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poemo
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poem
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Paisaje
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Landscape
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Cubism
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Picasso
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dorado
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golden
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le portrait
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portrait
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representar
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to represent
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Bildhauer
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der sculptor
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quantity
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la cantidad
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el/la dibujante
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illustrator
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Pattern
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Decorative visual repetition.
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11th cen
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Vladamir virgin
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John Audubon
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drew birds
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The Fighting Temeraire
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Turner
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WARM COLORS
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Red, Orange, Yellow
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359
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sarcophagus of junius bassus
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toned ground
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not white paper
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The Starry NightVan Gogh1889
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tissue paper
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thin transparent colored paper
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m.duchamp
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nude desending a staircase surrealism
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Kore
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Standing, clothed female. Rigid stance
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cross-hatching
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using crossed lines for shading
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El punto de vista
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View point
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Ingres was particularly influenced by Renaissance artist _______.
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Raphael
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saturated color
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hues undiluted with white, consequently deep and intense
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Landscape
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Works of art that depict scenery
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Underglaze
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Colored decoration applied to bisqued clay, then coated with a clear glaze. Typically it's made of clay slip and raw pigment.
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shape
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an enclosed space defined and determined by other art elements such as line, color, value, and texture.
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Diminution
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lessening; reduction in size; V. diminish
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Gros
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Napoleon in the Pesthouse of Jaffa
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se han colocado
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they have placed themselves
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schlock
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something of cheap or inferior quality; junk
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spandrels
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the area of wall adjoining the exterior curve of an arch between its springing and the keystone, or the area between two arches, as in an arcade
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Nancy Holt
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Sun Tunnels, Great Basin Desert, Utah
holes align with Perseus, Columbia, Capricorn & Draco
reffering to ancient systems (stonehenge) links with the past
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Simulated
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made to look genuine while being artificial
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Psalter
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a book containing the Book of Psalms
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Luncheon on the Grass by Manet, 1863
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Complementary Colors
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colors located directly opposite one another on the color wheel
ex. red, green blue, orange yellow, purple
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Neagle, Pat Lyon at the Forge, 1826
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Value
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how light or dark a color is
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atrium
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outdoor garden area; fountain used for ceremonial washing of feet; also used as a space for instruction of new converts and for socialization
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Queen Nefertiti
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Painted limestone bust, new Kingdom, 1353-1335
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Color
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The element of art that is produced when light, striking an object, is reflected back to the eye
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keystone
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the final stone that is set in place
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texture
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element of art that defines the way something feels to the touch or how it may look.
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Romanticism
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o Less interest in science an reason
o More emotional, intense art
o Looser brushwork, deep colors, dynamic compositions
o More interest n artist's personal vision, expression
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vanitas
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An image, in which all the objects symbolize the transience of life, vanity of earthly things
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blind contour
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Line drawing done w/out looking at paper.
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Triad
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are equally spaced apart on the color wheel
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industrial design
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a career that involves conceiving of and designing objects that meet the needs of people
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complementary color harmony
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colors directly across from one another on the color wheel
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Actual Space
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An expanse having depth, height, and width on a 2D surface
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In one painting from this movement Jesus knocks on a door while carrying a lantern. Notable works from this movement include King Cophetua and the Beggar Maid and Light of the World.
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Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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Proportion
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is the relationship b/t size of 1 part of the image to another part as well as to the whole
Part of the Principles of Design
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Cast Shadow
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the shadow that falls from an object to a flat surface. It is found on the side directly opposite from the highlight
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Contour line
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area by area, lots of detail both interior and exterior
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Pop Art
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Andy Warhol was part of the _____ _____ movement: he made prints of multiple images and sold many copies of them
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analogous
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refers to a family of either warm red orange yellow or cool blue green yellow violet
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Compostion
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the way the principles of art are used to organized the elments of art
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The purpose of David's The Death of Socrates was to __________.
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provoke literary discussion
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naos or cella
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in a classical temple, this room is where the cult statue usually stood
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picture plane
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the plane that is in the foreground of a drawing or painting
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line of sight
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a type of implied line from a figure's eyes to a viewed object, directing that attention of the viewer of a design from one part of it to another
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se faire couper (les cheveux en brosse)
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couper les cheveux tres courts (crewcut)
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How come the demand for rococo increased?
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Because the nobles deserted the royal palace of versailles and built themselves elegant, frivolous, townhouses in paris, which need furnishings to accomodate there lifes of play acting, pursuiting pleasure, and living in a delightful carefree world.
