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What is Performance Art?

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Visual art that is performed

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What is Happenings?

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A type of performance art by Allan Kaprow, reflecting the oddities of things that happen in reality

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“Boy Playing Flute” shows what?

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The pride music has in a strong Holland middle class

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Who was Jane Avril?

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A dancer at the Moulin Rouge, painted by Latrec

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What is deconstructivism?

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Entertainment art with many unique viewpoints that don’t form a whole

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What is neo-modernism?

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Clean cut architecture reacting to the complexities of post modernist structures.

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What is organic architecture?

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Architecture and art that is inspired by surrounding environments, and is site specific. Coined by Frank Lloyd Wright.

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What is a Theatron?

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Tiered seating areas in theaters

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What is a Skene?

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Building used for backdrops and dressing rooms in theaters

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Did Brugel’s flower arrangements ever exist in real life?

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No

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What is optical art?

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optical illusion art, (Salvador Dali melting clock painting)

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What does Ain Soph mean?

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“The infinite” in Hebrew

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What is Surrealism?

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Exploring the unconscious through dream imagery

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What are Earthworks?

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Large scale environmental art pieces

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What is impressionism?

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Captures subtle effects of light and color, like Monet

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What is romanticism?

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Art that elevates nature and immediate existence, like the Haywin

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German vs English landscape differences?

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G= morbid
E= open fields

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What is Okiyo-e?

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Style of Japanese art: “hot chicks’, landscapes, and kabuki actors

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What is pointillism?

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Style of painting with a fuck ton of tiny dots

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What are genre paintings?

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1600s Netherland paintings that show off the styles of the strong middle class

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What is Rococo?

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decorative style for rich people, feminine qualities (as in the Hall of Mirrors)

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What is Tambaran?

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Papua New Guinea rituals in large cult houses that ‘allow’ men to give life

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Who is Beyte Saar?

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She made the Aunt Jemima assemblage sculpture

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What is fauvism?

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A French art movement that used Van Gogh’s coloring

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What is Cubism?
Multiple viewpoints from one pov (The city by Fernand Leger)
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What is futurism?
celebrates violence, speed, energy, motion, force, and change
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What is pop art?
reveals consumer culture, highly spreadable and marketable art
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What is stoicism?
In the Hellenistic Era, individuals were urged to nobly endure fate and stay still
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What is Epicureanism?
In the Hellenistic Era, it was a movement that advocated for seeking intelligent pleasure because design was the point of existence
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What is polykleitos?
A mathematical approach to developing classical figures' ideal proportions
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What is the proportions of the "Male Torso"?
1/3 head, 1/3 body, 1/3 legs
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What is the Classical style?
A Greek art style of ideal human figures
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What is contrapposto?
a standing position with the figure leaning on one straight leg, with the other bent
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What is Chiaroscuro?
Western light and dark shading style
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What is stucco?
Concrete like art material, ancient Romans/Greeks would carve statues and reliefs out of it
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"The Study for the Portrait of Okakura Tenshin" blends what?
Eastern and Western art styles
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What happened to Van Gogh after he painted "The Portrait of Dr. Gachet"?
He committed suicide two months later
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Why do full body portraits reveal more about the figure than just a face or bust rendering?
As they pose for longer, they are forced to become more relaxed and natural in posture and mannerisms.
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What did Frida Kahlo include in her self portraits?
A monkey alter ego, unibrow, and nature
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Who is Star Doll based on?
Mariko Mori
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What did the ancient Greeks believe about the human body?
Humans were capable of perfection, and exemplary nudity should be praised.
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What pose and style is Doryphoros in?
Classical style, contrapposto pose
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What is "Torso"?
An ancient Indian depiction of an ideal body (torso), possibly of a youthful deity
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What does Yakshi represent?
Female sexuality, flexibility, fertility
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Describe "The Last Judgement"
Early Gothic style. shows humanity as flawed, and depicts the end of time on judgement day
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Who created "Piranesi's Prison"?
Giovanni Battista
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Sioux Circle Dancer wears 28 what?
Hoops
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What relevant film won the Cannes Film Festival?
Maria Candelaria
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Was Toulouse Lautrec influenced by Japanese prints?
Yes
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What is the Opera House?
A functional sculpture
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What are lavish visual experiences that combine many artistic elements?
Casinos
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What are harpies?
Women headed birds preying on men
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Centuars
Lusty man headed horses
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Satyrs
Lusty goat/horse men
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Describe the symbolism of "A unicorn in captivity"
collar= chain of love pomegranate juice= blood of Christ, chivalry
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What objects are attached to "monkey magic: sex, money and drugs"?
Three clumps of elephant dung, referencing ritual use of it
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In Ashurbanipal II killing Lions, what was accomplished with a longer hunt?
A higher status of heaven
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In Little Boutique in a clay jar, were Bruegel's flowers real?
No
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Describe symbolism in "Babur supervising the layout of the garden of fidelity"
water in four directions = rivers of paradise four squares= Allah's creation
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Describe the symbolism in "Ryoanji Zen garden of contemplation"
raked quartz gravel= void of mind/universe dark rocks= material/worldly things raked gravel= waves boulders= mountains 15th boulder= can only be seen after spiritual enlightenment
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What drawing was part of marking the beginning of modern science?
Andreas, the 4th plate of muscles
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What is Bunraku?
Ancient Japanese puppetry
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What is Happenings?
1960s short films with really weird gendered turns
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What is Lyre?
Ancient Iraqi queen sound box, has a bull on it
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What is the iatmul hand drum?
A Papua New Guinean ritual instrument for boys' initiation, ancestor honor, and magical rites
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Describe the Kanaga Mask
Mali, story of the origins of death. Interpreted as bird, croc, and/or God
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What is a spectacle?
ex. Las Vegas entry strip, notable parts of visual cultures
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What is gasoline alley?
1930s US comic strip, a boy and his uncle observing an abstract world
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Describe Cremaster films
1990s US films that mess with gender and sex, has personal messages instead of a narrative.

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