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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Family tombs | a distinct, private, aboveground structure built specifically at an individual's request, usually to entomb multiple members of a single family. |
| Mexican Day of the Dead celebration | a Mexican holiday where families welcome back the souls of their deceased relatives for a brief reunion that includes food, drink and celebration. |
| Ruler’s images | depicted to be without flaw and a distinguished and wise demeanor. |
| Arches | an opening in a structure that is curved on top and designed to distribute weight. |
| Apotheosis | an abstract idea in the likeness of a deity. |
| Status quo | the existing order of things; present customs, practices and power relations |
| Medieval Christians | dominated the lives of both peasants and the nobility. |
| Contrapposto | used in the visual arts to describe a human figure standing with most of its weight on one foot |
| Roman ancestry | ancestry came primarily from the Eastern Mediterranean and Near East, |
| clan | a family, especially a large one |
| symbols | a mark or character used as a conventional representation of an object, |
| unicorn | a mythical, usually white animal generally depicted with the body and head of a horse with long flowing mane and tail and a single often spiraled horn in the middle of the forehead. |
| earthworks | an embankment or other construction made of earth |
| western theater | an area defined by both geography and the sequence of campaigning |
| happenings | a performance, event, or situation art, usually as performance art |
| theatron | “a place of seeing.” |
| performance art | an art form that combines visual art with dramatic performance. |
| national museums | n the United States are museums that are authorized by Congress. |
| iconoclasm | the action of attacking or assertively rejecting cherished beliefs and institutions or established values and practices. |
| restoration | the action of returning something to a former owner, place, or condition. |
| Discovery of Australia | James Cook was the first recorded explorer to land on the east coast in 1770 |
| Oceanic veiw of a person | a person front facing the ocean with their back to the camera |
| Surrealism | aims to revolutionize human experience. |
| Street art | related to graffiti art in that it is created in public locations and is usually unsanctioned, but it covers a wider range of media and is more connected with graphic design. |
| Jacob Lawrence | an American painter known for his portrayal of African American historical subjects and contemporary life. |
| Rembrandt | a Dutch Golden Age painter, printmaker and draughtsman. An innovative and prolific master in three media, |
| Frida Kahlo | was a Mexican painter known for her many portraits, self-portraits, and works inspired by the nature and artifacts of Mexico. |
| Marc Chagall | a Belarusian-French artist. An early modernist, |
| Claude Monet | a French painter and founder of impressionist painting who is seen as a key precursor to modernism, especially in his attempts to paint nature as he perceived it |
| Robert Smithson | an American artist known for sculpture and land art who often used drawing and photography in relation to the spatial arts. |
| Taj mahal | architectural style in conception, |
| The executions of may 3, 1808 | Goya sought to commemorate Spanish resistance to Napoleon's armies during the occupation of 1808 in the Peninsular War. |
| liberty leading the people | a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. |
| laocoon and his sons | e suffering of the Trojan prince and priest Laocoön (brother of Anchises) and his young sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus |
| The Oath of the Horatii | a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now on display in the Louvre in Paris. |
| Sydney Opera House | unparalleled design and construction; its exceptional engineering achievements and technological innovation and its position as a world-famous icon of architecture. |
| Central Park | influenced the development of urban parks nationwide and is widely regarded a masterpiece of landscape architecture |
| Open Air | plein-air painting, |
| Palette of King narmer | he unification of Upper and Lower Egypt into the "Kingdom of the Two Lands" under the divine king |
| Vietnam Veterans war memorial | reflecting the lack of resolution of the national conflicts over the war as well as the lack of consensus over what constituted an appropriate memorial at the end of the 20th century. |
| The Scream | given to a composition created by Norwegian artist Edvard Munch in 1893. |
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