Art Appreciation- Up To Greece Flashcards
(54 cards)
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Patina
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Protects outdoor sculptures
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Trompel’oeil
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- illusion of a curved appearance
- fools the eye
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Tessarae
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Pieces that make up the mosaic
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Plein air
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- French word for painting outdoors
- subjects: nature, modern life, sunlight
- avoid black
- thick, visible, sketchy brushstrokes
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Sunken relief
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Sculpture below the material
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Frieze
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- Continuous band of reliefs
- tells a story
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Etching
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- plate made out of copper
- plate is coated with beeswax and then drawn on with a stylus
- placed in acid
- masters: Goya, Rembrandt
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Lithography
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- special stone (litho stone)
- grease crayon
- reproduction of a drawing
- used to make political cartoons and fine art during 19th C
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Venus of Wilendorf
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- fertility amulet/ fig/ charm
- located and found in Wilendorf
- C.A. 25000 BCE
- first sculpture found
- small carved female
- 5 inches
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Cave Paintings
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- animals: bison, deer, mammoth, horse
- C.A. 15000 BCE
- discovered in 1940s
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Paleolithic Art
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- created by hunter- gatherer tribes
- CA 35000 to 10000 BCE
- no architecture
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Stonehenge
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- origins of western architecture
- Salisbury Plains, England
- for religious rites, mark solstice, seasonal rituals, healing place (?)
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Megalith
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Huge stone
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Cromlech
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Megaliths arranged in a circle
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Stele
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- an upright slab
- bearing sculptured/ painted designs or inscriptions
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Register
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one of a series of horizontal bands
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Descriptive Perspective
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Shows more important objects larger than less important objects
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Ziggurat
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- built by Sumarians
- huge mountains of earth faced with mud bricks
- temples
- center of the city
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Cuneiform
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Wedge- shaped
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Cylinder Seal
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- carved stone
- about an inch
- rolled over clay and leaves imprint
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Rosetta Stone
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- deciphered by a Frenchman in 1822
- hieroglyphic, demotic/ Greek Steele
- 196 BCE
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Cartouche
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A rectangle with the pharaoh’s name written in it
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Palette King Narmer
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- establishes canon (rules) Egyptian art
- shows King Narmer with the crown of Lower and Upper Egypt
- commemorates unification of Upper/ Lower Egypt
- men taking wild beasts (near east influence)
- discovered in 1898
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Pyramids
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Tombs to ensure eternal life
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Step Pyramid
- Architect: Imhotep
- for King Djoser
- first huge stone structure
- located in Sakkara
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Great Pyramids
- Cheops (Khufu)
- Chefren (Kafra)
- Mycerinus (Menkaure)
- () = pharaoh
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Old Kingdom (Egypt) Sculpture
- for tomb
- rigid like
- block like, geometric forms
- stylized
- CA 2700 to 2150
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New Kingdom (Egypt)
- CA 2100 - 1700
| - built into mountain side (protection against tomb raiders)
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Early Dynastic Period (Egypt)
CA 3000 BCE
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Queen Nefertiti
- portrait bust
- found in 1912
- modeled on her face, missing an eye
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Egyptian Sculptures
- no negative space
- frontal
- attached to a block
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Cyclaidic Marble Figures
- painted
- CA 2800 to 200 BCE
- ex. Harp player
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Minoans
- 3000 to 1450 BCE
- Crete
- peaceful traders with Egypt
- colorful frescos that depicted bulls (Bull Dance)
- labyrinth
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Geometric Period
- 1800 to 700 BCE
- mainland Greece
- warriors
- Meander/ Greek Key Design
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Archaic
- 600 to 480 BCE
- Kouros/ Kore
- Archaic smile
- rigid posture
- female wore robes and men were nude
- left foot in front of the right
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Classical
- 480 to 323 BCE
- Model for Roman copies
- harmony
- contrapposto
- female: "wet drapery"
- Parthenon frieze, Phidias (Athena sculpture), Discus Thrower
- calm, serene
- no expression
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Hellenistic
- CA 323 to 150 BCE
- suffering
- imperfection
- movement in space
- Dying Gaul, Victory of Samothrace, Old Market Woman, Venus of Milo
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Parthenon
- Classical period
- completely made of marble
- optical refinement
- Doric columns
- world's most imitated structure
- built to glorify Athens
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Pediment
Triangle of the roof and the rectangle where the frieze is
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Facade
- front side
| - 8 Doric columns
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Stylobate
Bottom of the Parthenon
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Drums
Part of the columns that fit together
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Pericles
- Athens leader
| - Parthenon was built under his rule
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Salamis Stone
Stone with hands and feet used for measuring
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Golden Ratio (height : width)
1 : 1.6
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Protagorus
- 4:9 ratio
| - "Humankind is the measure of all things"
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Contrapposto
- late Greek period
| - weight is on one leg
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Kore
Young woman (Archaic period)
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Kouros
Young man (Archaic Period)
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Entasis
- columns appear straight
- have a subtle curve
- swelling
- gives life to the sculpture
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Characteristics of Mesopotamia Art
- human- animal
- first metal work
- useful purpose (against evil spirits)
- a lot of patterns
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Mastaba
Desert tomb mound
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Amenhotep
- first monotheistic
| - only one god- Sun (Aten)
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King Tut Tomb
- only totally intact tomb found
- furnitures were randomly placed
- discovered by Howard Carter in 1922
