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AH226 Exam 2 B
BG Info
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| In Andes lots of textiles. Why? | Keep warm, then art. |
| Andes is very difficult terrain to live in. Why? | El Nino, La Nina, desert, mountains. |
| Verticality? | Vertical zones in which certain crops grown. have to move up and down in order to survive, trade. ayni = reciprocity; tinquy=2 things make one new. |
| Huaca | =the spirits w/in the obj. =important sacred potential/place/energy. |
| Animals of jungle on textiles found in north, dry places... | traveled from jungle to mountains. Jungle=abundance water, flora, fauna. |
| Lithic Period | Stone-tool type of culture. |
| Chile | Coast is natural mummification place. |
| Chinchorro Mummies | totora=grass reeds used to make mats and wrap bodies=too early to grow cotton. clay mask of mummies not detailed enough to be portrait=conveys message instead. breathing mouth, open eyes, essential human face=abstraction preceeds realism in art. |
| Cotton Pre-Ceramic Period aka "Twining Period" (Prof Stone) | 3000 - 1800 BC. these three places well developed by 2500 BC: Huaca Prieta (north coast), Caral (central coast)/inland, Kotosh (highlands). Firing ceramics not a main use during period bcuz culture=not permanent tribe; nomadic tribe=textiles, nets, cloths |
| Ukhu | hidden on the inside/comes thru. |
| Initial Period | 1800 - 800 BC.Styles of period: garagay, moxeke, cerro sechin. During pd: much more monumental structures/places; loom; sedentary lifestyle=fired ceramics. |
| ayni | 2 parts not equal; duality is what balances each other. |
| moiety system | group of ppl divide in half, only mate w/other group. |
| camay | "to create"; never a beginning; constant fusion of manifest world and unmanifest world; belief that camac is thing that has energy; camasca receives power of camac=shaman. |
| spider camac | spiders build webs according to weather. important for agriculture=have to know the weather. |
| vilca | snuff entheogen that causes clack stuff to come out of nose. |
| Chavin de Huantar | Early Horizon, 1000 - 200 BC. Was a nexus point of cult=Exported style and iconography, but didnt settle/make road system=very powerful cult rather than site. |
| Chavin de Huantar | Chavin takes things that are already in the culture. Reasons to reference jungle: fertility, powerful animals, entheogens. |
| Chavin de Huantar | pilgrimage site=portable works of art; big effort for materials/objs to ex/import: gold exist further to N and E (ecuador/columbia)= had to trade for gold. |
| Chavin substyles... | Chongoyabe, Cupisnique, Santa Ana |
| Perceptual theory | Blackware adds to ambiguity. Figure in front of BG=norm. figure/ground used to create ambiguity. |
| Artists fluid with BG and figure... | stepped motif that creates its own interlocked inverse.already stepped architecture=take cacti, turn into jaguar, see geometric stepped shape=narrative. |
| Karwa (carhua) | how textiles made: tie-dye and batik processes=negative techniques; with these processes=need to think ahead. |
| Batik | irregular shape is white. process: paint goo that covers cloth like wax, remove goo after dye. |
| Color blocking technique | positive technique. more about process. more terrestrial. |
| technical determinism | technique determines design. artist is limited by technique. NOT paracas artists. |
| Andean art | all sorts of orientation. |
| Linear style | negative technique. BG is put down first. more about spiritual concepts. figure created thru negative space. |
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