Mid term Flashcards
Formal Analysis
Investigation of formal principals that make up a work. how big is it, whats it lines and coloration.
Iconography
What the image is and the culture that created it, its symbolism.
Iconology
The cultural context in which something was created. Different ways a subject can be shown through different regions and times.
Period Style
stylistic characteristics from a certain period
Personal Style
Relates to an individual artists style. Michelangst or Leonardo Da Vinci style art.
Regional Style
Regional is art from a specific region, i.e. American South West.
Ephemeral Arts
Art that is performative in nature, its temporary adn only witnesses for a short period, then is gone. Includes ceremonies, processions and ritual dances.
Relief sculpture
Relief sculpture—sculpture that projects in varying degrees from a two-dimensional background
Casting / Bronze hollow casting
Bronze casting is the process of pouring molten bronze into a hollow mold to create a positive bronze sculpture or object. Methods of bronze casting, like lost wax, ceramic shell, and sand casting are used to produce bronze sculptures.
Fresco painting
Involves painting on wet lime plaster, to paint murals.
Talud Toblero (Slope and Panel) construction
Invented by the Maya - spread throughout meso america. Talud-tablero consists of an inward-sloping surface or panel called the talud, with a panel or structure perpendicular to the ground sitting upon the slope called the tablero. This may also be referred to as the slope-and-panel style.
Ideographs or logograph
Popular in the Mayan. Represents a whole word, + a set of symbols that stand for the sound of each syllable.
Geoglyph
Writing with the earth, massive images that can be seen from above and are ceremonial pathways. Invovles moving dark stones to expose light stones.
Petroglyph
a rock carving, especially a prehistoric one.
mesoamerican codex
screen fold, accordion pleated, each page is connected to the 2 other adjecnt, manuscripts that present traits of the Mesoamerican indigenous pictoric tradition, either in content or style.
Wampum
small cylindrical beads traditionally made by some North American woodland Indian peoples from shells, strung together and worn as decoration or used as money. Aslo used to keep records and as memory devices.
Coiling
A technique used in basket making in north america, where you sew togther spiraling foundations of rods and can interveave feathers shells and other ornaments.
Tipi
Dwellings for Native Americans on the great plains. Made of buffalo hides and poles that can be assembled and taken down in under an hour. Owned by the women of the tribe, whose job is to assemble and move them.
Totem
From the pacific north west. Realtes to a kinship group. It isnt religious, but instead identify a particular clan and shows events from their collective cultural history. Specifically how these humans are descended from an ancestral spirit of an animal.
Free standing mortuary poles
Memorialize dead chiefs - males with the most direct decent from mythic ancestor.
Sand Painting
By the Navajo, Depicts mythical heroes and has prescribed rules and patterns. Sand or colored dust is sprinkled on the floor and then destroyed by the end of the day. Not permanent and is a ritual.
Hamatsa Mask
of the Pacific Northwest. A painted bird like mask. Made for initiation ceremony’s for young men into manhood and carry out a story of a canible spirit or bird that will attack and devour human flesh, then be fed salt water and vomit it up.
Quillwork
important for Native American in the northeast, especially the eastern woodlands. Often produced with dyed porcupine and bird quills that are soaked to soften them. ADn worked into rectilinear ornamental patterns.
terra nullius
A legal term used by European nations that allow them take over a region claiming that there were no inhabitants that had a rightful claim. Or nobodys land.
Corroborees
Practices by the native aboriginal peoples of Australia. Whom dance in order to renew the power of their ancestors and teach initiates about dreaming. These are carried out by spirit beings who created natural phenomenon around us.
Wapepe or Mattang
Produced by Micronesian peoples and are stick charts or maps of lands and paths between the differnt islands with schematic diagrams of the previaling ocean currents and the wave patterns between these islands.
Mana
Reealtes to spirtual power for polenysian people. More potent if you are the first born male child. It cna also be increased or lost by way of war or conquest.
Tatau
Is realted to tatooing and is a very important art form for the polynesians. For it relates to ones power and or status in a given tribe. It also wins sexual attractiveness to women.
Tapu
It gives us a notion of rules. That protect spirital power. Hence you cannot break certain “taboos” or “Tapu’s.”
Tiki
Carvings of ancestors that are often found in communal homes which show the history of a given village or people.
Moai
Ancestral figures of chieftains or past ancestors that are common in polynesia and Easter island where we have some of the largest stone sculptures ever produced in this region as memorials to these ancestors that were set up adn carved out of multi-ton stone and walked to the edge or a platform overlooking the sea.
Ichi
African scarification that symbolizes an achievement or a successful initiation into different parts of ones life and or societies different communities.
Battered architecture
As seen in Zimbobway is coursed masonry that slopes inward towards toward the top for stability.
stelea
Massive stone monuments that mark either a grave or an important historical event - they are found throughout the world and are in nearly every culture that we cover.
Post Colonialism
Th period after European powers pull out of Africa and Asia, and is primarily concerned with what happens to these peoples because of colonization and exploitation of their natural resources and how they identify themselves.
Diviner
One who practices divination. In African culture. Who has knowledge of the spirit world and can communicate with it using specific objects and rituals. Seeks out supernatual means by a use of a board, wood, dust and nuts thrown and then interpreted.
Initiation rituals
Include rite of passage marking adulthood, provide secret or specialized information that insures acceptance into a culture and that these traditions continue to the next generation.
