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1
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What is Performance Art?

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Visual art that is performed

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What is Happenings?

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A type of performance art by Allan Kaprow, reflecting the oddities of things that happen in reality

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“Boy Playing Flute” shows what?

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The pride music has in a strong Holland middle class

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Who was Jane Avril?

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A dancer at the Moulin Rouge, painted by Latrec

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What is deconstructivism?

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Entertainment art with many unique viewpoints that don’t form a whole

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What is neo-modernism?

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Clean cut architecture reacting to the complexities of post modernist structures.

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What is organic architecture?

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Architecture and art that is inspired by surrounding environments, and is site specific. Coined by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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What is a Theatron?

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Tiered seating areas in theaters

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What is a Skene?

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Building used for backdrops and dressing rooms in theaters

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Did Brugel’s flower arrangements ever exist in real life?

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No

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What is optical art?

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optical illusion art, (Salvador Dali melting clock painting)

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What does Ain Soph mean?

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“The infinite” in Hebrew

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What is Surrealism?

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Exploring the unconscious through dream imagery

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What are Earthworks?

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Large scale environmental art pieces

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What is impressionism?

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Captures subtle effects of light and color, like Monet

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What is romanticism?

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Art that elevates nature and immediate existence, like the Haywin

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German vs English landscape differences?

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G= morbid
E= open fields

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What is Okiyo-e?

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Style of Japanese art: “hot chicks’, landscapes, and kabuki actors

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What is pointillism?

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Style of painting with a fuck ton of tiny dots

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What are genre paintings?

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1600s Netherland paintings that show off the styles of the strong middle class

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What is Rococo?

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decorative style for rich people, feminine qualities (as in the Hall of Mirrors)

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What is Tambaran?

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Papua New Guinea rituals in large cult houses that ‘allow’ men to give life

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Who is Beyte Saar?

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She made the Aunt Jemima assemblage sculpture

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What is fauvism?

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A French art movement that used Van Gogh’s coloring

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What is Cubism?

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Multiple viewpoints from one pov (The city by Fernand Leger)

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What is futurism?

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celebrates violence, speed, energy, motion, force, and change

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What is pop art?

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reveals consumer culture, highly spreadable and marketable art

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What is stoicism?

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In the Hellenistic Era, individuals were urged to nobly endure fate and stay still

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What is Epicureanism?

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In the Hellenistic Era, it was a movement that advocated for seeking intelligent pleasure because design was the point of existence

30
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What is polykleitos?

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A mathematical approach to developing classical figures’ ideal proportions

31
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What is the proportions of the “Male Torso”?

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1/3 head, 1/3 body, 1/3 legs

32
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What is the Classical style?

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A Greek art style of ideal human figures

33
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What is contrapposto?

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a standing position with the figure leaning on one straight leg, with the other bent

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What is Chiaroscuro?

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Western light and dark shading style

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What is stucco?

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Concrete like art material, ancient Romans/Greeks would carve statues and reliefs out of it

36
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“The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin” blends what?

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Eastern and Western art styles

37
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What happened to Van Gogh after he painted “The Portrait of Dr. Gachet”?

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He committed suicide two months later

38
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Why do full body portraits reveal more about the figure than just a face or bust rendering?

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As they pose for longer, they are forced to become more relaxed and natural in posture and mannerisms.

39
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What did Frida Kahlo include in her self portraits?

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A monkey alter ego, unibrow, and nature

40
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Who is Star Doll based on?

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Mariko Mori

41
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What did the ancient Greeks believe about the human body?

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Humans were capable of perfection, and exemplary nudity should be praised.

42
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What pose and style is Doryphoros in?

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Classical style, contrapposto pose

43
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What is “Torso”?

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An ancient Indian depiction of an ideal body (torso), possibly of a youthful deity

44
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What does Yakshi represent?

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Female sexuality, flexibility, fertility

45
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Describe “The Last Judgement”

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Early Gothic style. shows humanity as flawed, and depicts the end of time on judgement day

46
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Who created “Piranesi’s Prison”?

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Giovanni Battista

47
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Sioux Circle Dancer wears 28 what?

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Hoops

48
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What relevant film won the Cannes Film Festival?

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Maria Candelaria

49
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Was Toulouse Lautrec influenced by Japanese prints?

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Yes

50
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What is the Opera House?

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A functional sculpture

51
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What are lavish visual experiences that combine many artistic elements?

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Casinos

52
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What are harpies?

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Women headed birds preying on men

53
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Centuars

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Lusty man headed horses

54
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Satyrs

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Lusty goat/horse men

55
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Describe the symbolism of “A unicorn in captivity”

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collar= chain of love
pomegranate juice= blood of Christ, chivalry

56
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What objects are attached to “monkey magic: sex, money and drugs”?

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Three clumps of elephant dung, referencing ritual use of it

57
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In Ashurbanipal II killing Lions, what was accomplished with a longer hunt?

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A higher status of heaven

58
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In Little Boutique in a clay jar, were Bruegel’s flowers real?

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No

59
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Describe symbolism in “Babur supervising the layout of the garden of fidelity”

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water in four directions = rivers of paradise
four squares= Allah’s creation

60
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Describe the symbolism in “Ryoanji Zen garden of contemplation”

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raked quartz gravel= void of mind/universe
dark rocks= material/worldly things
raked gravel= waves
boulders= mountains
15th boulder= can only be seen after spiritual enlightenment

61
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What drawing was part of marking the beginning of modern science?

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Andreas, the 4th plate of muscles

62
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What is Bunraku?

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Ancient Japanese puppetry

63
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What is Happenings?

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1960s short films with really weird gendered turns

64
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What is Lyre?

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Ancient Iraqi queen sound box, has a bull on it

65
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What is the iatmul hand drum?

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A Papua New Guinean ritual instrument for boys’ initiation, ancestor honor, and magical rites

66
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Describe the Kanaga Mask

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Mali, story of the origins of death. Interpreted as bird, croc, and/or God

67
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What is a spectacle?

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ex. Las Vegas entry strip, notable parts of visual cultures

68
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What is gasoline alley?

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1930s US comic strip, a boy and his uncle observing an abstract world

69
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Describe Cremaster films

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1990s US films that mess with gender and sex, has personal messages instead of a narrative.

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