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Which culture created a complex calender with interlocking wheels of time?
Mayans
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What mythological beast can be found in all of these cultures
Feathered sirpent
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What 2 things did the mayans predict?
- Solar Eclypse 1991
- End of the world 2012
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In the new Grange site what are the spirals potential symbols of?
- Fertility
- Hulisingetic dreams
- Symbols of stars
- language
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What was the cause of the destruction of the La venta site?
The oil indusrty in the 1950's
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Bearded men are what 2 things in pre-columbian cultures?
- Gods
- Great thinkers
- Associated with sirpins
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What date does he consistently refer to?
10,500 B.C
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Poor civilation that knowledge sprouted from that sank benieth the sea?
Atlantas
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Intro To Art
Western Concept
Value of different kinds of art
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Some art is worth more than others
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Before renaissance art was NOT categorized
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Different art served different purposes, but ALL ART WAS EQUAL IN VALUE
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After renaissance heirarchy of importance (more important)
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Artists became as important is there work
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Renaissance: Leanardo Devinchi
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Some cultues have no hieracrchy( more important)
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All art has the same worth is some cultures
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Categories of art
- Fine art
- Pop Art
- Kitsch
- Craft
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Fine art
THE MOST IMPORTANT kind of art
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Where is FINE ART Displayed?
- In muesams
- galleries
- sold by art dealers
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The highest art form?
Painting and sculpures
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ANYTHING you could make mutiples of was NOT considered a real art form
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19th century what was sculpture based on?
Greek, roman and italian renaissance influence
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20th century Contemporary painting was MORE favored
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Contemporary high (fine) art forms 60's
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Installation Art
Where the artist alters or creates an envoirment
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Performance art
Where the artist is the art work (Photo, Film)
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POP ART
based off pop culture
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Pop art was started by?
Andy warhol in the 60's
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Pop Culture subject matter forms?
Mass media, video, comics, newspaper, internet
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POP ART
is shown in muesams and art galleries
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POP ART WAS Made by fine artists
That went to art school
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pop art is sold by?
art dealers
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Pop art and fine art share some of the same attributes
Function form and some content
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Pop art
Reflects what?
Values and structures of socail systems (political hierarchy's, religious beliefs)
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Both pop art and fine art are shown in muesams
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Kitsch
Kitsch is the lowest category of art
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Kitsch is made by?
machine or unskilled laborer
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Kitsch appeals to?
sentiment
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Kitsch is made out of?
Cheap materials
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Kitsch is sold at?
Wal-mart and convience stores
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Craft
anything that is functional
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craft is a seperate category from all others
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craft is Designed and created by?
Artisans (artisans-make functional things)
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Craft materials
Fabric, pottery, jewelry, glass, weapons
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craft is sold by?
the artisan or craft galleries
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Recent trend craft and artisans and materials are crossing over into the fine art.
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Aesthetic
Pertaining to the beautiful as opposed to the functional qualities of an object. An apprecation of beauty
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Formal Elements
All that makes up the physical work; itself. (Line, shape, color, texture, volume, mass)
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Composition
Arrangement of the formal elemts within an artwork
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Subject matter
The main thing in the art work (emphisis) Usually in the foreground
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Content
All that is delt with in that work of art
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Focal point
The point of concentration in an art work
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Medium/Media
The materials used to create the work of art
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Style
- The was you express something
- The combination of distinctive features of literary or artistic expression, execution, or performance characterizing a particular person, group, school, or era.
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Mixed Media
Art created with a variety of diffent materials
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Primart Colors
A hue (color) can't be created by mixing other hues together (red, yellow and blue)
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Secondary colors
A hue(color) that is created by combining two primary colors together (organge, green and violet)
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Monochromatic
An artwork that contains the hue, tints and shades of only one color
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2-D
An artwork created on a flat surface (canvas, paper etc). It can show space that ranges in depth and perspective
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3-D
An artwork created in the round (sculpted) heith length and depth
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Relief
A sculpture that is partically projection from a flat surface. mean to be viewed from the front
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Perspective
Rendering the illusion of 3-d depth on a flat surface in 2-d.
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Middle ground
in the middle
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back ground
fathers from us
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positive space
shape or object in an artwork
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negatice space
voids in an atwork
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idealized
depicting figures or portraits that either flatter of conform with the cultural style.
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Realism
Depicting everyday life without idealism hostalgia of flattery
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REPRESENTATIONAL!-
art that depicts forms as in the natural world
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Abstract
objects or forms in an artwork aer simplified or distorted BUT STILL RECOGNIZABLE
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non representational
art taht has no reference to the natural world composed of lines shapes and colors. chosen and arranged for their own expressive potential
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conceptual art
the idea or concept is more important than the product created
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genre
art that depicts everyday life and its surroundings
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still life
a painting or other 2D work in witch the subject matter is an arrangment of objects (fruits,flowers,pottery)
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vanitas
still life to remind us o the fleeting nature of lie
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iconography
study or visual images or symbolic system within a work of art culturally or historically signifigant
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ethnocentric
Putting ones beliefes and meanings onto artwork from another culture
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