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caryatid
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claro
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light
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escena
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stage
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Vampire
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Munch
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captar
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to capture
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el museo
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museum
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ilustrar
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to illustrate
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to paint
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peindre
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la crítica
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critique
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16th-Century Italian Renaissance:
Raphael, School of Athens, Stanza della Segnature, c. 1510-11
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au premier plan
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foreground
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location? period?
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SNAKE GODDESS
Knossos
Minoan
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art
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produced/intended primarily for aesthetic purposes rather than utility
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Manet "Olympia" 1863 Realism
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sin duda
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without a doubt
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Cavalry procession, Ionic frieze
Temple of Athena Parthenos
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la estrofa
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sección de una poema
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The Fall of Icarus
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Bruegel 1650
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Stoneware
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higher that earthenware, waterproof, uses smaller grains
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has height width and depth
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form
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Shade
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A hue with black added
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Smithson
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"Spiral Jetty" 1970; showed that nature will conquer man's design, Salt Lake Site Specific
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diagonal
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slant; somewhere between and vertical and horizontal line
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Southworth & Hawes, Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1850 (Marien, p. 67)
Southworth & Hawes are first major studio in Boston
Photograph many famous persons of the time
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incised
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cut or impressed into a surface
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Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Moorish Bath, 1870
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to make fun of
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se moquer de
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high value
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contrast would be between 20%-90%
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Rhythm
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(a principle and aka movement) A particular visual "beat" marking the movement of the viewer's
eye through a work.
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Foreshorting
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faking that an object goes on forever
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Jackson Pollock
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Leader of the abstract expressionist movement. Artwork looks like blobs of splattered paint
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ANILLO
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asentado sobre las pechinas y arcos torales/ring
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house church
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meeting place for early Christians, usually home of wealthy members
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Organic Shape
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irregular, often curving or rounded, relaxed and informal
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materials
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any physical substance, such as rock, wood, glass, plastic, etc
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Originally a derisive term, __________ uses mass produced, light, easily handled cuts of wood and metal nails for the assembly of millions of homes and small buildings on site.
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balloon framiing
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Continious narrative
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Mulitple scenes of the same story
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constructive process
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a process where preexisting objects are brought together making a new form. Also the assembling of materials such as steel or plastic into sculputral forms
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art critique
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the process and the results of critical thinking about art. The parts are: describe, analyze, interpret, and judge.
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Megaron
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From the greek word for large. The central audience hall in a Minoan or Mycenaean palace or home.
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elements of art
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line, shape, form, color, value, space, and texture. The building blocks the artist works with to create an artwork.
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cultural portrait
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portrait which places the emphasis on social standing (class, wealth)
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Pulling a Print
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pulling the paper from a print
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photomontage
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term coined in Berlin 1918 for a collage composed of fragments of photographs
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Dido
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reina de Cartago, se enamora de Eneas, el la deja, ella le deja maldicion que sus hijos serian enemigos de Cartago
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Tone
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The property of colour that makes it seem light or dark.
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Actual and Implied mass
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• Actual Mass: occupies three-dimensional space and has measurable volume
and weight.
• Implied Mass: creates the illusion of possessing volume, having weight and
occupying three-dimensional space.
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Pencil with more graphite than clay is _______
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Soft
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It was named by Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, who joined such figures as Ernst Kirchner to found this group. For 15 points, name this artistic circle which emphasized authenticity and saw some of its greatest success in the work of two later additions, Max Pechs
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The Bridge
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Ionic
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Its column has a base, a fluted shaft, and a capital decorated with volutes. Its entablature consists of an architrave of three panels and moldings, a frieze usually containing sculpted relief ornament, and a cornice with dentils
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biomorphic shapes
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shapes which are irregular in form and resemble the freely developed curves of organic life.
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Implied Light
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Light that models or shapes giving 2-D art a 3-D appearance.
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Tertiary
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is what happens when you mix a color with its complement.
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Icons
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A flat panel painting of a holy object or being such as Jesus, Mary, a saint, etc. "windows to heaven"
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Repetition
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Use of any element or object more than once in an artifact in order to structure a viewer's experience of that work
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barrel vault
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a series of round arches from front to back that form a tunnel
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intermediate hues
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color made by mixing 1 primary and 1 secondary color
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Alfred Stieglitz
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He was known as the father of modern photography. helped populize photography
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Style of Art
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non objective art in which there is no recognizable subject matter. It can occur anywhere at anytime but not always accepted as art.
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Jean Dubuffet, Portrait of Jean Paulhan, 1946
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series after war, both sides of freedom fighters/natzi, way in which ppl opperated, end of the day we are all the same, art crit who was reisistance fighter
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According to Marcel Duchamp, the function of a readymade was to __________.
