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Art History 109
Chapters 1-4.
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Art History
Undergraduate 1
02/11/2009

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Tim Hawkinson
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Made the Emother (face manipulation machine). Background in instrument making.
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Creativity
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"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources"-Einstein

uniqueness.
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Lord of the Dance (Shiva)
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same characterists, guidelines, proportions, and style, artists didn't sign them, bronze casted, iconography
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Iconongraphy
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Describing images.
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Style in art
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unique to how the artist to how it's done such as on canvas or materials they use
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Beauty
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asymmetrical balance, not the same on both sides
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asymmetry
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a see saw weighted to one side
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tangible form to the unknown
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giving image to something that you don't know what it looks like i.e. Jesus
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amanda tinns presentation
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all children are artists.. "it took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child."

Think outside the box.
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right brain
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more creative, artistic, needed more in society
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left brain
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logical, list making
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hollander mill
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paper making machine, date late 1700s?
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paper
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first paper was NOT made of papyrus, wasps chewed bark breaking down cellulose, started in china
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gutenberg bible
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made of high quality paper, illuminations were in it
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illuminations
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things drawn in by artists after it's printed
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codex
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a book or writings done on bark
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double portrait
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done by artist jan van eyck in 1434, showed symbolism.

mirror - God's presence
one candle lit on chandelier - fertility
expensive cloth - wealth
dog - loyalty

van eyck signed name on the wall. this was common
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henry
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curator, tried to fit the common image by looking older than he actually was, this was for respect purposes, he was different because he lived with the artists, organized exhibitions in the metropolitan
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mia lin
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vietnam veterans memorial, end of civil rights, criticized for her race (asian), art student yale university, 21 years old, considered an architect, designer, and sculptor
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aesthetics
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study of beauty
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van gogh
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-born in holland
-theological student and lay preacher
-art at age of 27
-cut off a portion of his ear
-committed to an asylum
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