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Stonehenge

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Megaliths; post and lintel construction; England 2000 BCE

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In profile

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Face from the side; found in Egyptian Art

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Hierarchical scale

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More important is bigger; found in Egyptian Art

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Greek sculpture

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Acropolis (Akros=top, polis=city); Hellenialism (spread of Greek sculpture); 600 BCE-480 BCE went from primitive to advanced; leaning sculptures on one foot (contrapposto); sculptures contain realism and emotion

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Byzantine Art: San Vitale

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Ravenna, Italy; built by Emporer Justinian

Circular structure, central dome, elaborate interior mosaics

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Byzantine Art: Theodora and her attendants

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In San Vitale; life size mosaic; flat; non-expressive; facing forward

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Byzantine Art: Hagia Sophia

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Istanbul 532-537 by Emporer Justinian
Central some on pendentives, half domes, mosaics (later destroyed by iconoclasts)
1453: became a mosque

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Byzantine Art: great mosque of Damascus

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705-16

Elaborate column because built around courtyard of Byzantine church

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Mosaic

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Little pieces of glass/stone glued together like a puzzle; found in Byzantine Art

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Triumphal Arch

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Arch to celebrate somebody’s triumph; ride through it when back from battle
Arch of Titus, arch of Constantine, found in roman art

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Renaissance

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Rebirth; revival of interests in arts and sciences

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Humanism

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The era of the individual; we are all unique/special/powerful; idea of human greatness; see in Renaissance

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Naturalism

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Naturalistic expression with emotion; see in Renaissance

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Emotion

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Start to see again in Renaissance

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Original Renaissance man; multitalented (anatomy, engineer, artist); The last supper, Mona Lisa

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Michaelangelo

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Renaissance; Sistine chapel- book of genesis on ceiling; “The creation”; 10 years “The Last judgement” with mannerism, dramatic, chaotic

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David sculptures

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Early Renaissance: Donatello (bronze, small, just starting to show emotion)
High Renaissance: Michaelangelo (marble, huge, beautiful, perfection, more detail/muscles/expression)
Baroque: Bernini (marble, huge, high drama, dynamic, every side is interesting)

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Baroque style

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High drama, value, contrast, puts you in the action; sculpture displays in all places, twisting bodies displayed just above you

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Baroque; “disembarkment of Marie de Medici”; sensuous, colorful, full of movement; “The three graces”

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Roccoco

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Flowery; graceful, jocular; sensual, soft, flowing forms reflect decadence of elite

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Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrum

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Roccoco; soft-sensual portraits commissioned by Marie Antoinette to improve her public image

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Neo-classical

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More serious/formal, looking straight at profile, all very stable, seriousness of purpose, influence of Ancient Greece/rome, detail in anatomy

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Jacques louis David

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Oath of the horati; painted to influence French Revolution

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Romanticism in Landscape

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Turner: The Slave Ship; Snowstorm Hannibal crossing the Alps; the sublime (create a sense of power and awe), nature demonstrates gods power; color and texture more important than detail/realistic; dense, dreamy, hazy atmosphere