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prompt the viewer to think and think again
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escultura
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sculpture
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perspective
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perspektywa
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desde
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sinse
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Ugolino
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Reynolds
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el retrato
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portrait
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el signo
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sign
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manipuler
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to manipulate
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galán
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leading man
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la interpretación
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interpretation
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2d
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length and width
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Roman
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200 B.C.-500 A.D.
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the initiative
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la iniciativa
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Judith and Holofernes
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Gentileschi
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Jericho Stone Tower
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8000-7000 BC
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16th-Century Italian Renaissance:
Michelangelo, Last Judgment, Sistine Chapel, New St. Peters, 1536-41
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balance
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2 types symmetrical asymmetrical
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Horogium??
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Horologium- giant sundial
Egyptian architecture
Shadow would point directly to the altar of peace on augustas’ birthday
Ara Pacis (Altar of Augustan Peace
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terre sauvage
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a.y. jackson 1913 o/c
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The Art of Painting
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Vermeer 1666
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Giacometti
Woman with her Throat Cut
Switzerland
Surrealism
1932
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Parece mentira...
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Its hard to believe
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strong lines that makes shapes
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outline
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Koons
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"Pink Panther" & "Vacuum" in1980's; who owns art, images, how close do copies have to be?
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Hue
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the common name for a color
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rubbings
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a technique that transfers the textural quality of a surface to paper by placing the paper over the textural surface and rubbing the top of the paper with crayon, pencil, etc.
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Berthe Morisot, Le Berceau (The Cradle), 1872
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me parece que
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it seems to me
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Avant garde
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new and unusual experimental ideas
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stereobate
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a foundation upon which a classial temple stands
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sublime
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Edwund Burke's idea of an experience that is awe-insipring, maybe danger, vast/powerful makes us feel small
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Collage
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Art work created by gluing paper and/or found objects onto a flat surface
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Portait of Franceso d'Este, Rogier van der Weyden. c.1455-60, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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Cloisonne
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a multicolored surface made by pouring enamels into compartments outlined by bent wire fillets, or strips
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Emphasis*
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special attention given to some aspect of a composition to increase its prominence
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Dry Media
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pencil, charcol, conte crayon, and pastel
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Groin vault
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the intersection of two barrel vaults
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intensity
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the saturation, strength, or purity of a hue. a vivid color is of high intensity; a dull color is of low intensity
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Unity
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a sense of oneness, of things belonging together and making up a coherent whole.
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tenebroso
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painting in the dark manner a technique of caravaggio
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Emphasis
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is drawing a viewer's attention to a specific area or object
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five kinds of line
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vertical horizontal diagonal curved zigzag
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Continuous
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no lifting the pencil look for details to follow
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Abstract
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Art that is based on something you would see or kn in life, but it has been abstracted or distorted.
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parallel
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two things that are next to each other
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Argo
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perro de Odiseo, quien lo reconoce y se muere de la alegria
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Que te/le parece?
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What does it seem to you
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types of balance
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• Actual Balance-means that the piece of art is literally balanced. It can stand
upright on its own.
• Pictorial Balance-refers to the distribution of the apparent or visual weight of
the elements in works that are two dimensional.
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Post-and-Lintel Construction
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A construction technique in which two posts support a horizontal bean (the lintel). In contrast to systems employing arches.
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Peasant Wedding
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P(ieter) Breughel the Elder [prompt on partial answer, need all parts]
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narrative image
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A picture that recounts an event drawn from a story, either factual (biographical) or fictional
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tool used to scrape excess clay (like a potter's rib)
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Steel Scraper
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pronaos
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The space, or porch, in front of the cella, or naos, of an ancient Greek temple
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wedging
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kneading the clay to get rid of air bubbles so that the clay will not burst in the kiln
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gesso
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a ground made from glue and plaster of paris and chalk; most common with tempera
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Troy
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An ancient city in Asia Minor that was the site of the Trojan War
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actual texture
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those we can feel by touching such as polished marble, wood, sand, or swirls of thick paint.
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visual communication
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most direct avenue to the mind is by the way of the eyes. In art, visual experience is essential. how the artist interprets the subject is more than the actual subject; how the image is composed becomes the basis for the in depth experience of art.
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Triads color scheme
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A color scheme using three colors that are equal distances apart on the color wheel such as the primaries of red, yellow, and blue, or the secondaries of orange, violet, and green
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Abstract Expressionism aka The NY School
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1. Pure Abstraction
2. Expression of inner emotion/state of mind
Process over Product
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camera obscura (dark room)
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a darkened box used as a drawing aid in the sixteenth century
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What is the meaning of abstract expressionism?
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A school of painting that flourished after World War II until the early 1960s, characterized by the view that art is nonrepresentational and chiefly improvisational
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