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Art Experience Final
Art Experience Final (Terms)
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
04/24/2012

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Subject
Definition
Objects or events that the work depicts
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Content
Definition
What the work of art is about.
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Form
Definition
The way the piece looks.
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Representational Art
Definition
Represents reality in easily recognizable forms.
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Non Representational art
Definition
Art that does not represent the world realistically
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Figurative/Naturalistic Style
Definition
Art representing the natural world closely. The Human form. Animal forms.
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Stylized
Definition
Art that moves away from reality but still recognizable.
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Abstract
Definition
A move completely away from reality. Work self contained.
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Visual Culture
Definition
Study of art and images as it pertains to our culture and society.
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Minaret
Definition
Islamic structure. Tall spire with onion shaped top.
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Masjid
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Mosque
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Ziggurat
Definition
"To build on raised area." Tall structures from ancient mesopotamia.
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Silk Road
Definition
Trade route between east and west. Exchange of art and ideas.
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Iconoclasm
Definition
The destruction of political or religious symbols.
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Aniconism
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The shunning of any religious or political symbols/figures.
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Color Field
Definition
Abstract painting only dealing with certain colors.Imagery reduced to large fields of color.
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Assemblage
Definition
Three dimensional collage.
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Happenings
Definition
Events in the early 1900s staged by artists. Like performing arts today. Audience involved.
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Conceptual Art
Definition
Art where the idea takes paramount over the medium.
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Space Cells
Definition
Comic like boxes/divisions in paintings from medieval and renaissance art. Tells a story.
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Primitivism
Definition
Style in art to make things purposefully unsophisticated. African art.
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Symbolism
Definition
The use of shapes and objects to indicate abstract ideas.
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Stupa
Definition
Buddhist dome shaped temple.
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High Relief
Definition
Art forms are coming out of surface about half their true depth.
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Low Relief
Definition
Quarter
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Sunken Relief
Definition
Figures are carved out of surface. Wood etching.
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Cycladic Figures
Definition
Figures made by Minoans in 2000 BC. Abstract figures of females. Thought to be fertility figures.
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Entasis
Definition
Roman technique. Making centers of columns thicker so they look straight. Breaks optical illusions.
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Constrapposto
Definition
S Curved stance to make figures look more natural. Give implied movement.
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Illuminated Manuscript
Definition
Bibles made in Middle Ages. Highly decorated. "Illuminated"
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Humanism
Definition
The idea that thee is more than just the church. Study of the natural world. View that God's highest creation is man and therefore should be studied.
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Triangular Composition
Definition
Figures in work positioned to create an implied triangle with the tip facing up. More peaceful and pleasing to the eye.
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Linear Perspective
Definition
Technique developed in renaissance to show depth. Lies all converge at a point on the horizon.
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One point linear perspective
Definition
One convergence point
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Two point Linear perspective
Definition
Two convergence points
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Foreshortening Perspective
Definition
Index Finger. Figures are compressed as they approach the vanishing point.
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Isometric Perspective
Definition
God perspective. Eastern cultures.
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Atmospheric Perspective
Definition
Farther away objects fade into the atmosphere.
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Renaissance Man
Definition
Artists were more educated and became semi divine because of what they could do.
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Memento Mori
Definition
Reminder that we are mortal. In Christian art. Shows fleetingness of this world.
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