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Romanticism in America
Bierstadt: Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains; Westward expansion/Manifest Destiny; images of American wilderness to put human existence into perspective; inspire national pride and justify expansion
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Romanticism in Narrative
Géricualt: The Raft of the Medusa; dark, dramatic, passionate; combine fantasy and reality; epic scenes of true or imagined events; lighting and shadows used for emphasis
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Lascaux Cave
Hall of the Bulls; layers of animals; 3 horses facing each other; ca 15000 BCE France
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Realism
Typical, everyday life; common human experience; not heavily symbolic; accurate observation; value and texture
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Courbet
Realist; burial at ornans; the stone breakers
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Daumier
Realist; the third class carriage; emphasis on working class, classical model cannot express realities of life
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Édouard Manet
Realistic, sincere, representative of social class- different classes of Parisian society; bridged gap between realism and Impressionism; confrontational gaze, flattened space and figures; references earlier Renaissance with contemporary figures; Luncheon on the Grass, Pastoral Sympathy, Olympia, balcony
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Impressionism
Intuitive and spontaneous; color and light; soft brushwork; plein-air; artists impression is most important- capture the impression of the image in the movement
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Edgar degas
Impressionist; influenced by photography- capturing a moment in time, framing everyday life, especially working class: The glass of absinthe; the dancing class
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Claude Monet
impressionist; impression sunrise, the four trees
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Pointillism
Post-Impressionism, lots of dots mixed, Seurat
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Cubism
Reduced natural form into basic geometric parts; show multiple, simultaneous perspectives
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Picasso
Cubist; collage, guernica
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Braque
Cubist; collages
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Fauvism
Emphasis on unnatural color and value; inspired by Post-Impressionism; Les Fauves=wild beasts because wild colors used
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Matisse
Fauvism; used blue to signify distance and volume; later was bed ridden so did paper cut outs
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Dada
Based in cubism and abstraction; anti-art, avant-garde, experimental, innovative, conceptual; pivotal for placing ready mades in a gallery setting
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Duchamp
Urinal, Mona Lisa with mustache
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Surrealism
Unnerving, illogical scenes painted with photographic precision; dreams, hallucinations, questioning reality
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Dali
Surrealism; influenced by Renaissance and Freud
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Magritte
Realism; nothing is as it seems
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Abstract expressionism
Action painting to express how artist feels or views the world; influenced by WW2 and previous artists
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DeKooning
Abstract expressionism; gestural, thick painting; layers
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Jackson Pollock
Abstract expressionism; dripped and splattered paintings, many layers, gestural, house paint, very physical painter
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Pop art
Focusing on popular visual culture; transforming the everyday into icons
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Andy Warhol
Fame; objects, death "15 minutes of fame" "I want to be a machine"
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Robert Rauschenberg
Bridging the gap between Abstract expressionism, pop art and minimalism; radical blending of materials (collage, assemblage)
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Barbara Kruger
Feminism in art; combining text and image to deal with issues of power, identity, sexuality, gender and consumerism; limited color schemes and graphic quality allow for confrontational message
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Cindy Sherman
Photographs herself in many identities; gender is an unstable and constructed position; encourages self reflection in the viewer
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Assemblage
Challenges stereotypes of African Americans and women in particular
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Betye Saar
Uses assemblage for African American stereotypes
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David Hammons
Assemblage and body prints; addresses African American struggle for equality
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Faith Ringgold
Protests racism, questions american identity and equality
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Earthworks
Large scale outdoor environments; influenced by Native American earthworks; temporal works, ephemeral, vulnerable, circles and cycles
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Robert smithson
Earthworks
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Richard long
Earthworks
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Post-modernism
Mixing media, techniques, imagery; and influences; borrowing and recycling images and concepts into something new
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Yasumasu Morimura
Post-modernist; Performance and photography; challenging culture, gender, and art norms
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Appropriations
Taking cues from former works; post-modern
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Viewer experience
Manipulated space, sound, light to transform perception of a site
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Installation
Breaking away from traditional 2D work and inventing the public to share intentions and emotions as a physical experience
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James turrell
Installations; physical and physiological effects of light
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Anne Hamilton
Installation; sound, light, movement invite visitors to work publicly and intimately
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Line
Posses direction, can divide or connect
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Contour line
Outside and inside
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Cross contour line
Use lines to show round
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Volumetric
Helps you see volume
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Implied line
Hinted at
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Qualities of lines
Expressive, autographic, gestural
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Space
Positive: thing it's a picture of Negative: all the stuff around it
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Primary colors
Red, yellow, blue
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Secondary colors
Orange, green, violet
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Tertiary colors
Yellow-green, blue-green, blue-violet, red-violet, red-orange, yellow-orange
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Complementary color
Lie opposite on color wheel
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Analogous color
Neighbor each other on color wheel
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Local color
What something is in real life
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Perceptual color
Based off conditions at that moment
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Arbitrary color
Whatever color the painter wants
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Value
The relative lightness/darkness of an object/area
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Tint
Hue + white
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Shade
Hue + black
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Intensity
Relative brightness/dullness
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Texture
Surface quality of a work
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Pattern
A repetitive motif or design
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Motif
A single design of a pattern
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Time/motion
Sequence of action; illusion of movement
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Balance
Even distribution of weight in a composition
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Absolute symmetry
When each side is exactly the same
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Bilateral symmetry
Minor discrepancies but still symmetry
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Symmetrical
Can draw a line down the middle
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Asymmetrical
Balance achieved but lacks symmetry
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Emphasis/focal point
Draws in viewers attention
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Rhythm/repetition
Elements repeated
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Unity
Tied together
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Variety
Some contrast/focal point
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Art criticism steps
1. Reaction 2. Description 3. Interpretation 4. Evaluation
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Elements of Art
Line, space, color, value, texture, pattern, time/motion, balance, emphasis, rhythm/repetition, unity, variety

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