is the foreground?

Answer 17

The foreground is the area of the painting closest to us

Question 18

What is the middle ground?

Answer 18

The part beyond the foreground

Question 19

What is the background?

Answer 19

Area of painting farthest away from us

Question 20

What is naturalism?

Answer 20

How much an artwork looks like the real world (answer)

Question 21

What is abstraction?

Answer 21

An artwork ignoring or going away from what the real world looks like

Question 22

What is idealization?

Answer 22

Perfection of an object made by the artist. What someone would WANT to look like

Question 23

What is realism?

Answer 23

Realism is the accurate image of an object “warts and all”

Question 24

What was the purpose of the mother goddess statue from Lecture 1?

Answer 24

A votive offering; to become pregnant

Question 25

What does aniconic means?

Answer 25

Use of symbols instead of bodily figures

Question 26

What is a relief sculpture?

Answer 26

A sculpture shaped on only ONE side

Question 27

What is a votive offering?

Answer 27

Religious object for a deity

Question 28

What is a stupa?

Answer 28

Place for ashes of the Buddha

Question 29

What is Buddhism?

Answer 29

A religion about reaching Enlightenment by personal realization + releasing from worldly desires

Question 30

What does “sculpture in the round” means?

Answer 30

The sculpture has been shaped to viewed from all sides.

Question 31

What is the caste system?

Answer 31

strict social hierarchy

Question 32

What are relics?

Answer 32

Religious objects

Question 33

What are toranas?

Answer 33

Post and lintel gateways

Question 34

What is a continuous narrative?

Answer 34

Something appearing multiple times within the composition in a frame

Question 35

What is a yogic posture?

Answer 35

Pose associated with meditation (Part of Buddhism)

Question 36

What is circumambulation?

Answer 36

Practice of circling around something

Question 37

What is a columnade?

Answer 37

Row of columns

Question 38

What were stamp seals used for?

Answer 38

Mark ownership of something or serve as identification of an item belonging to someone