Final Flashcards

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Frieze

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below the pediment

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David, Bernini

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ignudi

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nude youths

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Parthenon

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built for Athena; use of optical refinements; originally had wild, painted colors; has a statue of Athena inside

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La Pieta, Michelangelo

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Les Demoiselles de Avignon, Pablo Picasso

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when it was unveiled, it wasn’t taken well because it shows harlots; no foreground or background

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Venus de Milo

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term and method used by surrealists to draw and create without a filter

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automatism

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Les Demoiselles de Avignon, Pablo Picasso

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used the drip and splash technique

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Jackson Pollock

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La Grande Odalisque, Ingres

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part of a harem; distorted; eye contact

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Patronage in the Renaissance

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church isn’t funding everything; individuals have their own art

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Entombment of Christ, Caravaggio

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the object in many of Dali’s works that symbolizes rebirth

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the egg

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Dali’s subject matter in the later years

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religion

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Who is the former graphic designer who uses mass media images with text overlay?

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Barbara Kruger

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Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez

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represents social class (the people are rich because they have their own art gallery); dwarf; Felipe and his wife are in the mirror

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What was the Greek temple built to honor Athena?

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the Parthenon

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the Catholic church’s response to the Protestant Reformation

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counter-reformation

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created Your Body is a Battleground

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Barbara Kruger

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the first pop art peice

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Just What Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?

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Oath of the Horatii, Jacques-Louie David

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means “nothing;” protests everything

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Dada

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Created The Fountain, a urinal, under the name R. Mutt

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Marcel DuChamp

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Michelangelo's David
Medici family took in Mich at a young age; he had access to cadavers; David uses contrapasto
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Dali was a
surrealist
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A militant feminist shot him outside of his studio
Andy Warhol
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Dali's country of origin
Spain
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the most basic Greek order
Doric
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Pediment
The top of a building; it is sometimes decorated
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Just What Makes..., Hamilton
Jackson Pollock painting on the rug; comic book; 50s housewife; moon on the roof; pin-up model; television
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Greek temple modification used to make them look perfect
optical refinements
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this person sculpted a bronze statue of David during the Renaissance
Donatello
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avant-garde
"advance guard;" setting out before everyone else; threat to theelite
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The gentle swelling of Greek columns
Entasis
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Just What Makes Today's Homes so Different, So Appealing?, Richard Hamilton
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Rococco
development/extension of the Baroque period; sentimental
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St. Mark by Donatello
wet drapery; patron saint of linen
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Rounded arch
uses compression and tension; usually has a keystone at the top
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Supper at Enmmaus is by...
Caravaggio
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greek order: ionic
scoll-like projections called "volutes"
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La Grande Odalisque, Ingres
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painted Woman and Bicycle
Willem de Kooning
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Florence, Italy
the "New Athens;" David is a big symbol; Medici family was the patron on the arts
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David, Michelangelo
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Means "sacred rock"
acropolis
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greek order: corinthian
designed, usually with acanthus leaves
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Birth of Venus, Botticelli
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Groin vault
two barrel vaults crossed at a right angle
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Neo-Platonism
an attempt to Christianize pagan theology (ex. The Birth of Venus)
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The Swing, Jean-Honore Fragonard
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Warhol's studio was named
"The Factory"
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The Proposition, Judith Leyster
Maid/fieldhand; genre painting because it shows everyday life
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The Scraper, Lysippos
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a work by Marcel DuChamp that was considered a "Slap to the face" in the art community
Fountain
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Las Meninas, Diego Velázquez
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The Oath o the Horatii; David
sexist (females are so overcome by emotion that they can't move; all of the brothers are going to fight in the family fued with the Curatii; one of the girls is engaged to a Curatii; bloody red colors
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a parlor game played by surrealists that resulted in a collective or group artwork
Exquisite Corspe
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Grazia
"grace"
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Whats is the exhibit formed by artists whose art had been refused from The Salon?
Salon de Refuses
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Fountain, Marcel DuChamp
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St. Mark, Donatello
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The Swing, Fragonard
Natural human urges; looking up her skirt
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Raising of the Cross, Rubens
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The Proposition, Judith Leyster
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Entombment of Christ, Caravaggio
the cloth is unstained; Nicodemus is looking at the viewer; three Marys; St. John (know bc of the pinkish-red garment)
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non-representational artist with synesthesia
Valisy Kandinsky
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Surrealism was inspired by Jung and
Freud
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the creatures in Dalí's Persistence of Memory
bees & ants
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occulus
big hole in a ceiling, usually for drainage
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John Cage's musical composition of total silence
4'33''
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triptych
three-paneled altarpeice
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The Birth of Venus, Botticelli
Western wind and Venus; nymphs are the allegorical symbols of spring; parallel myth: immaculate conception, blue/pink garments (Mary and John)
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modern art
a break in traditional views of what art should be
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Raising of the Cross, Rubens
very large; 9 men struggling to reaise the body of one man
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the painting features Jesus with a "reverse halo"
Supper at Emmaus
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he creates photorealistic scuptures of the forgotten members of society
Duane Hanson
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"aesthetic attitude"
approaches everything with the idea that the senses will be engaged; challenges preconceived notions of what art should be
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works that appear to be photographs
photorealism
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State-sponsored exhibit in Paris; the who's who list of popular artists in the 19th century
The Salon
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Las Meninas was painted by
Diego Velazquez
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venus of willendorf
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the "pop" in pop art is short for
popular culture
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Fountain; Marcel DuChamp
the exhibit said to bring anything, so he did; elitist artists lauded him, but he did it to rebel against them
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Lavender Mist, Jackson Pollock
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The Supper at Ammaus, Caravaggio
Jesus is revealing himself after the resurrection; uses chiatoscuro; beardless Christ (they didn't recognize him), shows social class
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The Supper at Emmaus, Caravaggio
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barrel vault
arches extended in depth; good for higher ceilings
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four characteristics of Baroque Art
space, drama, light, and social class
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Kouros
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Humanism
focus on the acheivement of human beings; human body is a divine creation (NUDES)
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created Brillo Soap Pads
Andy Warhol
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sfumato
"smoke;" like the ever-changing expression of Mona Lisa
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capital
the tops of columns; usually doric, ionic, or corinthian
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Renaissance
rebirth of culture, science, individual welath, literature, and liberal arts; leaving hte darks ages; artists are revered
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What is Italian for light and dark?
Chiaroscuro
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La Pieta was sculpted by
Michelangelo