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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| art critisism | making discriminating judgements, both favorable and unfavorable |
| paleolithic period | 2 million years ago, east-central africa |
| neolithic period | new stone age, people evolved from nomed hunters/gathers t village famers/herders |
| hierarchic scale | sizes of figures are determined by social rank |
| classical art | rational simplicity, order, and restrained emotion |
| contrappasto | pose that bears most weight on one leg |
| capitol | decorative element at the tops of columns |
| hellenistic | greek-like but more expressive and exaggerated |
| the colosseum | a famous roman building created for entertaining the masses |
| the pantheon | a famous roman temple built for the god |
| catacombs | underground burial chambers often used for hiding religious art |
| constantine | the first christian roman emporer who also moved the capital from rome to Byzantium |
| iconoclasts | people who punished others who owned religious imagery |
| icon | holy image that inspire devotion |
| middle ages | time between the fall of the roman empire and the renaissance |
| animal style | created by nomades; characterized by active, interwining shapes |
| renaissances | "rebirth" referring to the rebirth of interest in the art and ideas of classical greece and rome |
| humanism | shift in focus from spiritual to human |
| genre paintings | images dignifying everyday life |
| baroque | renaissance techniques used for drama |
| rococo style | a light and playful version of baroque style |
| buddhist belief | existence is full of suffering caused by desire |
| hinduism | recognizes 3 gods- creator, sustainer, and destoyer |
| shinto | religion with beliefs that gods dwell in nature |
| zen | buddhismm belief that enlightenment is attained through meditation |
| the enlightenment | late 18th century, a shitft toward rational and scientific thinking |
| neoclassicism | movement to ground artwork in classic greek and roman influence |
| romanticism | a shift in artwork to be emotionally expressive |
| painterly | loose and open brushwork |
| academic art | unimaginative art that follows formula created by academic |
| realism | a style that depicts ordinary exsitance |
| impressionism | an art movement focused on the general impression produced by a scene or object |
| post-impressionism | art trends following and in reaction to impressionism |
| pointillism | technique of painting in which small dots of color are applied in patterns to form an image |
| symbolism | a means of communicating through symbols which carry ideas, feelings, and memory |
| fauvism | visual ideas expanding on post-impressionism |
| expressionism | art that emphasizes inner feelings and emotions |
| cubism | objects are broken up, analyzed, and re-assembled in an abstract form, showing multiple viewpoints |
| futureists | showed speed of motion through abstraction |
| dada | anti-war beliefs caused artists to reject art standards and create "anti-art" |
| readymade | art from ordinary manufactured objects |
| surrealism | art that focused on the unconscious mind, dreams, fantasy, and hallucinations |
| social realism | art that refocused on social issues for the public |
| works progress administration (WPA) | u.s program started during the great depression employed workers to carry out public work projects |
| constructivism | russian movement that used art for special purpose |
| de stijl | art movement using non representational geometric forms |
| abstract expressionism | american post WWII movement focusing on emotionally intense works |
| action painting | a style of painting in which paint is spontaneously dribbled, splashed or smeared onto the canvas, rather than being carefully applied |
| color field | technique using large areas of color with central focus |
| pop art | art with aspects of mass culture, such as advertising, comic books, and mundane cultural objects |
| minimal art | art that refers to nothing but itself |
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